New picture of my 55 gallon

[Mr3plus1]

http://home.grandecom.net/~mviehoefer/tank7.jpg

Pretty even mix of soft corals, zoanthids, and hard corals. Lots of it is still small though.

Livestock is a cleaner shrimp, blue damsel, coral beauty, pair of gold striped maroon clowns, and a mandarin that is hiding.

[Gilbert]

pretty nice, i have a 55 also and the only thing that i don't like about it is that they are narrow i'd like some more depth.
What kind of lights do you have?
what kind of coral is that next to the coral beauty? is it an orange plate?

[Mr3plus1]

Lights are 2 VHO's and a 65w PC. The orange coral is a type of montipora cap.

[Gilbert]

The orange coral is a type of montipora cap.

yeah that what i ment, i don't know why i said plate. Wow thats all the lighting you have and your tank looks that bright, i guess i under estimated VHOs.

[Mr3plus1]

The only downside is my hard corals grow pretty slow. The soft corals, especially the one on the far left, grow like crazy though.

[uriah]

How long has the tank been up? I too have a 55g that has only been up for 3 months. Looking to slowly start adding some soft corals, an anemone, zoas, shrooms and a little lps. Key word "slowly" :) Your tank looks good so far... Keep us posted!

[Mr3plus1]

It has been up and running 2 years now...and moved twice.

[uriah]

Cool. How did the moves go? Far or within the same house?

[Gilbert]

i also have moved my tank, 3 times in 1 years within the same house, and each time i moved it i lost a couple of coral and its almost impossible to get the rocks back in the same position.

[Mr3plus1]

I live in an apartment. The first move I had it set up for about 4 months (so really, i just moved the rock, equipment, water, and a clownfish). The second move was 1 year and 5 months into it, so by then I had about half the corals in the picture, and all but the 2 clowns. Moved everything - water, rock, equipment, fish, clean up crew - down a flight of stairs, into a truck, moved it about 3 miles, then back up a flight of stairs into a smaller apartment. Total move took me about 8 hours. That was NOT FUN. But, after completely tearing it down, draining the tank to bare sand, and refilling it all, I lost nothing. All corals and fish survived.

[dmweise]

Very nice. I have a 45 gallon and have been wanting to get a bigger tank but my apartment complex only lets residents have 50 gallons or less.