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Old 05-23-2007, 10:08 PM
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Default Week 8 Update of my little piece of heaven

I had to move the frogspawn up into the light. I have added a GARF janitor crew and 4 lbs of Grunge+.

The ocellaris are happy, the mandarin is doing great and is a big hit in the office.

Not quite TOTM, but I think it's getting there.

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20 lbs LS
15 lbs LR
2 ocellaris
1 mandarin dragonet
various zoos
1 frogspawn
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Old 05-24-2007, 06:14 AM
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Looking good!! Is that a mound of snail shells???
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Old 05-24-2007, 07:47 AM
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Default Re: Week 8 Update of my little piece of heaven

ejwsr, how do you like tha grunge +, I was thinking about that (have the reg. grunge now).
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Old 05-24-2007, 10:48 AM
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Glampka,
Yep! Alot of shells for the hermits to play in as well as rock rubble.

dfurbee,
It has only been a week for the grunge+ so I am still waiting for the various fauna to make their appearance. There is a new coral polyp in the rubble, though. It did scare the heck out of me when I first put it in. It really muddied the waters for a bit.

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Old 05-25-2007, 05:46 PM
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Default Re: Week 8 Update of my little piece of heaven

keep us updated on how the grunge goes i was thinking of ordering some, was wondering if it really worked!!
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Old 05-30-2007, 07:52 PM
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Grunge+ update...

I haven't seen any new animals, but I can tell you one thing... My ammonia, nitrites and nitrates have been non-detect since I added the grunge. I have done 20% water changes for pH control. The dragonet is always sucking up something and active.

I don't know if it was the grunge or or the bioload balance I have managed to get.

I think I have a turquoise coralline growing, but I am wait a bit before I say for sure.

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Current Nano Fission Skimmer
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20lbs LS, 16lbs LR (counting the grunge mix)

2 ocellaris (Tracy and Dana)
1 mandarin dragonet (Xiulan)
1 Scarlett Cleaner Shrimp
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Frogspawn
Star polyps
2 purple brain looking coral
bunch of zoos
caulerpa, which gets trimmed back occasionally.
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Old 05-30-2007, 09:06 PM
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nice looking tank, hope my nano build goes as well as yours
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