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02-04-2008, 08:34 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Lake Charles, LA Age: 27
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 |  Hello There!!
Hello! I have been lurking on this site for a couple months now, and decided to finally get involved!
I have a 75 Gallon that was down for a few years, and set back up 6-7 months ago. I haven't done much with it yet, as I have been expecting a relocation from Baton Rouge. Well that just happened, and the tank has a new home in Lake Charles. Right now it has about a 2-3" sand bed 15 lbs of old live rock, and almost 20 lbs that I just bought befor I left. (Better Rocks in Baton Rouge.) I have another 60-70 lbs of DIY rock that is curing, and will be ready in about a week or so. For filtration I have an Aquaclear Proclear 75 wet/dry sump with the skimmer that came with it (I don't have a whole lot of faith in the skimmer), and about a 12 gallon refugium that I built from acriylic with a 2-3" sand bed. I will be adding some macro algae to the fuge in near future. for the moment I have 6x40watt NO flourescent bulbs (3xActinic, and 3x6500K). The only livestock (for now) is one lonely green chromis, a few nassarius snails and blue leg hermits, and one queen conch.
It's not much yet, but I have big aspiratons for this tank! Sorry for the long post, guess I got a little carried away there! | 
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02-04-2008, 08:46 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: niles, ohio Age: 32
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Welcome to 3Reef>>>>>>> No worries about a long post, less for everyone to be nosey about. Plus giving alot of info about your tank helps the ocean gods of 3Reef answer questions faster...... _________ My Tank Thread...... EST. 10/30/07 5.5 gal, 72watt's of pc's, rio skimmer, hob rated at 40 gal, stealth heater, b/w aussie clown, rainford goby, emerald crab, turbo, bumble bee, astrea, and nassarius snails, aussie open brain, pink birdsnest, green birdsnest, wallhammer, multiple acro's, numerous monti's, zoa's, palys, ppd's, duncans, mint gsp's, reg gsp's, blue clove polyps, grn bali slimer, and tons of ppl sponges. | |
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02-04-2008, 08:50 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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To 3Reef!!! Salutations! Glad to see you found way here!
Getting started but waiting to develop after move is great idea.
Keep us posted on progress! Quote:
Originally Posted by mpCrain  ... Sorry for the long post, guess I got a little carried away there! |  No worries...some of us here are a little carried away most of the time...  _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (2008 Reef log) ("OmarD"/"Scott") | |
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02-04-2008, 09:07 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Lake Charles, LA Age: 27
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Thanks for the feedback! Hope to be posting some serious progress soon! | |
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02-04-2008, 09:18 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: niles, ohio Age: 32
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Did anyone mention Pics??? Pics need to come soon or luna starts getting figgity... | |
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02-04-2008, 09:55 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Lake Charles, LA Age: 27
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Ah! Will get some pics up after I get the DIY rock put in some time next week probly... | |
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02-04-2008, 09:57 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: niles, ohio Age: 32
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Sounds awesome.... | |
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02-04-2008, 10:28 AM
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| | Bikers are a dying breed!
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Welcome to 3reef, glad you have joined. When you start posting pics go in and start a thread on your build and post all your progress there. Show Off Your Fish Tanks! - 3reef Forums _________ 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 Parameters My 265 Gal. Tank Thread   | |
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02-04-2008, 10:47 AM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Welcome to 3 reef!  The post wasn't a prob. I'm guilty of much longer ones. 
Just a word of advice. The actinic bulbs are fine, but the 6500 K NO bulb will get pretty friendly with the algae if you know what I mean. Try to get special marine daylight bulbs with at least 10000 K. Good luck! (And we like pics)
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55gal,216 watt Tek T5, 45#LR, 45#LS, 3 maxi-jet 900's on a natural wavemaker timer,phosban reactor, 5 gal fuge (built out of standard 10 gallon tank) with chaeto and feather caulerpa, sealife systems protein skimmer, wet/dry, 3 blue/green chromi, 1 skunk cleaner shrimp, 1 coral beauty,1 scopas tang, 2 false percs, 5 mexican turbo snails, assorted dwarf blue leg hermits, astrea snails, and nerite snails | |
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02-04-2008, 10:15 PM
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| | Clown Trigger
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: joliet,il Age: 41
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