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Mike1962's 28 gal 150HQI

Hello All,

Lately I've just been lurking it seems. With an odd work schedule and doing commuting to Davis a couple times a week, forum (and for that matter club) participation has unfortunately been lacking. That said, I have a little time tonight and wanted to introduce my little tank to everyone.

The tank is a JBJ 28 gallon 150HQI. I've had it for nearly two years now and have been relatively pleased with it's progress (not that there hasn't been an issue or two). It has successfully made it through a 27 hour power outage, a move from the Davis area to the East Bay, a nasty infestation of Bryopsis, and is currently getting the Mithrax Crab treatment for Valonia.

Tank Stats:

JBJ 28 Gallons
150 HQI
Current bulb is XM 15K (Not liking it all that much)
I mod'd the lighting with 2 Dual 18W actinics from Nanotuners
Has 4 moon lights
Replaced cheesy skimmer with Aqua Remora
1/15 Hp JBJ Arctica Chiller (mandatory in my opinion)
Currently running Little Fishes reactor with GFO
Filtering with Carbon
Using Neptune Systems ACIII to control lights and temp
Using a Litermiter III to run two parts solution from BRS, adding Mg solution manually

Water changes were 15% weekly until I moved and have less time at the moment, so it is now 20% every two weeks. I have a Spectrapure RODI system with dual TDS meter, but have only been using the Dual DI filters given the low TDS locally, and given our drought situation. I am using the color changing DI resin.

Tank Inhabitants:

1 Yellow Tailed Blue Damsel
1 Tomato Clown
1 Pacific Cleaner Shrimp
2 Mithrax Crabs

Corals:

Various Zoa's and mushrooms
Pink Leather
Yellow Montipora digitata
As yet not properly ID'd Monti cap thought to be Tyree Flower petal - About 6" across and ready to DBTC !
Red Monti Cap about 5" across
Cali Tort Coral
Steve Elias Coral
Tyree LE Minefield Cyphastrea - Won at MARS fragswap raffle in Oct 07. I have a couple frags ready to DBTC !
Green Pocillopora - About 4" in diameter now
Hammer Coral - about 20+ heads
Torch Coral - had to put him in a secluded area of tank due to constant chemical warfare with other tankmates
Kenya tree on separate LR
Green Favia Frag
Blue Clove Coral
Green Ricordia
Candy Cane Coral
A greenish brown birdsnest that turned bright pink when placed in the upper part of the tank

Sorry I don't have pics to post tonight. I will post some tomorrow.
 
Found some pics of what the tank looked like new. Here they are:
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Side View
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After about 1 year it looked like this:
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Now that I look at it and see all the Bryopsis I cringe.

Here are some individual coral shots from around that time frame:
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That's it for now. I'm not actually at home so I can't post my most recent pics but will do so later.
 
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