Moving my plants to the 75 gallon in-wall aquarium in the basement gave me 29 gallons free to try my hand at a nano-reef in the office tank. Of course, that lasted about two months before I decided I needed a 37 and a sump setup. Now the 29 sits alone on a shelf in the basement.

It's not my first marine aquarium, but it's my first one using modern techniques like the Berlin method. I'm also hoping to be able to grow a limited amount of corals using the same AHSupply kit that I had for my planted tank.

• 37G All-Glass aquarium
• 110W CF, Actinic and 10k
• 20 gallon basement sump
• MaxiJet 1200 powerhead
• Coralife Super Skimmer
• Hydor heater

Inhabitants:

• 45 lbs. cured live rock
• 5 nassarisus snails
• 4 dwarf hermit crabs
• 3 astrea snails
• 1 coral beauty
• 1 percula clown

Stats and Maintenance

My water temperature is kept at 82F. I strictly use RO water in an effort to keep algae at bay. I do a 20% water change every month, and top off with RO via an automated top off system.

Photos

An illustrated history of the tank can be found here in my photo gallery. Since the marine tank isn't changing too much at this point, I only intend to put up a new picture when warranted.

31-Mar-2006: Two weeks removed from the big transfer from the 29 gallon to the 37. I think the aquascaping with the rock is much better in this tank (thanks, Rob!) and I'm really pleased with the way it turned out. Coraline is starting to cover the rocks closest to the light pretty well. I would have added my first corals, but the folks at Sailfin felt the peppermint shrimp were too much of a risk. The Internet people seem to think it's 50/50 so I might give it a try anyway with something relatively inexpensive.

Links

After you're done here, check out some of these other cool marine aquarium sites on the internet:

• Reef Central
• Nano Reef