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I like it! Love how it wraps around. Looks like you're off to a great start so far.

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Originally Posted by FishyFishy! (Post 673523)

I like it! Love how it wraps around. Looks like you're off to a great start so far.

+1 on the wrap-around

It's looking good so far, can't wait for more pics. Are you planning to go SPS?

Vertex has not released the 1-10V module to dim the Illumilux yet. I know cuz I've been waiting for the last 6 months. Haha!

One thing you can do is glue frags of Monti Cap just above the wrap-around. It's plastic there and should be very easy to accomplish with the super glue gel.

hey all! Thanks for the comments about the wrap around, I am definitely going to keep it. I just got my protein skimmer and I have it rigged up and in the tank. The shrimp is starting to decompose nicely and I am getting anxious to add clean up crew! Hopefully I can add some snails in a few weeks!
http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/9996f427.jpg
http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/6801c99a.jpg
decomposing shrimp
http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/54f0498e.jpg
clear tank:)
http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/3d99bd55.jpg
http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/fa0de091.jpg
http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/8e6edfd8.jpg
http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/22150067.jpg

well the cycle is well under way (hopefully completed soon). I will be taking a sample of my water to my lfs later this week, and if everything measures well I will be adding a clean up crew! Here are some pictures of the decomposed shrimp, my skim(hows the color? too dry? too wet?), and the brown algae that has started to form on the sand bed!

What used to be a shrimp lol
http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/b8cc7990.jpg
Brown sand algae
http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/a6284c2b.jpg
possible hair algae? (mid picture)
http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/24207a3e.jpg
current temp
http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/3bd1a627.jpg
my skim (hows the color look?)
http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/a39fbfde.jpg
the tank :)
http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/34c01978.jpg

Tank looks good! Is it me, or do you get different colored "spot lighting" effects shown on the rocks from your LED unit? May just be the picture.

Skimmate looks good for a cycling tank for sure.

Diatoms on the sand is a good sign of a cycle starting!

OH.... and that shrimp is friggin disgusting. lol

Thanks fishy! The lighting in the tank look perfect with no spotting when the power head is not running and there is not current. As soon as the powerless starts up the tank gets a serious shimmer effect and that's what appears as spot lighting in the picture, and yes lol the shrimp gets more and more disgusting with each day!

clean up crew added!

the clean up crew has entered the tank! I got my water tested at bayside corals and everything is good so I picked up a cleanup crew. It has:
1 Narcerius Snail (they only had one)
5 Blue legged Hermits
4 Astrea Snails

Its awesome to finally see something moving in the tank! Next week I hope to maybe add my first fish. It will be a clown fish, but I am still trying to decide what species I would like! I want to have a mated pair, so I will be buying 2!

Heres some snaily photos
http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/b61f349e.jpg
http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/b42576e2.jpg
http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/5e36c337.jpg
http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/4050492f.jpg

Narcerius Snail burrowed in

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/3c67c405.jpg

The shrimp after one night with the snails! They picked it apart

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/b5f4269f.jpg

A very popular rock

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/a6a0e7cf.jpg

Looking good man! Lookin forward to seeing some fish in there!:mrgreen:

Wow! how far the tank has come in 2 short weeks amazed me. The coraline algae has spread all over and now all my rock is turning purple :) I picked up my first coral and shrimp today, so that was also very exciting! I bought some green zoanthids, and a duncan. The shrimp is a skunk cleaner. I dipped both my coral in Coral RX, and I drip acclimated my Shrimp for 1 hour and 15 minutes. I bought frozen mysis shrimp and fed my clowns their first frozen food (in my tank anyways) and they absolutely loved it. I have been Feeding new life spectrum pellets to them, so the mysis is definatly a great treat. The shrimp is nameless as of now, but I will update as soon as he gets an official name! Here are some pictures of my reef-in-the-making

Acclimation

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/cc130992.jpg

Zooanthids

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/3a3629d3.jpg

in tank

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/e1e8a2ae.jpg

placement

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/52dcbf75.jpg

opening

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/387a18c8.jpg

fully open http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/c8f598e9.jpg

duncan

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/ad97b2ed.jpg

in tank

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/23ddf91d.jpg

begininning to open

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/35775a10.jpg

currently open to this

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/bd5bccb9.jpg

shrimp in tank

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/cc35a990.jpg

coral rx

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/48f40264.jpg

mysis

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/f3c0617e.jpg

side view of zoas, and duncan in the distance

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/...9/41245aa8.jpg