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Snapped a couple pics today.

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Some pics after today's water change. The female wyoming white clownfish likes attacking my hand while I clean now.

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All of your tanks are looking great and coming along nicely :)
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Decided to turn one of my fluval evo 13.5 gallon tanks into a nano anemone tank. Replaced the rocks with new caribsea liferock, as I wanted to rescape, but kept the fiji pink sand. Tank has a Sicce synchra silent return pump. Next upgrade will be to replace the stock light and lid with a Kraken reef lid and either an AI Prime 16HD like my wife's evo, or a Nicrew LED reef light. Tank is set up as a peninsula, so will be viewable from both sides, with the rock flowers lined down the branch rock, and the bubbletips on the main rock by the back wall of the tank. The fake rock frag rack has been removed.

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Working on getting the tank ready for the maxi minis, bubbletips, and wyoming white clowns. Removing the red stoplight cardinals, firefish, and midnight lightning ocellaris clown pair shortly as they were being housed in this tank while their tank sits fallow.

The tank will house a pair of wyoming white clowns and a colony of sexy shrimp. Any other fish/invert suggestions?

Pic of the wyoming white clowns, don't have the sexy shrimp yet.

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I think this tank is going to have no corals, just the maxi mini nems and acid wash bubbletips.

These are the maxi mini nems going in:

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These are the bubbletips:

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Those are all gorgeous.
 
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Of course, the maxi mini anemones all decided to move around after I added 2 more, and one of the new ones is not doing well. I started dosing erythromycin to the tank, and it isn't getting any worse, so hoping it recovers. If it starts to decline, I will order ciprofloxacin and hope that fixes the issue. Pretty sure I introduced some kind of bad bacteria when I moved a melting mushroom into this tank to try and save it (which also failed). After doing that, I lost 3 of the original 6 maxi minis in here, and have had issues since with any anemones or mushrooms I try to add.

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Battling hair algae in here, but at least all the corals are doing well! I cleaned the tank today, so I'll try to get some good pics tomorrow.

One of the maxi minis is over 6" across now!

And I picked up 2 new additions for this tank today from the Lansing swap, they just have to go through quarantine before being moved over.
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And I picked up 2 new additions for this tank today from the Lansing swap, they just have to go through quarantine before being moved over.
1 Rainford's Goby
1 Blue Gudgeon
I wanted to go so bad but I didn't make it out.
 
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I ended up bringing home way too much stuff. Went $100 over the budget we set for the swap. There were some really amazing deals though and a ton of beautiful corals!
I wanted to go so bad but I didn't make it out.
 

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I ended up bringing home way too much stuff. Went $100 over the budget we set for the swap. There were some really amazing deals though and a ton of beautiful corals!
Sounds like you showed great restraint only going $100 over budget.
 

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Battling hair algae in here, but at least all the corals are doing well! I cleaned the tank today, so I'll try to get some good pics tomorrow.

One of the maxi minis is over 6" across now!

And I picked up 2 new additions for this tank today from the Lansing swap, they just have to go through quarantine before being moved over.
1 Rainford's Goby
1 Blue Gudgeon
Did you see anything unusual in the swap?
 
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Did you see anything unusual in the swap?

Lots of nice corals, some newer varieties and some old school ones (like the green fox coral my wife picked up). And some awesome pricing, like what one would see 5-10 years ago, vs today's pricing.

Some pics from today, showing the Acro growth, and a pic of my wife's new neon green fox coral and new goniopora (with one of her resident Bruun's cleaner shrimp) in her evo.

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Update! I completely redid this tank a month or so ago, removed most the coral (including the frogspawn in these pics) and rockwork, and added a large mangrove root. Also added 7 live red mangroves, which seem to be growing nicely. And last weekend I added the newest inhabitants, 2 upside down jellyfish! They seem to be doing well eating baby brine and live phytoplankton, and stay under lighting close to 400 par. They seem to really like the brightest light they can get.

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