My 75 Project

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  1. JohnnyBoy

    JohnnyBoy Purple Spiny Lobster

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    Truthfully.....Nore my LFS or local glass workers wanted to drill into my tank even though I told them I wouldn't hold them responsible if it broke........so after a small session of being PO'ed for a bit, I bought a clear Heavy Duty Rubbermaid container and I'm working with that. I'm thinking of setting up my 10 gl as a frag tank since I'm thinking of getting into that.
     
    JohnnyBoy, Aug 10, 2008
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  2. amcarrig

    amcarrig Super Moderator

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    Thread moved to "Show Off Your Fishtank" forum.
     
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  3. JohnnyBoy

    JohnnyBoy Purple Spiny Lobster

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    Cool. Thanks!
     
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    cuttingras Starving Artist :)

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    looking good JohnnyBoy!:)
     
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  5. JohnnyBoy

    JohnnyBoy Purple Spiny Lobster

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    Hey everyone. Just a couple of pics now that I finally got some water flowing through my refugium. Nothing fancy. I used a heavy duty 27 qt bin from Rubbermaid. My LFS has been using them going on 2 years now without any problems......I guess I'll test that out::) Any recommendations on what bulb to use for the regium. I'm using as a work light right now but I will be using the same set up......just with a different bulb.

    I need to add my PS and have some cleaning up to do:
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    Closer view:
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    JohnnyBoy, Aug 16, 2008
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  6. JohnnyBoy

    JohnnyBoy Purple Spiny Lobster

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    Well, my wife officially hates u guys LOL! She's blaming you guys for all the money I've been spending on the aquarium and the mess I make working on it, but who cares.....I don't;D Anyways, I wanted to do everything right from the beginning and thanks to all of you here @ 3Reef, I'm on my way!

    I took your word and went with base rock (Fiji) for my tank. I got it from bulkreefsupply.com. My UPS delivery guy reffered me to them as he saw my tank today when I opened to get a package and he noticed my tank had no rocks:-/ I wanted to get at least 125/lb but they had a special. 10/lb free with the purchase of 100/lb or more. I guess I can do w/o the other 15/lb.
    Also, wanted to share my catch of the year with you all. My new baby boy Joel. Born Aug. 19th, 2008.

    Here he is sleeping
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    Mean muggin'
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    And here we are.....sleeping some more::)
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    JohnnyBoy, Aug 22, 2008
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  7. Iraf

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    Grats on the new addition
     
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  8. Lucky13dt

    Lucky13dt Spaghetti Worm

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    Congrads on the new addition!!
     
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  9. JohnnyBoy

    JohnnyBoy Purple Spiny Lobster

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    Well, I took Luna's advise and went to Exotic Aquariums to get some LR to seed my base rock. Base rock comes in tomorrow........at last! Pictures don't do them justice. These rocks are completely covered with Red,Purple and Pink but for some reason.......the pics mainly show Green parts:confused: I had to get a good close-up of one of them that shows their true colors;D The smaller of the rocks is for the refugium. Not much coralline on that one:-/

    Treasure!
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    Close up of one of the jewels
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    Under the light
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    Treasure in tank
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    More rock coming in tomorrow so after I'm done aquscaping....I'll be posting some stuff up.
     
    JohnnyBoy, Aug 28, 2008
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  10. JohnnyBoy

    JohnnyBoy Purple Spiny Lobster

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    UPS stopped by.......what can it be?
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    ALRIGHT!! It's my Fiji base rock. Here's one half of the shipment
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    Here she is.......loaded. Water got a bit cloudy and I still have rock left over but it's bigger pieces that I' going to break up before adding tomorrow morning
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    JohnnyBoy, Aug 29, 2008
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