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Awesome setup man.

Killer pics bro. You got talent for sure.

You would be much better off buying a refractometer for around $40.

7 hours

You don't need to turn the lights off for a few days for an eel. My gf has had several and never done that and they have been fine.

LOL nice.

Welcome to the club.

Welcome

Cool, thanks.

Got any live rock?

Beautiful.

Wow.. very impressive. Makes me want to setup a nice SPS tank now. Congrats.

One of the nicest tanks I've ever seen.

IMO a large amount of dried base rock that has not been properly cycled can be disasterous for an established tank. Def soak the rock in either fresh RO/DI water, or you can use water from your SW tank from doing a water change. Add as much water movement as you can pointed into the rocks.. by using extra powerheads/pumps and the like. After a week or so test for ammonia and nitrates. Replace water as needed depending on how dirty your rock is.

Thanks. The eggs always hatch and by morning the fry are always gone. I've never seen anyything swimming around.. but one night they are there, and the next morning they are gone.

Killer tank man, very nice.

Thanks man, I appreciate it. The columns are great, I would do it again with another tank. The tang loves swimming throughout them. Very cool to watch.

Thought this was cool to post. My clowns have been laying eggs every few weeks for awhile now. Got to watch the entire process one night and snapped some photos. Female would lay some, then the male would go over and fertilize them, then they would repeat the process.

Sorry dude, I don't remember talking to you before, but thanks for the comments. My bad if we did. The wrasse sleeps up inside a rock, but I have seen him swimming around at night with the tang. There is no sand it's all BB. The other two 6045s have been in the tank since a few weeks after the tank was setup. The original photo was like the day after we had the tank setup. Nice and new and clean. The flow was decent for our collection, but I added the extra 6045s to help move detris off the bottom of the tank to help with dead spots. When we first setup the tank I was hoping we wouldn't need the extra flow to help keep the tank look clean, but there were way too many dead spots which was not acceptable. Even with all four running, there are three distinct dead spots in the tank near the front where detris settles, which I siphon up every week. I had to do it this way in order to keep the LPS/zoas. To position the 6045s so there are no dead spots, it blows the LPS/zoas around way to much. In fact, I have to aim the return nozzles upwards towards the surface of the water. It kind of goes against the grain of having a BB/high flow tank, but it's worked out well enough. I have no doubt that a BB system would work better for an SPS dominated tank. More flow would not be possible for the corals that we are keeping and plan to add.

Couple of FTS from tonight.

Photos from tonight. Bam Bam Zoas Cotton Candy Zoas Pink & Purple Zoas Watermellon Zoas Kedredd Zoas & Fire & Ice Zoas Hammer Frogspawn x Hammer Orange Cap Frag Orange Cap Acan Blue Candycane Green & Purple Open Brain Blue Acro

Thanks bro. Yea, they were old shots from the last thread. I took some tonight actually and I will work on uploading them in a few.

Thanks. I think I'm good with 40x turn over plus my return. It's basically a LPS/Zoa/Softie tank. Eventually we may add some extra SPS and see how that goes, at which point I would agree I need more.

Thanks man. I'll tell her and show her the thread when she gets back in town.. been away for the holiday so she hasn't even seen this thread yet. She was really mad at me for about a week after losing her other thread lol.. RC is fine.. it is what it is, but I'll never go back.

+1 Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!