Tony's 80g rimless cube
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tnyr5
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It's the same setup. I had a crash about a year after I first started the tank ( pump malfunction while I was away in Ohio). It took a good year and a half to get it stable again. Most of the sps you see were added as frags around January 2012. The rocks are all the originals from 2009.
sahin
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Cool thanks for the info. The reason I asked was because I have noticed that (generally) tanks which are a few years old (and kept in good healthy condition) tend to have very nicely coloured acros.
echopiece
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+1. Would love to see your light and how high you have it mounted!
tnyr5
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Aw thanks guys. I'll take some more pics tomorrow.
June-July were not good months for the tank. I had to go to my mother's to help her get around while she was recovering from surgery so the tank received no care other than occasional feeding by family members for nearly 3 weeks. Normally this would be okay, but while I was gone my 5" French Polynesian maxima clam fell off his eggcrate perch in my frag tank and into some rics and died/rotted. That made a nutrient spike that caused a bit of a dinoflagellate outbreak. On top of that, I came home to a leaky sump and had to replace it, and in the process of getting everything out, clumsily dropped my calcium reactor and broke it. By the time I got everything back to normal I had some pretty ticked-off acros & lost my red dragon colony. Oh well. The tank does not look bad, it's just not up to its usual standards. it'll be another month or two before the colors are back in the butter zone. Anyway, here's a quick smart phone pic to tide you over.
June-July were not good months for the tank. I had to go to my mother's to help her get around while she was recovering from surgery so the tank received no care other than occasional feeding by family members for nearly 3 weeks. Normally this would be okay, but while I was gone my 5" French Polynesian maxima clam fell off his eggcrate perch in my frag tank and into some rics and died/rotted. That made a nutrient spike that caused a bit of a dinoflagellate outbreak. On top of that, I came home to a leaky sump and had to replace it, and in the process of getting everything out, clumsily dropped my calcium reactor and broke it. By the time I got everything back to normal I had some pretty ticked-off acros & lost my red dragon colony. Oh well. The tank does not look bad, it's just not up to its usual standards. it'll be another month or two before the colors are back in the butter zone. Anyway, here's a quick smart phone pic to tide you over.
tnyr5
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Thanks for the kind words & condolences. I'm not too upset since many of my friends have the dragon and it's fairly fast-growing. I always say that the key to happy reefkeeping is complete detachment lol.
As promised, some new pics. As you can see everything is woefully colored down. these are all from my phone btw, so I did the best I could to get the color temperature right.
My friend gave me an oregon tort so I could see which is bluer: my super blue stag or the tort. I'm thinking it's a tie lol
As promised, some new pics. As you can see everything is woefully colored down. these are all from my phone btw, so I did the best I could to get the color temperature right.
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