My mantis tank.

Its in the tank so heres some pictures, sorry for the hazziness.

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Side view from my cpu

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And the current FTS

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Ive had 3 fish for the tank. Yellow tail damsel, sixline wrass, and this all blue damsel idk the proper name. He is a hellion. But the mantis totally ignores him.
 
Lil update...the cave didnt last long. Either he broke it or it jus fell apart. He's still really active. And being extremly not friendly with the cam so i cant update him but heres some shots of the tank.

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Your tank is soooo beautiful! I love that red Zoa colony. None of the LFS's around here can get zoas in... and when they do, they are crazy expensive.
Did he ever take liking to the marbles?
 
StephLionfish said:
Your tank is soooo beautiful! I love that red Zoa colony. None of the LFS's around here can get zoas in... and when they do, they are crazy expensive.
Did he ever take liking to the marbles?
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Thanks! That Zoa rock was in my reef and I figured it look better in the mantis tank.....well not so much. He's moved them around to his liking but he doesn't " play" with them. But I'd also imagine each mantis is different...I'd be interested in the guy who started that thread if is O.S took a liking to them.

On a diff note I'm trying to find a new place to live ATM. With the:bounce3: move means upgrade time ;)
 
I wonder what mine would do with marbles... Bury them for sure-- she doesn't like rubble on the sand bed.
You should check out a 45g Cube. I saw one yesterday at the LFS for sale, and I wanted it so badly. Really neat dimensions, IMO
 
Already bought one ha! Been sitting in my living room on the floor in the box....slowly buying parts and still tring to decide what lighting I'm going to do...I wanna do LEDs but will prolly be doing t5's. I need to build the stand too. Grrrrr
 
LEDs are nice, and produce a lovely shimmer... but I think I'm going to let the craze wear off a bit before I really get into them...if you know what I mean...$$$$$$
I'd like to see the AI Sol over my reef tank...
 
Yea I feel the same way. I figure if I can hold out another year or so the price will drop or better fixtures will surface. Here's the tank...
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Lol. I would Unbox it but I don't have a stand and yea as u can see I have a fan on it blowing at my reef tank...it sucks looking at it the way it is but as it's in the box it's not screaming fill me. In the box it's kinda yelling blah....either way I need to start getting parts for it. I plan on this mantis tank being better than my reef until I can upgrade the reef tank. :)
 
Nice 45!
My friend has one of them, they are really nice tanks.

As for LEDs, if cost is a concern, DIY it! Brings the price down quite a bit and it's pretty easy to do.
 
Your zoa growth is very impressive... Zoas don't like my tanks. I guess cause they are always being stolen, or knocked off the rock, or covered with sand... Until I get some good glue, I can't help that though. I have some green zoas that have stayed 4 polyps for several, several months.. Which I don't understand- they are full and open.

I love those red ones with the long skirts, and lol to the marble frags...
 
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