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Man I really like your tank. Got any recent pics of it?

So what you gonna do with your prize?

Nice...
Very nice.
ya.. the tank looks awesome.. i love the Frogspawn and the Clownfish AND the Xenia :)
Congratz rick, you really deserve this

THANKS........ :blush:

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Hey Rick.

How do you like the alife? Is it built good?

The ALIFE was the 1st all-in-one tank that I know of.

Here is a link to pics of my old ALIFE 7

 

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/rick_j_g/alb...k_j_g/my_photos

 

The glass was thick, but the hood was pretty bad. The hinges broke off and it only had a tiny fan in the top of the hood for cooling. The ballast was not electronic, so it was heavy & hot and also in the hood. The lens also had cracking & melting issues & was not air/water tight like on the Nano-Cubes. I think most of them had issues with the ballast/light dieing because the fan blew air out the top, which meant the fan was pulling humid salty tank air into the hood, which fried the lighting.

 

I did some DIY changes on my ALIFE. The 1st thing I did was switching the fan for a better one & had it pushing air into the hood. I changed out the ballast for an electronic WorkHorse II. I also slowly added more lighting. The ALIFE came originally with one 27 watt 50/50 bulb and I ended up adding two more 27 watt bulbs for a total of 3.27 = 81 watts. I was happy to take it down & setup the NC6 because it was getting a little hazardous and I was worried about being electrocuted by my own mods.

 

I’d have to say that I’m much happier with the NC6 than the ALIFE 7 because the quality of the hood is much higher on the NC6. All the people that complain about the Nano-Cube quality should have owned an ALIFE first. For the price, Nano-Cubes have great quality, in my opinion. I think I paid $135. for the ALIFE 7 & my NC6 was far less than that, including shipping costs.

 

Rick

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Obsessed Reefer

Cool. I am just looking into a small tank for my living room. I was thinking about the NC6 but then I saw an add for the new bio-cube. I was thinking about the 8 gallon. but all new tanks have their faults. so idk yet.

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Cool. I am just looking into a small tank for my living room. I was thinking about the NC6 but then I saw an add for the new bio-cube. I was thinking about the 8 gallon. but all new tanks have their faults. so idk yet.

 

New BioCube? Do you have a link?

 

Thanks

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Obsessed Reefer

I wish I did. Its by oceanic. Its not on their website.idk why. its on the back of may's tropical fish hobbyist.

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Fishfreak218

they are slow on updating there website... it still doesnt have the Half Circle tank on there.. when they are selling it in stores now....

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New Pics 4-28-06

 

Hammer sweeper going to war against an apstasia that popped after I added rics to my tank

hammersweeper.jpg

 

Two headed Toadstool frag starting to color up and get blue polyps.

Toadstoolfrag4-28-06.jpg

 

The right Staghorn branch is doing great.

The branch on the left was broken off a few weeks ago and just recovering.

staghorn4-28-06.jpg

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man that one nice hammer. What do you mean war with apstasia?

The sweeper is for stinging other corals and it's the first time this hammer has ever had one.

I first noticed the sweeper this morning and it was stinging an apstasia that showed up right under the hammer.

Coral wars

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is that that long tube looking thing is the sweeper coming out of your hammer in the picture?

Yep, that's a sweeper. You can even see the stinging things (I forget the real name) coming out the top.

 

I went into the office over the weekend to do maintenance / water change on my NC6 and I clipped off the sweeper to keep the hammer from stinging other corals, luckily there was only the one. It’s been my experience that once a sweeper develops it pretty much stings everything it can reach.

 

Being stung by the hammer’s sweeper either killed the apstasia or it released & moved to a new location.

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Obsessed Reefer
You can even see the stinging things (I forget the real name)

 

:huh::huh::huh:

 

The Stingers?? DUH :P:owned::slap:

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How's that xenia doing?

 

 

Oh yea, that's right, how is it doing?

The Xenia is doing great.

 

x2m9t0.jpg

 

Every time I do tank maintenance / water changes I scrape off any Xenia that gets too close to live-rock and corals or when it grows up to the water surface.

 

Little pieces sometimes get cut loose and float around the tank when I trim the Xenia,

so I also religiously remove any of the tiny starters that attaches to live-rock.

 

The trimmings either gets put into the lower left corner of the tank

to start the upward growth again or flushed if I have too much.

 

Rick

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SanDiegoIllini
... and I clipped off the sweeper to keep the hammer from stinging other corals, luckily there was only the one. It’s been my experience that once a sweeper develops it pretty much stings everything it can reach.

 

This clipping of the sweeper causes no long term harm? Does it grow back after awhile? (Necessitating more clipping?) I suppose if the hammer is being fed non-living supplimental food anyways then I guess it doesn't really need the sweeper to sting prey.

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