Studio Reef - year 13 and counting

[rhdoug]

Hello everyone, I visit here from time to time and thought I would share some pics of my 58 gallon reef. It shares space with me in my home office since 1999, so we are old friends. Nothing fancy, but several of the animals have been with me for many years. The sebae anemone crosses the 10 year mark this fall if all continues to go well. The yellow leather just passed 9 years, and is recovering from an attacks from both the anemone and more recently a large orange acan that burned it to half its size overnight. The acan is no longer with me, the yellow turbinaria has taken its place and seems to be doing well there. It used to reside on the other end of the tank, I got it as a little frag in 2004. I added the woodwork around the tank last winter, and it has made maintenance much easier than lugging multiple buckets all over the place during water changes. Hope you all enjoy the pics.

http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh610/rhdoug/Studio Reef Tank 2012/rightside.jpg

 

[JimmyR1rider]

Stunning reef. Congrats on the 13 years of success

 

[jerl77]

nice

 

[fishman1069]

Wow! Very nice and healthy looking reef

 

[rhdoug]

Thanks everyone.

KathyC -- I can't reply to your message but feel free to move it wherever it belongs.

 

[dubs]

Nice tank congratz on the 13 years

 

[stooops718]

Beautiful tank. Congrats!

 

[Awibrandy]

Very very very nice!!!! Looks absolutely beautiful.

Congrats on the 13th....

 

[rhdoug]

Thank you thank you.

Here is a pic of the leather in 2008 before it got scorched to pieces...

Before:

After (ouch!! this happened in one night, by the orange acan on the left):

 

[savage]

Nice tank...