got2envy's 10g Caribbean/Macro tank

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My 10g Tank
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The Caribbean Queen
I went into my LFS (The Barrier Reef in Boca Raton) to get some NSW and saw this sexy 10g kit by Marina/Hagen hollering my name
So I checked it out and lifted the hood and BAM!! it's rimless SCORE!!!!
Black silicone and rimless for $35.99 comes with a filter and hood that I will not use.​

Da box
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The 2 bulb incandescent hood that I will not use (they also make a fluorescent model)

The tank and hood
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BAM!
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with the 70w Sunpod
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11/13/09
Painted Black
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11/15/09

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11/25/09
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FTS 12/15/09
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FTS 1/15/09
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Props to Hagen for making such a nice tank for so cheap!

Equipment

10g Marina/Hagen rimless
Sunpod 70w
Rio50 power head
8lbs Caribbean live rock
10lbs Caribbean direct live sand
Livestock
9 hitch hiker caribbean brown paly's
1 small hitch hiker looks like a gorgonia
small piece gorgonia
Halimeda macro hitch hiker
Purple Sponge
2 tiny pieces of blue sponge
Red Grape Caulerpa (Botryocladia uvaria)
Green Grape Caulerpa (Racemosa)
Caulerpa Prolifera
Caulerpa Ashmeadii
Galaxaura acuminata
Galaxaura marginata
organism's orange spotted macro
organism's blue macro
11 Florida Ricordia
13 x orange spotted zoas
10x AOG paly's​
 
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and organism's macro is doing great!!
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I even have some growing on my Koralia lol
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The Racemosa (green grape algae) is def dominating
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FTS
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This tank is in a contest on nano-reef...These are post of the pix from the thread over there :)

Thanks for looking!
 
Everything in the tank is pretty much trades with other reefers :)
The plan was to collect locally, but I decided to just buy the stuff locally from LFS's.

Thanks...just bought a orangeback basslett today :) the tank has been fallow.
 
Thanks guys!! It is really easy to maintain as well.
I do 2g water changes with natural sea water, dose 2 part every other day and dose live Phyto every day :)
 
Thanks everyone!!

I got a new fishy! I saw him and had to have him...it is an orangeback basslet. I have never seen one for sale but for $10....he was 50%off :P I am gonna call him "50" cinco zero lol
They are a Carribean basslet that are usually pretty reclusive and found in deeper waters.

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and some random pix
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a new algae...looks like lettuce lol I got a whole bunch for $6
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so sumptin' weird happened...my green grape algae disappeared...at least most of it from one day to the next...it was there thiving and outgrowing everything then *POOF* it was gone
at least most of it...
 
organism's blue macro growing on my K1
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yardboy's corals for mah tank :happy:
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Florida Ricordia
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evil lurks...oh it's juss 50
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FTS
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Thanks for looking!
;)
 
So this Caribbean SPS I got I found out is Oculina Robusta...illegal to collect but legal if it is attached to aquacultured live rock.

New pix
Oculina Robusta up close and personal...yeah I was all up in it's kool aid

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Random pictarz

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FTS
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Whew!
Yeah...I am over the budget
Thanks for looking!!
 

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