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February 13th, 2008
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New 55 gallon
I have been slowly accumulating equipment over the past few months to convert my 55 gallon fresh water tank over to salt. The live rock finally went in today, and I have the first picture. Not much to see yet, except a couple of piles of rock. The lights are standard flourescent right now. I will upgrade the lighting probably in March or April, so the tank will be FOWLR at least that long. Eventually it will be full reef. Equipment is an XP3 filter, 2 Koralia 2 power heads, and Coralife Superskimmer.
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February 13th, 2008
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Galactic Overlord
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Looks good.
Looking forward to hearing/seeing how this project progresses.
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February 14th, 2008
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Master Of Fish Poo!
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How many pounds of live rock is that?
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February 14th, 2008
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Fish Helper
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What are putting in it? It looks good so far.
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February 14th, 2008
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That is 45 lbs so far, which is a little light for the size tank, but I am planning on adding some tonga branch rock as well, which will bring me up to the recommended amount.
I am working to finalize my stocking list now. There will be a pair of yellow stripe maroon clowns for sure...everything else is negotiable. Anyone have any suggestions?
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February 15th, 2008
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Looks good so far ! Hey, a little rumor going around here in SoCal is they have stopped exporting tonga branch rock ! So if you see any in your LFS, buy it.
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February 15th, 2008
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Master Of Fish Poo!
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The live rock runs about $4-5/lb here.
How about firefish? What kind of anemone are you going to put in there?
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February 15th, 2008
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I had not heard that on the Tonga rock. It is about my luck, though. A small group of firefish is a possibility. With the clowns I have planned, I will eventually look into a bubbletip anemone, but that is a ways off due to lighting and water quality reqs for the anemone.
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February 16th, 2008
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Fish Helper
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How about Green Chromis and a dwarf angelfish.
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February 16th, 2008
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Master Of Fish Poo!
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 Great selections! 
Quote:
Originally Posted by BoSox Fan7
How about Green Chromis and a dwarf angelfish.
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February 16th, 2008
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A small group of Green Chromis is another possibility. They used to not interest me, but I have to admit they have grown on me some. I doubt I will add a dwarf angel. I love the look of them, particularly the flame angel, and would LIKE to include one, but I am concerned about picking at my corals.
Ah well...I have a couple weeks to wrestle with it. I tested the water last night and ammonia and nitrite both are through the roof.
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March 3rd, 2008
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The cycle finished up over the weekend, and I have added the first fish, along with some nassarius snails. The color is a little washed out...when I put the background up I went with blue, not yet having decided on stocking chromis. Now that I have, I will be switching the background to black to better show off the color of the fish.
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March 4th, 2008
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Fish Helper
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Nice chromis. Are there any other changes that you made like corals, fish anything like that?
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March 4th, 2008
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Not yet. I will add more fish in about a month. A couple more a month after that. Taking things slow so the tank can mature before anything sensitive goes in.
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March 4th, 2008
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The day I went fish hunting (last month) I was looking for chromis's ... Instead I bought anthias's ! I really like the thought of a big school of fish swimming in my tank.
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March 5th, 2008
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There are some great looking anthias out there. What kind did you get? I was considering lyretail. Until I saw the recommended tank size.  |
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March 5th, 2008
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Since my tank has such strong current, I purchased dispar anthias !
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March 7th, 2008
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Fish Helper
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Great looking tank man! I have a fish for you to get. A lawnmower blenny. they have SO much character and they eat all the bad algae in your tank such as bubble algae. they don't look that pretty but I think they look pretty darn cool! I just set up my saltwater tank and will post pics momentarily.
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