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Dude your tank is looking sweet man!! I love it.
flipping sweet....
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surfn
I bleed orange and maroon
thanks guys, all of the comments are much appreciated. i worked really hard on this set up. and i feel as if a HUUUUGE weight has been lifted off my shoulders, b/c all i do is sit back and watch this sucker.......which gives me more time to spend on here! 
well, it was a brand spankin new bag of sand.....all i used was 1, 30lb bag. the sand bed is pretty shallow, esspecially in the front......which is almost too shallow.
thanks marv! but it will only be "excellent awesome steller" when i put some of those excellent awesome steller frags from you in there! hehe
that is one clean sandbedtanks lookin good al
well, it was a brand spankin new bag of sand.....all i used was 1, 30lb bag. the sand bed is pretty shallow, esspecially in the front......which is almost too shallow.
EXCELLENT AWESOME STELLAR tank...
thanks marv! but it will only be "excellent awesome steller" when i put some of those excellent awesome steller frags from you in there! hehe
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This clown fish is actually my girlfriend's fish she had for a year in her nano tank before the tank cracked and we tore it down. She calls her Nemequa.......lol
wrasses are not interested in taking pictures.....
......lookin' at his reflection...
wrasses are not interested in taking pictures.....
......lookin' at his reflection...
thanks marv! but it will only be "excellent awesome steller" when i put some of those excellent awesome steller frags from you in there! hehe
coming soon...
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well, i think i FINALLY got my skimmer dialed in correctly.....not sure what i did to get it working, but i ripped the entire thing out of the sump, cleaned it out, put it back in, and made a few minor changes...
i took the UV off, and put the MJ600 back on. then i put the clamp which goes on the air hose closer to the skimmer body, i had it hanging on the very end of the air hose........would this make a difference?
i dont even have it set up for wet skimming, and i just pulled out an entire cup of nog from the past 2 days, which is more skimmate that i've gotten in the last month COMBINED probably!
i know my skimmer has some catching up to do, as i've seen some algae starting to grow in the tank.
anyways, here's some new pics.....i should have take a pic of the skimmate though.
ORA blue polyp acro
LiveAquaria's Kohen's Echinata (looks like crap IMO)
my ULTRA pink milli with blue tips (my most favorite milli ever!)
i took the UV off, and put the MJ600 back on. then i put the clamp which goes on the air hose closer to the skimmer body, i had it hanging on the very end of the air hose........would this make a difference?
i dont even have it set up for wet skimming, and i just pulled out an entire cup of nog from the past 2 days, which is more skimmate that i've gotten in the last month COMBINED probably!
i know my skimmer has some catching up to do, as i've seen some algae starting to grow in the tank.
anyways, here's some new pics.....i should have take a pic of the skimmate though.
ORA blue polyp acro
LiveAquaria's Kohen's Echinata (looks like crap IMO)
my ULTRA pink milli with blue tips (my most favorite milli ever!)
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I bleed orange and maroon
new corals!!
when I moved my tank, I gave some corals I couldn't stand to lose to a friend to hold on to for a while.
I finally got a chance to go back and pick them up, and in the process I ended up leaving the palys and a couple sps frags so I could trade for some other cool corals.
I left behind the palys cuz I'm getting a little burned out on them due to some algae issues and lack of room on the bottom of the tank. And I left behind 2 sps frags b/c they were on frag magnets, and I have no where to put those.
So in all, I left behind:
-2 polyp armagedon (wasn't looking good anyways)
-10 polyps of candy apple red
-10 polyps of rainbow
-1" frag of purple bonsai (already have another frag of it)
-1" frag of crayola plana table (was on a frag mag)
but in return for all that, i got a frag of a sweet alien eye chalice, a frag of a cool acro chesterfieldness (sp?), and the promise of 2 more SWEEEEEEEEEET butt chalice frags when they heal up. :marv
when I moved my tank, I gave some corals I couldn't stand to lose to a friend to hold on to for a while.
I finally got a chance to go back and pick them up, and in the process I ended up leaving the palys and a couple sps frags so I could trade for some other cool corals.
I left behind the palys cuz I'm getting a little burned out on them due to some algae issues and lack of room on the bottom of the tank. And I left behind 2 sps frags b/c they were on frag magnets, and I have no where to put those.
So in all, I left behind:
-2 polyp armagedon (wasn't looking good anyways)
-10 polyps of candy apple red
-10 polyps of rainbow
-1" frag of purple bonsai (already have another frag of it)
-1" frag of crayola plana table (was on a frag mag)
but in return for all that, i got a frag of a sweet alien eye chalice, a frag of a cool acro chesterfieldness (sp?), and the promise of 2 more SWEEEEEEEEEET butt chalice frags when they heal up. :marv
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my montipora undata has grown quite a bit! and its finally starting to develop that green tint in the center. this is one of my favorite corals.
montipora setosa....also grew a tiny bit
flower petal monti.....this thing was on deaths door, and has now completely covered the frag plug which is amazing, b/c when i left it, it was only covering about 1/4 of the frag plug.
montipora setosa....also grew a tiny bit
flower petal monti.....this thing was on deaths door, and has now completely covered the frag plug which is amazing, b/c when i left it, it was only covering about 1/4 of the frag plug.
Great shots and peices Al, is that flower petal a cap? I want it.....
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also picked up my tyree watermelon chalice frag that was saved from a certain death. and it looks GREAT!! :marv
don't think it grew any, but when i gave it to him it was completely white and you could see skeleton. so at least its colored back up, maybe grew a tiny tiny bit.
:marv don't think it grew any, but when i gave it to him it was completely white and you could see skeleton. so at least its colored back up, maybe grew a tiny tiny bit.
