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Old 03-30-2008, 08:38 PM   #1
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Queens ReefnQueens 90 gallon

Ive been on this site long enough to not have posted anything about my tank. Nothing fancy, well here it goes....

90 gallon tank (front glass starphire)

stand and canopy-built myself

lighting-2 175 watt ballast with 10k bulbs and 2 95 watt coralife ballast with actinic bulbs

skimmer-red sea for up to 200 gallons

two little fishies phosban reactor 150

no name brand filteration filled with activated carbon

about 2 inches of sand and the tank is basically almost filled with live rock

as of for live stock (dont know all the names)
6 mexican turbo snails/ 5 nassarius snails/ 12 hermit crabs/ 1 emerald crab/ coral banded starfish

yellowtail damsel/ white damsel/ domino damsel/ yellow tang/ 6 line wrasse/ tomato clown/ 2 true percula clownfish/ 2 cardinals/ pink dotty back/ ghost goby/ mandarin/ scooter blenny

cabbage coral/ green star polyps/ neon green star polyps/ kenya tree/blue..red..striped mushrooms/green inside pink tip hairy mushrooms/pink inside green tip hairy mushrooms/ clove polyps/ yellow polyps/ white xenia/silver xenia/ candycane/ frogspawn/ hammer coral/ teal inside,lime green rim zoos/ creamsicle/ green and brown zoos/ armor of god / devils armor/ purple death/ tubs blue/ people eater/riccordia/ superman montipora/kiwi lime monti/army green monti/ orange digi/ purple digi

parameters-ph 8.4
sg 1.023
nitrites 0
nitrates 0 or at least i dont have a test kit that goes that low
amm 0
cal 480
dKh 8.4
mag-? no kit
phosphates-? no kit but just added 2 lil fishies reactor
temp -82 all day 80-81 at night

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Old 03-30-2008, 08:46 PM   #2
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tank looks great. i'm hope to get back into it. waiting till i move into my new home
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Old 04-05-2008, 10:26 AM   #5
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Old 04-05-2008, 10:31 AM   #6
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lookin good, nice set-up
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Old 04-05-2008, 10:38 AM   #7
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Old 04-05-2008, 11:12 AM   #8
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thanks alot guys i appretiate all the comments....still need to get a freakin ro/di....i made my own bootleg one out of activated carbon inside 2 inch pvc layered polypad ,carbon,polypad,carbon etc ....its doing the trick for now and everything seems healthy and seems to be growing but im sure i will get much better results with a real ro/di
thanks again guys

ps my single head candy cane always had one nipple looking thing in the middle and now it has 2.....i dont know how they reproduce , will it split because of the second nipple looking thingy ?

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Old 04-05-2008, 01:59 PM   #9
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wow its looking great. I wish I could start all over.
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Old 04-05-2008, 02:48 PM   #10
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Great job James looks great.
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