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fluval spec with custom LEDs


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goy my dimmer in the mail so i got another ric, they seem to be coloring up nicley when the LEDs are at roughtly 40%

 

couple harley pics

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new red ric, havent figured out how to get a photo with the acctual colors, it looks alot brighter and redder to the eye

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the ric garden is slowly taking form, up to 3 now, took some pics with my iphone and they suprisingly show the colors alot better then my 10mgp camera lol

 

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the xenia in the back is in shock lol thats why it looks like crap

 

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also green ric looks more like some other type of mushroom. you sure its a ricordea? no bubble tentacles that i see.

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took some pics of the harley since hes roaming around at night,

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used the flash on the camera so u can see his real undistorted colors,

 

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i had a problem with the overflow not properly working so i had to glue a piece of acrylic to cover 50% of it, making the overflow acctually skim the surface of the water ill take a pic tomoro too tired now

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Man I really gotta find a cheap local source for chocolate chip stars! :D

 

 

well i only feed him a 1.5x1cm piece a week and hes thriving, so a full chocolate chip really would last you prolly 2 months if you cup it up right,

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some pices of how i fixed the oxerflow/skimmer, b4 the water level would sit at the same level on both sides of the wall creating a stagnent looking surface as it wasnt operating as a proper surface skimmer......

 

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the Acrylic piece dosent look the best but eventually it'll get covered by coralline and i might even copy a fellow reefer and plant GSP on the back wall

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Nice mod. I had one of these for a day or two and I didnt understand the purpose of that small little hole near the bottom. I guess it was just to reduce flow?

 

Good looking tank! Your making me want to go and buy one again lol

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Just subscribed to this thread. I'm looking to see how the Harlequin shrimp does in a pico. I've got a fluval spec as well and debating if I should either do an inverts or a dwarf seahorse tank. Either way there will be no corals, just live rock and macro algae.

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been bout 3 months now and hes healthy and growing feed him 1/4 star fish leg a week ill post some pics tomorro the tank has become a breeding ground for pods lol so it needs a good cleaning

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Where do you keep the rest of the starfish? I was thinking maybe getting a few chocolate chips and keeping them in my sump of the larger tank (20gal + 10). I don't know how much bioload they add though. I'd chop a leg off every week to feed a harlequin in the fluval spec.

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i just keep them in my biocube mantis tank, 1 leg a week untill hes only got 1 left then into the freezer and cut up the rest of the body, then new starfish omnce its done, bout 1.5 months for 1 starfish so its pretty cheap,

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some pices of how i fixed the oxerflow/skimmer, b4 the water level would sit at the same level on both sides of the wall creating a stagnent looking surface as it wasnt operating as a proper surface skimmer......

 

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the Acrylic piece dosent look the best but eventually it'll get covered by coralline and i might even copy a fellow reefer and plant GSP on the back wall

 

 

how did you attache the overflow piece?

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