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Old 12-30-2010, 12:50 AM
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Been a long time since i have updated. Usual story went home to calgary for a week over christmas and left the tank in the hands of the girlfriend. I made sure that all she had to do was to fill up the water reservoir with water and feed the fish in the morning. i even put the buckets right beside the tank with a small hose and powerhead so she wouldn't have to lift them. well she dropped the hose into the tank water and through evaporation it started a siphon. throwing the SG out of whack. so i came home to two dead birdsnest colonies and a stn'ing monti and stn'ing frags. i also lost the chalk bass yesterday which was kind of salt in the wound. he was big annd i think from what the previous owner of the tank said he was his second fish, either way not fun...


added a few new thing such as this superman rhodactis

supposed to be a garf bonsai

slowly stn(look at the base)


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Old 01-16-2011, 10:45 PM
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Slowly, lowering the extra nutrients in the tank ofter the mishaps at x-mas. did some fragging to save a colony hopefully it helps.
Saw this at a LFS and could not leave it.

Porcelain crab found a new home



And one of the puppy!
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Old 02-07-2011, 10:25 PM
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Nutrient problem is slowly getting under control. I am debating stopping use of the biopellets and running some GFO as they seem to be a little more efficient at lowering the nutrients and based on the fact that i am using the prodibio system. I had to frag a few corals in order to stop the STN. but aside from that things are on the mend and the corals are growing again.

Also decided to finally start thinking about which corals are going to get the boot and which ones are going to stay. so some things in the for sale thread shortly

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And one of the puppy!

Looks like a flyball dog to me!!
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Old 02-07-2011, 10:52 PM
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Looks like a flyball dog to me!!
yea. Hes going to need quite a bit of conditioning. compared to the other dogs at the park he has the speed of a corgi. Now that Im starting to man up a bit and run with him outside he's getting better.ill make it out to one of your practices in a little bit here. get him excited about it!
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Old 03-12-2011, 02:23 AM
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finally figured out the source of my algae issues. Old RO/DI filters. first water change with the new filters in so i should start seeing the HA and bubble algae decreasing.
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Well ive been bored lately and decided to start a project. Actinic LED supplementation. Never having soldered or done anything remotely electrical i decided to start with some cheap 3w blue leds instead of frying cree's. for drivers I am waiting for some meanwell eln-35-700 drivers. I ordered 20 leds's and picked up some u-channel to use as the heat sink. Since these are cheap led's i am not going to go all out and make everything look pretty.

Havent put it over the tank yet as i am still waiting on the drivers
Here is my attempt at something DIY. the bar is going to be about 16" because i am not sure if i will use it on the main tank. and if i is that length i can always put it over the biocube.

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Old 03-19-2011, 02:19 AM
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aw man.....Jon!.....that was a bit of a dangle there buddy.....I was specting to see them all fired up.......cool project mang....

*edit......oh and your other post was zoolicious!
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