I wanted to post a series of photographs I took of a saltwater reef aquarium that I had for several years. Reef tanks had always interested me and I did a lot of research to find out how to keep a simple tank (maintenance wise) with easy to grow corals that could spread on their own and grow well with the equipment I was planning to use. Here is the result:
I had some large clams, which truely have some awesome colors. This clam grew from about 4inches to nearly 12 in length over a couple years.
This tank is 4' long by 2' high and deep. Its 120gallons with a sump tank underneath for the all the filtration.
I have a dive case for a point and shoot cannon camera, that I was able to reach in with to take a few of these photos, so the reflections and glass aquarium has no effect. Ended up getting great color with this method. These are ricordia mushrooms.
Some brown polyp zooanthids.
Close up of the lage clam
Green zooanthids
Purple mushroom corals and on the left, a candy cane coral
A pulled back shot of the corals on base rock, covered in purple coralline algae.
A close up of the candy cane coral
Several corals, frogspawn, green star polyps, pipe organ and others.
So, I hope you enjoy the photos and please comment if any questions or if you have your own reef tank pics to share.