The RONCO 150 (In-Wall 150 Gallon Mixed Reef)

A few pics...

A few pics...

A few pics I snapped today is all.

Some blasto merleti. Not to sound cliche but 'Jewels Of The Sea' come to mind :).

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Some cloves. These things grow like crazy. They are actually pretty cool with their green highlights.

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Another feather duster in the tank.

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A few pics...

A few pics...

A new coral I got from Reefer Madness last week. I *will* get better pics of the polyps on this thing. It is a really neat coral (leptastrea).

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Tucked away in the corner of the tank are these guys. Who says a coral has to cost a fortune to boast rich colors (sorry for it being slightly out of focus).

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A few pics...

A few pics...

A few more pics of some zoos.

Got these from Sharky's Reef last week. I think they were $18 or so.

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Pink zoos that started spreading from a frag of 5 polyps about a year ago.

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Some lone orange polyps playing king of the mountain I guess.

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More Pics...

More Pics...

Just snapped some more pics a few days ago. Sharky's Reef zoos and some zoos I got locally.

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Just some misc shots. In this one you can see one of the few SPS frags in the left corner (a rose colored acro).

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The leptatstrea has really colored up nicely with green centers and blue rims. As you can see the twins decided to get in the picture.

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A favites from Reefer Madness. The picture does this no justice. It's a really nice shade of blue, almost turqouise. The green and red frag of favites came from Reefer Madness too as a freebie :).

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More Pics...

Zoos on the left from Skarky's Reef, powder blue maze brain from Atlantis Aquariums, and green leptastrea from Reefer Madness. Green yuma under the maze brain from my LFS a few years ago.

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Muave Anthelia from IPSF (came as a slimy frag about the size of a penny a few years back. I dare anyone to try and find a way to kill this stuff :p. I love it because it gives me filler, provides plenty of movement, and doesn't bother any other corals). Yellow leather from Atlantis Aquariums, a Florida ric from Blowfish Aquatics, a frogspawn from a reefing buddy, brains from Reefer Madness.

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Green clove from a reefing buddy (had three polyps believe it or not about a year ago when I got it), neon green brain that looks like a bicycle seat from Atlantis Aquariums, brain frag above it from Farms Of The Sea, blueberry ricordia from Blowfish Aquatics, and you can see the edge of the showpiece Fox coral which I got free from a reefing buddy as a small 4" piece a little more than a year ago.

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jdsabin1 said:
Thanks everyone :).

Flanders - Thanks .... I have three types of clove in the tank ATM. They grow like weeds.

I'll take some of those "weeds" of your hands bud :D
 
A few new pics...

A few new pics...

Here are some corals I picked up over the last few days.

I've named these 'Strawberries And Cream'. They are a real striking berry color with white centers. This is a large piece.

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This is also a nice sized piece of copper colored paythoas. They really shine, alomost glimmer in the tank:

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Here is another rock that had some real pretty zoos on it:

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A few new pics...

A few new pics...

A great little brain frag that just glows:

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Amazing how zoos can change color based on where they are placed in the tank. These have really started to come around:

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I've taken pictures of these before but I just love them. They truly are this green. The camera has a hard time interpreting their rich color:

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Some more zoos in the tank is all:

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A few new pics...

A few new pics...

A chalice(?) that came as a freebie from Reefer Madness. It's starting to get some blue eyes:

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Orange Starburst zoos:

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A freebie frag that started out about the size of a quarter. It has been through he** and back. It truly is this bright pink. I guess it's Birds Nest?

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One of the many rics I have throughout the tank. This is one of the blueberries.

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Man, I remember when that thing was an empty box! The only water it had in it was the water it collected when we drove it home from Minnesota!

Beautiful tank, Mr. Sabin. I wish that open brain of mine would have made it in there. From what I understand, it met its demise in another tank across town. C'est la vie, I guess.

When can we get some lunch together?
 
FlyGTI said:
I wish that open brain of mine would have made it in there. From what I understand, it met its demise in another tank across town. C'est la vie, I guess.
I just feel sick about that too. It was so gorgeous. I knew I was in trouble when I saw the dwarf angels nipping at it. Sorry about that :(.

Let's do some lunch soon!
 
iF you ever frag the clauvaria sign me up, they look so soft.

also, curious how often you change, and how much you use of rowaphos and carbon. Ive been thinking about getting a couple phosban reactors....

awesome tank as always!
 
Torpus said:
also, curious how often you change, and how much you use of rowaphos and carbon. Ive been thinking about getting a couple phosban reactors....
I fill one of the reactors up about 65% of the way using high quality carbon, and I use 275 ml of Rowaphos in the other reactor.

I change both of them every 30-40 days or so.

HTH! :)
 
Updated Tank Pics

Updated Tank Pics

Wish I could do RL justice with these full tank pics but I just can't yet. I'll keep trying and in the meantime, here is the tank as it looked today. Everything is very healthy and happy. I did move some things around a little.

Gearing up for 4 or 5 new corals, and it looks like a few in the tank right now will have to go to a good home soon :).

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