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Here are my two new additions to my little slice of the ocean. PJ-the spotted cardinalfish and dot--the banggai cardinalfish

This sump was a new design I came up with. To fit the stand, its footprint had to be 60 x 24 which left space for an external Dart pump.

Here's my sketch. Note the way the water has to travel through the sump and finally exit. It has the option to run filter socks or use the bubble tower.


My customer decided to send me his Deltec skimmer to make sure it would fit. This sump was quite heavy, made ...

OK as of next month my reef will be four years old. So a few corals have grown somewhat large for my little 65 gallon. So I decided it was time to re-reefscape my tank. On the old reefscape I had a large monti-cap in the front center of the tank. Durning the re-reefscape I was lifting it out of the tank and .... oh yea murphy's law struck. The live rock broke and the monti-cap dropped straight to the floor. Shattered into a thousand frags ! This coral was causing an eye sore on the front glass. ...

I recently made some Top Down Photo Boxes, so I had one handy to take a few pictures. I'll be far happier to share pictures from the new clean tank set up, compared to these holding vats. I've got no space, there are various issues that ruin the shots, and sadly I've lost some corals due to fluctuations in water quality during all of my travels over the past 3.5 months since the 280g was broken down.

This first shot is from the propagation section in my sump. These are tiny Green ...

Soooo. I bought a fairly juvenile mystery wrasse a couple wks ago whose been continuously tormented by my four line wrasse. The similar appearance of the wrasses is one thing that I had overlooked when purchasing my animated newcomer. I also have an exquisite wrasse who seems to pay no attention to his new acquantence. I'm hoping that my four line wrasse's territorial behavior is only temporary and that the mystery wrasse will condition this unwelcoming behavior enough to survive. Any suggestions?

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