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Posted: January 02 2014 at 5:26pm |
Well after searching a few days for a stand I liked that would actually fit the dimensions of this tank and be high enough I had decided we would just build one, until I walked in my sons room and realized he had the perfect cabinet. It was my grandfathers and happens to be an old dehydrator cabinet but it is built well and fits the tank perfect. Cant say my son is too happy about me taking it but oh well he will survive:) Tank: 38g Innovative Marine Nuvo 38g Light: ATI 6 bulb Skimmer: Tunze 9004 In Tank fuge basket Underwater 10w fuge light Fish: Blue stripe pipefish (eats frozen) Allens damsel Inverts: 2 peppermint shrimp FTS June 6, 2014  FTS May 5, 2014  FTS MArch 20, 2014  Full tank shot March 13, 2014  Full tank shot February 9, 2014  Full tank shot January 26, 2014 
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Posted: January 02 2014 at 5:27pm |
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Posted: January 02 2014 at 5:35pm |
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Off to a good start!
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150 gal reef with 50 gal sump. Reef Octopus DCS-200 Skimmer. AI Sol Blues.
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Posted: January 02 2014 at 5:41pm |
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Okay, here we go!
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Posted: January 02 2014 at 5:57pm |
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Thanks guys, its filled with fresh water for a bit and I'm headed to get sand now while my ro water fills my large garbage container:)
Also please excuse my capitals on this phone when I post from here sometimes I dont catch that its not putting what its supposed to(apostraphes included)
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Posted: January 04 2014 at 6:24pm |
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Got my sand, live rock and water all in the tank. Thanks Peter for the chaeto and piece of rock to finish off my live rock. Also just ordered some stuff from inTank including a fuge basket and underwater light for it:)
Once tank is a bit more cleared up I will take a pic of the rockscape and what not:)
I do think I will have to add a powerhead though which I was hoping to not have to as I hate seeing the cords. Wish I could afford an mp10 but that won't be happening anytime soon.
Also can't decide if I like this skkye 30w tablet light, Im'm not the biggest fan of LED anyway as they don't look natural enough for me but we will see how it goes.
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Posted: January 05 2014 at 2:20pm |
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Posted: January 06 2014 at 6:57pm |
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Posted: January 06 2014 at 6:57pm |
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Sorry the pic is a bit crooked i was trying to get a good color with my phone
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Posted: January 06 2014 at 6:58pm |
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Gorgeous!
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Posted: January 06 2014 at 7:46pm |
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That is looking good!
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Posted: January 06 2014 at 7:56pm |
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Love the rock work!!
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Posted: January 06 2014 at 10:22pm |
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Thanks guys, i must be getting pretty good at it seems i did most of it with the tank cloudy;)
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Posted: January 06 2014 at 10:53pm |
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Dang thats cool =) I love the white background...
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Posted: January 07 2014 at 11:03am |
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wow Jackie!
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Posted: January 07 2014 at 2:14pm |
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Thanks again guys. Can't wait to start adding livestock. It has some polyps that were on a rock and they are doing well along with a serpent starfish that Pete gave me with the rock o hopefully soon. I was thinking of ordering Dr. Tim's one and only bacteria and just read that at least The Aquarium carries it so I may take a trip there if no one in Utah county carries it.
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Posted: January 07 2014 at 3:22pm |
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I love the "minimalistic" rock work. I went the same kind of route on my 50 cube and I really like it and have fun with all the openness.
Looking great, Jackie.
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Posted: January 12 2014 at 4:00pm |
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Alright I added the maxijet 1200 to the other split line so it has some great flow now however now I have micro bubbles from hell. So unless I can figure out how to get rid of those , I will have to just go back to the one return pump.
I picked up a misbar clown from A Reef Oasis a few days ago and yesterday I picked up another misbar and some snails/hermits from Aquatic Evolution.
My tunze 9004 skimmer arrived Thursday as well and works awesome. The rest of my stuff should arrive tomorrow as it's been sitting at the UPS hub since Friday:(
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Posted: January 13 2014 at 1:14pm |
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Just thinking out loud here. Could the micro bubbles be coming from the skimmer?
I get a few micro bubbles in my tanks but thats because the return nozzle is a little bit closer to the surface so it draws down air every once in awhile. maybe that is the cause?
Anyways I hope you can get it figured out without having to go back to lower flow.
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Posted: January 27 2014 at 12:42am |
ksmart wrote:
Just thinking out loud here. Could the micro bubbles be coming from the skimmer?
I get a few micro bubbles in my tanks but thats because the return nozzle is a little bit closer to the surface so it draws down air every once in awhile. maybe that is the cause?
Anyways I hope you can get it figured out without having to go back to lower flow. |
For some reason I never saw this response, I got them calmed down a bit by making a bubble trap but it still was bad so I went back to the one pump. The micro bubbles stopped after removing the other pump. On a new note though I bought a tank setup to get some things out of it and one was a vortech mp-10w es just barely got it on the tank today but so far so good. Here is a small updated pic from my cell phone today
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