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Well there have been some complications but FINALLY I have got a tank with water in it. Anyways... Here's some pics!

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As you can see in the last pic I only have one small piece of live rock which I got from FJW aquarium. I dropped a small raw shrimp in there to help seed it. I also plan on getting another small piece of live rock today from blownki and then maybe taking out the shrimp. Any suggestions on if this is a good idea or not would be appreciated. Some mods I've done thus far is replace the stock pump with a mj1200, put in a koralia evo (650gph), cut the the tab between chambers 1 and 2, took out the blue sponge and filter that came with it, and I ordered the intank refugium, media baskets, chemipure elite, purigen, filter floss, as well as the underwater fuge lights.
 

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nice work on the filtration. heard those intank mods rock! what are you future intentions on the tank?
 
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Thanks H20 and Cichlid! Still haven't recieved my replacement lights from Oceanic since the originals are defected but decided to update regardless since I'm bored :p I added a few small pieces of rock that I got from blownki, and some chaeto, as well as the intank stuff since the last update. So I decided to get out some tweezers and go hunting today. Got a small fly that had flew in the tank, couple of little flatworms that looked like they crawled to the water line at the top of the tank and died already, and two asterina starts one was so fat he wouldn't fit into the turkey baster when I tried to fish him out a few days ago. I have seen the legs of a few brittle/serpant starts sticking out the holes of the rocks but can never catch them all the way out until today I saw an all white one about an inch long in the refugium area that dissapeared as soon as I turned on the lights. The other ones have black and brown legs. I also saw a stomatella snail about a half an inch long about 3 to 4 days ago when I added the additional pieces of live rock but he's been MIA past couple of days. Here's some pics!

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Thanks Sticky and Felix! Got some new stuff again today that I'll try to get pics of and post tmrw. This hobby is sooo addicting. Must... stop... buying... corals!
 
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