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It's been awhile since my last post and my 180 is up and running. After 6 months im glad to finally have a few pieces of livestock in the tank. So far it consists of 4 pj's 2 firefish 4 turbo snails and 10 red leg hermit crabs. Going to be adding to the clean up crew over the next month and will wait till the tanks been running for awhile longer before I start adding any corals. After having issues with the sand I feel that i probally didnt clean it well enough before adding it to the main tank ...

The BTA in my tank is devouring the cleaner shrimp currently. I'm not sure how this happened, but my guess is that the clownfish were defending their eggs and scared the shrimp right into the tentacles. No idea, since they were leaving together closely for months.

As I was watching the shrimp vanish, I noticed the tentacles were moving every direction which is pretty good evidence of random or chaotic flow.

I want to wish a Happy Mothers Day to any and all the mothers in the reef world. Have a very good day today.

I thought I'd share how I built my nano tank for my daughter. This was originally going to be a seahorse tank but I found out later it was too short.

1st I laid out the design I wanted, I wanted something different to show off some acrylic skills.



2nd I made a cardboard template so when I bent the acrylic I could make sure the 1 piece side was correct.

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And some early Scaping attempts.
Needed something that would accentuate the tank deapth and have a 3D effect. Scap had to go higher from Rght to left so that viewing the tank from the RT side one would see an ascending structure with many of the corals still visible.
Not sure if I should still make it a bit higher than this or not. Any suggetsions are welcome.
Front View:

Rt Side view: ...