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03-20-2008, 01:00 AM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: San Bruno, CA Age: 33
Posts: 248
|  One month of 3reefing- before and after!
Love this forum! You guys rock! (live, of course)
For my own amusement, here's the tank before I found 3reef and now five weeks later. Nothing compared the the other pix out there, but pretty exciting for a N00b.
Sorry about the pic quality, I only have a cell camera. Still working on the rock placement...
Day 1: 
Week 5: 
Thanks again! | 
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03-20-2008, 03:13 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Nice tank you got going. Glad you like it here. I see a little yellow tail in there swimming around, they are great tank starters.  _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 My 265 Gal. Tank Thread " REAL TIME TANK STATS "   | |
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03-20-2008, 04:46 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Meriden, Connecticut Age: 43
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Congratulations! You are on your way to experiencing one of the best hobbies. Keep reading, spending time on 3reef with questions and concerns, and try to maintain proper water parameter levels, excellent testing and husbandry practices.
Good luck _________ 125gal.w/Mag9.5 return(dual megaflow)>Mag7 pump Aqua Cev180skimmer.Wave2k Hamilton Reefstar(2)250watthqi(mh)pend.a Yellow, Naso Tang Red Lip Blenny Percula Clown Demoiselles Niger Trigger F. Wrasses Ceriantharia Orn.Shrimp and Stars Hermits Queen Conch asst. snails> Stars Zoos shrooms Montipora Brains Gorgonians Favia Turbinaria(large+small polyp) Acropora Xenia Tridacna (CroceaMaximaSquamosa) Leathers <35+75gal.reef tank as well> 
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03-20-2008, 10:44 AM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: San Bruno, CA Age: 33
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Oh, yeah, params etc...
29gal "long" 30", 60 LS, 30 LR, Fluval 205 canister, 130 GPH powerhead, 200 GPH powerhead, 130 W PC 50/50 lights.
Temp: 78F
Spec Grav: 1.026
pH: 8.0
NH3: 0 mg/L
NO2: 0 mg/L
NO3: 10 mg/L
Alkalinity: 225 ppm CaCO3
* 6 turbo snails
* 2 tiger cowries snails
* 2 peppermint shrimp
* 1 (was 2 ) hermit crab
* 2 yellow tailed blue damsel fish
* 1 sebae clown fish
* 1 sebae anemone- the world’s most irritating fish plant animal. Every day (s)he(?) looks dead, then revives | |
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03-20-2008, 11:45 AM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Quebec City
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Looks like your tank is coming along in leaps and bounds. 
I would just like to part some knowledge on for you about the Anemone you have ,by the sounds of things your tank is somewhat a new tank 5 weeks , I would think that at this time your tank has only just finnished its cycle and is not capable of sustaining an anemone at this point as they fair best in aged tanks, im not sure if your LFS is trying to take you for a ride or you were just unlucky for the right info to be on the table at time of perchase.
However I would suggest to you or anyone else that its in your best interest to return the anemone befor it starts to die off and spoil your tank, as it looking good for a new set up.
This may tie in with the current problems your having ?
Good luck to you | 
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03-20-2008, 11:48 AM
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| | Fire Squid
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Louisville, GA Age: 45
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looking good! I agree with Waste..it's hard enough to keep an anemone in an aged tank let alone a 5 week old one.... _________ Got Questions? Need Answers?
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03-20-2008, 12:28 PM
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| | KingFish
Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Pt. Richmond, Ca. Age: 38
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I agree with the others on the anemone concern, but just want to add cool layout. Nice job. | |
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03-20-2008, 12:34 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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Looking good...Go Slow.................. _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
"The more you learn, the more acutely aware you become of your ignorance" | |
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03-20-2008, 01:01 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007
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Looks nice.. My tank was over a year old before I added my bta.... Hope yours works out.... Good Luck!!!!!!!! | |
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03-20-2008, 02:55 PM
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| | Feather Duster
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: San Bruno, CA Age: 33
Posts: 248
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Thanks all! The sebae has been a concern, and yeah LFS hasn't exactly been helpful. (6th Aquarium and Flowers, 6th Ave & Clement, San Francisco). I've come close to pulling it back out over the last week, but every time I decide to do so it revives and looks happy again. It may go into a 10Gal QT tank for a few weeks if nothing else.
I did my first water change at week 4, 20% (6 gal). I plan to keep with 10% weekly changes, params have remained stable after week 1, when I added a bag of bio-goo.
Long term I'm thinking this will end up as FOWLR or QT- I have my eye on a 100gal at AquaTraders (San Bruno Ave, San Bruno for those in SF Bay). $239 with stand. Next month maybe! | |
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