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Just saying hello, my name is Rickey and I'm new to the forum. New to reefing as well. This is my first reef tank, an in wall 55g. I'm totally addicted now and will soon be installing a 135g reef in my tattoo studio.

It's hard to tell in this cell pic but there are about 25 frags of various corals in the tank. I also just placed another order with coralfanatics.com for 10 ricordeas, and some more zoanthids. I'll post pics when I get
them.

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The micro bubbles are due to my protein skimmer only being 4 days old. They have already reduced in numbers and hopefully will quit in a week or two. And that is an emperor 400 in the picture, but it is modified as a refugium with led's and all. It contains sugar fine sand, live rock rubble, and cheato.
 
Welcome to the hobby! Pretty nice to be starting with an in-wall. Looking good so far but if I could offer a suggestion, I'd open up the rockwork a bit. It looks to be stacked pretty tight. Opening it up would give fish more places to swim and hide while improving flow as well.
 
Welcome and agreed, nice start but does look like a bit much rock. I'd remove 80% of that base rock to open it up. Looking forward to some more pics, good luck with it, sounds like you will be one to watch! Thanks for sharing!
 
Thanks everyone. I'll take a pic from behind the tank tomorrow to show you how open it actually is. There's a ton of space behind the rock that the fish swim in and out of it. If you still think it's too much i'll back it down a bit. It's only about 60 pounds of rock, there's even a fist sized anemone that for some reason moved in behind the rocks and has enough room to fully open. I just like the packed in look, and I'm going for a 80% zoanthid tank with the ultimate goal being almost no rock visible, just tons of zoas.
 
Here is some back shots. Hard to really get a good photo of it. The shy anemone (he refuses to come out and be visible) has moved down a bit compared to the other day. But I could hide a softball in some of those pockets back there. The fish swim in and out all the time. I know it doesn't compare to some of the aquascaping I see on here, but I like it, and everything is going perfect so far. I probably should have cleaned the back glass before the pics but I was in a hurry to get to the studio.

Do yall still think I should remove some? I really don't want to.

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Here is two more shots. I was trying to take a side shot to so how the rock work lays back, but it's hard with a tank that's built in.

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@modifieddesign wrote:
Here is some back shots. Hard to really get a good photo of it. The shy anemone (he refuses to come out and be visible) has moved down a bit compared to the other day. But I could hide a softball in some of those pockets back there. The fish swim in and out all the time. I know it doesn't compare to some of the aquascaping I see on here said:
As long as it's not impeding flow too much, it comes down to your personal preference for the aquascaping. A lot of people are going for a kind of spartan aquascape these days with little islands of rock and lots of swimming room, but everyone's taste is different. I still have the "wall of rock" look myself but with a lot of big gaps and shelves. I only commented about taking out some rock on yours because in the first pics it looked like everything was stacked like a pyramid without much in the way of openings or caves.
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Ok I gotchya. I have one of the power heads behind the rock work and I seem to have no area with out flow so far. Food stays in motion until it's all gobbled up. I appreciate the input.
 
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