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pickle311
Mon, 16th Jan 2006, 08:44 PM
My tank has only been up since September and all of my SPS came from MAAST members.


full tank with flash
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/pickle311/P1010009.jpg

without flash and it's not quite as blue as it appears in the pic
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/pickle311/P1010089.jpg



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/pickle311/P1010087.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/pickle311/P1010082.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/pickle311/P1010081.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/pickle311/P1010059.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/pickle311/P1010057.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/pickle311/P1010054.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/pickle311/P1010051.jpg

bad pic, but sweet coral
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/pickle311/P1010047.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/pickle311/P1010042.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/pickle311/P1010041.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/pickle311/P1010038.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/pickle311/P1010037.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/pickle311/P1010032.jpg

Cali Tort
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/pickle311/P1010028.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/pickle311/P1010014.jpg

I've got a few more but photobucket flipped out on me
dwdenny
Mon, 16th Jan 2006, 09:07 PM
looking good. cant wait to see it filled up. going to look really goor then.
miked78231
Mon, 16th Jan 2006, 09:19 PM
i love the rocks man. how much did you spend all together for them? where did you pick them up at?
pickle311
Mon, 16th Jan 2006, 09:23 PM
thanks, I have no idea how much I have in the rocks, if I had to guess I'd say somewhere between $350 and $500. I got all of my larger peices from Polkster when he was selling it cheap.
gjuarez
Mon, 16th Jan 2006, 09:23 PM
Is that a barebottom I see? Its hard to tell. What are you running your penductors on?
hobogato
Mon, 16th Jan 2006, 09:29 PM
Great start. will look great when it fills in.
pickle311
Mon, 16th Jan 2006, 10:07 PM
Is that a barebottom I see? Its hard to tell. What are you running your penductors on?

yes, it's barebottom and I used a faux sand bed for asthestic purposes, the eductors are on an older industrial model sequence pump, it's rated the same as the 5800SEQ22, ton of flow
MikeyBoy
Mon, 16th Jan 2006, 10:20 PM
Hey, I recognize some of that coral!!!!!!


Everything looks great!!!
That is going to be AWESOME in another 6 mos.
pickle311
Mon, 16th Jan 2006, 10:48 PM
Hey, I recognize some of that coral!!!!!!


Everything looks great!!!
That is going to be AWESOME in another 6 mos.

you should :lol , thanks
gjuarez
Tue, 17th Jan 2006, 12:09 AM
yup, thats ton of flow, which is always great. What about equipment? Can you give us a quick rundown?
pickle311
Tue, 17th Jan 2006, 07:54 AM
lighting is 2 Phoenix 14K 250W DEs run on Coralvue Ballast and also Coralvue pendents. Also 2 4ft URI Super Actinics for dusk/dawn effect.
skimmer is an ETSS 750 dual downdraft run off of a Sequence Barracudda. I'm also running an Emperor Aquatics 25W UV.
Calcium Reactor is a dual chambered DIY type that I picked up on ebay, kalk reactor is a DIY that I built, all top off water runs through the kalk reactor
top off is controled by a unit from www.autotopoff.com, and everything is controlled with and Aquacontroller Jr.
fishypets
Tue, 17th Jan 2006, 10:43 PM
Looking good man.
gjuarez
Tue, 17th Jan 2006, 11:07 PM
Looking good and thats a great choice on lighting. I am going with reeflux 10k with vho actinic. You have a nice setup and it wont be long until all the frags start grwoing out of the tank.
pickle311
Wed, 18th Jan 2006, 06:37 PM
Looking good and thats a great choice on lighting. I am going with reeflux 10k with vho actinic. You have a nice setup and it wont be long until all the frags start grwoing out of the tank.

I can't wait for them to take off, thanks