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- Occupation:
- UNIX System Administrator
- Tank Size:
- Oceanic 29 Gallon BioCube
- About your tank:
- Modifications:
Removed Bio-Balls and Added Sapphire Aquatics Protein Skimmer
UPDATE: The small rio powerhead almost caused a fire in the tank, so, there is about 3 pounds of LR rubble in chamber 2 with a bag of SeaGel.
Upgraded stock pump with Rio 6HF (bringing tank up from 236 gph to 350 gph)
Added Hydor Korila Nano for extra flow
Removed Plastic Lip between chamber 1 and 2 for extra flow
Removed Stock Filter and using PuraPad
Removed Subfloor in Chamber 1 and added bag of Seagel and 50 watt heater
Added bag of Purigen to Chamber 3
Upgraded Lights to Nanotuners.com 4.36 kit, giving a total of 144 watts (1 acintic, 1 10K, 2 50/50 36 watt bulbs)
Cleanup Crew:
1 Zebra Hermit Crab
3 Cerinth Snails (Although I see tons of little ones around the tank)
6 Nerite Snails (Again, tons of little ones throughout the tank)
2 Astrea Snails
Corals:
Red Mushrooms
Various Zooanthids
Frogspawn
Orange/Purple Ricordea
Orange/Green Ricordea
Blue Ricordea
Blue/Purple Ricordea
Star Polyps
Pulsing Xenia
Yellow Polyps
Green Center Polyps
Critters:
1 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
1 Diamond Goby
2 Ocellaris Clown Fish
1 Royal Gramma
- Trade Frags?
- Not Yet
- How did you hear about ReefSpace?
- Reef Sanctuary
- Favorite Music:
- Pretty much anything that makes me tap my feet. :)
- Favorite TV Shows:
- Grey's Anatomy, ER, Scrubs, The Sheild, Deadliest Catch, Dirt, Nip/Tuck ... so many to name, can't always watch them when they are on, but thank goodness for DVR.
Lynnette's Blog
WOW! Had it been that long?!?!?!
Posted on March 24th, 2008 at 2:01pm —
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Reefkeeping is the coolest thing ...
... on the face of the planet!
So, I have 4 tanks in total up and running. 3 freshwater, planted tanks (10, 58 and 85 gallons) and I thought I was majorly addicted to them in watching all the cool stuff happen, like eggs hatching from my mated Kribenisis pair, or how the Bolivian Rams will play "keep away" with the sinking wafers from the loaches, down to watching the spawning of a mated pair of German Blue Rams. But NOTHING, I mean NOTHING compares to the awe I am in each and every da…
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Posted on May 23rd, 2007 at 12:43pm —
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New Little Buddy
So I was perusing around my LFS the other day and happened across a new friend. A green clown goby, who is colored so nicely, he looks rather blue instead of the typical green. I must admit though, haven't had a chance to capture any photos of the little guy because he's so shy at this point.
Within the first 24 hours of being in the tank, I thought he was a goner, couldn't find him anyplace. Looked in the chambers in the back of the tank, down in the skimmer, nothin'. Then lo and beho…
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Posted on May 9th, 2007 at 3:11pm —
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Friends With Reefs
One really cool thing about owning fish tanks, whether it be fresh or salt water, is you usually have a friend or two with some sort of tank. I have such a friend, who is just as crazy about aquarium keeping as I am. In fact, this friend is the guy who got me hooked in the first place ... 3 FW and 1 SW tank later. :)
Yesterday afternoon I get a call from my good friend Doug (yeah, same guy mentioned above) who informed me he was going to be setting up his brand spankin' new 65 Gallon S…
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Posted on April 26th, 2007 at 11:19am —
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