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Midknight 08-23-2006 04:20 PM

Beautiful tank. Now the question is... are you going to leave the hight of the rocks where it is?
If so it would be cool to put 1 taller coral right on top. :wink:

christyf5 08-23-2006 04:21 PM

I think I'm going to add some more rock, I need more room for some non-pink zoos and a few really fantastic ricordea :wink:

christyf5 08-27-2006 08:32 PM

Well the tank temp was getting a bit much for me. Within a few hours the tank was hitting almost 84 degrees. I was looking into getting an iceprobe chiller but they're a little out of my league at the moment. So I thought I'd try out the coralife aqualight mounting legs to get the light off the tank. It worked like a charm. The tank holds at a steady 79 degrees. Not bad for $15 :wink:

Of course the requisite pic :razz:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...5/DSCN5649.jpg

christyf5 09-12-2006 04:20 AM

So I went to OA last week and got 4 new colors of zoos and 2 new ricordeas :mrgreen: The tank is getting pretty full now, although I suppose I could cram one more rock in there if I really wanted to :wink:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...5/DSCN5881.jpg

I switched out the minijet 404 (106gph) for a maxijet 600 (160gph). Its kind of weird going from a full on SPS tank with major flow to a nano where you don't really need everything whipping around the tank. Nevertheless, I upgraded the pump and everything is sort of gently wafting in the breeze now which makes me happy.

Also one of my neon gobies which was being harassed by a sharknose goby managed to make it into my overflow and down into the sump. I figured I'd let him hang out in the nano for awhile and so far I think he is a bit confused by the lack of flow as well :razz: I put his little nori PVC in there and he was eating like a champ so it certainly hasn't affected his appetite.

fishmanty 09-12-2006 04:24 AM

That nano looks great! I wish mine looked that good when it was running!

I love the zoo's. So easy to keep, and they look so damn good :)

muck 09-12-2006 04:36 AM

hehe.. I love the little neon goby in there.

I see he has the same purple disease your Blue Tang has.. :mrgreen:

Chaloupa 09-12-2006 06:11 AM

Your tank is looking excellent Christy!:biggrin: A couple of those zoo's would look great in my Mom's nano!!!

christyf5 09-22-2006 06:54 PM

Ok at this point I DEFINITELY need more rock. My zoo fetish is getting a bit out of hand. Just as I was thinking, gee the tank looks pretty good I get the OA newsletter and the next thing the phone is in my hand :razz:
I'm thinking about just stuffing the tank with rock at this point:wink:

Ok so more pics just so you can see, plus I got some KICK A$$ zoos from Scavenger.

Tank pic:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...5/DSCN5917.jpg


New zoos :mrgreen:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...5/DSCN5915.jpg

And a ricordea I missed in the big tank (thank god the crabs missed it too :rolleyes)
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...5/DSCN5919.jpg

Midknight 09-22-2006 06:58 PM

Looking great, but if it is getting too full I can help house some of your extra zoo's. :wink:

christyf5 09-22-2006 06:59 PM

Hehe, I'll give them time to grow yet :wink:

Oh and I forgot to mention. That orange ric I added to the tank. His greeting to the tank was to roll over onto my green blasto and melt one of the polyps. You can see the damage in the bottom left hand corner. Some of those rics have a crazy powerful sting to them :sad:


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