And now, part 2...
Picked up part 2 at about 11pm and spent the evening acclimating and aquascaping...until about a quarter to 5am... :D. I'm still recovering, but it was worth it.
People constantly rave about Richard's generosity and I was expecting a really nice assortment of things, but I was completely unprepared for what he sent- it blew me away. He even sent two really neat fish (a tiger goby I believe, and some type of cool blennie), but they have so far been a little camera shy. Richard- thank you for the incredible work and generosity which you have shown- I will be enjoying this for years to come and will definitely be in touch when I set up future tanks. And now without further adieu... the pictures: The front of the tank: http://www401.pair.com/elorian/images/P2F.jpg The right side: http://www401.pair.com/elorian/images/P2R.jpg The left side: http://www401.pair.com/elorian/images/P2L.jpg A yellow ball sponge with an attached star coral: http://www401.pair.com/elorian/image...BallSponge.jpg A really interesting red sponge: http://www401.pair.com/elorian/image...yRedSponge.jpg An orange fan-like sponge: http://www401.pair.com/elorian/image...eFanSponge.jpg A star coral colony: http://www401.pair.com/elorian/images/StarCoral.jpg A neat little cup coral: http://www401.pair.com/elorian/images/CupCoral.jpg And finally, a beautiful corralimorph, tinged light pink and green (unfortunately, the pic does it no justice). I've never seen one like this before- any one know the species? http://www401.pair.com/elorian/image...rralimorph.jpg |
Excellent!
Most excellent job!
I think the most amazing thing is you pulled this off with an eight gallon tank.......not an easy thing to do with such a small tank...you will be a poster boy for nano tanks on my website!! Richard TBS:rollface: :rollface: :rollface: |
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Green guy is a flower anemone from the Keys!
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Thanks for the compliment! I'd be honored to be included on your website :).
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Wow! That's a nice tank! I get my first shipment tomorrow and now after seeing your pics, I am REALLY getting excited! Thanks for sharing!
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Gorgeous!:eek1:
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your tank looks awesome! you did a great job arranging everything and looks like that was quite a chore with everything that richard sent you. i cant believe that is all in a 8 gallon tank, okay gonna have to get me a nano now..i am thinking about buying a 28 gallon one and of course will be stocking it with some more tbs. hopefully if i am a good little girl santa would give me all kind of goodies like you got. :rollface: :rollface:
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Thanks! I had a lot of fun arranging everything, but much of the credit goes to Richard for the incredible variety that he sent. I actually had to acclimate about a third of the critters in a 5 gallon bucket as the tank wouldn't hold all of the bags :)!
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Though my setup will be quite a bit larger than that (~60 gallons) That's exactly what I'm hoping my tank looks like after order.....(waiting is so hard!)
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Do you know what the name of that purple sea fan is?
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I believe its a purple whip gorgonian (don't know the latin binomial off the top of my head). After searching through my reference books and online I can't seem to pin it down- maybe Richard can shed some light on it?
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Coooooool! And in only 8 gallons! Excellent job you've done there.
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Im jealous... I got some nice stuff on my rocks, but nothing close to that!! Looks great.
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came to this thread from the comments page on richard's page....from the pics, all i can say is WOW!!!!
you really make me hate my biocube 8 now LOL this tank is the motivation/inspiration for me saving so i can get everything from richard when i finally do my bigger (60-90) tank in the next few months any new pics??? ......since it is now about 1 year later |
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