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timbarr

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So ive finally got around to gteting my tank on the web, any way hear goes...

my tank is a year old but due to financial limitations (paying for college) it has been going slow, but after a year of slowly building, its reached a semi respectable level. my tank started with just an aqua-clear 75 HOB filter, stealth 25w heater, live sand, a handfull of low quality live rock, and a 65W coralife PC light. I have slowly added live rock, aqua medic protein skimmer, and an aqautraders 250W HQI + 130WPC hanging light over the year. it still needs many improvments (a new sump when i gt my student loan!) but it is doing just fine as it is.

 

Inhabitants:

1 pair sebea clowns

1 6 line wrasse

1 coral banded shrimp

a handfull of nessarius, mexican turbos and astrea snails

1 sarcophyton

1plate coral

1 brain (? could some one identify?)

2 claudestrea

lots of green star polyps

zoas

1 kenya tree + 5 buds

1 crocea clam

1 condylactis anemone

 

 

just recently got a camera so the pictures will be from a few weeks ago on, no early tank pics.

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yeah,yeah... i had to take off in the middle of this so here are some pics. im gonna post some more once i get more familiar with this system. also i am moving in a couple weeks so i will be redoing everything and adding corals once it is esstablished again.

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i got a new dicosoma rock and a zoa rock the other day and moved around some of my corals. will be movig my tank i 2 weeks. thinking about setting up my old 55g as a half sump half frag tank, does anyone do this? im shure it would work just fine and i would have a place to put my coral when i moved giving me more time to restabalize my 29g.post-32913-1216230394_thumb.jpg

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so i dont understand why all of my pictures are coming out as reduced. i am just adding them as attatchments. does any one know what i am doin' wrong?

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lakshwadeep

Try to avoid using the attachment feature since you only get a limited amount of space. Also, it makes the pictures thumbnails as shown. It's easier to just setup an account at photobucket.com and upload your pictures there. Once uploaded, you can see under every photo in your album a list of codes to place the photos on websites or forums. Just click on the "IMG code" and paste it to a new post here. The code should come out in this form(without the codebox)

 

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i think that i have decided to transfer my reef to the 55g when i move and use the 29 for a sump/fuge. i trying to do this on a budget so it will probobly be a slow process of building up the proper equipment. trying to think of an easy way to create two seperate chambers in my 29 to make it a more functional sump/fuge. any suggestions?

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so i will be moving into my new house tommorow and will be setting up the 55, should be getting my liv rock from premium aquatics tommorow (i got 30# of dr. foster and smith select lalo live rock) also and will be curing them in the 55 during the cycle. i cant decide if i want sand or not, and if sand what kind. i am definitly leaning toward sand to help filter and buffer the water but i was looking at live sand and it is ridiculously expensive, is this cost justified? is it worth it to get live sand? i think ill just get some psuedo live sand from big als or somthing.i dont have to move my 29 for 15 days so the cycle should be finished by then (i am going to add a considerable amount of sand from my 29 to the 55 to speed up the cycle) making the move more manageable. i am going to get a calcium reactor but i dont have any experience with them and dont have mush money either, i was thinking about aqua-cal nano because of the appealing price tag however it looks like it might be junk, anyone have experience with these?

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