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Old 06-21-2004, 02:19 PM   #1
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Salt4Us 60 gallon reef

Here's our 60 gallon reef, it's been up since November of 2003 but was merged from 2 other tanks that had been up longer. As you can see the leather dominates as always and our pipe organ is coming back which I am so excited about! This tank is without a skimmer and is doing really well all the corals are extremely happy and growing like weeds

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2 Maxijet powerheads
1 QuietOne 1200 that circulates the water from the tank into the fuge and back up passing by a titanium heater and over a bed of live sand and rock loaded with copepods and brittleworms and assorted variety of Tang Heaven from IndoPacific farms macro algae.
1 external Mag 5 pump that circulates through an Aqua Logic delta star 2 chiller and back up into the tank.

Live stuff:
40 to 50 pounds of live rock
150 or 160 lbs of live sand
2 Tank Raised Perculas
1 Scooter blenny
1 Purple Fire fish
1 Brown Cheek blenny
1 dominating Toadstool leather
1 huge Bubble
1 Hammer coral (from [acronym:609f12a0ca="Broken or cut pieces of coral which will eventually grow into a new animal"]frag[/acronym:609f12a0ca])
1 Anchor coral (from [acronym:609f12a0ca="Broken or cut pieces of coral which will eventually grow into a new animal"]frag[/acronym:609f12a0ca])
1 Green frogspawn
various zoanthids, yellow, green, orange, gold
1 Pipe Organ Coral
1 Flowerpot coral
1 Montipora [acronym:609f12a0ca="Small Polyped Stoney"]SPS[/acronym:609f12a0ca] ([acronym:609f12a0ca="Broken or cut pieces of coral which will eventually grow into a new animal"]frag[/acronym:609f12a0ca])
various sponges, black and yellow
1 tunicate attached to the pipe organ
1 elephant snail
various snails and hermit crabs
4 emerald crabs (to help with the bad bubble algae problem which they don't eat fast enough for me)
1 pair of Sea bunnies from Indo Pacific Farms, pretty cool looking
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Old 06-21-2004, 02:43 PM   #2
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Very nice! You should be proud.
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150 [acronym:66afaabeb9="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:66afaabeb9] inwall reef tank, [acronym:66afaabeb9="Do it yourself"]DIY[/acronym:66afaabeb9] everything except the tank and skimmer, MAG-24 return, 3 1200 Maxi-jets, Turboflotor 1000 Skimmer, 100qt Igloo Cooler sump.

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Old 06-21-2004, 03:02 PM   #3
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I still remember the 29 [acronym:5e0aba899b="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:5e0aba899b] you had. That actually inspired me when starting my now 11 month old 29 [acronym:5e0aba899b="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:5e0aba899b] reef. That toadstool is still just a monster! Good looking tank
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Old 06-21-2004, 04:34 PM   #4
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omg that thing is really big.
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A 46 [acronym:26a24007a2="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:26a24007a2] bow front (Soft coral) reef tank with a 10 [acronym:26a24007a2="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:26a24007a2] sump. And a 30 [acronym:26a24007a2="Gallon"]gal[/acronym:26a24007a2] ([acronym:26a24007a2="Small Polyped Stoney"]SPS[/acronym:26a24007a2] and Clam) reef tank hooked up to the sump of the 46 so they share water.
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Old 06-21-2004, 04:47 PM   #5
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That tank has really progressed!! I remember the 29
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Old 06-25-2004, 11:19 AM   #6
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how are your sea bunnies doing?? had two but one got killed in the over flow and another killed by a crab !! but man can they lay some eggs
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Old 06-25-2004, 05:28 PM   #7
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The one bunnie is doing real good, haven't seen the other one which I'm afraid it's probably gone But I'm shocked that it's eating the red junk on the sand, my husband said we should get more, [acronym:fbf51b15d9="Laughing out loud"]LOL[/acronym:fbf51b15d9] until I told him how much they are for the pair Maybe next algae purchase, our macro algae goes fast because the worms in the fuge eat it all :/
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Old 06-26-2004, 11:03 AM   #8
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dont know if ya know this but ya dont need to buy a pair if ya know ya have one left then buying one more is all ya need they are hermaphodite's i so miss mine but they wont ship them here so i had a co-worker that was in l.a. and i watched their dog so had them shipped to their hotel the same day they flew out ! it worked great
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Old 06-26-2004, 10:49 PM   #9
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Well that's cool that you got some, I don't understand why they won't ship to you, weird. They are so cool to watch, you can see things moving through their bodies, and the way the disguise themselves is cool, almost look like sponges hiding in the rocks.
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Old 06-26-2004, 11:37 PM   #10
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they only ship to [acronym:0f8bba5d53="Calcium"]ca[/acronym:0f8bba5d53],wa,or,nv,ut i think bummer cause id like to get more
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