New to WAMAS and new to Marine tank (5 months)

[finaddict]

Hello all, my name is Dave and I am a new WAMAS member. I live in northern Virginia near Leesburg and have had a marine aquarium for almost 5 months. I have had freshwater aquariums for many years and for some reason in July, I just decided to try a marine tank and it has been great fun.

 

My tank is a 36 gallon bow front. I have an Eshoppes PSK-75H skimmer, HOB regular filter which I am running a sponge, carbon, and a Phosphate Pad.  My light is a Current Marine Oribit LED but I think it is under powered for the long haul. I have 40 lbs of live sand and about 30 lbs of live rock.

 

 

 

My live stock is as follows:

2- clowns

1-4 stripe damsel

1- Purple dart

5-Nasarius snails

10-misc snails

5-hermits

 

Corals

Several Zoa colonies and few stragglers polyps that I glued down

2 headed branch hammer

one leather (behind top zoa colony in picture)

2 Favites on plugs on the rocks

1 war coral on plug in the cave on the bottom right

1 chalice also in cave on plug

Mucho hair algae

 

I have been waiting to join until my tank had some color in it but I think now is the time since the primary color I have is hair algae green most times. The picture above is after cleaning today. 

Edited January 16, 2017 by finaddict

[Origami]

Welcome to WAMAS, Dave!

[mari.harutunian]

Hi! I have a 36 gallon too and mine has a theme of red cyano

 

 

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[Bruleyii]

Welcome! Great sized tank to start off with.