My 29g reef project

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I decided a about six months ago to make my 29g a reef. I wanted to use nothing but tank bred or propogated but have assumed another mission. Rescuing corals from LFS's. My LFS had a power outage, and several of the corals were severly damaged because it hapened over a weekend. So far I got 2 hammers, a Bubble coral, a frog spawn and a brain. I figured I would post some pics of how it is all going. One of the Hammers was basicaly dead before I got it home, and was toast right away. Here's the one that made it.

 

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The brain is not looking to good, but looks better than it did a week ago.

 

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The frogspawn is recovering nicely

 

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The buble is doing quite well

 

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Heres the first frag I put in there, shrrooms

 

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Xenia colony, started with a single stalk.

 

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whole tank

 

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Other than the cyano outbreak(caused by not changing RO filter soon enough) I am really happy with the progress. Almost everything in my tank has been tank bred(Bta, Shrooms, False percs, Xenia, Firefish) or was on it's way to death(frogspawn, Bubble, Hammer, brain). The only stuff I have that was yanked from the ocean was the rock, scooter, snails and 1 shrimp. My next tank I am going to try making my own rock, or buying all florida aquaculultured.

 

[overanalyzer]

looks sweet - you might want to lay down the crack pipe so you can get some less blurry photos!!
Hey - maybe your brother will sell you some of his homemade rock?? Man your brother is Awesome!!

 

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hey I thought you were going to get another picture of that brain ??

 

[nerdy]

Nice recovery on someof those corals!Did you have to pay any money for them??????

 

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nope all free except the frogspawn and brain. $9 and $4 .

 

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Originally posted by tangsfornuttin
But it's not getting worse - that's the key... And it's not in a landfill right now because of me..
Exactly how I feel, my roomies think it's because I'm a cheap bastridge though