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    Steve's 6 Gal. Edge

    Time for a new project.
    Is a 6 gallon edge with a light mod ( 42 bulb led hood 39 bright white and 3 blue 420 nm)
    About 15 pounds of Caribsea Pacific Black live sand and 15 pounds of mixed live rock

    I'll post pics soon seems I can't do it from an IPad

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    Full Light
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    Actinic lights
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    I love the look of the black substrate and you found some really cool pieces for the aquascape. I like it a lot!
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    Ok so the cycle is over and time to stard stocking. I'll post pics in a few.The hair algae is just starting
    I've added 1 zebra legged hermit crab, some tiny polyp colonies (two of them are taking there time opening), two tiny red shrooms and a single button polyp that has a tiny kenya tree starting on its side. There is a FTS and a top down view ( the cool thing about the fluval edge)

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    Love the top down shot!
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    Current Contents
    Blue Sympodium Polyp (Sympodium sp.)
    Waving Hand, Thick Stem (Xenia sp.)
    Branched Montipora Coral*(Montipora digitata)
    Trumpet Coral*(Caulastrea curvata)
    Acan Brain Coral (Acanthastrea echinata)
    Tooth Coral*(Galaxea spp.)
    Red Mushroom (Actinodiscus sp.)
    Colony Polyp, (Zoanthus sp.)
    Button Polyp (Protopalythoa sp.)

    And two Hermit crabs
    I'll post pics as soon as I can get some computer time. Lol

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    Steve, your tank is really coming along nicely!
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    New pics it's been a while
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    My two new frags. A stag horn acro. And a blue ridge coral
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    Your tank is looking beautiful!
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    Thanks Carmie, I have more picks to upload but I'm having trouble resizing them.

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    Full tank shot
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    Thats pretty cool! Little tanks rock!

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    My Monti frag was growing strong and I even fraged it accidentally a few times, the one days notice these white lines appearing on several of the frags. Over the course of two weeks I removed more than ten monitors eating nudibranchs from my frags. They almost killed the entire frag over a two week period. Here's a pic of one of the offenders taken through a magnifying glass. Can you find him?
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    Quote Originally Posted by SaltyDawg View Post
    Thats pretty cool! Little tanks rock!
    Thanks! My dream tank is a 1000 gallons but till then I will have a small footprint

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    I also added more LED lighting to the top of the tank. Which gave me total coverage of the tank. i bought these at Lowes for $50 here is a link to the manufacture.
    CYRON Lighting - Accent Lighting/ Decorative/Home Theatre
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    Under actinic lights
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    NOOOOOOO!!!!!!
    I just had a nitrate spike and lost my galaxy coral. 99% necrosis over 8 hrs. Only a single polyp survived.

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    Oh no, that stinks!
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