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Discussion in 'Show Off Your Fish Tanks!' started by cuttingras, Oct 19, 2008.

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  1. zoo 4 life

    zoo 4 life Coral Banded Shrimp

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    Location:
    Missouri
    My 55 gallon:

    Lighting: 2x250W 10K XM M.H., 4x54 watt Arctil Life 420 nm actinic, LED moonlights
    Water Flow: 2 Hydor Koralia 1050's + 1 MJ 1200 on an ocean wave wavemaker
    Filtration: 60 LBS sand, 100 LBS LR, 30 gallon sump/fuge combo, chaeto+caulerpa, 12 watt LED 8-10K, 420-460nm 12 LED light,dimmable. 2x quiet one 3000 return pumps, ASM-G2 skimmer in sump.
    Heating/Chilling: JBJ 150 watt heater, 1/10 hp aqua auest chiller
    Fish: 1 B/W False percula clown, 1 Orange/white false percula clown, 1 yellow tang.
    Inverts: 1 Fire shrimp, 1 tuxedo urchin, 1 rainbow BTA, various snails, worms and hermit crabs for CUC
    Coral: Zoa's: Dragon's eye, radioactive green, darth maul,bam-bam, whopper, utter chaos, golden seamat
    LEather: Flower leather, finger leather, toad stool, devil's hand.
    Green and pink button polyps, 2 richordia's, lots of kenyan tree coral, red, green, maroon mushrooms, green star polyps, sunset montipora, tri-colored acro's, monti-capironicus and a few others I can't remember right now.
     

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  3. zoo 4 life

    zoo 4 life Coral Banded Shrimp

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    I would keep an eye on that stealth heater, they were recalled and mine blew up and polluted my tank, nearly killing my clownfish. Do a google search on it! I recommend JBJ, titanium is the only way to go with saltwater in my opinion!
     
  4. Manny_World

    Manny_World Astrea Snail

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    Location:
    N Las Vegas
    Looking good. I would be proud too.
     
  5. VeloceReef

    VeloceReef Bristle Worm

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    Location:
    Reno,NV
    75 Gallon Mega Flow Tank

    Equipment
    X2 Aqua Mars 165 LED's
    1450 Koralia, and a 750 Koralia
    Ecotech MP10
    Reed Octopus 110 Skimmer
    Carolina 1800 Return Pump
    6.5k Fuge Light
    20L Sump
    200 watt Hydor Heater

    65lbs Live Sand
    80lbs Live Rock

    Basic CUC Turbo's, Astria's, Blue Legs
    Fighting Conch
    Arrow Crab

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  6. reef_guru

    reef_guru Humpback Whale

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    Location:
    joliet,il
    the basics

    45g main tank
    c2c overflow
    2 jebao wp25 wavemakers

    20g fuge reverse lighting
    chaeto, lettuce, caulerpa, sea grapes, gracilaria, lots of rock

    65g sump
    sro-5000 protein skimmer
    dual chamber Ca reactor with an airline that goes outside of the house ( effluent goes into skimmer )
    carbon chamber
    reef relief automatic top off with 5 stage ro/di
    iwaki 30rlt return pump
    1/4 hp chiller

    lights
    par 350
    250w 10k mh
    460nm t5
    moon lights

    dosing via aquamedic
    seachem vitamin/amino ( inside coca cola refrigerator under tank )
    seachem trace elements
    kalwasser at night

    livestock
    20-30 sps's
    yellow tang
    7 blue chromis
    six line wrasse
    bicolor blenny
    royal grama
    neon blue goby
    4 cardinals
    derasa clam
    serpent star
    emerald crab
    peppermint shrimp
    multiple blue crabs, snails, bristleworms

    feeding
    flake food for the fish
    a mixture of raw pureed seafood at night by hand for the corals
    continuum zooplankton automatic dosing pump at night for the corals

    parameters
    salinity 1.026
    temp 80
    Ca 450
    dKH 12.2
    Mg 1500
    Sr 10
    K 400
    B 10
    PO4, NH34, NO23, Si all undetectable
    pH 8.1-8.3





     

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  7. oldfishkeeper

    oldfishkeeper Giant Squid

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    Location:
    Cincinnati