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Old 09-17-2012, 05:12 AM
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Never heard of these tanks..googled it and what a sweet tank should be a intreasting build also
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Old 09-17-2012, 01:41 PM
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I picked one of these up when in town for Fragfest. I'm going to set mine up for my son. Can't wait to see where you go with this one.
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Old 09-17-2012, 01:55 PM
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I picked one of these up when in town for Fragfest. I'm going to set mine up for my son. Can't wait to see where you go with this one.
Thanks I have a couple of different ideas:

1) pull all my maxi mini nems from my big tanks and stuff them in there with sexy shrimp, anemone shrimp and anemone crabs. Good plan in theory but it would be a PITA to try to get my maxi mini's out of the other tanks, and I'm not sure about wanting to try anemones in a new set up

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2) set it up as a mini reef with a cool display fish. I'd love to get a flaming prawn goby but they are very difficult find and not easy to keep

or I might try a yasha goby/pistol shrimp (but I have a pistol in my 34g that's waiting for a yasha and I don't think I could get him out). So I might try to find some other unique type of tiny fish, maybe barnacle blennies (my fave) but they have a short life span so I don't know.
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Old 09-17-2012, 01:59 PM
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I have a carpet that would be perfect in there he's about 19 inches across would fold up perfect in there . You should go with a rose and green bubble tip anemone in there that would be pretty cool.
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This is going to be really cute. I'm following along.
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Old 09-17-2012, 02:16 PM
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wow laurie great start indeed, i love the idea of a maxi tank, how about maybe a maxi ricordia tank??


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Old 09-17-2012, 03:39 PM
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Way to go!
Wish I have a store right underneath MY bar!
Can't wait to see it done. Wait, maybe not....might just start something that I don't want to get into...
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I have a carpet that would be perfect in there he's about 19 inches across would fold up perfect in there . You should go with a rose and green bubble tip anemone in there that would be pretty cool.
Maybe with a shoe horn and some glue I could squeeze the carpet in eh? I have a RBTA in my 230g that's fairly large so I don't want to take up the whole tank with a BTA.

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wow laurie great start indeed, i love the idea of a maxi tank, how about maybe a maxi ricordia tank??


will be following along for sure
I like the idea of a maxi mini tank to but not the work to get them all off the rocks in my other tanks Plus I checked with my work and they're going to try to get a flaming prawn goby in for me So if they can I'll set it up as a reef if not I'll lean towards the maxi mini's.
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This is going to be really cute. I'm following along.
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Way to go!
Wish I have a store right underneath MY bar!
Can't wait to see it done. Wait, maybe not....might just start something that I don't want to get into...
Yes my bar comes fairly stocked but only with extra reef stuff not booze

BTW thanks for working out a deal for the Eco pico light, I picked it up along with a heater today.

Eco pico light (going to add 2 more led light strips to it and a dimmer that wonderful Grizz said he'd pick up a deliver to me )


Heater (very odd really flat heater but it's supposed to work)


But the above was picked up today and I'm getting ahead of myself....
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Old 09-17-2012, 01:45 PM
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Never heard of these tanks..googled it and what a sweet tank should be a intreasting build also
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I wanted to run carbon on this tank and remembered I had these laying around



So I decided to see if it would fit, and thankfully it fits into the camber no problem (it's hard to see in the pic but I circled it)
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