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I got my new leds and god do they make some difference which I will show with a video at some stage
The shimmer is amazing and now its time to start adding some coral
I got a few frags off a mate of yellow star polyps ,some pulsing xenia some speckled mushrooms
All of these settled in perfectly and the xenia is growing like crazy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bemLi1C8szs

Sitting by my tank late last night I noticed a small hitch hiker crab carefully stripping polops of some of my sps frags.

Its now an ex crab.

I have the dosing schedule for Calcium, Magnesium and Alkalinity running now. The phosphates were high (3ppm) so looked at the system to see how I could lower this. I noticed a couple of issues.

1. The...

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This blog is going to follow my first marine set up. 220ltr currently with 50ltr sump/refugieum.

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I collected the tank last week after 2 trips. First time the tank didn't fit in my car. Had to go back with a jeep. Have plumbing setup. Found it somewhat hard to find some pieces such as PVC valves so...

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