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cryptics

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Here are the pics. Excuse my crappy camera and my even worse ability to take a picture
Full Tank shot:

New chalice best i can tell Hollywood Stunner

Lobo

Ric, blue Xenia and Pagoda

The fish

Duncans, Some Pally/Zoas frags (BH looks cool ) and a chalice frag I got off someone anyone know what it is?

Acans

Other Chalice frag i got. Again any idea what it is?
 
cryptics

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Not sure if they are designer. I picked up alot of stuff from a guy moving to Florida and they came with the package. The Hollywood Stunner I think is one of the most common. Apparently grows really fast in the right conditions 6-8'' a year.
The brown algae that has turned up on me that you see in the pictures. It is hairlike and grows out as soon as the lights come on. Very easy to blow off the rocks which I do every night but comes back the next day. Any idea what this is? I have been doing 10% water changes twice a week. I also changed by Phosban and Carbon. I don't think my skimmer is doing well. I had a Mag 7 on it (it is a aquac 180) and decided to overdrive it with a Triton 4. It's not working well. I may pick up a mag 9.5 to fix the problem.
Any suggestions to get rid of the algae? Is this normal for newer tanks?
 
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I upgraded the pump on my Aquac EV180 last night to a Mag 9.5 and omg what a difference. I use to have a Mag 7 on it and it was ok. I picked up a Triton Blue 4 for it and moved the Mag 7 to the chiller. The Triton did nothing for it. I think the problem was that the output on the Triton is 1'' and the skimmer was 3/4'' I think I was losing pressure. Algae got out of hand since I switched to the Triton 2-3 weeks ago. The chiller used to have a underpowered maxijet on it and my temp would go from 78 to 81 with the MH on even with the chiller (up to 85 or so without). Since i put the Mag 7 on it temp has never gone above 78.2 so I didn't want to move the Mag 7 back. I put the Mag 9.5 on the skimmer last night around 11pm. By 6am it had pulled out a Liter of black sludge (yum). Hopefully my algae problems go away now.
I am getting a Ozonizer from a fellow reefer this week and am considering hooking it to the skimmer to really boost the performance. I won't hook it up though until i get an ORP probe for my Reefkeeper and hook the ozonizer to it so it can kill it if things get out of whack. Anyone have any luck using these?
 
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I went to the darkside and picked up a mp20. Going to buy the upgrade kit to make it a mp40w ES. Looking for a second one also.
I am also picking up a Female Ornate Leopard Wrasse (Macropharyngodon ornatus) tonight. I will post pictures later.
 
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Very nice!
My leopard wrasse hid as soon as he went, but now begswhen I come near the tank and is always swimming around. I was actually told that these guys are some of the fish that sometimes do better being added with lights on, but I still went the traditional lights out method.
 
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cryptics

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I haven't updated this in awhile. Here are some pics. Excuse how bad the pics are I am really bad at taking pictures

Scolly I picked up yesterday


Purple LTA I got off a local reefer that had it in his fuge. I figured i would try and save it. It is eating and such but not really extending yet. I think it will be ok


WOW Pally'sI love these guys. Growing fast

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