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Old 11-16-2007, 12:19 AM
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The tank works well for its intended purpose which is more of a dedicated species tank rather than an overall reef. I have a rock pillar ("bommie") in the centre which is directly under the 250W DE halide, and my H. magnifica anemone sits atop that. There is about 6" of sandbed all around the bommie.

It's not the sexiest looking tank there ever was but here's a FTS:


It used to have more corals in there. I have a problem with hitchhiker crabs eating my zoos, so I pulled out all the corals and moved them into my other tank. It used to look more like this:


One day I hope to bring it back to something like that, but since it looks like I have to tear down the rockwork to get at the crabs, I've been putting it off until my other projects are closer to done. Moving the anemone is a bit dicey as it's quite large and .. well.. doesn't like to be moved much. The fish would have to be moved into a different system for at least a few days because when the anemone is annoyed, fish die.

Anyhow there are of course other aquascaping options. I think 30x30 offers a lot of choice. The only thing I've found is that it is a little harder getting the flow conditions right in a cube, at least with the fan shaped outputs of the Tunzes (for every piece of water pushed to one side, there is an equal volume pushed back). I kind of wish I could have more of an oscillation effect, but I guess I'd need a wavebox for that sort of thing.
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