looking good bro keep the good job

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i would gladly take one, but im pretty sure that some1 will else will have 1 by next year, when i plan to set-up a 40b

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I'm so sorry I haven't been on the forum in so long! Don't worry, I haven't forgotten this lovely website! I moved to a different county back in May 2011 and started high school in a totally different school district. So I'm still adjusting and studying hard, and don't presently have any aquariums. But once I do, I'll be right back on this forum!

i take it your refereeing to the royal gramma's
if so i traded two of them the other day and the third one went missing i thought he had jumped out but i have looked all around the tank and have still not found him, maybe the dog got to it before me

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thanks man, im trying my best

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This is the reason i wanted to get rid of the royal gramma's, they hated him and chased him to the point he jumped out
The picture isnt really any good but its the only one i have of him

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nice my GF wants a fire fish there BEAUTIFULL LLL

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if you get a 10g tank and a single pipe overflow box you can make a small sump and put all the stuff in the sump skimmer heater you jsut need couple panels of fiberglass,glue and silicone make the walls put a sock for the down pipe and you can put the skimmer in the first chamber iwth you sock in the second chamber rocks and cheato and the thrid chamber the retun pump and all you will have in you rtank would be coral and fish no equipment very nice and its not expencive tho my .02

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i have plenty of tanks sitting around to make the sump i would have already done it for this tank i just dont have anywhere to put the sump
i am getting a 65 gal in a few days i think i comes with a sump but if it doesnt have one im going to make one but i plan to take this tank and make it a frag tank and connect it to the same system and i am going to use a 55 gal barrel as a refugium im not sure what i will use as a sump yet?

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nice you got keep me informed of that tho

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will do


i just wanted to make a note
i have been having problems with cyno since the tank started up and i have now found the true source of the outbreaks, the tank sits in my dinning room cadie corner to the living room which faces east and has a wall of window, so every clear morning, like today, all my polyps are open when i got up and i can see the cyno on the sand already

i cant wait for the new tank so i dont have to worry about this
it will be in the dark basement on a supply of RO/DI water

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Yet another PH horror story, this is just sad. I got a six line wrasse yesterday at my lfs. Within 3 hours of putting her in the tank he was in the intake nozzle of the PH.
But on the good side of things i got some great new frags. I hope to have pictures up tonight.

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Yes most anemones dont fair well in a Nano. First they often take over the tank and make it a species only tank whether you like it or not. A BTA can easily grow and expand to 12 plus inches when fully open and will annilate anything they touch in the process. In small tanks its usually a matter of time before they find a power head and become "Anemone Puree". Its a bummer for sure and in a small tank avoiding the dreaded tank crash is akin to dodging a bullet. Glad you managed to do so. If you just must have an Anemone in a tank this small by some tube shaped foam blocks of the type used in filters and stick a fillet knife through the center section and slid that over all intake tubes. The Anemone will come in contact with it and may even plant its base on it but it wont be sucked into the intake tube. Just a suggestion...

Yet another Cyano outbreak this time its green slime instead of red, i know that its is photosynthetic but what other conditions are favorable to the cyano? i have found the source of the growth but i dont know how to go about destroying it at the source. Any ideas would be great.

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Tell me what the source is and maybe I can pull a rabbit outta my hat and offer you some ideas to run with.

well i know the location of the source but i dont know what keeps bringing it back

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Oaky, cool. Lets start with the location and work our way from there and see what we can come up with.

While your at it...post results from a water test and tell me about the tank set up and the equipment you have on it so I have a better idea of exactly what were are dealing with. Sometimes its the little things we take for granted that sneak up on us and are the biggest killer.

well the cyano keeps coming from a place near the front glas in the center of the tank
i test these tonight i will test the rest in the morning
Nitrate - 20 mg/l
Ammonia -0

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Good. Thats some good info there already as I see a couple items of interest already. I will "hold short of the active" so to speak until I get the rest of the other water test results and see if they confirm what I am already starting to think. BTW, what is the filtration on this tank? What kinda media are you running in the filter if any? What kinda power heads are you using? How old is the tank? What substrate are you using? How many pounds of Live Rock and what type of Live Rock are you using. If you have already mentioned any of these and I have simply over looked it refresh my memory and I will go back and look again...I have looked at at least 500 threads tonight between 4 different SW forum boards tonight. Sometimes the threads kinda start to run together by this point in the day for me.

i am running AC 50 and 30 HOB filters a sea clone 100 skimmer and 2 AC 30 PH and a AC 50 PH the tank has been up for about 3 months i have around 20lbs of LR right now, mostly from the gulf of mexico, and i have a 2in sand bed that well be leaving soon, it is bleached sand and i didnt plan on going reef when i put it in the tank

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New frags finally i have pictures two of the the zoas are still unknown at this point so if you can id that would be cool
AOG







Also have some other things i need help figuring out what they are in the first place
these hitchhikers came on the LR and just popped up once the tank settled in
Im wondering about the round striped "thing" in the middle

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I finally got a good picture of my chalice that i am happy with let me know what you think

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