mboswell1982 Posted January 29, 2009 Posted January 29, 2009 well, im new here, ive been a member over on swf.com and renegade for a while now, but, ive finally got my tank set up, its nowhere near complete, but, this is what ive got for now 20g long 35lbs of premium live rock out of a 12 y/o established reef lookin for about 20lbs of black an white live sand lol got it at petsmart, will prolly get some tomorrow bunch of brown polyps/zoas that came on the rock, a giant purple gorg ill be willin to trade to someone or sell, just name a fair price or trade an its yours 2 old hob filters an 1 penguin 550 powerhead for movement 2 50w heaters a ton of derbesia, im basically planning on running this system as a closed system, eventually gonna have 2 koralia 2's in it for flow, a skimmer hangin off the back, an thats it for filtration bout a dozen rics that hitchhiked in on my rock Quote
mboswell1982 Posted January 29, 2009 Author Posted January 29, 2009 and heres some pics of my system, it looks rough, i know, but im in the process of building a custom stand an everything for it Quote
dsoz Posted January 30, 2009 Posted January 30, 2009 Welcome to the site. Where is yacolt? If you are close to Portland I would love to do some trading/selling with you. Is that a BTA in the second pic just above and to the right of the brown polyps (or center of the last picture)? Quote
mboswell1982 Posted January 30, 2009 Author Posted January 30, 2009 yacolt is right outside of battleground, about 35-40 minutes from portland. and its a ric according to all the folks on the other forums i belong to. id be happy to do a lil trading, but, i gotta warn ya, i dont have much yet in the way of corals, the stuff you saw came in on my rock LOL and right now, i dont have a light that will support corals, gotta wait a couple weeks on that, but, ill have one very soon lol Quote
mboswell1982 Posted January 31, 2009 Author Posted January 31, 2009 well, no real updates currently, just watching my lil zoas multiplying, they're tough lil buggers to be able to thrive under my 1 lil strip light lol, my lil ric is even looking better, ill have to post some more pics here in a couple of days Quote
mboswell1982 Posted February 5, 2009 Author Posted February 5, 2009 well, i dont have the custom stand built yet, but, ive got the tank on a much more sturdy platform, an its lookin good, thinkin bout leavin it just like it is, an finally finished my scaping an everything, so, here it is my zoas are gettin some nice color on em a real nice greenish purple thing goin on in the light i moved some of my smaller rocks around, making larger caves and more swimming room found a cool lil snail in my tank, not sure if you can see him also found a lil baby mushroom and i found a bristleworm, or rather, jess did, girl is quick at spottin new ****, quicker than i am lol let me know what ya think of the new scape and my finds :P Quote
salty419 Posted February 5, 2009 Posted February 5, 2009 looking good the new rock work looks nice fish will like the caves Quote
Benny503 Posted February 5, 2009 Posted February 5, 2009 What light are you using? I am thinking of convert my 29G fresh water tank into a saltwater tank, but still dont know what lighten yet. Quote
mboswell1982 Posted February 5, 2009 Author Posted February 5, 2009 thanks guys, and right now ive only got a single strip light over the tank, hard to believe with the color in my corals huh? but, im gonna be buying dennis's cadlights fixture so ill have some awesome lighting over the tank Quote
mboswell1982 Posted April 17, 2009 Author Posted April 17, 2009 [language filter], its been forever since ive been on here, holy cow, well, sorry to have kept you folks waiting for so long, and ive got some updated pics of my tank here for ya lol i finally got rid of all the green derbesia, scrubbed the hell outta that rock, let me tell ya LOL and i got some new additions, courtesy of some of our fine local fish stores, including these gorgeous deep water zoos from patrick at saltwater fanta-seas and some watermelons and rde's and what not from nick at rose city, also, i recieved from some friends on the east coast a gorgeous acan lord and a beautiful candy cane that had a kenya tree and some shrooms attached to it, and, on top of that, my yuma's that hitchhiked in on my rock have finally started coloring up, matter of fact, i might even be willing to let a few of them go, same with some of my other stuff, so if you see something you like, message me an make me an offer an we'll go from there thanks for looking mike i cant get a good pic of em opened all the way up, but, this one shows just how colorful they really are an here's the FTS and my acan lord frag, currently pissed off at the hermit that was just on top of it lol Quote
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