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02-18-2008, 04:25 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Thank you for the kind words everyone  | 
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02-18-2008, 04:28 AM
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#12 (permalink)
| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Miami, FL
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Very nice, I like your sump set up. _________ Link to My 75 Reef Hardware 75G 20G DIY Refugium/Sump 2 250W MH, 4 65W PC Koralia 1 and Koralia 2 Powerheads for Currents Mag 9.5 for Sump/Fuge Return TLF Phosban Reactor Coralife Super Skimmer Software Domino Damsel Sixline Wrasse Coral Beauty Maroon Clown Reef Hogfish Cleaner Shrimp Camelback Shrimp Assorted Turbo Snails Red Legged and Blue Legged Hermits 3 Mexican Turbos Frogspawn Coral Foxtail Coral Pulsing Xenia Bubbletip Anemone | |
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02-18-2008, 06:46 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: East Liberty, OH
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Nice! Did you glue your LR together? Love the way it looks! Kas | |
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02-18-2008, 07:54 AM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
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Now the really hard part (: Just set back and wait.. Life will start and in a few weeks more can be added just go slow ad allow it all to take root and to catch up. Its all going through some vary large and real changes now .. Just get the water parameters solid and stable.. And avoid that pitfall. _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) | |
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02-18-2008, 08:19 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tangster  Now the really hard part (: Just set back and wait.. Life will start and in a few weeks more can be added just go slow ad allow it all to take root and to catch up. Its all going through some vary large and real changes now .. Just get the water parameters solid and stable.. And avoid that pitfall. |
Ditto Adam Blundell M.S.
"...As surprising as it may seem your tank will look ugly at first. This happens to all new marine aquariums as they cycle through their initial filtration phase. Your tank may go brown, and then green, and then red, and then just look junky. It happens. Consequently the one coral you really want to keep may not live. You may struggle to raise the prize fish you originally intended to acquire. It's okay; just learn to love whatever is working for you. Remember, not only is this a hobby, but we are keeping living ecosystems. Special efforts should be put forth to enjoy and appreciate what we are keeping, whatever it may be. It takes time and patience to turn a glass box full of rock into a beautiful, thriving reef tank..." Good Luck!  _________ 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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02-19-2008, 12:47 PM
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| | Panda Puffer
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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Nice tank, your on the right start, especially adding the fuge in the beggining of setup unlike some of us,*me*, did. _________  | |
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02-19-2008, 07:07 PM
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#17 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Yeah, waiting is hard but worth it in the end I'm sure! I do other small things to keep myself busy, for example I got a few light timers today and I mounted my surge protectors up on my stand to allow for drip cords. Cleaning the glass sometimes keeps me busy too, like I said its the small things  Oh and I do water tests a lot, I dunno I think they're fun 
And Kas, nope no glue on the live rock... It took me over 2 hours to get the rock like that lol! I had a few good structures before but they'd collapse, finally focused more on stability rather then looks and ended up with this. I'm happy with it, it's not what I had originally planned but things rarely play out like we plan them . It's stable though, and thats all that counts!
Again thanks for the kind words everyone!
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75g Soon to be Reef, Born 01-22-2008,
2 - 250w 14000k South Pacific Sunlight Metal Halides,
2 - 110w VHO Super Actinics,
ASM G-1 In-Sump Protein Skimmer,
200w Heater, 80lb Base Rock w/10lb Live Rock,
80lb Sand, 30lb Live Sand, 29g DIY Sump, Fuge.
Fish:
(1) Yellow-tail Damsel
(1) Six Line Wrasse
Clean Up Crew:
(16) Blue-legged Hermits
(5) Scarlet Crabs
(1) Emerald Crab
(20) Astrea Snails
(10) Trochus Snails
(10) Cerith Snails
(5) Nassarius Snails (sm)
(5) Nassarius Snails (lg)
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02-19-2008, 07:23 PM
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#18 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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We're still waiting on some more pics.... _________ 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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02-20-2008, 05:13 PM
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#19 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 70
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Latest water test, 02-20-08
Water Temp = 79
Salinity = 1.025
pH = 8.1
DKH = 12.25
Ca = 340 mg/l
Mg = 1440 mg/l
More pictures coming soon! | |
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02-20-2008, 05:16 PM
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#20 (permalink)
| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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You need to try and keep that Ca around 450 all others look great! | |
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