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Old 05-03-2008, 10:12 PM
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nice looking fish you got there.
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those firefish are known to jump out of tanks so just watch out for any openings you have. You probably wont have any problems but just a heads up.
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haven been here in a while, my comp wouldnt find the site so i couldn make it over here. now im back with a few updates.
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\ rics are doing good, not great, they haven opened up fully, they were in natural sunlight, and the only one that opened up was the one that got blown into the shade. :-/ so i glued them on the far left side of the tank, i hope they acclimate soon, they look nice opened up. so heres the pics you been waiting for

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i don't have any good FTS yet cuz the light being so close makes a beam of light in the middle and black corners. not posting pic qualitay. Enjoy!
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so i got the frame for my canopy built today, and with the light farher away from the water, i must say im in love with MH. all i have to say is wow. I love it. The frame is built out of strips of 3/4 inch plywood and biscuit jointed together. Anyways, heres the pics!




excuse the peices of wood in front, its so i dont blind my self.
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So today I stopped by the LFS and got some more fish, i got an orange diamond goby, a clown goby, and a cherub pygmy angel! i love the angel, so cool, the clown goby is not looking so hot, he has a little tummy and the orange diamond is going to town on his hole. ill be taking the yellow headed sleeper back, too big for my liking, makes the tank look too small.

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Update 5/25/08
So yesterday i GRADUATED!!!!08 baby! pretty pumped for that. Fun night, didnt wake up till two this afternoon lol, where i then proceeded to the LFS, and picked up 2 true percs, and a torch coral. The clowns are doing awesome, swimming actively, and munhcing down anything, also the angel ate some brine today! Still have yet to see my clown goby.........anyways heres the pics!

Little guy, little longer than 1", he is missing a fin too....NEMO!


Female, fat and healthy


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got a bunch of stuff today. a refractometer(love it) Reef Fanatic ATO, so far seems to be working great. I got it running through a DIY kalk reactor. 2 buckets of salt. and hopefully today i should be getting my zoas. hopefully. i leave for camping tomorow. and if they dont come in today. then $#!t. im so excited to get them. also yesterday my LFS had a going out of business sale. yeah. it sucks, now i have to drive 2 hours to get anything for SW. thats how much NM sucks. alot. But i did get a few goodies and a huge acan frag. like the size of a small dinner plate. im gonna have to frag it off. way too big. but it got it for 30% off of 60 dollars so im happy. Pics coming tonight
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PICS!!!

FTS (spot the acan, tuffy huh? it replaced a whole rock lol.)



a couple of other new things.
i can hear the awwwwww's already


and to top it off. my treat to me


comments welcome!
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more pics!

Acan, best i could do right now


backside, look at all the coralline!


C-man, if i confused ya on my ATO/kalk description, here ya go!


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but you know that saying, its only goes wrong when your gone? true. 3 month old MH bulb burnt out. gotta order a new one, im thinking reeflux, or another 14k. so no updats till new bulb gets in, no other light source. still waiting on those freaking zoas from the dude on RC. i need em this week or my money is coming back. it was such a good deal too.......oh yeah, i also fragged the acan into 4 smaller peices, all doing well.
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