Badfish's Hand Built 45g Rimless Starphire Tank

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Originally Posted by MizTanks

Love the growth shots side by side! Everything looks awesome BF :) Congrats!!!

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Thanks for all the words of encouragement Miz:thumbsup:!

We picked up this killer Zoa pack from DreksReef for a crazy deal.

Captain America Palys
Bam Bams
Fruit Loops x2
Rastas
Orange Nebulas
Purple Deaths
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A few days after picking up the pack my tank heater burnt out (perfect timing), and by the time I finally realized it the tank was 69* F. Luckily I had an older heater that I kept for a spare and was able to get to the temp back up fast enough that everything seemed to be OK. Disaster averted.....

Nope. The tanks temperature problems weren't over. The first heater I bought to replace the broken one had a bad sensor or something, so the water temp would jump back and forth from 70*F to 82*F. I finally got it under control with a Finnex 300W Heater, so that was a few more fun days.

Other than the temperature roller coaster the tanks has been on, all of the new plugs were crowding the sand so we had to find a place for them it. I drilled my favorite rock and turned it in to a natural frag rack
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This rock should look insane when it grows out, here's whats on it;
Captain America Palys, Watermelons, Rastas, Purple Deaths, Fruit Loops
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The Cyphastrea and Gobb Stoppers have been looking super happy lately
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Porcelain Anemone Crab hanging out in the GSP
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The Lunar eclipses finally popped out a new head! It only took 6 months???
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LFS had this little guy for $23, me thinks the price was low because it's tiny and Male. But thats what i needed, this whole time I thought that the big one in my sump was a male but after some Google researching I found out I had it back wards and it's a Female. So now I guess Big Momma has a little Boy Toy.
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Thanks for Looking.

There's nothing like *a zoa island* and that is one sweet rock for it!! Wish they had stock like those around here. Very cool :)

Thanks Miz.

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Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays! Although my wife and I enjoyed them, our tank did not. We lost our Derasa clam a week before Xmas. The thing was growing like crazy then one day its mantel was retracted and the intake mouth was huge,
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the next day it was worse and when on the third day I saw that the mantle was tearing apart from the shell I decided it was time for Moe Smash’n, our peacock mantis, to have a nice $60 clam dinner.
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After that I noticed some of the Rasta’s and Lunar’s skirts were being eaten (of course it had to be my two favorites, too not the dang common zoas right next to them). We also had to remove a Chromis because the Tomini Tang is getting bigger and is going to need the room soon; I want to stop any aggression before it starts.
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On top of all that we found a hitch hiker crab molt, so we tried a bottle trap for a few weeks with no success, frustrating. Then a few days ago when we were cleaning the tank, my wife saw him again and lured him out of his hiding spot with some krill, so I fouced my chi and snatched his A$$ up like my name was Mr. Miyagi!
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(Moe got a crab of it too.) Since then the tank hasn’t had any more issues and the zoa’s skirts have almost fully grown back. Although I don’t think the crab was the cause of clams death.


To celebrate the demise of the filthy little S.O.B we went coral shopping and found one of the nastiest Yuma I’s ever done seen.
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This Acro frag. Still not 100% sure but I think it’s a Purple Bonsai because of the way its coloring up.
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And these crazy bright orange Polyps with a yellow mouth, my buddy at our LFS said he didn’t know what they were and have been slowly melting, he cut us a great deal so we thought we would them give a try in our tank. So far so good they all open and looking happy, there is a total of 10 of them all together.
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We also did some rearranging; Our Chalice has browned out slowly over the past few months so I moved it to where the clam was in hopes to get some color back. The Duncan hasn’t grown at all since we put it in this tank so we moved it to stronger light and flow area.
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Thanks for looking.

Wow! Looks like a fun fishy pkayland to me. Keep it up!

Thanks the fish all seem happy, Now here's some Eye Candy!

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Looking sweet Badfish!! Beautiful :)

Looks great! Sorry to hear about the issues you had over the last month but by the pics it didnt seem to phase you too much.

Thank you. I just wish i knew what did in the clam, my dKh has been jumping around a little but other than that all my levels were right where they should be. It was on a clam boat so I don't think a worm got it though I can't be sure. We did have the hitch hiker crab causing havoc for a while, but the clam's mantle seemed to be deteriorating not being torn apart. Nothing else in the tank seem stressed so I'm puzzled.