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DHaut

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More detail to come later, but this is to force me to get this thread started :lol2:

For those interested in the details of how I built this tank, check here:

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=183788

Specs:

Start date: Feb. 1 2009
9g custom starfire display w/ foam rock wall
10g fuge w/ sealife inc. rocks
aquac remora w/ mj1200
150w mh w/ 14k phoenix bulb
reefcleaners.org cuc w/ dwarf ceriths, ceriths, periwinkles, limpts, and a chiton
various hitchhikers - baby pencil urchin, feather dusters, baby chiton, porites

Just a few teaser shots:

Fuge (yeah yeah, I know I need to get the mangroves above water - doing that when I get home):
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FTS (this was before I raised the overflow and subsequently the water level):
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Some hitchhiker/cuc shots:

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DHaut

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Last pic is two feather dusters - I laughed when one was FSU team colors...I don't like FSU :)

The background for the display is actually a foam rock wall I built using eggcrate, great stuff foam, epoxy, sand, and rocks. You can see more detail in the build link in the first post.
 

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More on this tank:

The purpose of this tank is to focus on mutual and commensal symbiotic relationships. I plan to have a goby/pistol shrimp pair, sexy shrimp with ricordias or mini carpet nems, a small christmas tree worm rock, and perhaps a small acropora crab. Corals will be primarily SPS with some zoas/rics for color value.

New FTS (3/30/09)

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Also, anyone know how to change the title that is displayed in the forum lists? I misspelled "Symbiotic" and need to fix it.
 
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thanks! and not yet. I don't have a fish yet so no need to keep things from jumping. it's still definitely on my list of things to do though. thanks for the link!
 

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Update!

I'll be moving apartments at the end of June so I've held off on doing much with the tank until then. Some quick update pics:

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Sir Gawain

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Tank is coming along so nicely!!! :D Love that rock wall ... seriously it's probably the only one I have seen that actually looks like a rock wall! LOve it!!! :lol_large
 

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Before and After FTS of my bryopsis problem. Magnesium and Sir Gawain the emerald crab to mop up the dieoff did the trick!

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Also, check out my killer Paint skillz with my new display fuge tank design I'll be building. I'm thinking a FL Gulf biotope.

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Awesome paint skillz yo!!! Now paint the Mona Lisa ... Thank you in advance. ;) My small outbreak of bryopsis is disappearing from my overflow box ... and I didn't do anything for it ... lol ... beats me on that one. :D
 

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Yeah, it's a total mystery algae. I've still got some that grows in the fuge occasionally. Never on the rocks though. Always on the glass. So weird.
 

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