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Thanks Patty

Alex-The koralias run silent. The problem that other people have is that they accidentally knock out a small piece of plastic in the bottom of the propeller housing. I've done it myself, and when run without it, the pump makes a racket. I found the piece of plastic in the drain and put it back in place and it's silent again. Granted, it's a poor design, but if you are careful there's not a big problem.

I kept the Aquaclear as a mech/chem filter. I run a course filter pad (the one that comes with the filter), a fine filter pad, and carbon....I think it's chemi pure. I haven't tested any PO4 yet, but I have some phosguard on hand if I need to use that. The whole deal gets cleaned out weekly. I figured it would serve that purpose better than if I had used it as a fuge. It probably would have been much too small to serve that purpose well.

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

Such a great collection of colours matty, you have a talent

While I do like your reef setup a lot, my first love is the planted tank & your little shrimp tank's looking pretty sharp. Must be providing a nice home for such a pretty baby.

Cheers
TW

Thanks for stopping in and the nice words Robyn.

I don't mind you being biased towards the planted setups at all. I still enjoy them a lot.

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

Hey Matt...

Still at TFP, huh? I find myself missing it from time to time.

Your tank's looking good! I just set up my first reef, but I also completely ran out of cash so I have nothing to stock it with, and the hardware that was to be central to the tank's design will have to wait a while.

You should sell all those power heads and get a Vortech.

-Nate

hey nate! I've actually moved to Charlotte NC. I'm working at a place called fintastic. It's a bit of a step up from TFP. The coral selection is a lot bigger, so I'm happy. This tank is actually a planted tank again, and I have a new frag rack up just for growing corals. Since that is three 30breeders stacked up the vortech wouldn't be the best way to go. Too expensive for me, even at cost. I'll stick with the korallias, they move plenty of water for a 30g tank.

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

Bottom left on the BB of the tank....is that an Efflo?

Not sure what an efflo is DRO, so I guess not. Maybe some type of acro? There's some pocillopora, and a couple echinophylias in the pic on the bottom left though. I never was able to get acros to grow for some reason, I think it was my clown goby tearing them up. No worries though, I'm growing all sorts of colorful sticks now!

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

In your one pic "from the left" on the BB, closest coral to the edge looks like an acropora efflorescens. Youre gonna make me edit the photo and circle it arent you?


http://www.reeffarmers.com/limited500dollarefflo.htm

yeah circle it!

For reals though, I bought that as a poccilopora, but you know your sticks better than I do. I'll give you a close up.



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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

nope, youre right, thats definately Pocci. Looked like an efflo in the other pics.