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Jolieve

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The tank is a 75 gallon tall acrylic, 48x15x24.
Skimmer: (skel's gonna yell at me) Remora w/bubble trap.
Filtration: Fluval 404 cannister filter (looking to replace this with a sump/fuge in the near future) 60 pounds LR: 45 Fiji 15 Marshall Islands. 4" dsb
Light: Coralife aqualight 2 actinic, 2 normal colored bulbs. 260w
Current in the tank is provided by a pair of aquaclear 802 powerheads. I'd like to replace these with the smaller and more streamlined maxijets in the near future as well.

Currently, I am using tapwater treated with prime and IO as my salt mix. Considering switching to Kent salt instead, but an RO unit is on the way.

Inhabitants:

3 green chromis
1 lawnmower blenny
2 ocellaris clowns
12 cerith snails
3 bumble bee snails
2 fighting conchs
23 nassarius snails
1 emerald mithrax crab
1 queen conch has been MIA for about a month, I fear she may have shuffled off her mortal coil. This would be the only death in the tank since I began stocking.

I had some neat hitch hikers on my rock. I have two baby brain corals, about the size of a pencil eraser on the rock, these baby brains were completely bleached when I found them. Within a month, they started growing their algae back. One I have positively identified as a neon green blastomussa merletti. The coloration on this coral is neat because it is a lighter green to the outside edges with a darker green toward the center of the pineapple slices.

The other might be an open brain, I'm not entirely sure and I don't have access to a camera that will zoom in enough on that rock for a good shot of it right now. I also have an encrusting porites that came in on my LR. All of these corals seem to be doing well and have grown since the rock was placed in the tank. The baby brains swell at night, and the encrusting porites puts its polyps out constantly... so far so good. *keeps her fingers crossed*

Along with these hitch hiker corals, were a couple of channeled cerith snails (these things are COOL looking), a tiny white starfish which I just found last night, a whole ton of feather dusters, two moon sponges and two unidentified clams.

I am working on posting an online gallery of pics of the tank on my website.. but I'll post an older whole shot of the tank (while it still had crushed coral in it and was clear of algae blooms) along with some pics of the animals.

Future stocking plans include packing the tank full of LPS, shrooms and maybe a softie or two. Fish, a fairy wrasse (when I can figure out how to completely close the top of the tank) and a male/female pair of bellus angels. I'll get around to adding more animals after I deal with the water quality issues (that I clearly have due to the HUGE algae blooms going right now) and finish getting the gear in the tank the way I want it.
 

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This is a pic of the tank at 1 month old. It's so clean! It doesn't look that good right now...
 

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The green chromis... close up pic of fat and happy fellows...
 

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The lawnmower blenny, affectionately known as grumpy...
 

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My pair of ocellaris (and yes, they are a pair, they do not leave each other's sight.) My daughter has dubbed them "Nemo" and "Coral".
 

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One of my bumble bees, and this is honestly one of my favorite shots from the tank because of all the coralline on the rock around the snail.
 

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Thanks for taking a peek at my tank and it's inhabitants! And thanks for all the smileys Len! *hugs* Any commentary or feedback is appreciated :)

Jolie
 

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The buddies2 pic makes it look like they are in the ocean! The blue background is great... Lookin good!


Wade
 

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It's actually not a blue background. That is a side view of the tank on the back side of the live rock stack. I took it at an upward angle, I'm guessing the actinics and the angle hit the water just right and turned it blue in the pic. I did take it through photoshop for compression, and cropped it so you couldn't see the diatom coating on the back of the tank. Other than that, it has not been edited.

A very neat effect, glad you like the result :)
 

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I actually managed to get a pic where the baby corals somewhat came out... at the top of the rock, just below that upper most ridge on the left hand side, you can make out the shape of the pineapple... and to the left of it, the unidenitified coral, flourscing under actinics. Will try again for a better pic when the full lights are on.
 

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I know I shouldn't have done this.. and I hadn't planned on keeping shrooms in this tank... but the LFS got in some beautiful ricordia... just... beautiful. I could not pass up this frag. So... ladies and gentlemen... my first, intentionally purchased, coral:
 

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There are some updates in tank stats. We'll start with the fact that I have removed the pc lights and replaced them with MH's. 2 250w HQI DE pendants with dual ballast, purchased from Sunlight Supply. I'm very, very pleased with these lights, and the ballast is certainly a lot more quiet than I expected it to be. Overall, very thrilled. In addition to these, there is a small pinpoint white LED moonlight. It's there just because it looks cool when you wander downstairs in the middle of the night and see the surface ripple on the sand. All of this is mounted inside a proper bloody canopy, with fans mounted into it to keep the temps inside the canopy down.

The penguin, which my husband insisted had to be on the tank for the purpose of mechanical filtration (he did not include the skimmer as part of this mechanical filtration) has finally been removed and in recent days, the tank has seen cleaner, clearer water than I have ever seen in the system.

In other news and updates... a week ago I added a pair of firefish to the tank. These fish were apparently damaged during shipping as I can find nothing in my water parameters that might have caused their deaths within two days of being introduced to the tank... let me know when ORA comes out with tank raised firefish and I will be on the bandwagon! I will post a picture here for the sake of posterity, they were a beautiful pair, I only wish I could have done more for them. My kids were most distraught by the loss, but there was little we could have done.
 

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Yin and Yang firefish... may you rest in peace in God's Reef Tank.
 

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