My name is George
Goss. I am a Full Time Theft and Fraud Investigator. I have
my tank on my breakfast bar in my apartment. I made it so you
can see the tank and corals without obstruction from 3 sides.
It is almost like I have 2 tanks. The kitchen side is completely
different from the Living room side. I hid all of my wiring
because I hate the way wiring and equipment looks when it is
all over the place. Especially equipment in the tank! I wanted
it so I see a reef and not a bunch of powerheads and such. I
have spent approximately $1,000.00 on my tank to date! Thanks
for letting me be a part of this and liking my tank. The tank
was set up in november of 2003.
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of tank from the top down
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Setup:
10 gallon AGA
Prizm skimmer
with custom made overflow intake
Dual 32 watt
PC light with (1) 10k and (1) acintic
The hood is cooled
with a 4" computor fan.
Rio 90 powerhead
Tronic 50 watt
platinum heater
25 lbs. fiji
live rock (2) pieces only
3 to 4" sand
bed
The Sand that
everyone always asks about- Super Naturals black calcite sand
(Purchased at Tri-city tropical fish in Oceanside, Ca.)
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Livestock
Corals
Blue Brain
$30.00
LFS (girlfriend picked it out)
Red Brain
lucky find
at LFS $24.99
Yellow Fiji
Leather
$39.99
(My favorite all time coral)
Teal Polyp
Devils Hand Leather
$5.00
from local reefer
Pacific Finger
Leather
$24.99
LFS
Tonga Fuzzy
mushrooms
$39.99
LFS (girlfriend picked out)
(Runner-up
for all time favorite coral)
Solid Blue
and Blue Striped Mushrooms
1st
coral ever in the tank.
$39.99
LFS
Orange Plate
Coral
Free from
my old man!
Green Star
Polyps
$5.00
LFS and the bane of my existance!
It stings
everything and causes major headache!
Candy Cane
Coral
$5.00 from
local reefer
Orange Ricordias
$25.00
for both LFS and local reefer.
Wild Xenia
$39.99
Low growing mat non-pulsing.
There are
remnants left from the ain piece that I sold.
Orange and
Green Zooanthids
$5.00
from local reefer. less than 10 in the tank.
Galaxy Coral
$15.00
from Local reefer.
(Third
Runner up for all time favorite coral)
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Fish
Yellow Clown
Goby
$10.00
LFS In tank since January.
Great fish
that lays on LPS corals all day.
Dusky Jawfish
$19.99
LFS In tank since June.
Great
Fish that lives in a burrow under my live rock. His
eyes glow irradescent blue and he sits out with his
head just of his hole. When he gets pissed off he makes
his jaws super huge!
I feed my
fish mysis shrimp every 3 days. Mysis shrimp are very
nutritious and high in fat!
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Clean-Up
Crew
1 Astrea Snail
1 Turbo Snail
1 Cerith Snail
3 Nassarius
snails
1 Zebra hermit
crab
1 Fighting
Conch
I don't believe
in huge clean-up crews. I believe in tank maintenance.
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Maintnenance
Daily
Put Kalk/Freshwater
mix into my DIY timed drip top-off.
Weekly
Water Tests
(Calcium and Alkalinity) That's it!
Every two weeks
30% water
change by syphoning the crud off of the top
layer of
sand and anything on the live rock.
Clean skimmer
and replace carbon. (I run carbon because of the leather
corals)
