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150 Gallon Malawi Reef

Postby COG Commando » Sun Jul 15, 2012 10:04 pm

It's finally done (aside from the stocking)!!
72" x 18" x 27"
The background consists of Pangea Rock Modules and real rock.
Substrate is a mixture of coarse grained and fine grained playsand.
Filtration -
FX5
Hydor Koralia 1050 GPH
Lighting -
Beamswork 48" Reef Capable Fixture
Fauna - Only 15 fish so far...
Pseudotropheus elegans 'ngara', elegans 'msuli', johannii, heteropictus, crabro
Metriaclima sp. 'msobo', callainos 'ruarwe', estherae
Melanochromis auratus
Labidochromis caeruleus
Flora -
Vallisneria spiralis

What do you guys/ladies think??

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Re: 150 Gallon Malawi Reef

Postby DRE » Mon Jul 16, 2012 1:10 pm

Awesome tank!! Well done.
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Re: 150 Gallon Malawi Reef

Postby Lisachromis » Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:47 am

Looks great. Bet the fish like it.
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Re: 150 Gallon Malawi Reef

Postby GrubbyGirl » Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:47 am

That is an amazing tank
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Re: 150 Gallon Malawi Reef

Postby SergeS » Thu Aug 02, 2012 4:18 pm

Nice tank! Modules look very natural, nice 'cave-effect' you got too.
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Re: 150 Gallon Malawi Reef

Postby jcunningham0295 » Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:29 pm

Tank looks very nice. Very well designed.
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Re: 150 Gallon Malawi Reef

Postby COG Commando » Thu Aug 23, 2012 10:28 pm

I wasn't sure how to embed the video from youtube, so here's the link.
http://youtu.be/4VGJSKtY3_8
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Re: 150 Gallon Malawi Reef

Postby matt121966 » Fri Dec 28, 2012 7:59 am

more fish, more fish, more fish !!!!!

great looking tank.
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Re: 150 Gallon Malawi Reef

Postby howardsan » Mon Jan 07, 2013 12:51 am

wow...that is awesome!
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Re: 150 Gallon Malawi Reef

Postby Snailos » Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:54 am

Nice looking Biotope there.:)

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