A couple of browned out corals I bought, they are much bigger now, but you will have to wait and see.

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Thanks. All of these pics are over 2 years old. Keep checking back every week or two for a few months progress until I catch up.

Dang cool thread! Can't wait to see more :biggrin:

I can't wait to see more either!

More this week!

Color looks a bit better now eh?

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Pic of the coolest monti I ever owned, unfortunately it only lived for about 8 months.

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After about 6 months of running my MDM Sequence Hammerhead pump I started to have salt creep issues at the seals.

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Sequence's customer service was very good. They sent some replacement seals.

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Unfortunately they sent their "salt water seals", the ones they offer as optional in their regular series of pumps (5800, 5200, etc..).

These are not the same seals as their fancy new Reeflo pumps come with.

This pic shows the difference, notice the white vs the black. The black ones are the correct ones (both fit) and are their carbon_______________ (can't remember word) seals.

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After changing seals 3 times (each time lasted about 3 or 4 months) I still had problems, although not as bad.

Eventually they sent me a new volute, the black one.

Maybe the translucent blue volute was slightly warped, I am not sure, but it was worked with no salt creep at all for 2+ years now.

Sweet tank, can't wait to see more. I love your electical and plumbing.

Found one of those zoo eating snails in my zoos the other day.

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Growing!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I decided I wanted to inject "fresh" air into my skimmer. I own a HRV unit and I plumbed in 3/4ID tubing to take the frsh air from the HRV to the skimmer. It didn't make a large difference, but when 30+ people are in my house the ph drop is a little less then before. Used to go from 8.20 to 7.85 with that many people, now it only drops to 7.99!

Here is how it goes into the skimmer.

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In the above pic notice the 1/4 sched 80 pvc union. That makes cleaning the injector of my beckett a bit easier.

More pics.

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Tips are getting nicer and nicer!

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Electric green zoos!

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Spirulina in purple!

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Little monti is still growing!

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Close-up.


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I forgot how small this guy was when I first got him.

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These guys are destined to grow.

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Waky waky.

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Most fav close-up.

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Saved some bits of my cap that had some problems.

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Another cool close-up!

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That Monti was super cool, I know you have an AWESOME recent full tank shot. How long will you keep up the suspense? Your Sump is better than alot of Displays I've seen, got pics of that?

Looks good, how much more stable is your ph since piping in fresh air to your skimmer?

Wow, that looks unreal. I love the fact that you posted all your pics in a row, very easy to see the progression.