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Old 03-30-2010, 04:40 PM
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Gorgeous Tank!!! Great woodwork.

Don't use the background, if need be put a blue or black background in its place.

And welcome to Canreef!
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Setup: 180G DT, 105G Refuge (approx. 300lbs LR, 150lbs Aragonite)
Hardware: Super Reef Octopus SSS-3000, Tunze ATO, Mag 18 return, 2x MP40W, 2X Koralia 4's Wavemaker
Lighting: 5ft Hamilton Belize Sun (2x250W MH, 2X80W T5HO)
Type of Aquarium: mixed reef (SPS & LPS) with fish
Dosing: Mg, Ca, Alk
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Old 03-30-2010, 04:48 PM
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Gorgeous Tank!!! Great woodwork.

Don't use the background, if need be put a blue or black background in its place.

And welcome to Canreef!
thank you my dad is a contractor he built it .. doors and all from scratch i was suposed to help but was busy with work soi i cannot take any credit other than i designed it

and i did change the back ground there is a pic there somewhere i used a sheet of black laminate so if i get bored of the color i can change it
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Old 04-24-2010, 05:58 AM
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So as some of you know I have been fighting with ich for a bit. I didn’t really post anything due to I was busy trying to find all info and ideas to battle this pesky infection.
I have been using kick ich and the first dosing I was an idiot and under dosed my tank… which is better than overdosing but all the same it wasn’t helping.. expensive mistake. I also have been feeding garlic soaked mysis and flake. And the fish seem to be eating like pigs, which is a good sign. All of this could have been avoided if I had listened to my inner self and just set up a qt tank/hospital tank. Lesson learned. So I am now setting up a qt tank. Now I figured if im going to be upgrading my 90 to a 120 sometime near the end of the New Year/ beginning of the next I should have a tank that I can hold my live rock in and or fish until the setup is finished. Down the road I also want to build a bigger tank in our basement but that’s another story, for another time.

So the other night I found on used regina a 50 gallon tank for 50 bucks…over kill… maybe but the price is right I will not be treating fish with copper in this tank but will do the hyposalinity treatment if the kick ich doesn’t do the trick this time around. Both treatments seem to work well, but if I ever want to do other things with this tank copper would crush the dream. If I need to treat with copper ill get a 20g. in the end it will be just a qt tank for now.maybe a fowlr…maybe predator.. oh the fun this could be… possibilities are endless
I still have to build a temp stand and a proper stand to follow just in case i need it asap.

Ps sorry for the long post….my mission statement
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Old 06-06-2010, 11:33 PM
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so a few things have changed .. my toadstool got the dreaded brown slime may it rest in peace. and a couple pink paly's got eaten and brain is a lil bleached but slowly coming back. but here are some recent pics now that im using ozone its a bit clearer water but i still havent figured out our nerw camera so pic quality is not the best.









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and now that it finally uploaded a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSsVuOEllwo
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a few picss for fun



























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Old 12-13-2010, 06:09 PM
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well its getting close to my 1 year update for this tank so i may as well post pics now and a short video


the start



without the back drop



present day



short video
click on picture for video

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