Unique: A Reefing Journal: A Look Back & A Movement Forward

Couple pics of this guy in his 20g simple nano.

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And a couple new frags...

These are purple skirts with green body and purple mouth. I bought these a while back as "pink elephants". Someone I had kicked down, had them for a while since as well, and he kicked back down today :D

They were just put in, I'll take an update pic later, but it's a real nice frag as you can see.

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And these, which are opening quite quickly. Same story as above, someone kicked back on a freebie to them in the past.

"Rose nebulas"... I actually have some others of these same morph and strand, but they haven't done well since some issues a while back.

Still opening, but faster than the others. Still gives you an idea. These are a REALLY nice morph IMO.

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The same frag/morph from post 163, fully open today.

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The same frag/morph from post 162 above, fully open today. Colors suck in this pic. Hobby name is pink elephants.

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And the next 3 are additions from Ryan & Exotic today at the conference.

I really like these.

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Blue hornets which are not showin their ring and mouth very well at the moment. Looked more pronounced in their show tank. I'm sure they will settle in and show better. This pic was take 15 mins after acclimation.

This is my second frag/colony started of blue hornets at this time.

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And I also got a second frag of pink zippers. I also have one from Mike I got about a month ago.

Again, just added about 15 mins prior to photo.

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Ok, so removed the sand breifly a couple weeks back. Thought to myself how I didn't have any bio filtration at that point as the tiles aren't very established yet. So I threw the sand right back in basically. Well, last weekend I got some awesome long established live rock from a friend, and I'm getting more in about an hour. So today I pulled the sand for good, and I went and bought a new 40 breeder from the petco sale and I'm stocking my sump with good, long established live rock. So that takes care of the bio filtration issue and Ives it one heck of a boost I'm sure. And Tweaked will be happy to know, I'm back in the club ;)

Now I'm gonna start working on a raised foundation sorta speak, to give it an overall better aesthetic feel and presentation.

Also reworking my plumbing as I decided to not use UV anymore, and since I have more room with the new, larger sump. Also gonna move my switch boards over to one end of the stand, as opposed to the middle where they are now.
 
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You have sand, you don't have sand, you have sand, and now you don't have sand :headwalls: Its great being a man isn't it...

Welcome back to the dark side lol.
 
Yea I'm pretty indecisive. But whatever, lol. I've never been a fan of sand truth be told. Like I said, my biggest concern was the biofiltration. But now that I've got that covered ;)
 
A couple pics of my sump. Nothing special and simply done. But it works. I use a maxijet for circulation for the rock and surface agitation but turned it off for the pics.

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And of course I got to post these here too ;)

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