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[Riggers]

So i have some Marine green now and nori for the tang and he loves the greenery but the mandarin kinda turned up his nose at the live brine shrimp but seems quite happy just doing his thing cheers for that paddy

I just wanted to post some pics of the new additions, thanks Ocean Reefs and Seaview you guys are awesome!!

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[Riggers]

My little leather coral had slipped into a low flow spot in the tank and was looking a little sad i shifted him to right in front of the wavemaker and hes never been happier less than 24 hrs and hes back to his good old self........
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[Jules]

lookin real good bud.
keep an eye on that bi-colour, i find centopgye species can be real pr*&ks in a reef tank

[Riggers]

hahah thanks Jules yeah ill an eye on him My xenia just keeps going nuts and ive fragged it a few more times if your still keen for a few bits

[Riggers]

Heres a little vid of my tank as of yesterday, thanks for having a look

[Gareth]

Looking very good Nick!
Makes me want to get a marine....SO BAD!
MAybe one day, hahahaha.

Done some great things in there mate.

[dazzabozza]

Cool vid. That puffer is a real character. Luv the colour @ 1:05 with the bluish coral and the fancy starfish.

[Riggers]

Thanks Guys its a slow work in progress but all good things take time

The coral @ 1.05 is a helio coral
the puffer is "lord boxington 3rd" and he's so funny to watch

[Riggers]

So ive had a busy day today.... While i was doing my water change a decided to fill the tank up with a bit more base rock i had in some other tanks and this is what i came up with
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in the sump you can see a small roll of white tube. this is my new auto float valve top up system, ill post some more pics of when its plumbed in and going
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still more to go but its starting to come along now ive added some glass shrimp as well but unfortunatly my black clown is no where to be found
Thanks to the guys at seaview for testing my water for me All levels normal all though KH a little low.... Im now using a Seachem reef builder in my top up water which is working great

[Riggers]

A few more pics

[Riggers]

I picked up an almost new ibc yesterday for a ridculously cheap price so now i have 1000lt storage capacity for saltwater with near on 1000lts of salt water in the lounge/fish room i thought it was time to get serious about water storage, should make water changes a bit easier now

[Riggers]

Thanks very much to Seaview for the "copper banded butterfly" cheers guys

[Riggers]

so after having this tank going for a while ive now shut it down and moved everything out...... watch this space for the new reef tank