I really need a good camera. Maybe one of you org photographers should send me your castoffs.

Showing the refugium I just built:



Full tank:



The new Torch Coral:

New polyp colony:



Moon Coral:



Hammer Coral:

Crocia Clam:



Hybrid Frogspawn:



Metallic Green Mushroom Polyps:

Button Polyps:



Really Hard to See Star Polyps:



Refugium close-up:

Halimedia:



Chaeto and Caulerpa:



Cool Mushroom that settled into a crevice in the rock:


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Ooh!!!!!

That is a wicked SW setup man... props!

Cool

Nice!! Do you have a float valve for your sump? Automatic fill is AWESOME. I made an auto. Kalk. doser a few months ago for my 25 galloner. Is your Tri clam going to get enough light on the bottom of the tank? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like you only have fluoros for light, is there a MH in there for the clam?

sweet! looks like alot of love has went into it, and its only just begun!

is the small tank underneath to slowly introduce new members?

way cool!

JerseyKRS said:

Yep. 3 10,000 MH fixtures. I've got something like 11 watts per gallon.

I haven't put any auto stuff in yet. I still like getting my hands wet. I may go that route when I redo my basement. I have a water line right under the tank and might move my RO filter under the tank and install a fill valve right on the sump.

horatio said:

No, it ties into the display's water system, so any diseases that come with a new fish, would still infect the display. I have another tank for quarantine.

The tank underneath is a place to grow microalgae that will live off nitrates in the water. High nitrates can poison fish and corals so the algae helps keep them low. The algae is so aggressive, it will take over a display in a hurry, so I keep it down there. To get an idea of how aggressive that algae is, it started as 2 small bunches tied to a rock 2 weeks ago.It is a good place for one type of new tank inhabitant. Certain bugs that the fish love to eat love to grow in the algae, then they make their way to the display.

Mars23 said:

I looked at the pics again and saw them shining.

Yeah, when we get around to designing our great room, I'd like to keep everything under the tank. Sump, refuge, RO/DeI filters, everything below, and just the tank serving as the first thing your eyes see when you enter the house.



(not the 25 gallon tank of course )

Very cool! Do you have too?

dude! i want one. how much xtra time do i need to maintain it?


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applekisses said:

Only a couple right now.

Dragon Goby



Yellow Headed Sleeper Goby



and 2 Yellow Tailed Damsels




In a month I am adding:

4 Percula Clowns





and a Mandarin Dragonet

You have a beautiful tank! I always wanted to do a saltwater aquarium,and have Seahorses. Great job!

I really like the Clowns,but this one is amazing!


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magnificentsynthesizer said:

A couple hours a week and about $150 a month.

Mars23 said:

Coral Tank for home

Mandarin's are way hard to keep alive. They shouldn't even be available to the reef hobbyist.

I had one about 8 years ago, he starved.

JerseyKRS said:

Everything in my tank is geared towards feeding a mandarin. 250 lbs of rock, refugium with plenty of copepods and amphipods and no competition for food. All the other fish eat vegetable matter or frozen shrimp.

You're right though, you should be able to prove you can care for a mandarin before being allowed to buy one. I have talked many new hobbyists out of Mandarin purchases.
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EmeraldSkies said:

IT IS! It's so beautiful.

New tonight!!!

2 Percula Clowns

1 Mandarin Dragonet

and an African White Anemone.


New last week:

6 Green Chromis.

Wood Polyps.

Pics up tomorrow! They need a night to acclimate and get comfortable.


Seriously, I need a good camera. I'll send my address in orgnote so you can send me a digital SLR.

Very cool .....
Everytime I've owned fish I've killed them ..Even boile dthem all once when the heater malfunctioned ....I can still smell it ...and they all had holes in them

Ocean said:

That sounds like what happened in Police Accademy 2 with the goldfish bowl in the Tappanyaki Bar!

beautiful!

Amaxx said:

Ocean said: