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    Posted: October 07 2011 at 7:36pm
Wanted to put up some picks of my tank to be able to follow progress a little bit.



A little background info



90 gallon display



DIY Light

72 dimmable LEDs. 48 Royal Blue XREs, and 24 XPG

XREs have 80 degree optics, the XPG don't have any optics

2 54T5s, Front bulb is ATI purple plus, back is ATI blue +. T5s run 5 hours a day.



One MP40Wes, will be adding another shortly, and one 1400 Evolution.

mag 12 return pump

Apex Controller

Elite Aquatics cone skimmer, and sump.

9 watt UV Sterilizer ran 24/7

Shop light for Refug



Dose Vitamin C every other day

Dose fuel, and Mag once a week

Dose BRS Two part mix. System currently is taking 50ml of each alk and cal a day

I don't do a lot of water changes, about 20% every other month.



Fish

Powder Blue Tang

Borbonius anthias

snowflake clown

Flasher Wrasse

Purple Wrasse

Purple Firefish

flamehawk

mandrin goby

chromis

Yellow Tang



Fish in the frag tank are

4 mochas in a bi color nem

lawnmower blenny

Chromis



Coral List



SPS

Pink Lemonade

Raspberry limeade

strawberry fields

Figi Echinata

upscales microlados

ORA pealberry

Forest Fire Digi

Cry Baby Jake Mili

Nicks Bubble Gum Mili

Cali Tort

Purple Efflo

Teal Tort

Yellow Tort

yellow deepwater

Green Slimer

Fire and Ice

Red Robin Stag

ORA Pearlberry

Blue Hokei

shortcake Milli

Pink stag

Tri Color

Garf Bonzi

Greenday Milli

Setosa

chili pepper monti

sunset monti

Red monti

Rainbow Monti

Superman Monti

meteroshower

Green birdnest



LPS

Pandora Favia

Babies Breath Favia

FruitLoops Favia

PPE Chalice (favia)

mia's pot of gold

Prizim Favia

Purple Favia

Orange Plate

Stripped Plate

Bleeding apple Scoly

Purple Duncans

Green Duncans

Orange Crush echinata

Purple Echinata

Frog spawn

Hammer

bicolor warcoral

+10 different acans, some of my favorite corals, but they don't have names.



Chalices

Widow maker

Oregon Mummy Eye

Tyree Red Watermelon

Tyree Pink Watermelon

4 color Watermleon

Miami Hurrican

Mengs Pinkalisious

Hellfire

Bubble Gum Monster

Fruit Loop

Christmas Tree

Enigma

Lava Chalice

Orange Sherbert

WWC Toxic spill

My fair Lady

24K

Goldeneye

Cotten Candy

Green goblin

Tubs Alien Eye

ORANGE SPLASH

RIDDLER'S REVENGE

RED RIM-BROAD RIM

GOLD RIM DRAGON FURY

+ 15 or more not named chalices



Softies

Green/yellow rics

Orange rics

Blue and Gold Yumas



Zoas and Palys

Purple Hornets

Red Hornets

CARs

Utter Chaos

Space Monster

Captain America

Reverse Space Monster

Marry Jane

Magicians

Toxic Spill

La Lakers

Hawaiian Rainbow

AofG

Magnas

Bam Bams

Eagle Eyes

Two face

Millionaires

Blue Fire and Ice

Eye Of Ryae

Keds Reds

Dragons eyes

Solar Flair

Radioactive Dragons eyes

Green Bay Packers

Watermelons

Fire and Ice

Cats Eyes

+ lots of no namers

   





I don't like how messy it looks but I can't turn down good deals on coral. I just need A LOT bigger tank.







































Frag tank





I'll get more detail pics of coral and frag tank later.

Edited by Laird - April 28 2012 at 4:44am
Indefinite hiatus from sw aquariums.

Once I have my glorious return I'll set back up the following.
50 Gallon rimless cube.
180 Gallons mixed reef paradise
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Is that a Blotched Anthias I spot?  Awesome!

Edited by m.ash - October 07 2011 at 7:48pm
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Looks great Laird! You can always store things in my tank :) !
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updated with a fish and coral list.
Indefinite hiatus from sw aquariums.

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Originally posted by m.ash m.ash wrote:

Is that a Blotched Anthias I spot?  Awesome!


Yep, my favorite fish.
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Heres the DIY light and a bad top down.


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His tanks are even more amazing in person. Plus the anthias is the rarest, and coolest fish I've ever come across.
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Yeah, they are.  I've yet to see one in person.  Just on the divers den of liveaquaria.  Someday, maybe someday one will please the eyes of those looking into my tanks.
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We need some growth pics now, Laird! I'm sure you have a lot of corals that have doubled in size since Oct.
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You ask and you shall receive.

Some grow pics, taken less than 4 months apart.

A handful of things were moved around a bit. Like the frogspawn, and a couple SPS frags.

Oct 2011

Jan 2012


Oct 2011


Jan 2012



Oct 2011


Jan 2012


Oct 2011


Jan 2012




Edited by Laird - January 31 2012 at 1:23pm
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Now just a few new pics.






















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looks good, nice growth. You ever have acans for sale?
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Nice growth!!! Love all the acans!
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Dude!!! I'm so jealous of your PPE favia/chalice
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Originally posted by bstuver bstuver wrote:

Nice growth!!! Love all the acans!


Thanks

Here are some more that werent pictured and they are actually my favorites.

The two bigger ones on the left hand side both have this super bright yellow and gold centers that are just amazing but I can't get a pic of it.

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Originally posted by BillyC BillyC wrote:

Dude!!! I'm so jealous of your PPE favia/chalice


Ya I posted that pic just for you, haha.


Not going to post pictures of it yet, needs to grow just a bit more but my favorite piece in the tank is my Orenji chalice.
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Your growth is amazing! Its exciting to see stumps turn into trees. Good work. We need to have someone in the club go around with a super expensive camera and capture the hard to see colors we have in our tanks. 
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Originally posted by Trevor40 Trevor40 wrote:

Your growth is amazing! Its exciting to see stumps turn into trees. Good work. We need to have someone in the club go around with a super expensive camera and capture the hard to see colors we have in our tanks. 


Thanks dude.

Ya I totally agree with you about the good pictures. I've started a couple threads about just that but have never found anyone to volunteer.
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I am in love with your tank still :)..and the acans are AMAZING and my favorite anyway and you have beautiful ones.
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That is so sweet man! I want to see pics of these CAR zoos though....
And that PPE chalice is so nice, just a sweet tank in general. And good to know that chalices do well under LED. Now wheres this orenji chalice!?!?!?!
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