75g About 8 or 9 Weeks in, Tell Me What You Think.

tenseman

tenseman

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Here are some pics of my 75g that has been up now for about 8 or 9 weeks.
I just added yesterday my new 60#'s of Carribean Lettuce Rock that has been curing in the basment for almost 3 weeks.
I really like this rock for the flatness and the ease of making caves and such with it.
I have in there now
The 60#'s Live Lettuce Rock
15#'s Florida Live Rock
30#'s of Look Alike Base Rock
1 Clown (lost his mate a couple weeks back)
1 Firefish
1 Cleaner Shrimp
About 35 Hermits
4 Large Turbo Snails
About 8 or 10 small snails that I don't know what they are
1 Coral Beauty that has been in QT about a month and will be added to the DT this weekend
I have a Pro Aquatics 150 Sump with built in Skimmer with a Cap 2200 for return, a Penguin 1140 blowing down between the back glass and rocks, a Maxi Jet 900 and a Cap 800 also for extra flow. I also have a Emperior 400 on the back for now but I have plans to remove it after the new rock settles in.
Thanks
 
tenseman

tenseman

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Cleaner Shrimp. I feel so sorry for this little guy.
He sets and waits on the fish to come to him.
They will swim near and he jumps around like hes ready to go to work but when his attena touches them they swim away and hes setting there reaching like he wants them so bad.
He will move around the tank to where ever they are and just set there.
When I have my hand in the tank he cleans my hand like there no tomorrow. I also hand feed him flakes that he loves.
Does everyones shrimp get dirty looking like him when there about to molt? He gets looking dirty like now then he molts and hes all shinny again.
 
tenseman

tenseman

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I am using Picture Resizer.
When I resize my pictures to post I loose some of the clarity and they get a little grainy.
Is there something I can do or another program I can use that wont do this.
The pictures are alot clearer on my PC before I resize them, I am useing a 5.1MP camera
 
chandler04

chandler04

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Those pics are fine, i didnt notic anything wrong wen I first looked. Awesome tank though. I want a cleaner shrimp, so maybe Ill put one in my up and coming reef. Those rocks are awesome, nice and layered, super sweet looking. Show some pics wen the coralline starts to grow.
 
tenseman

tenseman

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Thanks
The new rock does have some Coralline on it.
It looks like it lightened up some while in the 35g garbage can for alomst three weeks, if thats posible. It has some nice greens and yellows there just hard to see in the pics.
It has no where near what the Fl rock does though but at a difference of 2.50 per pound compared to 9.00 a pound for that Fl rock from my LFS it will be ok and I hope it covers more in time.
Here are some pics of the new rock when I first started curing it.
 
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salt_hobbi

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i like the color algae nice start. I like the rock wat type is it?
 
aidos

aidos

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sweet tank, hope when i get my 64G goin it will look that impressive in 8-9 weeks. the key is not to rush though.
good work.
 
tenseman

tenseman

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The rock is the Caribbean Lettuce Rock that comes from Haiti.
I like it because of the flatness and its so easy to make caves.
I believe it will be easy to place corals and such on the flat parts to once i srart buying them.
Its cheap to, 60#'s cost me around 175.00 and that was with overnite shipping.
 
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salt_hobbi

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nice him ya when i go to my lfs i mostly look for flat rooks that are large but flat takes room with out taking space for fish away.
 
phoenixofthepyre

phoenixofthepyre

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WOW 9.00$ a pound for FL rock!. I go to TBS(TampaBay Saltwater) for my rock and it is only 4$ a pound. Really great rock, but there is a good chance of a mantis, but so what ;).Mantis' that come in LR, usually stay only to a size of about2" not too much of a menace. Anyways, if you're looking for more rock at any time i would check them out. www.tampabaysaltwater.com
P.S. Love the rockwork.
 
sweetdawn

sweetdawn

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i like your rockwork. lettuce rock gets really nice color i have some in my tank. the peices have a lot of character. one of mine looks like a dragon skull including eye socket. (that is where my flower anename lives all the nooks and crannies give you lots of good hiding places and place to put corals
 
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