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06-14-2007, 01:05 PM
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 My tank before and after When I started my 50 gallon saltwater tank I tried to save as much money as possible and take as many shortcuts as I could (obviously I was quite a saltwater noob). I live close to the ocean so I pulled most of my stuff out of it including LR and a couple fish. Here is a picture of what my tank used to look like:  I eventually came to see the light and realized that in this hobby you gotta spend the money and do the time it takes to take good care of this tank. I virtually started from scratch and got all new LR, took out some of the fish and various crabs, and sent them back to there home in the Gulf. I was runnig the stock lighting, but threw that junk away and set up a 175w MH with 20k bulb and a 96w Coralife fixture with 50/50 bulb. I am very happy with what the tank looks like now it was money very well spent  here are the pictures:   
__________________ -Logan 14g BioCube 1.5g Pico Tank Survivor of a reef tank crash... and I'm still here, ya I'm addicted :) Your Tank doesn't tell you when your finished Your Bank account tells you when your done :)  |
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06-14-2007, 01:06 PM
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| Re: My tank before and after More pictures:     Everything is doing very well and growing a lot. so the moral of my 50g tank's story. Dont be cheap, it doesnt make a pretty tank 
__________________ -Logan 14g BioCube 1.5g Pico Tank Survivor of a reef tank crash... and I'm still here, ya I'm addicted :) Your Tank doesn't tell you when your finished Your Bank account tells you when your done :) |
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06-14-2007, 01:20 PM
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| Re: My tank before and after Damn, how did you get the sand & rock to stay on the side of the tank?????
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06-14-2007, 01:43 PM
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| Re: My tank before and after in the old set up?
__________________ -Logan 14g BioCube 1.5g Pico Tank Survivor of a reef tank crash... and I'm still here, ya I'm addicted :) Your Tank doesn't tell you when your finished Your Bank account tells you when your done :) |
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06-14-2007, 02:05 PM
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| Re: My tank before and after The 1st 2 pictures -I've never seen a tank with the sand & rock positioned on the wall of the tank!!! 
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06-14-2007, 02:37 PM
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| Re: My tank before and after the rock is up against the back wall of the tank. I used super glue to make sure that it wont come tumbling down, plus the way i put each peice the super glue is jsut precaution they were so tightly fit they wouldnt have come down... but i dont know what you mean with the sand....its just a deep sand bed
__________________ -Logan 14g BioCube 1.5g Pico Tank Survivor of a reef tank crash... and I'm still here, ya I'm addicted :) Your Tank doesn't tell you when your finished Your Bank account tells you when your done :) |
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06-14-2007, 03:02 PM
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| Re: My tank before and after I believe the picture is sideways glampka!
__________________ Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it into a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. -Bruce Lee |
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06-14-2007, 03:20 PM
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| Re: My tank before and after You're kidding!!! : laugh:
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06-14-2007, 03:52 PM
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| Re: My tank before and after I cant beleve they thought you were being serious glampka. Thats just funny. 
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06-14-2007, 09:02 PM
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| Re: My tank before and after AHHH HA HA HA i was like what are they TALKING about its a normal tank. WHOOSH that one went straight over my head. I am such an idiot
__________________ -Logan 14g BioCube 1.5g Pico Tank Survivor of a reef tank crash... and I'm still here, ya I'm addicted :) Your Tank doesn't tell you when your finished Your Bank account tells you when your done :) |
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