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This beautiful leopard wrasse is also trained to take pellets. It's small mouth can really expand to take in a whole pellet.

Back to our regular channel. Here is my longnose butterfly. Can you believe it can take pellets?

Now we see the whole skimmer:

It's easy to tune as you can easily see the bubble size from this:

Sneak preview of new RM skimmer. I think overall it's more chio. Spot the difference.

Burp!

More feeding tentacles.

Feeding tentacles all out.

Looks like this montipora is colouring back up (it's supposed to be green on purple). It was transferred from my old tank.

Bicolor blenny with a mouthful of sand. Watcha lookin' at.

The firefish almost always stays in full view of everyone. It sure likes to be admired.

Sea hare trying to look like my cuke. I think the cuke is more handsome.

My fat cucumber - working hard. Has been with me for 2 years since my previous tank. Keeps the sand white and shiny. My black sea cuke is really hardy, 1 year ago, this guy almost got torn into half when he climbed into my Tunze Stream, now he's as good as new.

In-sump H&S skimmer. Sump takes up almost whole of bottom cabinet. Return is via a single MD40 tee-off to chiller and return. Elbows are minimized to maximize return flow. That's it for equipment - the only other equipment is calcium reactor.

Single luminarc-compatible 400W MH. I was deciding between 2 x 250W MH and 1 x 400W MH, Joe_P convinced me 400W is better.

Equipment pictures follow since some are asking about it. Cabinet with chiller. Venting is via a side duct.

Thanks, dersuz, for correction. Yes, my mistake, since 3ft should be 4 x 39W. Front glass is starphire so looks brighter even under just T5s.

Anthias from dear Henry@ML. Very healthy and curious specimens. T5 is Aqualight T5. 2 x 10K, 2 x Actinic. The 1 x 400W Luminarc MH is not turned on when I took these pictures. That's how I can put some acros near the bottom of the tank. Not so many rocks right now so I can add corals as the tank gets built up. NO3 is undetectable, so any additional rocks is for decoration, not for denitrification.

Papa clam and sons.

Cleaning the hammer?

Blue-eyed anthias.

Hardworking urchin.

After 3 months. Picture taken under 4 x 54W T5. I like the depth of a cube...

Leather adopted by sherman. Those who have PMed me, thanks for all the interest.

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