Today i got a few new pieces of coral, among them this nice trumpet coral, this is a close up of some of the polyps...
Ryan

Ok its noon and everything is hooked up and flowing, fortunatly it appears that the maxi-jet 600 and the intake are moving water at the same rate, i marked the water line in both tanks with a piece of tape, and for 2 hours ive been watching to see if anything changes. I dumped both of my specimen container ref.'s into the new refugium. I would like to get a more powerful pump to perhaps circulate the water a lil faster but for now everything is fine. I moved my heater and a air pump into the sump and filled the closed off section with some bio-balls i had lying around. I'm a little nervous to leave the house at the moment becuase i fear a power outage or other murphys law type of thing to flood my apartment but im sure once i've tweaked everything i will be safe... for now im relaxing, later i will organize the wires and set the intake/outakes so that they will just stop and not backflow in an emergency. My blogsite wont let me post any pics right now for some reason but as soon as i can ill put some pics up
Ryan

Today i went and got the equipment to turn my reclaimed 10gl tank (formerly home to an oscar and peacock bass which outgrew the tank) into a refugium for my 30gl display tank. Here are some preliminary pics of the equipment and area, i may end up putting a bench along the wall in the corner for the ref. but the setup is awesome. This should help produce macroalgae and copepodes and help with nitrate reduction.
I'll post more pics once its up and running, a coralife super skimmer 65 has been ordered and next step is new MH lighting, to replace the T12's im using now...
Till later!
Ryan

Hey Reefers!
These are a few low quality pics of my 30gl tank after about 9 months of maturation. I will post a few better pics when i get home but for now i thought i'd share them with the world. I am about to do some new aquascaping so these will serve as before pics for that project. My system has one actinic and one powerglow tube for lighting. For filtration i have a Fluval404 and a bio-wheel system, i am running without a skimmer. I add to flow with an extra powerhead.
Inhabitants:
1 female maroon clownfish about 2inches or more...
1 green mandarin goby
1 eel goby about 6inches long
1 neon goby about 1 inch
1 camel shrimp
1 cleaner shrimp
1 conch
1 pajama cardinal
various starfish, fanworm colonies, hermit crabs, turbo snails, copepods, isopods, coralline algae
caulerpa, small cluster of oysters
16 species of coral, gorgonians, softies, and stonies
3 awesome anenomes 1 small STA, 1 med carribean reef Anenome, 1 large LTA which glows green
Let me know what you think!
Thanks
Ryan