mikejrice's 16 Gallon Innovative Marine Nuvo Aquarium

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  1. mikejrice

    mikejrice 3reef Affiliate

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    Updated images in first post and end of thread.

    Enjoy

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    Equipment:
    Innovative Marine 16 Gallon Nuvo Black
    Innovative Marine 14k Clamp on LED for refugium
    Aqua Illumination Hydra 52
    DIY ATO with kalkwasser

    Chemicals:
    Kent Salt
    Aquavitro Balance
    Pickling lime

    Food:
    Elite Reef Cuisine Nano
    AlgaGen live phytoplankton

    LPS:
    Lithophyllum
    Platygyra
    Tons of acans
    Bi-color Acan Bowerbanki
    Green eye favites
    War coral
    Red eye montastrea
    "Pink Boobies" chalice
    Green lobophyllia
    Favias

    Soft coral:
    Sympodium
    Green cabbage leather

    Fish:
    B & W Ocellaris Pair

    Inverts:
    Sunburst anemone
     
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  3. mdbostwick

    mdbostwick Vlamingii Tang

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    Looking good!
     
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  4. DSC reef

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    Nice mike. The pink boobies is a fast grower, I've had mine for 5 months and it's doubled in size
     
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    The little sunburst anemone is finally starting to show its true colors.

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    Alkalinity: 8
    Calcium: 480
    Nitrate: 0
    Phosphate: 0
    Temperature: 76
    Salinity: 1.025

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  9. mikejrice

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    Salinity: 1.025
    Temperature: 76

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    Phosphate: 0
    Temperature: 80
    Salinity: 1.024

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  11. mikejrice

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    Definitely! I got a speck of it about three years ago and have cultured it out to be probably about a square foot spread between the tanks of everyone I know. Still my favorite coral.
     
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  12. oldfishkeeper

    oldfishkeeper Giant Squid

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    which one is the pink boobie?