Why is the tank so bare? I don't see any substrate or any of the usual stuff. Do you not like the "finished look" or are you working on something?
Nice corals.
Love the manners lesson! There are many many people that could use some!!!!!!
In the pictures it doesn't look good because of the flash. IRL or with a better camera it gives it the void look. besides they are usually covered in corline ;p
For my own taste, I wont ever run substrate again. But, I have dreams of a big tank with ... bikes dipped in epoxy with corals growing on them

I like the Japanese tank look. a few small islands of rock and big coral patches. This will all be thinned down to a couple of brains and a half-dozen acro in one tank and montie in the other. A few big corals > lots of LE frags. Its fun to watch the fish dive in and out of the branches of one big colony. It takes a realitivly long time for a coral to get settled right, but once it does.... boom inch a month is not unheard of. Seriously, all I care about is healthy animals... they don't even have to be colorful. A big brown torch with white tips is awesome when its a foot across

When you start out, rock-work seems so important. But once your corals take off... you never see it; really it just takes up space (unless you can't remote filter).
These two 100G tanks are only a portion of the system

So don't get fooled, there is much more live rock than you see. If possible I prefer more sump than tank. All those pods doing the dance of love daily = well fed corals.
I love fairy wrasses... so the display wouldn't have many pods anyhow. My fish room is completely sealed from the rest of the house and 600sq feet... So, I don't expect the average place to be able to replicate all the remote cryptic fuges I have

But, its great if you can. I like it a ton more than when I was doing the plant fuges.
Rubble is effective but a pain to work with... I'm done with rubble, rather get fiji or some dried stuff.
Sand, I would like to try a remote sand filter like the kind Calfo, Sprung, and Pro pimp... super cheep and chuck it ever 6 months or so. But, in the display... not a chance. I can't think of one positive (other than specific creatures that need sand (and that list is way shorter than most tout). Black acrylic looks better too... Most folks who see my tank in person don't even realize there is no sand. "I could have sworn you had sand in there?" In person you focus on the animals, the sand is a back ground
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More rock for ya, from last year
