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Thanks Shaun!
It's a fish with great personality.....
It's a fish with great personality.....
Rebirth
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Blue Oregon
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New arrangement of frogs
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Some FTS:
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Thanks!
I think that the height variation creates a lot of movement in the layout.
Plus, it allows me to put corals in diferent heights, according to their need of light.
My sump/equipment didn't change. My skimmer and my Ca reactor are both great pieces (SRO5000 INT and SRO CR5000 Dual Chamber).
I still have 2 150 TFL reactors running empty. From time to time I put a little GAC and remove it after a week.
The chaetos was removed almost entirelly. I left a small portion in the frag tank....just in case.
Equipments
My sump still looks like this:
Sump
From the start I've changed my Lighting and now I run 5 AI (3HYDRAS52+2VEGAS) over the Big Island and 3 AI(2VEGAS+1HYDRA52) over the Small Island.
I also improved my circulation and now I run 2 Gyres 250 + 2 Icecaps 3k, along my MP40.
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Small Island.
I moved the front part to create an oppening.
2 of my favorites: milepora baby blue and formosa blu sky
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I moved the front part to create an oppening.
2 of my favorites: milepora baby blue and formosa blu sky
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Big Island
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Staghorns will prevail
So by now that tank is running entirely on his own?
Just the skimmer to pull out floating materials and bacteria in the rocks and sand to do the rest and keep nutrients under control.
Based on what do you use GAC?
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Pretty much it......
Based on nothing specifically...I just think that is healthy for the tank the sporadically use.
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My milepora baby blue back in July-17
And today:
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And today:
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It's hard to notice the growth of some corals, so I made a folder called "EVO shots" to keep photos of some corals took from time to time from the same point of view.
10/03/18
18/05/18
05/07/18
10/03/18
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Loripes Blue
10/03/18
18/05/18
05/07/18
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Hyacinthus pink green
10/03/18
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Rasta Gem
10/03/18
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Lemon lime
05/02/18
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Some sps frags that came in later/small and still don't turn into minicolonies:
speciosa
Shortcake red (?)
tenuis
Anthocercis pink
lokani purple
gomezi purple
carolineana yellow
shortcake bali
sphatulata
speciosa
Shortcake red (?)
tenuis
Anthocercis pink
lokani purple
gomezi purple
carolineana yellow
shortcake bali
sphatulata
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Some random shots:
Derasa
Pinktail trigger
Micromussas
Derasa
Pinktail trigger
Micromussas
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About the Green Chromis.....
After put the group with 13 fishes in the display tank, 2 weeks ago, I lose 3 of them.
1 of the big ones, of my previous group and 2 of the medium ones, died too.
Now they are 2 big, 1 medium and 10 small ones.
Untill now the results are not encouraging at all.
A "plus": one of the big ones now is chasing the small ones when I got close to the tank, thinking that I'm going to feed them.....
My female squamipinis died overnight.
It was the first anthias that get in to the tank, almost a year and a half ago.
Another specie that I must give up.
The bright side: The trigger is very active, it's eating a lot...I mean, a loooooooooottttttt .He's a peacefull fish and, untill now, didn't pay no attention to corals, clams, and etc.
Due to that, I've cut down the amino dosing to the half.
The balance of the tank has changed a lot and my sps are really deeper in color as my lps and soft are much more inflated.
And that's it.
Sometimes we win.....and sometimes we don't.
After put the group with 13 fishes in the display tank, 2 weeks ago, I lose 3 of them.
1 of the big ones, of my previous group and 2 of the medium ones, died too.
Now they are 2 big, 1 medium and 10 small ones.
Untill now the results are not encouraging at all.
A "plus": one of the big ones now is chasing the small ones when I got close to the tank, thinking that I'm going to feed them.....
My female squamipinis died overnight.
It was the first anthias that get in to the tank, almost a year and a half ago.
Another specie that I must give up.
The bright side: The trigger is very active, it's eating a lot...I mean, a loooooooooottttttt .He's a peacefull fish and, untill now, didn't pay no attention to corals, clams, and etc.
Due to that, I've cut down the amino dosing to the half.
The balance of the tank has changed a lot and my sps are really deeper in color as my lps and soft are much more inflated.
And that's it.
Sometimes we win.....and sometimes we don't.
