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Purple tips unknown name

 

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I thought it was a candlestick u said?

 

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Well the official name

 

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It's a cool lookin acro regardless lol

 

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New corals came in today and New ATI Bulbs for my new TEK 6 bulb fixture came in! Lots of update pics!

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New bulbs!

Soo bright!

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The tank finally looks full to me and the light is 9 inches off the top of the water and I will slowly be moving it down.

I finally have from to work in it and 100% of it is now illuminated instead of a dead spot on the middle and only the front of the rocks lit.

Soo happy it's all come together.

 

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ATI Actinic Shots

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Vhot is your light combo you use

 

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Really nice!

 

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I like that biggest plate coral, its polyps are THICK.

 

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Vhot is your light combo you use

And that's the order I have them in too

 

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New clam today!!!
It's 6 1/2" !!!

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Just got it in the tank

 

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In the tank!

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And this is outside right now

 

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Hey - I wanted to thank you! The wife has been a little stressed looking at a glass box while I have been ripping wood and building a sump room with a frag tank set up, but I was showing her the pics of your tank and corals and I tell you I got her a little excited about all the time I have been putting in to set it up right!! I look forward to getting the "water flowing" and the cycle complete so I can start planning the livestock.
You have a very nice tank!

 

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Reefinny that is awesome!
I'm glad my tank could help your wife visualize what all that labor can achieve.
Believe me, you want to set it up right from the beginning!
You have to have every piece of equipment in place BEFORE you put water in.
I spent months collecting all the pieces that would save me down the road.
You HAVE to start with:
The right lights WITH new bulbs
A properly designed and sized sump with refugium
A skimmer that's rated for at least three times your water volume and of a nice brand
A phosban and carbon reactor
An aquarium controller
A properly sized heater
An RO/DI unit
Top off system of some kind
Preferably a dosing pump set with at least three pumps

And everything else is whatever you want. If you don't start with those main things you will have to get them later on only after massive failure in your tank.
Mine hasn't been running even a year yet and I can have everything in there ONLY Bc of my awesome equipment.
The only corals I have ever lost which is very few was Bc I didn't have a phosban reactor. That was the one piece I didn't start with and it cost me almost $200 in coral in ONE NIGHT. The reactor and pump was only $90.

For every piece of equipment that you can't afford right now, it will cost you at least double in livestock loss at some point later on.

I have spent $1,473.72 on equipment for this tank alone so far.
But that's alright Bc it's keeping alive $2,152.00 worth of fish and sensitive corals.

Everyone I see that struggles in this hobby does so Bc they were not properly equipped to keep the tank alive when they filled it up.

 

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Yes I agree with you - Here is a link to my build - https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/me...y-removed-order-grow-another-colony-tank.html


I have modified a few items and added a few but I can not edit my first post. I added a Neptune Apex and a dosing pump. I was all set to set up the tank in December when I got it - and I am just this week going to be filling it up. I have however bee cycling live rock for 3 weeks in a brute to get a jump start. I m waiting on 25 pounds of branch rock to deliver this week and I will set up the DT.

Again great job on your tank - it looks great.

 

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Oh wow! Now I know what she's talking about! Lol!
I would have loved to set mine up like that with everything in the room behind it. Especially with an in-line frag tank setup.
I'm planning on putting one in my stand and plumbing it in. Got stuff in the works right now for it.

Looks like your tank is ready to rock! You'rs is going to look like mine in no time!

 

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Got the bubble coral epoxied in his forever home yesterday.
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New Kedds Redds zoas
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Rose Nem is getting HUGE now that the new lights are on. The clowns are happy about it. I'm not. It's sweeping across my entire frag shelf that I created on my rock work.
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Plate corals are looking happy

 

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