Pics of 1year tank..

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  1. Stingray

    Stingray Blue Ringed Angel

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    Its been a year today, my reef tank has been running, thought i would take some macro shot's to share with you pic lovers;D.

    This zoa frag as been placed on a 3" piece of l/r and it's stuck good and spreading it's colony...
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    This is my finger leather coral, it's tripled in size since i had it but can't bring myself to part with it,
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    Purple Mushrooms.
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    Pulseing Xenia.
    Forever fragging this stuff.
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    Ricordia Mushroom, only got this one, but its huge.
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    Only 1 of these were present now i have a bunch, they took off under my halides.
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    Little feather dusters,This one twist's and turns...
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    Yellow Polyps.
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    This is a toadstool frag, i had to re-cut it due to it growing deformed, see the new growth from where i made a clean scissor cut, the huge leather i had i took to the lfs for credit, it reached over 10" wide when fully opened and shadowed the tank.
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    There was 2 of this when introduced now i have over 60.
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    This is a baby Goniopora .sp he has grown to about 5mil wide over the last month.
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    Puple tip Frogspawn, this has around 7 heads and is about 8" wide when fully out, gonna have to frag it soon...
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    Blastomussa.
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    Since i installed my metal halide unit, over the last month i have noticed increduible growth from both soft and lps coral's, hope you like the pics...
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  2. Eric

    Eric Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    nice
     
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  3. steve wright

    steve wright Super Moderator

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    looking good Stingray, nice photos also
     
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  4. salsalito25

    salsalito25 Stylophora

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    Tanks looks Great..!!!
     
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  5. coldshot

    coldshot Blue Ringed Angel

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    Very cool tank. I need lights and am swaying from the 2 250s to t-5s but would rather have 2 150s and actinics. Where did you find 150 halides? Are they pretty pricey?
     
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  6. GuitarMan89

    GuitarMan89 Giant Squid

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    Great tank and really nice pictures. Looks like everything is thriving.
     
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  7. Stingray

    Stingray Blue Ringed Angel

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    They are the arcadia classica 100m length for my 55 22" tall.
    Don't get me wrong i had t5 for nearly a year and they were great, but now i have halides i would never go back, the corals are loveing it and this enables me to own anything under this light, my lights cost me £300.00
    This was with the 14k bulbs and cable suspension included...I vote mh.

    How big is your tank?
     
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  8. psiclone

    psiclone Purple Spiny Lobster

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    Love that leather man awesome work.
     
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  9. Av8Bluewater

    Av8Bluewater Giant Squid

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    Time flys when you're having fun.
     
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  10. coldshot

    coldshot Blue Ringed Angel

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    that leather is cool....
     
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