mikejrice's 20 Gallon JBJ Frag Tank

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  1. mikejrice

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    It's a crushed coral. Not my first choice, but with the spray bar placement, I wanted to make sure I wasn't going to have any problems with it blowing around.

    It helps when you have a few hundred pounds to pick from and a band saw to trim to fit.
     
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    You know you're a reef addict when your first thought after waking up at 6am is a water run to fill a new tank up.

    It's off and running! All that's left is to install my ATO and get the refugium going. I should have those taken care of today and should have some coral in by the weekend.

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    Very nice Mike. Love the rock-scape a lot. Have you come up with a stock list?
     
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    For MACNA, it's going to house my personal collection, and after that, it's going to be mostly a zoa propagation system.
     
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    Salinity: 1.023
    Alkalinity: 6
    Calcium: 420
     
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    I'll make sure to stop by the booth at MACNA ;)
     
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    I forgot to mention that I added a baffle in the filter to convert the center chamber to a refugium.

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    I look forward to seeing that Mike. :cool:
     
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    I'm going to apologize now for all the test results I'm going to log on here over the next few weeks, but with the accelerated time table of this build, it's the only way I'm going to get a good feel for the chemistry of the tank in time.

    Salinity: 1.023
    Alkalinity: 6
    Calcium: 440
     
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