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Hey guys

Never posted a blog before but though i should start. The back ground of the tank .... its a betta 1000 tank that is in the ex girlfriends house. Only soft coral in the tank and its getting 1lt of phyto a week, Today was do working on the tank and seen the bangai breeding in the tank !!!! great.

Lighting on the tank is 2x150W halide with bule light t5 bulbs 2x tunze 6045

NO skimmer
NO Carbon
NO rowaphos=
Just showing how well a tank can look when keeping things simple.

More pics to follow.

J

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bemLi1C8szs

Sitting by my tank late last night I noticed a small hitch hiker crab carefully stripping polops of some of my sps frags.

Its now an ex crab.

I have the dosing schedule for Calcium, Magnesium and Alkalinity running now. The phosphates were high (3ppm) so looked at the system to see how I could lower this. I noticed a couple of issues.

1. The...

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This blog is going to follow my first marine set up. 220ltr currently with 50ltr sump/refugieum.

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I collected the tank last week after 2 trips. First time the tank didn't fit in my car. Had to go back with a jeep. Have plumbing setup. Found it somewhat hard to find some pieces such as PVC valves so...

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