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I tried this new food from marine depot that says color enhancing and my Hippo tang is is the brightest I have ever seen it you ant see it good in the picture but but it really pops from across the room.
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talking about food. My columbian shark which I had in my previous freshwater tank eats about a full jar of formula one per month. I feed him the medium pellets because he doesn't even notice the other food.
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I have been waiting for my green star polyp to transfer to the rock next to it forever but when I look back at pictures I can see it has grown a lot considering I have only had it for about 3 months here is a picture with my atinics.
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\my other corals keeps getting algae on the tips.
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for my sump I have about the same idea as a bubble tower except it goes all the way from front to back for biological filtration.
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to hold the light over my refugium I cut out acrylic covers with a hole in the middle.
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my ato system uses a coralife float switch and an aqua lifter. I did not have any room under my tank so I put a five gallon jug from wal-mart next to my tank. I put an airstone on the end of the intake to prevent any particle for getting in the aqua lifter.
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my button polyps are growing fast
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I had a dead coral but feather dusters were on the peg of it so I kept the peg and cut off the coral.
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I installed my own lunar lights from some velcro and LED’s my dad got from work. I cut the end off a 12 volt transformer and wired it into the lights strips. I want to move the LED’s from the back of the light to the front inside of the canopy because I don't like the looks of the lights in the back of the tank I would rather have them shining on the front of the rocks.
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  1. Hat39406's Avatar
    Hey Jatj, glad to hear everything is doing good! Does the shark hang out with the Clarkii Clown and or the Hippo Tang? That would be so cool.
  2. BackReefer's Avatar
    Cool setup, how long have you had the columbian shark? when did you convert it to full salinity?
  3. Jato460's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by BackReefer
    Cool setup, how long have you had the columbian shark? when did you convert it to full salinity?
    I have had my columbian shark for about 3 years until 6 months ago I had him in a fresh water tank (not brackish) then I put him in a 15 gallon tank and every day I took one quart of water out and added one from my reef until it reached the right salinity. He was in the acclimation tank for about a month.
  4. Jato460's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Hat39406
    Hey Jatj, glad to hear everything is doing good! Does the shark hang out with the Clarkii Clown and or the Hippo Tang? That would be so cool.
    The shark likes swimming against the current of the koralia (They swim up stream in natural habitat) the hippo tang seems to hang out with him a lot.