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The scape in this tank will mostly come from live rock from my other tank so it’s mostly looking barren at the moment. The idea however is low profile. I don’t want mountains of rock. However I have the sump full of live rock. I’m a huge believer in biodiversity and the importance of it in a successful reef tank.
 
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Added some chromis a few weeks ago. A little less than half survived (as expected) and they’re looking healthy and enjoying the empty tank they have all to themselves.

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Got a blenny today. Lots of algae for it to graze on. Hope it’s hungry :)

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Fragged an acro from other tank to test if the water is ready for SPS. This type of acro is pretty hardy. If it makes it one week, I’ll start transferring more things over.
 
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... image the amount of likes you would have gotten if I found this after 10 pages, following! ;)
Imagine all the likes you will get when I go back to your build threads after many many months of missing out on them :p
 
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... image the amount of likes you would have gotten if I found this after 10 pages, following! ;)
I just get super jealous when I see how beautiful and crisp your fish and corals pics are ;Facepalm
 
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I’ve wanted a floating scape for awhile for some reason. So I decided to DIY since I have all the stuff laying around.

Materials:
Live rock
A piece of cut acrylic
Super glue
Neodymium magnets

Glued the rock onto the acrylic and glued one magnet to the acrylic and rock. Back magnet sits on other side of glass. Fragged an anacropora to put on rock.

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I put a magnet that wasn’t strong enough so changed it after this pic. Let it sit in water for a few hours to cure the glue.
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Long awaited update: I transferred all of my fish and corals over to the peninsula. Also got a white cheek tang.... Oddly he’s not aggressive at all. It grazes with the bristletooth tang all day.
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Will update with more pics once I settle the rocks in and glue corals.
 
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My first FTS. Finally moved rocks around. Switching rocks from in and out of sump to try to find nirvana. Glued many corals in and still have a few to glue. Trading some corals with other reefers next week to diversify my collection. Had my arms in the tank for too long and now my arm hair is all salty. I need some euphyllia for more movement... added to list
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Sun corals look great, love the powder brown tang. The coral bommie scape looks like a great fit too for the tank.
Thanks! The powder brown is a baby and is scared of every fish in the tank. So strange. One day he’ll be boss. The sun corals are dendrophyllia, similar to sun corals. I have another colony hiding off to the side out of pic.
 
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I haven’t updated in awhile. Tank is doing good so far and no coral deaths...... fingers crossed tightly. Coralline is starting to takeover which is always a good sign but I’ve had trouble with coralline taking over before in the past. One irritating part is that the coralline seems to prevent encrusting corals from growing. Almost like a wall.
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Around 6 weeks wet and the bare bottom part of the tank is already going to be completely purple in no time. Going to be coralline cake.
 

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Looking good man and I like the floating rock!
 
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you have it coming ;) :cool:
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Retaliation spam. You guys have reminded me to update my build more. And stop spamming others builds!!! ;Hilarious Nah. I love it. Keep it coming.
 

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