Nick G's Fluval edge softie

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So after being in the saltwater hobby for about 3 months I decided to upgrade to my 27. I realized I still had about 400 invested in my 6 gallon and could not bring myself to selling it for 150 (the price of the marineland leds on it...). So what did I do... chose to put more money into it and do the lighting the right way!

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It will be interesting to see of your softie nano turns out! Keep us posted!! Very Happy

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First day- drained the sand out, and removed the rock. Managed to only drop about 1 a gallon from my tank!

Sand in the bucket!
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Tank clearing up!
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(the mountain dew was my treat for finishing it!)
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Totally cleared up, and stocked with corals I purchased from Eric on Firday! Most have moved into my 27 gallon now excluding the shrooms!

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JUST GOT MY SHIPPING CONFORMATION! LEDs will be in Thursday or Friday!!!

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Nice corals Smile

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Sam_G wrote:: Nice corals

Thank You

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Thank you both mr. green

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So It might just stay a coral tank for now as I never got a bunch of mushrooms, or my leds soldered.

Anyways here are the other corals from Creative aquarium today! THEY ARE MASSIVE! (first picture shows mushrooms from eric)

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Favia

Ric (sorry that it's blurry)
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Acan

Lakers echinata

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is the lakers bleached/will it color up more?

other than that looks great!! Smile

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Hopefully it will. It, the other acan, and the favia all had issues. The favia was sliced with a bandsaw and the lakers wasn't doing good, the top part has died out.

But thats why I got them at 10 a piece Very Happy

lol

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Good price! Very Happy

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Yeah it seem well worth the risk! Check out the pics of my 27 the other corals from today are in there!

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Wayyy ahead of you! Wink

checked them out an hour ago. haha everything looks really good!

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Lol should've known eric Very Happy

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Nice corals for nice prices. I like the echinata. I can't believe how BIG it is!! Shocked

(yeah, yeah, insert "that's what she said" Rolling Eyes

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Unfortunately, those lights just don't do the corals justice. I hope you figure out a solution. It needs a bluer spectrum. Your corals would "pop" under some nice actinic lighting.

Btw, found this pic of a Lakers Echinata. Hopefully yours will look like this when it heals up. fingers-crossed

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Hopefully it will, its got quite a bit of mucus on it though :/

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Will be uploading pictures tonight! Got the pair of Blue CB shrimp from Lee! And I aquascaped the tank!

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YAY!

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They hid all day so maybe tomorrow or by the end of the week they will come out Very Happy

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Way to be a tease tease

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