Celebrating my reefs 2nd anniversery, comments??

[bensenvill]

I've come along way with my tank and I just want to take a moment to thank everyone on this board and reefcentral. Without you guys, this wouldnt have been possible. So here is alittle photo tour of my tanks progress.

heres where I am now. I am just finishing up college so the other week I moved my tank from milwaukee back to chicago (boy was that fun). The tank is pretty much unsupervised right now (I live 80 miles away, and do some maintence on the weekends). Its a 46gal bow tank, running a US aquarium bioskimm 600 (I like it but down the road will be replaced), and 2x96w PCs. So heres my first picture of what it looks like today

 

[bensenvill]

and here it was about 3 months ago

 

[wade1]

Buddha!! I like it!


Lookin good....

Wade

 

[Anemone]

That's Montipora buddhaensis.

Kevin

 

[bensenvill]

And I've made my mistakes along the way (and have already taken my share of flaming overthem, which was fine because I learned from them). This photo was taken a year ago (and as a subnote, he was moved to a friends tank and is still doing great to this day... not that I recommend them).

 

[bensenvill]

and finally here is my humble beginnings 2 years ago.
The buddha was my initial inspiration that I needed to do a reef tank (my zen garden)

thanks everyone for 2 wonderful years


~Terry

 

[newkie]

I love the buddah... too funny! We had a looong night at Benni Hannas one night and came home with 6 of those!

 

[bensenvill]

Well, that is where the buddha came from (notice the straw hole in his belly). And you never see people putting "unnatrual" decorations in their reefs. My goal was to get him encrusted in coraline (unfortunately the urchine hanging out in the back keeps scraping it off). It also provides a nice hiding spot. I think that is where the blenny hides (you can see him in the photo on the right side).

 

[monkeyboy]

Do you think the buddah is the secret to keeping moorish idols???.... :idea:

(insert x-files theme song here)

 

[IcantTHINKofONE]

WoW! That piece of live rock resembles Budha! Could it be a Revelation from God?

 

[Reefguide]

Ah, so Budah has been in there all along huh? Kewl !

 

[Reefguide]

WoW! That piece of live rock resembles Budha! Could it be a Revelation from God?

Actually, I think it's more like one of those celebrity looking potato chips things !!

 

[Anonymous]

Your tank looks very nice. The budda is quite interesting. Nice conversation piece, to say the least.

Louey