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September 22nd, 2009
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| New Corals
Got some new corals last weekend.
1 Colony of Green with blue tips stag horn. (the tall middle branch that grows straight up is about 5 inches)
1 Frag of Superman Monti
14 headed acan
1 Frag of German Green Acro
I might get a Blue Oregon Tort soon 
Some pics..
The yellow tang isn't new. Just thought to show it to you guys. I'll get more pics of the other two corals tomorrow | 
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September 22nd, 2009
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| Wow!~ Your tank only gets better. Great looking pictures. | |
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September 22nd, 2009
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| Amazing tank, you have just made up my mind to start saving for a marine tank... | |
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September 22nd, 2009
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| Congrats on the new additions! Great photos.
Ken | |
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September 22nd, 2009
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| Great looking tank ! What type of lighting are you running ? What type of bulbs ? | |
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September 22nd, 2009
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| Quote:
Originally Posted by ATP  I didn't notice that  We meaning family and friends. All the I were suppose to be We. | SURE sure... take all the credit!! lol j/k Quote:
Originally Posted by ATP Saltwater isn't hard. Just takes a lot of your money and you'll probably won't look at your freshwater anymore  | *sigh* someday... | |
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September 22nd, 2009
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| Quote:
Originally Posted by agsansoo Great looking tank ! What type of lighting are you running ? What type of bulbs ? | The tank's running 2x 46 inch Super Actinic 2x 46 inch Actinic White. 2 Reeflux 250 watts 12k bulbs with lumerac pendants | |
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September 22nd, 2009
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| | Fish Mentor
| running tank.
Quote:
Originally Posted by ATP The tank's running 2x 46 inch Super Actinic 2x 46 inch Actinic White. 2 Reeflux 250 watts 12k bulbs with lumerac pendants | ATP did you just say the tank is running? I would get out of the house ASAP is gotta be possessed   | |
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September 22nd, 2009
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| Quote:
Originally Posted by navyscuba | lol.
okay, the tank --has-- blah blah lights | |
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September 22nd, 2009
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| haha  | |
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September 22nd, 2009
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| New Pics -Halides-
New pics. The halides are on. The first pic is the acan I got. (the picture is kinda bad, but it's this one http://www.liveaquaria.com/DIVERSDEN...3+8&ddid=71408 )
The 2nd is the german green acro. It lost its colors due to imbalance calcium and KH due to low magnesium.
The 3rd picture is a pic of my foxface
The 4th is the anemone | |
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September 22nd, 2009
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| New Pics Halides are on
Pics of the front right and front left | |
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September 22nd, 2009
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| That's beautiful and crystal clear.  | |
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September 23rd, 2009
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| Thanks for the comments everyone. I might start a thread about my 65 gal. frag tank. It's going to use a nautilus te skimmer I'm using in my 125 when I get my ASM 400 plus | |
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September 23rd, 2009
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| I love how your yellow tang tried to get into the first picture lol | |
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September 23rd, 2009
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| Quote:
Originally Posted by abc123d30 I love how your yellow tang tried to get into the first picture lol | lol. Almost always when I want to take a close up, he always rushers to the camera | |
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September 30th, 2009
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| New Pics
Some pics of my corals. They look much better than last time. My magnesium was at 700 last time and now it's at around 1300.
Calcium - 480
KH - 9
My Blue tort gained it's color (1st pic), blue mili is bluer that ever (2nd pic), my green mili grew around 5 more branches, and unfortunately my purple tip valida and my purple nana died when my water was bad. | |
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October 8th, 2009
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| Pics of my sump
1st section (on the corner) where water drop from the tank
2nd section is my ASM 400 plus
3rd section is my refugim with a football size cheato
4th section is return pump | |
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October 8th, 2009
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| lol, yellow tang trying to get in the picture again in the 4th pic in the 47th post | |
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October 9th, 2009
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| Cool tank
-Matt | |
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October 10th, 2009
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| Just showing you some more progress from the very beginning to present.
History:
I've always been interested in Reef aquarium for a long time. I thought it was a lot harder and expensive so I just remove the thought from my head. That thought came back when I saw a 125 gallon tank with everything. Fishes, corals rocks, and everything for the price of 500 USD. So I called the guy and he lives 50 miles from here. Since it was so cheap we went there anyways. Apparently the tank had green hair algae problems. So we thought ok, just don't feed the fish to much right? So we bought it and brought it home. Removed all the algae (unfortunately, with brushes) and it looked great (with exception of the stand/canopy) Within 1 week, GHA appeared again. and again until it looked like when I bought it. I was thinking, wel... reefs are suppose to make you feel calm. Well my tank is making me crazy.
First thing i did was, I bought a sump/refugim and I spent 400 bucks on it and it was only 30 gal. Than I spent $500 bucks on water circulation ( mp40) reduced feeding, blah, blah. Waited and waited, but it got worst. A few months ago, we started doing weekly water changes, and it helped. Last month, we decided to "clean up" our tank.
Objectives
1-Make new stand/ canopy to remove the on that looks like it's going to collapse
2-Buy new lights for SPS
3-Separate rocks with algae and without algae
4-Separate corals that has rocks with algae
5-Clean tank of algae
6-Clean rock and coral of algae
7-Re assemble tank
8-Remove algae once and for all
The move/ upgrade on lights, stand cost us 1400 USD. (stand 900, lights about 500)
And there was still some algae, but not much. A few weeks later, we decided that we just wasted 400 bucks on that 30 gal sump. So we bought a cheap 75 gal tank at petco and made our own better sump/ refugim. That removed some of them.
A few days later, we bought turbo snails and thay did a tremendous work on the places I can't reach.
about 1 and a half weeks ago, we got our ASM 400 plus skimmer that's rated for 400 gallon skimmer and assembled it in our 125 and now my tank is clean
Hopefully forever
(well, atleast until I upgrade I'll have to deal with them again) | |
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October 10th, 2009
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| Last post was too long so here are pics
1-Pic of the tank before we bought it
2-Pic of the tank when we assembled it
3-Pic of the tank with algae
4-Pic of the tank with some algae growing
5-Pic of the tank with no algae | |
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October 10th, 2009
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| Favorite corals
My favorites
1-ORA tri-color
2-Steve's Blue Stag
3-ORA blue milipora (not in picture)
4-Green acopora with blue tips
I'm also getting a colony of blue stag and a small colony of orange digita tomorrow for $30.
Last edited by ATP; October 10th, 2009 at 01:55 AM.
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October 10th, 2009
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| Wow your tank is breathtaking.
I am hoping to get a 125g SW tank going but first I want to try a small tank which will hopefully be cheaper too if I mess up!
I dont think I would ever leave the house if I had a tank like that lol. | |
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October 10th, 2009
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| Awesome Tank
-Matt | |
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October 17th, 2009
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| Thanks everyone,
My saltwater LFS had their annual sale today.
I got:
Corals:
1 mini colony of ORA Joe the Coral
1 mini colony of ORA Pink Bidsnest
1 colony of light blue stag
Fish:
4 blue damsels for my 65 that's cycling
Misc.
Vertech handheld refractometer
Lots of frozen and liquid food
1st pic-Joe the Coral
2nd pic is the light blue stag
3rd pic is the pink birdsnest
4th is my front right section with new corals
They aren't looking the best right now because I just put them in 15 min. ago | |
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October 17th, 2009
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| They already look right at home in your tank ATP
My LFS also had a sale yesterday and i am busy uploading pics as i post this
-Matt
P.S. Great Buys | |
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October 18th, 2009
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| thanks Matt I'll post a pic of it under actinic tonight because it'll look a lot better.
New pics
1-side view of my tank
2-other side view of my tank
3-Orange digita (was good sized colony until I accidentally frag it into 5 pieces.
4-Purple rim monti
5-Frag Rack
Frag Rack:
1-green acro with blue tips
3-descent size digita
2-small digita
1-superman monti
1-dead ORA purple nana
1- 2 1/2 inch blue stag
THe joe coral looks much better. It has polyps coming out now. 
Last edited by ATP; October 19th, 2009 at 12:34 AM.
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October 18th, 2009
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| I love looking at the saltwater pics, they're always so colorful | |
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October 18th, 2009
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Last edited by ATP; October 19th, 2009 at 09:16 AM.
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