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Mike's Minibow


MiKeE

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green star polyps

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button polyps

zoo.jpg

 

OoOOooO pink polyps.. :)

pinkpolyps.jpg

 

who said mushrooms and button polyps cant live side by side and be friends :)

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Specifications

 

 

Tank:

-All Glass Aquarium 7 gallon minibow

 

Filtration:

-5-10 lbs pure carribean sand

-15-20 lbs live rock

-custom sump/refugium

-queen protein skimmer

 

Lighting:

-custom 17" catalina aquarium hood

- 150w DE HQI 20K bulb

- 32w powercompact

Inhabitants:

sps:

-acropora tortuosa

-green bali slimer

-purple montipora

-3 misc acropora (no names yet)

lps:

-Caulestrea furcata

-Blastomussa merleti

soft corals:

-various Zooanthid/Palythoa(pink, orange, yellow, brown, & green)

-ricordea ( orange,blue, & green)

-Xenia umbellata

invertebrates:

-maxima clam

-rose anemone

-4 nerite snails

-5 blue legged hermits

-3 astrea snails

 

fish, etc.:

-Amphiprion frenatus

-2 hi fin red banded goby & pistol shrimp

-yellow clown goby ( in sump )

misc:

-caulerpa taxifolia ( in tank)

-misc. caulerpa ( in sump )

Wavemaker/

circulation

-Magdrive 5 ( return pump)

-Aquaglobe micro powerhead(300gph)

Additives:

-B-ionic 2 part additive (daily)

-Reef Solution (daily)

-Bioplankton ( twice a week)

-Formula One -frozen-(3 times a week)

-Formula One -pellets-(every other day)

 

more pictures, comming soon...

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SeaMountain

One thing about Minibows...

 

Everyone wants to know about the lighting. So when someone says "custom hood", "150w" and "32w powercompact" in the same sentence... WE WANT TO SEE THE HOOD TOO!!!

 

Tomato Clowns and Rose anenomes we can see all day!

 

Clams, polyps and mushrooms can be seen all day! :D

 

So? We're waiting... :::in best Jerry McGuire shout::: "SHOW ME THE HOOD! SHOW ME THE HOOD! SHOW ME THE HOOD!"

 

Errrrr... Excuse me MikeE... Pardon me... Haven't had my cup o'joe this morning yet. Nice looking schtuff there ya got buddy. Makes me green as a Button Polyp to get schtuff into mine! And oh yeah... Could we please see some detailed pics of the hood too? ;)

 

B)

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UhMMmm.. if you read the very bottm of my last post, it says more pics comming soon...

 

but since you brought it up, then here it is...

and remember, MORE PICS COMMING SOON!!

 

lights:

 

lights:

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i like it better being hanged since i can adjust how high or how low i can set the light...

 

and here's a picture of my new purple tip acropora..

purpletip.jpg

 

and here's some zooanthus

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Still interested in that purple nana frag? Looks like you already got some sorta different purple tip acro, any pics w/o actinics? Or is that with full lighting? It looks a little dark.

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what the hell is that green piece of mr. hanky?

 

haha, just kidding dude...beautiful tank man, beautiful. i wish i had hook ups with the coral gods

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Originally posted by MiKeE

here's a picture of my goby(s).. somehow its hard to take a picture of the 2 gobies together or with the shrimp.. :(

 

NOPE.. i was wrong..

gobies.jpg

 

pistolshrimp.jpg

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Nice sps Mike, just be careful with all those sps so close together, I had that problem before when I had way too many sps in my tank and they didn't have room to grow out, even now that I have reduced my numbers there are still problems sometimes. Buts its addictive though isn't it? :)

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yeah... i also took the room into consideration, thats why i gave them lots of room away from each other... :)

 

but it looks like i have more space.. ...

 

HAHAHHA...

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This may be a stupid question, but where did you get your catalina hood? I have been searching everywhere for it online, and i have found nothing...my 32w CSL i dont think will cut it, especially after seeing how nice your tank looks...any help anyone?

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