Trent's 7g

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tmd77

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hi all,

thought the best way to introduce myself was through photos of my little slice of reef. this tank was started in august/september 2008 and the photos range from then through to a week or two ago.

hope you enjoy!

















and just some growth pics of a dallas green sps frag over the space of 1 month under 2 x T5HO (one actinic, one 20000K)






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tmd77

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these photos are taken over a 6 month period where the tank became more stable.

but a western australian carpet blenny and 4 trochus snails certainly helped :mrgreen:
 
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tmd77 said:
these photos are taken over a 6 month period where the tank became more stable.

but a western australian carpet blenny and 4 trochus snails certainly helped :mrgreen:
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*writing things down*

WA...carpet...blenny....

I'll have to get some more trochus snails, my other carked it a while back sadly. The only ones I can get ahold of though are at Neilsen's Marine Mates near the Hyperdome (in queensland) and quite frankly they're huge. Like, really. So big that they have coralaceous algae on their shells and they resemble moving bits of rock.
 
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tmd77

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haha nielsens is my lfs, the guys down there know me really well... speaking of which they have WA carpet blennys in at the moment. and yes have seen the trochus snails.

head up to pet city at wishart... thats where i got mine from... they recently spawned so ive got little snails growing on the glass!
 
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tmd77 said:
haha nielsens is my lfs, the guys down there know me really well... speaking of which they have WA carpet blennys in at the moment. and yes have seen the trochus snails.

head up to pet city at wishart... thats where i got mine from... they recently spawned so ive got little snails growing on the glass!
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Oh snap really?! I go to both of those places all the time hahahaha! Just bought a white-tip jardinei from pet city, and an ancora and zoa frag from neilsen's. I originally got my trochus snails from pet city but they are out of all of them at the moment.

I'm in awe of the green brittle that Neilsen's have in their middle coral tank. Thing's evil looking :p
 
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have a look at the last FTS shot and its the bluey white one on the left of the zoas

at this stage next weekend is looking good to me?
 
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45cm x 23cm x 23cm

or

18in x 9in x 9in

its a whole 28L with just water in it... so i'd imagine it would be only around 20L or so...
 
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funkngroovy

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I'll be in Noosa, have to be during the next week as I'm in Melbourne the next weekend. Or if it's not bothering your tank, you can just grow it a bit more for me!
 
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tmd77

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the first 5 FTS are with two 10000K and then the next ones are with one actinic and one 20000K

i feel that the bluer lighting promotes a greater growth of SPS
 
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tmd77

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oh and geoff its not bothering me at all... will hold it and let it grow until you're home :mrgreen:
 
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just some random shots of my livestock

hammer coral

have no idea what kinda coral this is

sps frag and "sunny"

xenia

zoa

blue morph and mini morph

purple firefish goby (no name as yet)

fungia

top down shot


there are no major changes planned for this tank as im going to be focusing on my new baby!

a 4x2x2 mixed reef!

enjoy
 
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Cheers mate,

Lighting schedule is 10am - 9:30pm
ummm one 5L water change per week
every second day i dose tropic marin photon/zooton and amino acids.
dose calcium carbonate and bicarb soda as required (once a fortnight maybe to keep calc above 420 and alk above 8dkh).
target feed sun coral, fungia and hammer coral once a week.
salinity is always kept between 1.024-1.026
pH is at 8.2
all parameters are at 0 with po4 at 0.003
 
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tmd77

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got sick of the old aquascaping so spent an hour and a half on friday night mucking around with it. along with some new(ish) livestock, here is the finished product.

new zoos (cheers geoff)


zoo garden (ignore the PITA hermit crab)


morph


sunny and dallas


some sps






monti frag (cheers matt)


semi-fluro hammer


another morph (grown ridiculously big since i got it off aaron)


daisy


new blue with red dots morph i got today


lps


baby rics (thanks rory)


looking down the end of the tank


FTS



ENJOY!
 
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tmd77

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well i dropped into see heath at qld coral creations today to kill some time and have a chat... ended up walking out with a ric(s).

heath had a quite nice fluro pink and green ric there for an awesome price, so i figured why not see what all the rage is about.

now sitting in my tank and what i thought was one ric, has turned out to be four (that i have counted so far). the main one and 3 baby ones.

absolutely stoked with this impulse purchase and big thanks to heath, always great to talk to and customer service second to none.

here is a poor photo of the baby rics and a good pic of the main ric



 
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