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04/01/2007, 10:29 PM | #1 |
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My First Reef Tank -2 months in
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So i finally got the time to put up pics of my tank. Its been up and running since the beginning of February. I didnt have the patiences as most of you and had fish in the tank on the same day i put the rock in after after the water cloudiness went away. Couple changes to the rockscape later and few more fish and here is some pics of my 55 gallon. Fish include 3 chromis, 2 maroon clowns, 1 sailfin tang, 1 diamond goby and lots of crabs and snails. Guess i am lucky being a retailer i got access to alot of great additions at a good price. Enjoy! |
04/01/2007, 10:39 PM | #2 |
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Looking good I think you can go ahead and add the salt now.
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04/01/2007, 10:55 PM | #3 |
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try taking some pictures without the flash. It will make the blue in the lights come out more. Cool tank, its loaded woth corals! I love it!
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04/01/2007, 10:59 PM | #4 |
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2 months and you have that much stuff? WOW
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04/01/2007, 11:25 PM | #5 |
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Looks like your doin it right!
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04/01/2007, 11:42 PM | #6 |
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That is amazing for 2 months! had to cost a pretty penny in such a short time. From the looks of it well worth it too. Nice corals and clowns!
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04/02/2007, 04:02 AM | #7 |
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I think you have done pretty well, nice work !!!!
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04/02/2007, 09:24 AM | #8 |
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Only a few pretty pennies because i buy wholesale, but yeah definitely a few more pennies then i orginally had planned
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04/02/2007, 10:27 AM | #9 |
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Looks nice. Quite a zoa collection you have there.
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04/02/2007, 10:37 AM | #10 |
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sweet, what lights are you running?
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04/02/2007, 10:40 AM | #11 |
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Its an orbitz system with MH(150 i think) and 2 power compacts
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04/02/2007, 05:42 PM | #12 |
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Looooking Gooood..WOW I am a Newbie, and have had my 75 Gal reef up for about 6 weeks and it is nowwhere even close to that. How did you get your Mag and Cal up that fast to support all those corals??? Oh and I don't think you spent..PENNIES..lol
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04/02/2007, 05:49 PM | #13 |
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"How did you get your Mag and Cal up that fast to support all those corals??? "....
sorry...confused by this...Santa can you explain...? |
04/02/2007, 06:18 PM | #14 |
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Looks Awesome!
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04/02/2007, 06:19 PM | #15 |
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Will try... I am still working at getting my Calcium up to over 400 and my Magnesium up to a level that will support corals. Am I missing something or more likely...I am the one who is confused..Any help?
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04/02/2007, 06:28 PM | #16 |
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Looks great, Keep up the good work
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04/02/2007, 07:58 PM | #17 |
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i think one of the big advantages is i live in Santa Barbara, CA and all my water is fresh saltwater from UCSB(local university). Other than that my youthful lack of patiences i have just added coral and just hoped for the best and so far everything has done well.
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I went to buy frozen food one day and left with $1100 less in my bank account. I totally know how fast it can get out of hand. I purchased everything at once and then picked it up as I was ready for it. It was my hubby's B'day present. He always wanted seahorses.
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04/02/2007, 08:29 PM | #19 |
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yeah its amazing how expensive the hobby can get. I bought the tank, sump, pump used for $250 thinking i would be set $400 in lights another $300 or so in other equipment later and there went the fun for my big screen tv i wanted. but hey its a fun but addicting thing
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