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BearTheSquare

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Beautiful clown! Black ice are one of my favorites.

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I am not sure if you use a gel filter but that would make taking pics with LEDs a lot easier if you already don't have one. Someone had a set for 15 bucks on the hardware section.

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@Tamberav

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Thank you! Black ice and black storm are my two favorite clownfish. I couldnā€™t pass on it when I saw the price wasnā€™t bad compared to other ā€œdesignerā€ clownfish (it was actually a lot less than I thought it would be).

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Iā€™m not using a gel filter, but Iā€™m hoping to get one soon so Iā€™ll be looking around. I never had leds on a tank before so I didnā€™t even think about it until I started adding corals. šŸ˜‚

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Some new pictures of the tank...

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FTS (5/26/2019):

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Top-Down:

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Clownfish is doing wellĀ and eats like a pig:

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Also if my landlord asks, this is for my senior research project lol.

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@Friendly

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Currently a filter sock, which Iā€™m hoping to switch to a media basket by the end of this week. Iā€™ve just been doing a two gallon water change every two days since itā€™s been cycled. Donā€™t really know much about media baskets, since my old tanks were ran with just water changes.

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well, media baskets just ensure that the water is forced through the filter media evenly. they stop channels that let the water bypass the media.

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running them dirty is common...not everything has to be high tech. you just can't have as heavy a bioload as something with active filtration options.Ā  šŸ™‚Ā 

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@Friendly

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Thanks for the help. I'm figuring I will buy a media basket toĀ run floss and carbon. I'll look into it a little more and see what will be best. I'm thinking another clown and possibly a small goby as far as stocking goes, so I feel like some more filtration will be helpful.

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Used a DSLR camera for the first time in my life today and snagged some pictures after moving the toadstool and doing a water change.Ā Really liking the way everything isĀ starting to come fill in.Ā 

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List for future stocking:

-Fill in Zoa Garden (Front Rock)

-Fill in Euphyllia Garden (Bottom Left)

-Acan Lord in Zoa Garden

-Monti Cap

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Current FTS:

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Clownfish:

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Scrambled Egg Zoanthids:

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Hammer:

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Toadstool:

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Going along with all of that, Iā€™m positive that both heads of my hammer definitely split since I first got it...

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April 29th:

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Yesterday:

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@Ratvan

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Thank you very much! Iā€™m loving the hammer, last time I had one it didnā€™t grow the entire time it was in my tank (over a year). NowĀ Iā€™m just hoping it keeps growing like this.

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Adding a monti cap and a rainbow infusion polyp later this week. Goblins on fire started growing a new head already too.

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Finally got them glued down:

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Turning 21 this weekend so I'm already dreading this work week. Here's some pictures of the tank from earlier today:

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Does anyone have any advice on where to place a monti cap in my tank?

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Here areĀ the 3 spots Iā€™m thinking, but Iā€™m real worried about shadowing:

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9 hours ago, BearTheSquare said:

Turning 21 this weekend so I'm already dreading this work week. Here's some pictures of the tank from earlier today:

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Happy early bday! Mines is this weekend too.Ā :haha:

54 minutes ago, BearTheSquare said:

Does anyone have any advice on where to place a monti cap in my tank?

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Here areĀ the 3 spots Iā€™m thinking, but Iā€™m real worried about shadowing:

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B, Ā outwardĀ towards theĀ front Ā  to have enough room to grow out and plate. You could always put lower light corals under it.Ā 

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Thanks, I'm just glad its on a Friday night šŸ˜‚Ā 

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It might once it grows out a little but the toadstool will bend and find its light. Ā The C area would be good for higher light coral. I think in A it would take up too much reef estate.Ā 

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