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Everytime I add new corals (especially zoos) I think about this and what that guy Steve went thru. I double up on gloves, and I got this darn habit of rinsing my mouth out with Mouthwash when I'm done. It's almost like a tic...lol

Does running a chiller completely wreck your Elec. Bill though? Thats the only thing I am worried about is having a stooopid bill every month.

Love it! Everything looks amazing. Where did you get LED kit from to make this yourself if you dont mind?

Congrats! That is a sick picture

I am a CAD Designer by trade. If you guys want to give me your sketches/ideas, I can design it up for you in CAD. I can also help you build it if you want.

Thanks for the stuff today Sonny! That Ultra Wells I bought is crazy under Atinics!!!! Lovin the Zoos also! Whoever missed out on this because they didnt think it was "ethical", sory about your luck ...lol

If you have never seen an LED Lit tank, Robs will blow your mind! I am now a believer! I would offer mine for viewing but I live waaaay outside the Fairfax area lol.

Uhhhhhh Wut?

This is gonna be a sick setup. Looking forward to watching it grow!

Thats cool.... I posted references but I can see nothing is gonna change with you ragrdless of what I post up backing the statement. I will continue to support Mr. Coral. Anyone else who is more "Ethical" than me can choose otherwise

This might sound strange, but do you think your over skimming w/ 2 Skimmers and your water is too clean to the point where your robbing your tank of nutrients?

Here ya go chief.... Happy Reading http://www.unep-wcmc.org/marine/GMAD/pdfs/The%20Global%20Trade%20In%20Corals%20(Green&Shirley).pdf

THE RE-EXPORT OF CORALS Describing the international coral trade is complicated by the re-export of material. Coral may be imported from its country of origin, then exported to another importing nation. Records indicate that a total of 3165t (16%) of coral was traded in this way with the majority of the re-export recorded as occurring through Hong Kong and the USA. Hong Kong re-exported 1650t most going to Japan, 1059t, and to the USA, 528t. Thus 60% of Hong's Kong gross exports was coral imported from elsewhere (all but 5t were from China). In fact given the small area of reef in Hong Kong it is perhaps surprising that this proportion is not higher. The USA reexported 1173t of coral, 11% of its gross imports, to 19 different nations. Although this coral originated from 15 different nations the data are skewed by very large amounts of coral originating from Indonesia and Fiji which were re-exported to Canada and Denmark. In the analyses described here re-exported coral was treated as an import of the second importing nation, not the first. In other words, figures given here are net imports and do not include coral which was recorded as being re-exported to a third party. Of course re-export may have occurred and been recorded as a separate transaction, and the third party may in turn re-export to a fourth party, but there is no way of quantifying these occurrences with CITES data.

What are your phosphate readings? Are you also having Algae / Cyano issues?

True Japanese coral get exported to Hong Kong and then imported into the USA. This is the loop whole for import/export. This process is perfectly legal. If this is how "They" are getting them, then he is covered.

Eric, thats your bulb combo? Man I love the way your tank looks! how do you have them positioned front to back? Mine is 8 Bulb as well.

LOL..... over on RC they will jump on you so fast for calling something a hornet and it gets ruthless!!!

Lookin real good Jan. I wish I had coraline like that!!

Def. has to be one of the top 5 tanks I have ever seen. darn dude.... great job!!

F&F has it. Atleast they did on Friday

Some new stuff and updated photos:

I used the Chmi-Clean as well and it is ALL GONE. Great product and didnt harm 1 thing in my tank.

+2 Lets get a tank update son!