50g reef tank build!

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smallreef

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Yeah at out Frag Fest (Washington DC area) the club gets colonies donated and then shows us how to frag them...then gives away alot of the cheaper stuff and sells some frags for $5 or $10 for the more desirable stuff...some of our vendors also set up booths to sell...and we normally would have a speaker like Bob Fenner (who was the speaker at the spring meeting) so yeah its fun :)
 
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smallreef

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List of frags I received...
1 green trumpet
1 frogspawn head
1 orangish pink montipora cap
1 heliopora
1 cystorea (sp)
1 favia
1 mushroom leather
and I bought alot more mushrooms and ricordias
pictures to come Thursday when Im off, lol
 
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smallreef

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My 3 peppermints dont bother with my rics... hhrmm interesting...
here's a FTS from today... need another 20k bulb... its very blue in there, lol


toadstool, big yumas some clove polyps on the frag plug and some regular mushrooms up from and kenya trees in back

ricordia garden

Trumpet, cytostrea, montipora, porites (sp.?), my orange maxi behind the pink ricordias, 1 lonely frogspawn head

better picture of the top corals

favia ?, acans and zoas and the beginning of my ric garden
 
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smallreef

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Yes they do! and so does my annoying RBT who moves to and fro through the holes, lol
 
novahobbies

novahobbies

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RBT's seem to be very mobile anemones....even under good light conditions, so I hear. I don't think I'll be getting one...the one I had ate my sick Chevron tang, then died within weeks of the meal. LOL.
 
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smallreef

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well, my RBTA split... but its clone looks less than happy... Im hoping he makes it..
on another note getting about 14 frags in today!!! cant wait! I did have to move my trumpet coral frag as it seems to not like being so close to the lights...
pictures to come soon!
 
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smallreef

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A few pictures.. not in their permanent placements but needing them to get acclimated... most are already extending polyps :)


 
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smallreef

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Lol, thanks...im going for the garden look with the rics :)
in the next few days im going to start moving them into their places...
 
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smallreef

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So, im thinking of putting in an ATO... the one from Avast looks really good and I think (Ill have to measure) I can fit a 10g tank beside my sump in my stand... I only have about a liter of water evap each day but its enough to throw off my skimmer and drive me crazy....
Also have to build a cabinet to house all the electrical cords and such ... I think I am off tomorrow so that is what I will be doing :)
 
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flower

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Originally Posted by smallreef http:///t/391433/50g-reef-tank-build/100#post_3492524
So, im thinking of putting in an ATO... the one from Avast looks really good and I think (Ill have to measure) I can fit a 10g tank beside my sump in my stand... I only have about a liter of water evap each day but its enough to throw off my skimmer and drive me crazy....
Also have to build a cabinet to house all the electrical cords and such ... I think I am off tomorrow so that is what I will be doing :)
LOL....I found myself topping off the top off tank, I liked the ATO to keep the SG good and stable. In a reef tank I think it's almost a must have gizmo.
One of those tall three/four paneled decorative deviders would work great for hiding the unsightly wires and such, and make it super easy to get to stuff if you need to. The one with cloth you can match your decor by changing the curtian sections.
 
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smallreef

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Oh ...not so much for the screen as my powersource and other items are setting on my desk next to the tank,lol
ill be making a small cabinet with only half of a back so the cords dont have a problem :)
 
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smallreef

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Got my last fish yesterday from one of my reef club guys tearing down his 220g....
midas blenny and firefish! now im all fished up... and only a few more inverts and corals to go before I am FULL!
everything is looking pretty good other than some of my war corals havent found their happy place in my tank and are losing some issue...
and I noticed today that my cyphastrea is also loosking some color (or tissue) on its top... may move it down a bit as I have it as high in the tank as I can (since i thought it liked bright lights)
 
mr. limpid

mr. limpid

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Nice to be done, but if you are like me you'll think of some more stuff to do with your tank. I just call my tank a work in progress.
 
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smallreef

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OOh always,lol
but as far as fish i am at capacity..especially since the firefish jumped out yesterday and i didnt find him till this morning :(
some more shrimps and a few anemone crabs will be in next wed. Along with another dozen rics :)
 
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