[ScottT1980]

Well, the camera has FINALLY come back from repairs, and while it is not the best at tank photography, it will suffice for now. This tank just sort of fell together for me, and was set up, well, around January of this year. Fortunately, all the rock in the tank was fully mature so I didn't have to worry about much of a cycle. For those that saw my last tank (tucked away in a laundrey room), I am happy to report that this is in the kitchen for all to see. Therefore, aesthetically I find it to have more potential, if for nothing more than its location and its convenient shape...

Stats:
50 gallon cube tank
2 175W MH with 15K XMs
2 65W PC actinics
Berlin Classic Skimmer modified with kent venturi and Mag 5
Automatice top-off w/ RO/DI system (airwaterice.com) and a float valve
Aragonite substrate (southdown + more coarse aragonite mixture)
3 maxi-jet 1200 on a wave timer
Mag 5 return from a 20 gallon sump

I am still a big fan of DSBs, as I think they offer a number of advantages if you know how to "work" them. Plus, I love the DSB fauna, as strange as it sounds. I currently have a foxface as the only fish, and to be honest, I think that might be my only fish for a while (until I get a fuge and thusly, a mandarin). Like the old tank, I really don't have much of a plan. I know I will probably go zoanthid heavy, but will probably place more of an emphasis on SPS this time around. Clams and some sand dwelling LPS are a definite. I can tell you that I will not have ***ANY*** xenia.

Very blue, even after some photoshop work, but much of that is a result of my camera's inability to adjust. Regardless, as you can tell by my lighting, the lighting is pretty blue in and of itself.