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Old 05/23/2007, 01:39 PM
Sugar Magnolia Sugar Magnolia is offline
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2.5 gallons at 3 years 5 months

New camera, still don't know how to work the settings, so forgive the washed out pic.

This little tank goes through an overhaul at least once a year due to overgrowth of corals or overgrowwth of unwanted hitch hikers like vermetids and hydroids. It just got an overhaul about two months ago and still needs some filler corals, so stay tuned for further updates.



Specs:
Standard AGA 2.5 gallon tank
Current 2x18W Dual Satellite fixture
HOB filter
aragonite sand
Fiji LR
1 astrea snail
1 margarita snail
1 bumble bee snail (heavily encrusted with coraline)
1 sexy shrimp
1 peppermint shrimp
1 yasha haze goby (lost his buddy the pistol a few months back)
Various zoas/button polyps
Caulestrea (TY davelin - two heads when I got it)
Toadstool
Blue ricordea
Yuma Ricordea
GSP grwoing on back wall

Maintenence:
Weekly 2 quart water changes
Clean filter/replace carbon/poly pad biweekly
scrape front glass weekly
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Old 05/23/2007, 01:59 PM
pledosophy pledosophy is offline
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Sweet
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Old 05/23/2007, 04:36 PM
DiSkuStiNg DiSkuStiNg is offline
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Thats the most established 2.5 I have ever seen. Glad to see you have such a good success for such a long time! What Filter do you have on the back. no fuge? thats amazing.
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Old 05/23/2007, 04:48 PM
Jimbo327 Jimbo327 is offline
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Great job for keeping that nano up for 3.5 years. A feat in itself to keep such a small volume of water stable and living.

I got a question, did the pistol shrimp ever have problems with the sexy shrimps? Also, give us a little description of what you do to keep your water clean. We can all learn something here.
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Old 05/23/2007, 05:05 PM
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nice
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Old 05/23/2007, 09:43 PM
Lytehouse Lytehouse is offline
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Gives me hope for my little 3 month old tank...
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Old 05/23/2007, 10:55 PM
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very nice.
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Old 05/24/2007, 12:17 AM
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great job!
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