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Adorable! Just wait til she gets bigger, mine is a little piggy! lol eats a whole seaweed strip by herself and eats everything in sight regardless of size.

Great shots btw, tank looks great!
 
Time for eye candy

Almost everyone in the tank, at least the needy ones...
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My Mint Chocolate Chip Acanthaphyllia
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Can we say pretty....
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My pink lemonade acro making a come back from browning out. I moved it way up top in the tank. Not ready to buy one more AI Sol, lol.
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My orange fungia, it is awesome under blues, bright orange.
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Clamy, my 8" maxima clam...
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That's it for now. Need a bigger return pump, my waterblaster3000 that I got new in October :( is too small. Probably going with another waterblaster as they are sooooo quiet.
 
Awesome lefty! Just watch out that the fungia doesnt get covered with sand, that's how i lost mine, silly fish covered it up and the flesh receded....
 
Awesome lefty! Just watch out that the fungia doesnt get covered with sand, that's how i lost mine, silly fish covered it up and the flesh receded....


Thanks Carey, I'll watch it, I had to move it closer to the glass anyway as that dang RBTA may have finally found a place it is happy, it is about 12" spread out right now, first time in this tank it has done that, so maybe it will stop moving around. The fungia seems to sit on top of the Tropic Eden Reef flakes pretty nicely, so hopefully I won't kill it.

Looking now to upgrade my pump, sell my skimmer (3 months old, ugh) and build an algae turf scrubber to run with a smaller skimmer. Thing about a silent tank, skimmer bubbles become loud, lol!! I think besides figuring out if I want to add the 4th AI sol, I will be done buying/building stuff for the tank.

The last inhabitants to go in for awhile (I'm having a baby in 10 weeks) are on their 3rd tank transfer in QT land, and will have the 4th transfer and observe for two weeks. I did kill a chromis though, put him in the transfer tank and forgot I didn't shut off the mj1200 that I use to mix the water. Well, he got sucked right into it and didn't make it :(, everyone else is doing fine!

Dori is doing good in the big tank, she still hides but around 8 at night, she decides to swim with the big boys and it is awesome.
 
Saw something awesome today, Bonnie, the killer clown, fed the RBTA! I put some Rods in there and she took this big piece of something from the yellow tangs mouth and brought it right to the nem, awesome!
 
leftyfish said:
Saw something awesome today, Bonnie, the killer clown, fed the RBTA! I put some Rods in there and she took this big piece of something from the yellow tangs mouth and brought it right to the nem, awesome!

Cool, it must be part of their symbiosis. The anemone says "okay, you get protection all day from me, go get me some food", lol.
 
Had doors put on the ends of the hood, now I can reach everywhere in the tank, with my 3' ladder of course. Got to stain and killz them. Changed out the optics on the lights to all 70 degrees. It seems more even. Installed new pump and drained sump to put big rubber foam underneath.

New additions: some red SPS mini colony, yeah not just a stick, red sea star, orange digitata, neon green leather, some blue sps, a strawberry something sps, and a few more neon candy canes. All for trade plus got some money for SRO skimmer. Running a small skimmer that I empty each day while Floyd who's on here makes me an ATS with LEDs!!

Pics soon, I'm tired from all that work.
 
Awe thanks! It inspires me to sit on my butt and watch it. I can't wait for my "$500 Efflo" to color up for pics, it is getting there! Got it as a 4"x3" frag from a local reefer, for like $30!
 
Congratulations on your new corals Leftyfish. ;) I really want to get some more myself, just not the right time for my tank! LOL.
 
Okay, evidence....

My new orange line chromis
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FTS, sorry about the glare...
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Left side
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Right side
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Bangaii Cardinals (I just picked two, time will tell lol) and you can see my engineer Goby through the dirty acrylic at the bottom.
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Another of the cardinals, they are driving me crazy hanging out with the clowns and their nem, no aggression towards them so far. The clowns are pretty tolerant of the cardinals and the engineer goby that lives below the nem, but no one else is allowed near them.
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