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07-05-2006, 07:42 AM
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New 33 Gallon Reef
Hi everyone! I humbly present my 33 gallon which I hope will become a full blown reef tank. The specs are as follow:
Eqiupment 1x 33 Gallon Hagen tank 2x double Coralife Aqualight T5 light strips 1x Seio 620 Powerhead 1x Remora Skimmer 1x AquaClear 300 Livestock 2x Amphiprion Ocellaris 1x Merulina Coral 1x Brown Zooanthids Colony 1x Devil's Hand 1x Torch Coral (I woke up last night and found it toppled, I probably didn't place it securely when I brought it home and now the side where it's crushed is a bit f'ed up.  )1x GSP frag I started cycling the tank about 2 months ago after adding the LR. After the water tests showed that I was good to go, I went out and got the Merulina and Zoos from Gold Aquariums. Soon after I added the other corals. Diatoms have begun to set in and give the tank a brownish look. Thus far, the tank has been successul but I have barely touched the tip of this amazing hobby. Any comments and suggestions are strongly welcome and I hope that I may borrow your guys' experience and advice in the coming future  .   Last edited by Moogled; 07-05-2006 at 07:49 AM. 
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07-05-2006, 07:50 AM
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Yeah, I have an awesome suggestion:
Spray paint the back of your tank white.
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07-05-2006, 08:14 AM
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Nope, white.
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This and that. Last edited by albert_dao; 07-05-2006 at 08:17 AM.
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07-05-2006, 05:16 PM
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I would also try to hide the heater, run it horizontally along the bottom behind the rock maybe?
And why do you have the Aquaclear? What are you running in it? You could probably take it off, and that would clean up the look of the tank too.
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#7
07-05-2006, 05:18 PM
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Eeverything is looking really good, I like the aquascaping you have.
Maybe the seio could be hidden behind the rockwork a bit too. If you want to stay skimmerless on this tank, you will have to keep on top of water changes.
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#8
07-05-2006, 05:24 PM
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Hey guys, thanks for the responses. I will try to reposition all the equipment so that it won't show as much. As for the Aquaclear, it's just there for carbon, nothing else.
Update: I woke up this morning to find the stressed half of the Torch coral eaten, leaving the skeleton only. I am now sure that whatever ate the coral was also the perp that knocked it over in the first place. Any ideas on which little bugger did this? Last edited by Moogled; 07-05-2006 at 05:29 PM.
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#9
07-05-2006, 05:39 PM
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It might not have been eaten, could be that it just bleached, leaving the skeleton. Which would be a water qualit / light issue.
If it was knocked over, a fish COULD do it, or crabs/snails. You could have some nasty hitchhiker crabs too.
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07-05-2006, 07:24 PM
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Here are the before/after photos. The top was taken last night, when all the tentacles were still retracted. The bottom picture I took about 10 minutes ago.
This happened within a 5 hour timeframe too, so my best guess is that a crab/invert of some sort did this. At the same time, I don't know if it's a brown jelly infection. Before  After  Last edited by Moogled; 07-05-2006 at 07:37 PM.
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