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D R A G O N E T! hands down the coolest sw fish!






SERPENT STARFISH, HAS VENTRAL SCALES JUST LIKE A SNAKE! i occasionally actually feed him pinkie mice!


OTHER REEF INHABITANTS



and to keep it somewhat on topic a "mongrelking" enjoying the reef, you could say its hangin out on the "outer banks" lmao

,,,,,,,,,,thomas davis
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Morphs... just like baseball cards BUT ALIVE, how cool is that???

my website www.barmollysplace.com

Nice! Do you have any sea horse? Those have always been a favorite of mine.

thanks! no sea horse in my reef... to much flow for them.

,,,,,,,,,thomas davis
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Morphs... just like baseball cards BUT ALIVE, how cool is that???

my website www.barmollysplace.com

That is an awesome salt water tank! Reminds me of snorkeling at the Big Island. Some sea horses would be nice, if they would be okay in that setup. Salt water tanks take some skill to manage successfully.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Very cool tank!
I am a piranha-freak ...

thanks bob! no sea horse to much flow! nothing to sw really, cept time. my reef is only 2 yrs. old. they really start rocking after 4-5yrs. or older. its all about providing proper conditions really simple after thats understood.

,,,,,,,,,,thomas davis
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Morphs... just like baseball cards BUT ALIVE, how cool is that???

my website www.barmollysplace.com

Thomas those are INCREDIBLE! I have a few tanks, but not saltwater... one is fresh and one is brackish. I'd say the coolest fish I have is an archer, they jump to snag bugs and can actually shoot water out of their mouths to shoot em down! lol, anyways, mandarins are by far my favorite saltwater fish, post some more pics!!!
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Jeremy Thompson
Captive Born Investments Inc.
www.captiveborninvestments.net
Jeremy@captiveborninvestments.net
941-323-4850

thanks jeremy, yeah ive always had fish tanks, they soothe the beast. nothing like a nice "tank gazing" session to relax/calm the soul.
archer fish are way cool, i never had one but had a friend who had one with a string across the tank and would set a cricket walking the preverbial tightrope and it wold nail it everytime awsome aim
ive also had oscars that would come take pinkie mice from my hand, arrowanas to but reefs imho really are the most fun just takes time.

,,,,,,,,,thomas
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Morphs... just like baseball cards BUT ALIVE, how cool is that???

my website www.barmollysplace.com

That's awesome man! I have an arowana too, it's gorgeous! Starting to get nice and big
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Jeremy Thompson
Captive Born Investments Inc.
www.captiveborninvestments.net
Jeremy@captiveborninvestments.net
941-323-4850

Except for the hybrid at the end. Take that out and this my favorite post you have ever done. You are almost there little guy......

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Gerard

"The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad."

www.livebaitclip.com

GONE FISHING!!!

Expensive but a facinating hobby. I had a 75 gal with mostly SSP and LSP corals for years.
What sort of system you running (size, skimmer, lighting, sump, wave maker)?
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Randy Whittington

Expensive but a facinating hobby. I had a 75 gal with mostly SSP and LSP corals for years.
What sort of system you running (size, skimmer, lighting, sump, wave maker)?

hey randy, it can get expensive thats for sure.
130g retail lobster tank the visual part is 48X18X24, i got at an auction for hardly nothing, its made by marineland for retail lobster displays. it has a chiller built into, it is made with a false bottom to circulate thru two layers of crushed coral then over chiller coils, basically a reverse flow biofilter in itself, cool design by marineland. i then added a 30g sump w/trickle filter and a large protien skimmer, that turns the whole tank over about 5-6times per hour.i do 20percent water changes every 4to6 weeks, no wave maker yet just 4 lg. powerheads for internal flow, lighting is 2 175w MH lamps and 4 54w T5 actinics, im all about the DIY aspect of fish keeping (snakes to!) so that helps w/some cost, plus you gotta weigh it and for me its more than worth it. this ones been up for only 2 yrs. i currently have sps and softies, zoas... its where i go to relax
,,,,,,,,,,thomas
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Morphs... just like baseball cards BUT ALIVE, how cool is that???

my website www.barmollysplace.com

Good to have the chiller built in. They are way too expensive when bought straight out.
By the way I meant I had SPS and LPS corals.
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Randy Whittington

Nice reef Thomas!

I had a acropora stony coral tank for several years and miss it greatly. I couldn't seem to keep fish alive in it because my nighttime kalkwasser (sp) additions spiked the ph too much. I know it can be done better and I am planning to re-start it soon. Although with the 500w of metal halide needed to keep those corals happy, I'm going to have to put the tank near a window so local law enforcement doesn't suspect any illegal activity. That is the one fish that I couldn't bear to introduce, because finding it dead would be heartbreaking. Do you have any sand-sifting stars? They maintained my deep substrate beautifully.

Very nice!

Will

That's funny you mentioned the bright lights at night Will. I had a couple of old neighbors ask me what in the heck the bright lights that shined through my windows at night were from.
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Randy Whittington

thanks will, its a labor of love. i actually groomed this reef just for dragonets. i have an in tank refuge where i grow cheato and grape macroalgae which doubles as a copepod and amphipod factory. no sandstars i have crushed coral substrate for this tank although soon i will be changing tanks and will have a dsb for jawfish and sandstars

,,,,,,,,thomas
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Morphs... just like baseball cards BUT ALIVE, how cool is that???

my website www.barmollysplace.com