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Hey friends,

So last night a local reefer posted coral for sale on the local forum, i jumped on the opportunity and bought 2 colonys and 2 frags. This brings the total up to 19 new pieces of coral in the last 3weeks my sand bed is getting extremely full! im acclimating now i will have pics up once everything is in the tank im going to need help with ID as we werent sure what one of the corals is.

teal/green acro
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These little clownfish make me smile each time I walk past the frag tank. Their markings are striking under the 14,000K LED lighting. The smaller male is by far the prettier of the two, probably because the white stripe isn't broken. I know these were from a batch that Paul had, but I don't know more about their history.





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Here is one of the Ricordea I brought home from Florida a few months ago. It's in a terrible spot for photography, but nice to see in person.



The Lawnmower Blenny was parked in the Nepthea, watching me.



The Cyphastrea is almost always open.

Wooo, long weekend!!!

The tank has been cycling for about two months, and Ive been using ammonia chloride to do a fishless cycle. I decided yesterday that it was ready to go. Here are a few pics.

Plumbing for the carbon and biopellet reactors, close to being finished.


The brittle stars that I tried to save from the previous tank. A little difficult since I used ...

The new protein Skimmer has been in operation since Friday evening and I honestly couldn't be more happier. This is a photograph of the skimmate production from over the weekend. I think this is enough to show that the recirculating model is more then doing it's job. I'm going to need a skimmate locker before my swabbie!




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