r/ReefTank

10 years ago, I bought a used freshwater tank on eBay without knowing where this hobby would take me. Today, I finished building my dream reef.
Every upgrade over the years brought me closer to this moment. I can honestly say I’ve arrived. This is the biggest tank my house can handle, and probably the heaviest my floor should ever support.
Now the real journey begins. I can’t wait to fill it with life and watch it mature over the next few years.

I’m slowly becoming a torch junkie

Catching this fish has been a nightmare, waiting to about halfway through the tanks night cycle and pushing it out from under a rock into a net while it was still sluggish was the only way I got it. Those bottle traps just don’t work for these guys. Found a nasty bristle worm in the process

This is my pygmy rooster waspfish named Rinia. I've had her for almost two years now, and she only comes out in the middle of the night but I love her very much. If you have any photos of your personal or wild waspfish feel free to add them in!

25 days old 👍 this will new coral will be add soon because I won couple corals on auction.

around 2 months ago mt entire reef tank crashed due to an anemone dying, after some time patience and money here's how its looking today ( before, after and 2 months after)

The tank is a Waterbox 180.5 (5 feet long, 130 gallon display + sump).

Came back home from work seeing my acans ate my twin spot goby wtf. I had the goby for a month already thought I was set🥲🥲🥲

Always been struggling with higher nutrients, and recently low pH..

Nitrates regularly in the low to mid 20'S Phosphates low to mid teens and recently pH dropping as low as 7.8 during the day!

So I decided to add a refugium to the bottom of my media basket, a single ball of chaeto and a stick on grow light.. I wasn't expecting much, if anything. I added it two days ago and have watched my nutrients dropping.. and today my phosphates completely bottomed out. Okay.. now aggressively feeding to get the numbers stabilized. Oh, and pH has been roaring back to 8.0 in the early morning before lights kick on.

But for anyone struggling with high nutrients and/or low pH and you don't have a refugium, give it a try.. way easier to setup than I thought it would be.

Here’s some more top down of my reef. Also photo with me as perspective for size!

Pro Clear 60

2x AI Prime 16HD

ReefOcto 110s protein skimmer

Return pump

Got it for $450

Added 2x Jebao DMP-20 powerheads, titanium heater with inkbird controller, ato, rock, sand and 2 Storm Picasso clownfish so far. Fully cycled and waiting for visible algae before throwing in some CUC.

Super psyched about how this is coming together.

Planning on a yellow watchman Goby + pistol shrimp, Royal Gramma basslet, bi -color Blenny, and Cherub angel over the next few months before moving onto softies/zoas and LPS (would love recommendations for another fish that is open top safe).

I had a ton of hair algae that was overwelming a lot of my coral and manual removal didnt really help, so i tried dosing microbe-lift algaway 5.4. After the second dose the tank became very cloudy the next day, it was a white cloudy, not green how it is now with the lights off, I didnt do a third dose, and instead did 2, 30 gallon water changes, the tank is 130g, and the sump is 55g. No change, just got more cloudy, then it turned green. Im currently doing a 77g water change, and plan to do another asap, once i make more saltwater, RODI is slow at ~50g per day. I'm wondering if maybe adding more algaecide would help get rid of this cloudiness or algae bloom, or what should I do? This is the first time using algaecide in 5 years of reefing.