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Arvin's first reef tank (part 2)

New hammers are doing great! I removed a frag rack and moved the frags to my frag tank and removed our eshopps feeding thingy.

What a difference it makes clearing out some equipment from the display tank and keeping it clean for viewing.

Tank will be coming up to it's 1 year mark in Aug.
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Saw some aptasia in the tank this morning and it was water change day. Ended up turning into an all day reshaping. I decided to pull out the arches I got that were over run with GHA. In the middle of removing these I saw a few HUGE aptasia underneath those rocks. I hit them with aptasia X.
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Here's a shot after the rocks were removed.
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I pulled all my cooked rocks from the sump of my frag tank and went to work. Below is the outcome.
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Left third of the tank
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Middle third
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Right third
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More room for sps!
 
So I decided I needed more light in the middle of the tank and did a ghetto DIY for mounting my XR15 pro gen 3 into my aquatic life t5 fixture.

I'll see if my wife can snap a picture while it's on tomorrow. If not that will have to wait until the weekend as I'm at work when this is programmed to be on.

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The bbq skewers are tied into each other (side to side) so they can't slip out and drop the light.
 
So my XR15 has no clock power. Tried to search online but not much comes up. I've reverted to factory reset and using it in basic mode with just an on/off timer. I still need to replace the fan as it's unbalanced and very loud due to a few broken fins.
 
Srt4eric said:
After you mailed off the water how long did it take for you to hear back? With triton icp they email when they get the sample. I mailed my icp analysis off last Friday and I've heard nothing yet.
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I got mine 5 days after sending it out. I think they state it can be 2+ weeks for results sometimes.
 
The breakdown has started. I pulled out all the loose live rock so I can start building up my new rock scape and spot treat for aiptasia. If this doesn't work then I'll end up getting some peppermint shrimp and/or berghia nudibranches once it all goes into the big tank. I've got a couple tanks with heaters and wave makers to keep the rocks live while I work on it.
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This tank and a bunch others plus equipment will be for sale once I get everything transfered over into the 225 over the next month or so.
 
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