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The first life is in the tank. It had some quarantaine and moved last friday. It looks good although nog everyone was completely happy. I have removed everything from the original rock and glued it to new clean stones.

The brown algea is starting to end and the bright green is now taking over.

I cleaned the glas in this picture, but there is plenty of algea around.

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We are 4 weeks in with more than only water, and it seems to go well.

Normally I would expect hairy green and brown algea at this moment but it seems I went to the green film algea pretty fast. I think this is because I didn't do the normal Life Rock and Bacterial route. I started this tank pretty clean with dead rock and did not use anything from an old tank as starting culture.

The fancy EDNA is pretty low in my case. I did not add bacterial fluids or pods or anything else which is supposed to help starting the tank.

It seems to result in a small period of brown film and now turned to green film. After cleaning it is back in an hour and the pictures below are after 3 days of not cleaning.
I expect this to hold on for about 2 weeks before it dies down a bit.

Here are some raw shots of the ugly ducky green tank.

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I got my camera back! It went on a worldtrip for half a year, but it came home safe.


I am a bit rusty. The last time a photographes a tank was about 10 years ago, but here are the first pics.

Canon D250
18x55 kitlens
Mostly white light on the tank.
No orange filter
Shot with low exposure and fast shuttertime


Pictichromis porphyrea
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Zebrasoma Veliferum

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Cyphastrea

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Alveopora

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Things are going like they go. A burst of this and that. Here and there some algea but gone again in a day or 5.

I like how it's going. We get true the stages like I expected.

I also found the fish I had in my top10 list!.

Cirrhitichthys falco!

I love it! One of the most beautiful fish in my opinion.

First pics!
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World Citizen said:
Having her in the open like this has its disadvantages. The light spill is kind of.. much.

I need to think about this.

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I actually really like the like of it even with the light spill. Great contrast in the dark room. Inviting even.
 
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This is a fantastic build thread. I really appreciate the time you took to post so many details in the build. I spent hours yesterday drawing every detail of a stand build and now I'm rethinking several aspects of the plan. The sumps on a drawer is an awesome idea. I am planning on two sumps and I believe I was overcomplicating the plumbing plan
 
BamaCoastPyrat said:
This is a fantastic build thread. I really appreciate the time you took to post so many details in the build. I spent hours yesterday drawing every detail of a stand build and now I'm rethinking several aspects of the plan. The sumps on a drawer is an awesome idea. I am planning on two sumps and I believe I was overcomplicating the plumbing plan
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Nice. Thank you!

If you have questions, please ask. I love to talk :) .
 
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