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Just for fun, I thought I'd document the various images I took of my 29g over time.  Here's how it all started in 1998.

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29g Growth Progression
melev | 01 July
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The plumbing of all this together is truly a jigsaw puzzle of pieces. I'll try to help you out. Basically, I stood in the plumbing aisle almost 2 hours figuring out what fit

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29g - How to Build a SCWD closed-loop
melev | 01 July
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Early in 2003, I bought a virtually new MH setup from a member of ReefCentral.com. The only thing I was lacking were the quick disconnect cords that run from

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55g - Adding Metal Halides
melev | 01 July
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11/03/02 - New 55 Gallon Setup: It was in a home in the Azle area, and was in really sad shape. The husbandry was pathetic, merely because they

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55g Reef
melev | 01 July
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My 3g Pico tank ran for about a year, providing a tiny splash of color in my kitchen.  The tank was later repurposed to treat infested corals, and then became the Suncoral Tank

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My 3g Pico tank
melev | 01 July
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After giving it some thought, I came up with a solution! What I needed was something that would fit in a very narrow area, due to the bracing in the back of the stand. However

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Having trouble fitting a sump under a 55 gallon Reef?
melev | 01 July
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Over the years, I've used just about every type of lighting available for the aquarium hobby. Normal Ouput (NO), Power Compacts (PC) also referred to as Compact Fluorescents (

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55g - T5 lighting is a new option!
melev | 01 July
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Computer fans sometimes include colored LED lighting, purely for visual effect. I thought that I could probably utilize them not only for cooling my reef, but also to create

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55g - LEDs for latenight moonlighting
melev | 01 July
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July 2004 I made a photographic list of everything in the 55g reef.

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55g - Reef Contents
melev | 01 July
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My reason for setting up the Sun Coral tank was to allow me to feed these hungry Tubastraea corals easily on daily basis.  It housed an adorable tiny eel that I caught

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Sun Coral tank
melev | 01 July
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