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05-13-2011, 06:09 PM
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Update:
I have moved my sump from the cabinet below the tank into a small utility room directly behind the tank. This minimizes noise from the sump and makes maintenance a little easier. To save room in this small fish room, I have also moved my water change tank to underneath the cabinet, and will use a small maxi-jet to do water changes. I have put a few plastic storage bins under the stairs to hold food, testing kits and other assorted stuff. My electrical stuff is still a little bit of a mess, but I will be getting some sort of controller soon to clean up the mess. Eventually I plan on mounting a doser of some sort under the stairs as well. The plastic bin in the bottom left of the photo is my top-off container. It holds about 2 weeks worth of fresh water. New "fish room", acutally more of a fish closet:  Water change tank:  
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05-13-2011, 06:26 PM
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Latest additions:
I am moving rather slowly on livestock, as I want to be sure I am completely comfortable on managing water quality. So for now, I'm not planning on any more livestock for at least another 6 weeks. Current fish are 2 ocellaris clowns, one yellow tang and one kole tang. All are doing very well, eating, growing and very active. They get fed 2-3 times per day, with a mixture of Elos pellets, mysis, blood worms, spirulina wafers, nori and red algea. Inverts are one cleaner shrimp, a CUC (10 trochus snails and 5 scarlet hermits), and a recently added RBTA. The anemone caused me some concern initially because I was concerned that the tank was a little too new. Having said that, he is doing really well. He moved around the first night in the tank, and by the next morning had settled in and now hasn't moved in about 3 weeks. He is doing well, and in my mind at least seems to have doubled in size. I feed him shrimp and silversides about 2x a week, and so far seems very happy. Corals so far are my original frogspawn, and since then have added a wellso flat brain, a tiny button coral frag, a bubble pearl and a really nice, big green bubble coral. They are all doing very well, although the frogspawn doesn't seem as happy now as he did the first few weeks. He doens't look ill, but just doesn't seem to expand as much during the day as he did before. Colours are still good though. I feed the brain, and bubbles a couple of times a week with shrimp, silversides and also add some Coral Frenzy every now and then. The photos look a little washed out. I haven't figured out good photo technique yet.   Water parameters: Sal 1.025 Temp 80 NO2 - 0- <0.2 Phos - 0 Ca - 400-420 Mag - 1350-1400 Alk - 8.2-8.3 Last edited by someguy; 05-13-2011 at 06:31 PM.
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