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    Here are some photos of my 50 gallon reef tank. I added a 30 gallon sump behind the tank. These are photos just before my cleaning. I wanted to show the corals extended before the cleaning when they hide. Now with the new sump and protein skimmer, I have combatted the red slime outbreak and all looks good with just some green algae creeping on the glass. No worries, will be clean today!

    The Rose Anenome has just split for the second time so now there are 3 mouths to feed. He now extends over 7" wide when all the way open and almost 10" in height when reaching for the light. I will update his photos soon.

    The lighting is a LED fixture.













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    Very nice Jeff! I really want to start up a sw tank but I have a feeling it would get neglected with all my time spent with the discus.
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    That's a beautiful tank.

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    I don't have word to say

    How much old these tank is

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    Well if I ever,and I doubt it,I know who to come to for help.Very nice.My son has always wanted a clown tank.If he ever gets motivated,Ill send him your way.
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    All softies Jeff? Pretty tank.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pauline View Post
    That's a beautiful tank.
    Thank you Pauline. It is 3 years in the making.

    Quote Originally Posted by sandy View Post
    I don't have word to say

    How much old these tank is
    It is 3 years old. Thank you.

    Quote Originally Posted by Bill63SG View Post
    Well if I ever,and I doubt it,I know who to come to for help.Very nice.My son has always wanted a clown tank.If he ever gets motivated,Ill send him your way.
    Thanks Bill. Hopefully he would enjoy it like I do.

    Quote Originally Posted by Second Hand Pat View Post
    All softies Jeff? Pretty tank.
    Yes Pat, all softies right now. I am hoping to get a hard coral soon and see how it does under the led's. I switched from halides. The leds are keeping the soft corals and anenome looking good. Will see. Thank you.

    Quote Originally Posted by Trier20 View Post
    Very nice Jeff! I really want to start up a sw tank but I have a feeling it would get neglected with all my time spent with the discus.
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    I see some trading in my future I know nothing about salt water fish and you do......very interesting.....LOL......josie
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    Nice Jeff I really like small salt water setups
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    Quote Originally Posted by ChicagoDiscus View Post
    I see some trading in my future I know nothing about salt water fish and you do......very interesting.....LOL......josie
    Thanks Josie. My corals have grown from little nubs so I am proud of them and trading would be good.

    Quote Originally Posted by ZX10R View Post
    Nice Jeff I really like small salt water setups
    Thanks Sean, I use to have a 150 gallon reef for about 4 years, but went to freshwater a few years ago. I missed my big reef but only had room for the 50 now.
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    Nice tank - when we talked the other day - good to put a pic with the descripton - you got alot going on there in Illinois - great job
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    very nice set up

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    Quote Originally Posted by pepper2 View Post
    Nice tank - when we talked the other day - good to put a pic with the descripton - you got alot going on there in Illinois - great job
    Thanks Bud, I definately have my hands full.

    Quote Originally Posted by Joe View Post
    very nice set up

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    Thanks Joe. Hope to have pics soon.
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    Wow this is truly beautiful! Very impressive great job with it jeff!
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    Jeff,

    That is gorgeous. I have something to look forward to and someone to answer my questions. I just started a saltwater reef in a Nano cube that is in my office. My boss bought it for me for Christmas. And personally I think it is harder than taking care of discus. Which reminds me that I need to run water tests.

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