Blownsvt
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ill get some more tomorrow. maybe by then my hippo will be feeling more adventurous and i can grab a couple of it.
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ill get some more tomorrow. maybe by then my hippo will be feeling more adventurous and i can grab a couple of it.
iwishtofish
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Any updates...with pics? 
Blownsvt
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Any updates...with pics?
sure not exactly what all i have posted on here but as of right now the tank is as follows:
Livestock:
2 occelarius clowns
1 double saddle butterfly
1 hippo tang
1 koletang
1 naso tang
Coral:
Frogspawn
Torch coral
Folded Brain
Crown jewel favia
Xenia Colony
Cuc:
1 long spine urchin
10 large nassarius snails
11 large mexican turbos
5 small nassarius
5 banded trochus
2 skunk cleaner shrimp (i think my butterfly may have eaten them) have not seen them since the night i put them in the tank quite a while ago.
Misc:
Clam
I have added some more power heads to help hit some dead areas. Now i have 2 koralia 4's and 2 koralia 2's. I alos am now running a carbon reactor and a phosban reactor.
There are still some fish i want to add. right now i am thinking about heading to the LFS tonight and seeing if i can get a school of chromis and a orange spot Goby.
pics:
iwishtofish
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Looking great -thanks for posting the update. Too bad your shrimp disappeared, though!
I'm glad you like the JBJ ATO. I think I have one I never opened that I'll be using on my new tank. I also think I recall liking that it has a timer as a fail-safe in case a float switch sticks.
And your fish look quite healthy!
I'm glad you like the JBJ ATO. I think I have one I never opened that I'll be using on my new tank. I also think I recall liking that it has a timer as a fail-safe in case a float switch sticks.
And your fish look quite healthy!
Blownsvt
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i see him eyeing them up here and there and the occasional nip but as long as i feed them several times a day he seems to do pretty well with the ones that i have in there so far. I was at the LFS tonight and bought a school of green chromis. I am thinking about trying a few other species of butterfly and angelfish. Sounds like they will let me get them and if they cecome a problem at least give me in store credit when i bring them back. I really like butterflies. I got 6 chromis btw. Acclimating them right now.
yongpanda
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Oh i see. that sounds like a challenge but what isn't fun without a challenge. haha
let me know about your experience with angels though since i'm eyeing a couple for my tank.
As for the chromis, it wouldn't matter much now but i've heard that you should keep chromis in odd numbers, not too sure why. maybe you can figure it out if you have problems :/
I like your fish choices though, if i were daring enough to get butterflies...
let me know about your experience with angels though since i'm eyeing a couple for my tank.
As for the chromis, it wouldn't matter much now but i've heard that you should keep chromis in odd numbers, not too sure why. maybe you can figure it out if you have problems :/
I like your fish choices though, if i were daring enough to get butterflies...
Blownsvt
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well we have the first chromis casualty already. My wife text me this morning saying that 5 of them were all grouped up with 1 just hanging out all on its own. I figured this would mean that the other 5 would kill him shortly. I just got a text from my wife saying that 5 of them are doing just fine but the one is dead now. Kinda odd because the one that is dead is bigger than most of the rest. I figured the big ones would be fine and the little ones might get picked on.
Reeftanks6
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looking really good. Keep it up. tagging along. A side not love the avatar also have one of those to.
Blownsvt
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Sweet, i would nto mind getting rid of mine but i could never sell it for anything even close to what i have invested. Any modifications on yours?
Reeftanks6
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No its a stock 1994 Mustang GT convertabile
Blownsvt
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my ammonia cycle ended back in september there was not really atrue cycle since i did an immediate transfer of cured rock into my DT and then cycled dry rock in a seperate container to fill it out. I have already gone to battle with diatoms and green hair algae which is the reason why i am running phosban reactors now. I would not hesitate to put just about any fish into my tank as it is for the most part ver very stable as far as the parameters are concerned. The only ones i would shy away from are ones that need an esablished system with lots of pods etc for feeding.
Is there some reason that you are not adding to yours?
Blownsvt
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ah ok, i thought you were saying you had a 03/04 cobra. Mine is a money pit and then some. I am hoping to break the 900 rear wheel horsepower mark in 2010. I need to add another fuel pump though so i can turn up the boost a bit higher. It has made a best of 805 hp and 887 ftlbs of torque so far but was running out of fuel in the higher RPMs. So it sits at 800 hp and 860 tq @ 23 psi for now. once i get the pump in i am going to try going up to 30ish psi.
Reeftanks6
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Wow!
Blownsvt
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like i said money pit lol. oh the things i could have bought with all that money. maybe a 5000 gallon aquarium :dance:
Reeftanks6
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yea i bet haha
