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55 gallons reef tank (mostly live coral and fish) - 55 gallon

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55 gallons reef tank (mostly live coral and fish) - Front view - a little blurry

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Country: Canada

Description: 55 gallon, Hamilton Tech light with 4 10,000k flouros, 4 actinics, 4 moonlights, euro 120 skimmer, rena filstar 2

Advice: frequent water changes (we do 10 -15 gallons weekly), razer blade the glass (carefully) once a week. )Don't do this if you have an acrylic tank

Fish Kept: yellow tang, sailfin tang, lyretail anthias, chromies, coris wrasse (digs under everything, would take him out if I could), sandsifter goby( keeps the sand white), blue & yellow damsel, flame angel, emeralds crabs, hermit crabs, sally lightfoot crabs, cleaner shrimp, fire shrimp (hider, never see him)

Corals/Plants: finger corals all kinds, star polyps (our favourite), green trumpet coral, pipe organ, flower pot corals, yellow leathers, toadstool leathers, pulsing xenia, regular xenias, many mushrooms

Tank Size: 55 gallons

Quote: dont panic; if you panic you're f****d

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Reefcentral is a webiste is a website with some good examples with pictures of what I'm trying to explain. Search the archives for "reef pillars" . This shoud pull up some good examples.

jeff

2011-01-07 09:21:03

I stacked the rock using a masonary drill bit to drill through the rocks one at a time. I then inserted a fiberglass rod through the holes I had drilled. So basically you're shish kabobing the rocks together. it helps if u start with a heavy base rock on the bottom so the structure has stability. You can purchase the fiberglass rods from home depot. All they are is drive way reflectors. The kind u stick in the ground. Of course u have to cut the refelctor part off.

jeff

2011-01-07 09:08:30