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01-26-2007, 01:48 PM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Vacaville Age: 24
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|  46 gallon bow front.....
Just setup a nice slice of the amazon for my 2 favorite tarantulas. Ive got a mated pair of Megaphobema robustum (columbian redleg). A client was going to dump this beautiful 46gallon bowfront due to a crack in the bottom.....so she gave it to me instead with the matching stand and lighting  !!! I had alot of critter gadgets in my storage and made a really nice setup for these two. Ive got a tropicare humidifier modded with a fogger inside linked to a humidistat, a nice thermostat on a heat lamp, a 40watt VHO plant bulb, and some nice amazon themed plants,drift wood, and even have matched the peat/substrate. Anyone who's done a planted terrarium knows that knats are almost unavoidable....I've comeup with a perfect biological control. 2 nice big daddt longlegs, they build there webbing in the middle through top 1/2 and have wiped out the knats. I just need to put a nice background on the tank. Its been up for about a month now and the plants have grown nicley. Im trying to find some orgainc fertilizer that wont affect the tarantulas. Are there anyother Tarantula or scolopendra frwaks here?  _________ Yes, tiny has an 11" legspan......  | 
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01-26-2007, 03:05 PM
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| | Sea Dragon
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Kalispell, MT
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Very cool! Nice use of a broken tank. _________ Senior Noob Setting my 75 back up soon Main SW Tank:
55gal, 70LBS of Tonga/LFSDIY, 50lbs LS, 1x250watt MH(20k), AquaC Remora Skimmer Live stock: Velvet Damsel, (12)Blue legged crab, lawnmower blenny, (1)cleaner shrimp, Yellow Tang, Featherduster CoralsRandom Zoo's(like 10), more zoo's,red mushrooms and hairy mushrooms, Sinularia | |
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01-26-2007, 03:25 PM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Mesa AZ Age: 29
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Sorry, I can not help you out with your critters, however I delved into a vivarium before. I used to have a few poision dart frogs for about three years- When i was moving, my land lord threw out my culture of flies, I live in the phoenix area and it was in the middle of summer so any flies shipped to me cooked.. my frogs starved that summer . the tank i had them in is now a saltwater tank.... sorry about the rambling...
if it means anything to ya, I had tree bark for the background in my tank, you should be able to find them in fairly thick nearly flat slabs at your lps...
very cool idea about how to keep the gnats down  _________  "Commit it to the flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion" -Hume
45 Gallon Bow, Oddysea 250w Halide w 2x28w actinic, Coralife skimmer... To be continued... | |
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01-26-2007, 06:40 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Jan 2007
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That is an awesome setup, you have the best habitat for tarantulas I've ever seen.
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90 gal 120 lbs LR | |
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02-08-2007, 10:27 AM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Vacaville Age: 24
Posts: 718
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| Added some stuff, and finally the beast emerges!
I was adding more substrate and put in a waterfall from an older enclosure. Looks like she is getting ready to molt.....  Ive made the tank look a bit mor "natural"....and still need a nice background and a couple more plants. There MUST be some T keepers here.....   | |
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02-08-2007, 10:36 AM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Vacaville Age: 24
Posts: 718
Karma: 105
| some bigger pics....
Whole shabang.....still needs afew things 
Peering through the "Amazon" in my my room 
Chasing the camera....literally! 
Double clickem for the whole photo | |
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02-08-2007, 11:03 AM
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| | Ritteri Anemone
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Naperville IL Age: 29
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That is crazy. I love it.
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180 Gal Reef, AquaC EV-400, 3 MH Aquamedic Oceanlight HQI's 250w 20k. Neptune AquaController III, AquaLogic Trimline Cyclone 1/3hp skimmer, 2 x hydor #4's, 2 x mj1200's modded, 40 gal fuge. | |
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02-08-2007, 11:16 AM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Miami,Florida Age: 21
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That is awesome!!!! _________ *Since 12/2002 40 gal. 85 lbs live rock. 3" fiji Live sand.wet dry filter and prizm protein skimmer. 192 power compacts
*Since 10/2006 125 gal. Built in Overflows x2, 3" LS(165 lb fiji pink) 175 lb of LR, 2x 36" aquatinics T5 HO fixtures(10x39W bulbs 2 gliesman aquablue+1 gliesman actinic+2 ATI aquablue special), mag 18 return pump, PM R30fuge. AquaC EV 180 skimmer.
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02-08-2007, 11:26 AM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Montreal, QC,Quebec Age: 29
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Wow... really cool... _________ 
20Gal, 45 lbs LR, 65W PC 10 000K + 65W PC 20 000K + 10Gal sump/fuge
Livestock :hermit and snails, Green star polyps, Button polyps, Finger leather, Xenia, Zoanthids, Mushrooms, Yellow polyps, montipora digitata, acropora, ?mistery polyps?, mistery crab, six line wrasse | |
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