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Thank you for the interest. Not much to update. Tanks doing well. I have a few sps that have started to take off, About a 1/2'' in growth. And other that have spread out well. New royal gramma hides a lot. Does not seem to like all the flow. When I feed I turn pumps off. During this, hes all over the place. But a soon as pumps are back on he goes back to hiding. My boys love to try and find him during dinner. Also I had a mexican turbo snail spawn in my tank a few months ago and now I have at least 20 pea size snails in my tank. So that was way cool. Got rid of the black spiny Urchin that was eating my reef. The 1/2'' frag that it ate is starting to crust over the plug again. Be awhile before it starts to grow in height again. Along with the the green bay packer colony that it ate, those are starting to grow back. I have been looking at maybe upgrading to mp10s, but way to much money. And the corals seem very happy. So im just gonna leave it alone. I was always digging and changing things with my old 90. Im trying to go a different route this time, and it seems to be working alot better. Ill see if I can get some pics up when the lights turn on.
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So excited....Thanks to the best store ever....(SWE)...was able to pick up a melanarus wrasse, 2 cleaner shrimp. And finally after about 4 years of running ro I finally picked up a tds meter. And to my surprise, 2ppm into the di, 0 coming out. I thought this was great, and now thinking why did I even pick one up..lol....Try and gry some pics up tomorrow when lights on. Seconds after adding the wrasse he started sniping at the rocks....yea. And the cleaners were hanging out together in some large button polyps.
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finally some pics. Not good. But man that wrasse is hard to get a pic of.....
and just another pic....
atinic and blue+ bulbs on now, will try and get morning pics when tank looks more white this weekend. Maybe shrimp will be out then..
and just another pic....
atinic and blue+ bulbs on now, will try and get morning pics when tank looks more white this weekend. Maybe shrimp will be out then..
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Nice work dude! Keep it up
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Thanks.
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Some updates. Lost 1 of my clowns, and my tang. I believe it was due to me removing a fuzzy mushroom from the rocks and having it spill its gut all over my tank, or I had alot of people over the day before and live in a small house causing ph to drop. Not sure, but the rest of the tank seemed to have no problems. No it has been about a month and a half since and all seems to be going well. Took some pics this morning. Hope you enjoy. And I'm bloan away by the growth I'm getting. Never had this in my 90. Or atleast not this fast
my happy little shrimp.
Slimer
This has grown atleast an inch and multiple branches
3 new mouths
What's left of zoa garden after urchin having lunch
This I cut every 3 week's so it doesn't get sucked into maxi jet
Other then that a turbo sexed in my tank and now I have atleast a dozen pea size turbos going to town keeping things clean.
Next on the list. Luv to add a serpin halequin or maybe a foxface. And forsure a new companion for my clown
Slimer
This has grown atleast an inch and multiple branches
3 new mouths
What's left of zoa garden after urchin having lunch
This I cut every 3 week's so it doesn't get sucked into maxi jet
Other then that a turbo sexed in my tank and now I have atleast a dozen pea size turbos going to town keeping things clean.
Next on the list. Luv to add a serpin halequin or maybe a foxface. And forsure a new companion for my clown
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Almost forgot fts
sleeri
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Great looking tank! How do you like the bare bottom? Thinking about taking the sand out of my tank.
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Awesome. My maxi jets push any wast to the back 2 corners so siphoning out waste is a breeze. I do get a little green algae on the bottom but the snails take care of that.
sleeri
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Nice, think I'm going to give that a shot. Sounds simple.
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I like the look of sand. Makes things pop I think, and there are some nice fish u can have that need the sand(mystery wrasse). But I like that I'm not fighting pumps that are pushing sand around especially if you have an sps dominate tank. And clean up is a breeze.
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mapierce7
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Too bad about the loss of the fish, but the corals sure are coming along nicely.
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Thanks
Beautiful tank can't wait to see updates and watch it fill out that whole tank.
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The thermostat on my heater keeps clicking on and off. I have it hooked to my controller and it looks like the red light is on the thermostat but the green light that says its running is not. ?. Looks like the controller wants the heater on but the heaters controller says no. So thanks brs. New finnex titanium 300 watt will be taking its place. Also picked up some Di resin.
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Looking good I to have my tank rite nest to my dining room table. Love having it there but your tank takes it to a hole new level!
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Just a quick update. Tanks is doing awesome still. Installed that new heater, and now have a little extra cash to look for some more frags next weekend. Going to hit up SWE. And I have extra room in the tank after the wife being sick, and the kids sucked into minecraft, I was able to spend some time cleaning and FIF to Waste Management. So now I have some room to fill. Also picked up a ora clown to match my true perc. Now she seem happier and trying to host my fuzzy mushrooms. Try to get some pics up after picking up new frags.
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