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I'm thinking of getting one to take care of some aiptasia, perhaps eat some GHA since he's herbivore..

But I'm hoping he'd pair with my Orange spotted Goby? I've heard it's rare but possible...

 

Just worried about them munching corals in the future as I've also read that can happen :(

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I'm thinking of getting one to take care of some aiptasia, perhaps eat some GHA since he's herbivore..

But I'm hoping he'd pair with my Orange spotted Goby? I've heard it's rare but possible...

 

Just worried about them munching corals in the future as I've also read that can happen :(

 

Yeah im sure if they are well fed, they wont but i had a emerald crab i pulling chunks off my frogspawn so he got booted. I think shrimp are better though.

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Some more pics plus a current full tank shot. corals Corals are growing well. My people eaters have a new head somewhat hidden behind the others. Added a Kena tree.

 

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Enjoy.

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great pics and love your scape!

 

did you get the frogspawn from uniquecorals.com? The price on the website is pretty high for corals...

 

I did. Its got 3 heads. My LFS was chargeing 35$ a head for frogspawn so i felt like unique coral was a good deal. There shipping was cheaper than anyone i could find. Plus my LFS pissed me off with there prices so...

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Heres a quick mock up for a light bracket to get my LED light higher off the tank to allow better access and to reduce the intensity to my corals. Im really happy so far. Now just need to do something other than rubber bands. Total cost around 20 dollars.

 

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More Pics!!

 

Added a tiny clown. I am planning on going to a Nuvo 16 within a few months so he wont be in here for long. Also added another Ricordea, A Duncan, a Silver Xenia and a few more zoanthids.

 

 

 

FTS 2 photo stitch...

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These were just brown at first and was a little disappointed but now the blue is filling in nicely!

 

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Meet Nicholas, he's tiny, maybe 3/4in long.

 

Nuvo 16 coming soon...

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Looks good man! Im digging the duncan :wub: , Im going to have to find a frag for myself

Yea it was one of my bucketlist corals. My LFS had a sale this weekend and got him for 15$ per head.

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I think it looks fine either way. All you want to worry about is not having your LPS sting anything else around them

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I think it looks fine either way. All you want to worry about is not having your LPS sting anything else around them

Ok. The current there is a gentle lift up to the overflow so i think the sweepers would only go up and back.

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I been thinking about getting a spinstream for my fluval spec since my rock is blocking alot of flow to the back of the tank...then i found your video =P

 

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That sealed the deal for me.

Nice. I like mine. Just wish it didn't cut down so much of the flow from the pump but makes it a more controlled flow and not to violent. Post some pics and share when ya get yours up and running.

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Nice. I like mine. Just wish it didn't cut down so much of the flow from the pump but makes it a more controlled flow and not to violent. Post some pics and share when ya get yours up and running.

 

ended up getting the Hydor Rotating Deflector instead. $10 vs $30.... =P

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ended up getting the Hydor Rotating Deflector instead. $10 vs $30.... =P

Im curious to see it working. If you can please share a video?

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Have a new video in the works. Going to be of new scape but also timelapses of my corals, seeing movement i didnt know some had. The peppermint shrimp is really driving me nuts though. Just as the coral starts to open, the shrimp decides to stroll on em and makes em close again. Nonetheless ive captures some cool timelapses of them. Working on one now of my toadstool opening.

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