wowkingjames
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Love the fuge and awesome aquarium.
Building my Dream: It's a Miracles!
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jt48
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Sure! Here is full frontal
Side view
Full system (complete mess)
Water from the DT flows into the 125 containing skimmer and some of this water goes directly back to DT, however there is a 1.5 inch drain in the 125. This water flows to the 6'x2' sixty gallon fuge. Lighting is 8x39w T5, old fresh water bulbs. The fuge contains less than 2" combination of sand and old (probably deplete of nutients Miracle mud), no live rock. Water then flows into 40 gallon breeder, water only no light, then flows into 40 breeder with sand and live rock and more caulerpra. This 40 breeder is lit by two T5's. water then flows into 55 gallon resevoir(1/2 filled). Water is then directed back to 125 some of which will go back to DT and some back to fuge again. Alot of haphazard direction goin on here but it seems to be working.
jt48
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I believe its a mag 12.5 but its real smooth due to 1.5 inch plumbing
jt48
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Thanks but theres so much room for improvement, i quess thats what makes it so interesting.
Newbie Aquarist
Reefing is my middle name
That sea grass looks sexy jt. You can do some crazy things inside of there like with those spawning cleaner shrimp and have your own farm there. On a side note, you know they can change sexes right?
jt48
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Yes. Its my understanding that all cleaner shrimp are born as males and then at 5-6 months of age become hermaphrodites (they have male and female sex organs). I would really need to clear out an area in the fuge just for the shrimp to be able to move. I did initally have a clearing but the algae just overgrew it so fast.
jt48
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I believe im going to leave the shrimp in the DT.
A. Dont know if i can catch them without harming them.
B. The fish use the cleaners.
C. There are so many other projects i should get completed. Eg; the electric in basement is a mess.
D. May add a different species of shrimp to the fuge.
A. Dont know if i can catch them without harming them.
B. The fish use the cleaners.
C. There are so many other projects i should get completed. Eg; the electric in basement is a mess.
D. May add a different species of shrimp to the fuge.
Newbie Aquarist
Reefing is my middle name
Just buy a couple more and have them live in the fuge.
jt48
Member
go for peppermint shrimp for Fuge, they seem to breed more rapidly, and i have seen some of the babies make it in the past in my seahorse tank's Fuge. Of course JMO
Thats exactly what i was thinking.
dave.m
Active member
Don't forget to add snails. Their veligers are a major source of planktonic fish food in the wild. Try and find some different types of detrivorous worms in your live sand or from your LFS. They too provide food for the tank.
Did I mention that I think your seagrass bed is brilliant?
Dave.M
Did I mention that I think your seagrass bed is brilliant?
Dave.M
jt48
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Whew. Had to look that one up!
Veliger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veliger
A veliger is the planktonic larva of many kinds of sea snails and freshwater snails, marine and freshwater ...
Thanks i thank my 19 yo daughter. I asked her what i should do with the tank and gave her options of species tank, frag tank, or fuge. She voted on fuge as it would benefit the DT.
