Spark's 75 Gallon Upgrade

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how big is/was the PBT? i want one of those guys, but i'm pretty sure i'm at capacity for my tank.. >_<

the mother colony of the birdsnest looks nice. how long have you had that?
 
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how big is/was the PBT? i want one of those guys, but i'm pretty sure i'm at capacity for my tank.. >_<

the mother colony of the birdsnest looks nice. how long have you had that?
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Not sure on the powder browns size yet. I'll have a better idea after I see him tonight. Maybe putting him up for sale as my tank has 2 tangs in it as is and the more I think about it the less I want him in my tank.

The Birdsnest colony I got from another guy here on the forums. I've had it for about 6 months and it's almost doubled in size. I've had to start fragging it.
 
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So I ended up adding the PBT to my tank on Wednesday. The PBT and Clown Tang were fighting for the first night so I borrowed a trap last night but it looks like they are starting to figure stuff out as they were no longer fighting by the time I got home. Both fish are a bit beaten up but swimming and eating like pigs still. One of my BRS dosing pumps stopped pumping for some reason yesterday as well, so I contacted BRS this am and they are shipping a new one out to me under warranty. There customer services seems to be really good. Other than this tank's running good. No other really issues. Hopping to start building my second panel for my stand this weekend and finally get a photo up of how it's looking.
 
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So I ended up adding the PBT to my tank on Wednesday. The PBT and Clown Tang were fighting for the first night so I borrowed a trap last night but it looks like they are starting to figure stuff out as they were no longer fighting by the time I got home. Both fish are a bit beaten up but swimming and eating like pigs still. One of my BRS dosing pumps stopped pumping for some reason yesterday as well, so I contacted BRS this am and they are shipping a new one out to me under warranty. There customer services seems to be really good. Other than this tank's running good. No other really issues. Hopping to start building my second panel for my stand this weekend and finally get a photo up of how it's looking.
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Ever think of adding a manifold to your return to run your reactors? I like only having one pump in my return section now.
 
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Ever think of adding a manifold to your return to run your reactors? I like only having one pump in my return section now.
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I did that when I replumbed the tank when I set it up. :) The pump I am talking about is my BRS 1.1m a min dosing pump. Otherwise there is only 1 pump (DC-120000) in my sump and 2 wp-25's in the display.
 
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Picked up a nice frag pack of 8 SPS from CG on friday. Chad got some really nice stuff in. Also borrowed a MP40 on saturday because of the one WP25 that died. So far I am loving it even though its a bit noisy. Here are some updated tank shots from Saturday.





















These are my CG Pink Rainbow Zoanthids They are starting to color up really nice but is very hard to capture the full color at this angle.




Rainbow Acan also from CG




 
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Great tank and pics looks very nice Mike.

Is that the Powder Brown from the SCRK raffle? Thanks for the harlequin its doing fine and putting in work on the asterinas already.
 
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Great tank and pics looks very nice Mike.

Is that the Powder Brown from the SCRK raffle? Thanks for the harlequin its doing fine and putting in work on the asterinas already.
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Yes that is the Powder Brown from the raffle. My clown tank and him fought for the first day but both are healing now and getting along great.
 
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Thanks guys. Here is another photo that I just noticed I missed posting after I uploaded them. These are my Sunny D's...

 
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Did some more work on skinning the stand today. This will leave me with the right side and back to finish but those are going to be solid panels. The front will have 2 doors and the left side is built the same way and will have 1 door.



 
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Just picked up another MP40 (That makes 2)... These corals and fish are going to be riding some sweet waves tonight. Thanks John and Chad...
 
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New Piece I just got in today


Day 3 of my competition frag


and I just started fragging my Withering Heart Zoathids. I will have a single polyp with me at the SCRK meeting tomorrow.
 
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