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Full Version: October 2009 - plainrt
For October we're featuring plainrt and his 30 gallon nano reef!
Click the picture above to check out his reef profile! You can find plainrt's tank journal here in our Members Aquariums forum. Feel free to post any comments or questions you may have for plainrt, and he'll try his best to answer them.
Click the picture above to check out his reef profile! You can find plainrt's tank journal here in our Members Aquariums forum. Feel free to post any comments or questions you may have for plainrt, and he'll try his best to answer them.
Congrats! Beautiful tank!
Great looking.
Congratz
Congratulations. Great looking tank!!!!!!
-Prof
-Prof
congrats!!nice tank,plainrt
Very nice! Well deserved! 
Congratulations plainrt!
Congrats! 
Gratz! Beautiful tank. Cant believe it was just set up in march.
What do you know another cheesehead wins TOTM!
Your tank sure has come along nicely and well deserving of the honor! I dig your bulb combo as well.
That frogspawn is crazy. It almost looks like a bubble tip nem. Good job my friend!
Your tank sure has come along nicely and well deserving of the honor! I dig your bulb combo as well.
That frogspawn is crazy. It almost looks like a bubble tip nem. Good job my friend!
is that really a christmas wrasse??
congrats, man!!
Congratulations!!!!
AWEsome
Congratulations!
Congrats and well deserved.
Very well deserved. You're tank has come a long way in just a few short months! 
inspiring...congrats.
Congrats!
Congratulations! 
I told ya it was the best 30 eva!!!1
I told ya it was the best 30 eva!!!1
Big Congrats on receiving a well deserved Honor!
congrats... look at all those frags! nice tank
Congrats on one helluva tank!!! 
Awesome setup. Congrats!
Congrats man! Tank looks great
BEAUTIFUL TANK. Very natural.
Very nice! Good to see Wisconsin represent. (I'm a displaced Badger)
Beautiful! Hard to believe you started in March - Congrats!
QUOTE (GobyInPeace @ Oct 1 2009, 06:11 AM) 
What do you know another cheesehead wins TOTM!
Your tank sure has come along nicely and well deserving of the honor! I dig your bulb combo as well. That frogspawn is crazy. It almost looks like a bubble tip nem. Good job my friend!
Your tank sure has come along nicely and well deserving of the honor! I dig your bulb combo as well.
That frogspawn is crazy. It almost looks like a bubble tip nem. Good job my friend!Thanks i couldnt have came up with that bulb combo without you lol.I also took a few ideas from you after seeing your tank in person.
QUOTE (reefer413 @ Oct 1 2009, 06:16 AM)
is that really a christmas wrasse??
Yes it is as far as i know.
Thanks everyone for the kind comments.
QUOTE (plainrt @ Oct 1 2009, 04:08 PM)
Thanks i couldnt have came up with that bulb combo without you lol.I also took a few ideas from you after seeing your tank in person.
Yes it is as far as i know.
Thanks everyone for the kind comments.
Yes it is as far as i know.
Thanks everyone for the kind comments.
I'm just wondering what order do you have your bulbs in from front to back?
I ask because I came up with your bulb combo a few weeks ago and after seeing your tank and the colors popping I am DEF gonna get them when it's time to replace my bulbs. That is the exact tone of colors I want from my lights. So I'm just curious in which order do you have them from front to back?
I hope my tank may one day look as great as yours
Bulb order.I stole this combo from gobyinpeace after seeing his tank in person lol.
front
ati blue +
ati Aquablue Special
ge 6500
Uv super actinic
back
thanks and good luck with your tank :}
front
ati blue +
ati Aquablue Special
ge 6500
Uv super actinic
back
thanks and good luck with your tank :}
WHAT they had to of picked this tank blind folded.
JK It is a beautiful tank. Well deserved congrats.
JK It is a beautiful tank. Well deserved congrats.
lol you had me.......
thanks
thanks
It is pretty amazing how great it looks with only being setup for a months. I have seen tanks that don't look half that good that have been running for years.
QUOTE (Lawnman @ Oct 5 2009, 09:06 PM)
It is pretty amazing how great it looks with only being setup for a months. I have seen tanks that don't look half that good that have been running for years.
Thanks.Alot of the stuff in this tank came from small frags in my cube and just do a ton better in this tank.Everything grows like crazy except the sps but i can understand that having a some what heavy bioload and being skimmerless etc.
Jason, the tank looks fantastic as always. Another cheesehead in the house!
For the person asking if it is a christmas wrasse, please be aware that there are a couple (4 or more) variations of halichoeres ornatissimus that are available from the pacific. They all look a tad bit different.
I watched this very wrasse he bought for weeks at the local store, and I can say without a doubt it is a Christmas wrasse. I don't think this is a Fijian or a Hawaiian one though.
For the person asking if it is a christmas wrasse, please be aware that there are a couple (4 or more) variations of halichoeres ornatissimus that are available from the pacific. They all look a tad bit different.
I watched this very wrasse he bought for weeks at the local store, and I can say without a doubt it is a Christmas wrasse. I don't think this is a Fijian or a Hawaiian one though.
QUOTE (horkn @ Oct 8 2009, 09:09 AM)
Jason, the tank looks fantastic as always. Another cheesehead in the house!
For the person asking if it is a christmas wrasse, please be aware that there are a couple (4 or more) variations of halichoeres ornatissimus that are available from the pacific. They all look a tad bit different.
I watched this very wrasse he bought for weeks at the local store, and I can say without a doubt it is a Christmas wrasse. I don't think this is a Fijian or a Hawaiian one though.
For the person asking if it is a christmas wrasse, please be aware that there are a couple (4 or more) variations of halichoeres ornatissimus that are available from the pacific. They all look a tad bit different.
I watched this very wrasse he bought for weeks at the local store, and I can say without a doubt it is a Christmas wrasse. I don't think this is a Fijian or a Hawaiian one though.
Thanks tom good to see you on here.I have seen a couple different christmas wrasses and they didnt catch my eye as much as this one did.Im just happy it doesnt hide in the sand as much as it was at the lfs lol.
STUNNING! well deserved.
QUOTE (Boomboy @ Oct 8 2009, 03:24 PM)
STUNNING! well deserved.
thanks Boom
congrats!!!! very beautiful!!! keep up the good work!!!!!
truely amazing tank !!
an absolute credit to you brill!!
an absolute credit to you brill!!
Beautiful Tank! OK now I have to go rearrange my scape....
amazing tank. i love your equipment selection and will try to them on my tank.
congrats again!
congrats again!
Congratulations!
Damn, that's nice. I need to go to the LFS and buy more frags, my tank looks bare and bland compared to that. One of my favorite sizes of tanks, too.
Wow, what a nice looking tank.
Congrats.
Awesome.
Congrats.
Awesome.
Thanks people.
why didn't you tell me you got TOTM??? Congratulations!
I have to say this tank is nothing in photos compared to what it looks like in person. I stop by his house just to gaze at his tank.
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