Starting 90g Reef Tank Build... Finally!!!

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Tswifty, I was meaning to ask you this, but when you were creating your aquascape did you use rods or something like that? What about epoxy?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13024407#post13024407 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 2frosty4u
I Have to say if it wasn't for Scott I would never have started in this Hobby. Scott was the instructor in a course I was taking and I caught the bug when he showed me some pics of his setup. After picking his brain and doing a ton of personal research on the world wide web (some/alot that was done during his computer class...lol) I took the leap and purchased a used set-up complete except for lighting, water and fish. Since that day I have developed a great friendship with Scott and thought I'd say:
Thanks Scott, for showing me the quickest way to empty a wallet and keep it that way all the while filling my heart with happiness everytime I look at my tank.
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:o It's the other way around---I have you to thank for your friendship, interest, and really my whole basement setup:eek2:

Its all relative with wallets:

age 6-12 pennyless and no wallet

age 13-15 first wallet but nothing to put in it except a condom

age 16-20 first car and just enough in the wallet to take the gf out in it and afford to replace the two year old condom.

age 20-45 money doesn't hit the wallet--kids and mortgage-wallet put in the top drawer--it doesn't hold loonies and toonies anyway, no use of a condom--you've done the deed

age 45- just when you were about to brign out the wallet:

[welcome]
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13025136#post13025136 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tswifty8
Man that angel looks really beat up. I'm glad someone is coming to his aid.
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I witnessed more 9 counts with that one--and I tried everything to call the fight--the the fiesty little thing would duck behind the reef every time

I don't know if it will survive or not--I read once that if a tail get bitten down to the main part then it won't regrow.
This morning it is swimming all over the left side of the tank and feeding. The damsel has left---I wish the damsel had left the building
 
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13026846#post13026846 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by capn_hylinur
NO and I protest--how do these nominations come about

I can't figure for any reason why Tswifty's thread here has not been nominated for months and months??
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I agree, I thought last month you two would have been battling it out.
 
Since the ThOTM is a Team RC project, Team RC members consider which ones will go in the poll. It isn't about popularity, nor how fast a thread gets posts added to it. There have been a lot of ThOTMs over the years.

There's no reason to vent, nor feel left out. These there were selected this month, and you get to pick one. Sometimes, the poll will be for the best of:

3 image-heavy threads
3 tank build threads
3 DIY threads
3 solution-finding threads

It varies. Here's the list of them over the years.
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/subject/thotm.php
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13026418#post13026418 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SteveJakubiec
Tswifty, I was meaning to ask you this, but when you were creating your aquascape did you use rods or something like that? What about epoxy?
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No I didn't use any rods. I did use some epoxy here and there, but everything is basically just stacked carefully.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13026518#post13026518 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by capn_hylinur
I witnessed more 9 counts with that one--and I tried everything to call the fight--the the fiesty little thing would duck behind the reef every time

I don't know if it will survive or not--I read once that if a tail get bitten down to the main part then it won't regrow.
This morning it is swimming all over the left side of the tank and feeding. The damsel has left---I wish the damsel had left the building
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Maybe its time to go spear fishing :lol:
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13027520#post13027520 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tswifty8
Maybe its time to go spear fishing :lol:
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I am the next time Harold is free to come up--only the spear will be my mini wet/vac:eek2:
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13027278#post13027278 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by melev
Since the ThOTM is a Team RC project, Team RC members consider which ones will go in the poll. It isn't about popularity, nor how fast a thread gets posts added to it. There have been a lot of ThOTMs over the years.

There's no reason to vent, nor feel left out. These there were selected this month, and you get to pick one. Sometimes, the poll will be for the best of:

3 image-heavy threads
3 tank build threads
3 DIY threads
3 solution-finding threads

It varies. Here's the list of them over the years.
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/subject/thotm.php
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Sorry Marc--vent was probably an inappropriate word for me to have used---it did not vent on the post, and do not make a habit of venting.

In this case IMO there should be more input allowed from the people who gain the most from the post--the new to the reefers ect ect
As a suggestion--one might consider a thread for nominating a particular thread that might normally been overlooked by the staff

Its no big deal however in the scheme of things here so I apologize again for using the word vent.
 
Hey swifty I know you have this posted but I couldn't find it. can I get run down of what bulbs you are using right now? And where did you buy them?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13027758#post13027758 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by timschmidt
Hey swifty I know you have this posted but I couldn't find it. can I get run down of what bulbs you are using right now? And where did you buy them?
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Here is the layout of bulbs.


- - - - FRONT - - - -
Geisemann Actinic Plus
UV Lighting 75/25
UV Lighting Aquasun
Geisemann Actinic Plus
Geisemann Aquablue Plus
UV Lighting Super Actinic
- - - - BACK - - - -


I ordered them from SaltyCritter
 
Fed the anemone today. I've been feeding it a 1/2 of a silverside 2 - 3 times per week so far.

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I also feed the brain coral when I do this... except I need to give the shrimps a piece too, or they try and steal the piece from the brain. The last 2 times I've done this I've given each mouth a piece. The mouth on the right already ingested the piece I had given it.

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10" Curved Tip Stainless Steel Forceps (picked up at SaltyCritter).

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Looks great! I've missed quite a few pages, but getting caught up now;)

Plus you had 777 posts and my OCD wouldn't let that slide:D
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13029095#post13029095 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by D to the P
I used to love feeding my open brain. It'd eat a silver side twice a week and grew up fast.
Tanks coming along nice TJ
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Yeah it's getting huge. I asked a question earlier if they splt, because it has 2 mouths now, and when it is opened up the whole way it seems to be pinched/fold right in the middle of them.

Thanks. Hopefully I'll have some more additions soon :D

I'm also considering placing at least one, possibly two powerheads on a wavemaker.
 
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