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12-28-2007, 11:35 AM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: East Lansing, MI Age: 21
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 |  Pretty Pictures (clownfish + tank update)
   I just wanted to update all you nice people here on my progress on my new 29g. 7-8 wks from initial setup, at 5 wks, cleaner crew added, nitrates :0.3, now it has been almost 8 wks and my nitrates :0. I figured it was about time to add some fish and my most obvious choice for me as a beginner was the Ocellaris Clownfish. Calcium is a little low but I won't add any chemicals because it is only at 430 which isn't extremely deficient. If it declines further I plan on adding liquid ca++ or kalkwasser.
My only tank inhabitants are: 4 turbo and 2 trochea snails, 2 scarlet-leg and 1 mexican reef hermit crabs, lots of bristleworms & brittlestars, a Kenya Tree Coral and now 1 Anemone and 2 clowns!  Oh BTW, its a MH light and lots of flow from the Korillia 2, algae may look bad, but it was actually much worse 2-4 weeks ago!
Any comments or questions or concerns are appreciated, thank you. 
Last edited by david7700; 12-29-2007 at 11:22 AM.
Reason: "true clownfish" turned out to be actually "false" or ocellaris
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12-28-2007, 11:37 AM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Quebec City
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nice clowns _________ 
55gl skimmerless, 80lbs live rock, DIY wavemaker running 3x MJ1200 with hydor deflector.
2 DIY fluidized reactors Carbon & ROWAphos
LIghts- 2x 50/50 atinics T10's , 2x life gro T10's ,
1x20,000K T12, 1x6,000K T10.
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12-28-2007, 11:40 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Orlando,Fl.
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looks nice.they will start the mating dance soon. | |
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12-28-2007, 11:45 AM
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| | Feather Star
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Age: 25
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Hey chap! Nice tank! Your clowns look healthy and heh... lovely  All the best If I were you I would definitely adjust white balance parameter in your camera to fluorescent light
Last edited by Camilsky; 12-28-2007 at 12:11 PM.
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12-28-2007, 12:06 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
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Aw clowns look awesome! They sure do grow up fast. Look at that algae coming off the powerhead! _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
Bulbs:
1 x 54w Fiji Purple T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w Super Actinic Blue T5 HO Flourescent
1 x 54w 14000K AquaBlue 75/25 T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
Hard Stuff:
100+ lb. Fiji Live Rock
65+ lb. Live sand
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12-28-2007, 12:45 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007
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They look awesome..... | |
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12-28-2007, 01:26 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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Awesome clowns, we have a mated pair and they are a joy to watch. Now if only the darn Cherub Angel would leave the male alone....  _________ 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 
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12-28-2007, 04:15 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
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Awesome David, but your cal isnt low at all. Thats where I keep my cal at. Man..........thats alot of algae. _________ 9YR OLD 90G/55g custom sump/refug Mag18 Aquac 180skimmer 692w MH AC jr,yel&kole tang,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Acropora(2) Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, xenias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew..  | |
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12-31-2007, 07:16 AM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: East Lansing, MI Age: 21
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thanks for the nice comments! Here is a pic of my Long Tentacle Anemone sleeping.... he sure bunched up and got all nice and cozy last night, I hope everything goes well while I am away for a couple days. I am going to put my light on a limited timer while away (<2 hrs/ day) but only for 2-3 days.  | |
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12-31-2007, 07:36 AM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Lancaster Ohio Age: 36
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what are you running for lights? your clowns and anenome look nice I have fought algea like that but it was always from to much white/yellow light or old bulbs. I would find some atinic t5s and run them for a few hours instead of running your other light all day. | |
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