MERC + BRAD'S MINI-REEF PROJECT:: SUPER AFFORDABLE REFUGIUM!

Friday, October 2, 2009

we ended up building our own, but found this cool super affordable 'fuge PLUS skimmer while shopping for copepods/amphipods today...

http://www.shop.precisionaquatech.com/14in-Acrylic-Hang-On-Back-Refugium-Free-Shipping-14in-HangOnBack-Refugium.htm

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~~FREE 10 Gallon aquarium~~

~~FREE Hood with 15 watt fluorescent lighting~~

FREE 50 watt heater

~~FREE Aquaclear 301 powerhead~~

~~$20 25lbs. Seachem Tidal marine substrate~~

$16 7lbs. Marineland Instant Ocean sea salt

$6 Seachem Reef Builder

$6 Seachem Reef Buffer

$3 Seachem Reef Complete

$7 Seachem Prime

$30 API Reef Master Test Kit

$9 API High Range pH Test Kit

$50 8lbs live rock

$9 Coralife Deep Six Hydrometer

$30 +6 lbs live rock

~~FREE Cascade 200 Power Filter~~

$35 15 gallon glass tank

$20 Tahitian Moon CaribSea Aquarium Sand

~~$55 24" Nova Extreme 2x24W T5 High Output light fixture~~ *TRADE for Lord Acan

$8 Gloves

$5 Coral handling/propagation tools

$8 CorAffix 0.7 oz

$12 Nassarius snails (x4)

~~$15 Cleaner Shrimp (x1)~~ R.I.P. :(

~~$7 Yellow Sea Cucumber~~ R.I.P. :(

~~$25 Green Pipe Organ~~ R.I.P. :(

$5 Watermelon (?) Zoos

$3 Margarita/Turbo Snails (x2)

$6 Blue-Legged Hermit Crabs (2) *Banished to the refugium for killing the Scarlets

$30 Hydrokor Koralia Nano

$20 Glass lid

$20 Powerstrip w/ timer

$1.50 Cerith Snails (4)

~~$3 Scarlet Hermit Crabs (x2)~~ R.I.P. :(

$10 Ricordea

$20 Acan

$15 Green Zoos

$20 Candy Cane

$20 Pom Pom Xenia

$15 Hammer

$30 Orange Plate

$40 8 lbs live rock

$1 Nassarius Snails (6)

~~$20 Coral Frenzy~~

~~$5 Purple Leather~~ R.I.P. :(

$5 Green Zoos

$20 Mandarin Goby/Dragonette (Male)

$15 Cheato~~/Ulva Macroalgae~~

$30 Red Lobe Brain

$30 Chili coral/sponge

$15 Frogspawn

$20 Live Copepods

$25 Eagle-eye Zoos

$20 Green Blastos Merletti

$15 Pink Zoos

$10 Baby Blue Ricordea

$5 Blue/Green Mushroom

$31 Koralia Nano

$7 Salt

$15 Green Button Polyps

$40 Purple + Green Acan

$30 Mixed rock (Yellow Center w/ Red Skirt Zoos + Anthelia + Bubble Mushroom)

$4 Live Rock Rubble

$10 Pink/Purple/Green Plate

$16 Tubs!

$20 Blue/Grey Center w/ Green Skirt Zoos

$30 Coral Frenzy *Kasper at my first tub

$6 Hikari Rotifiers

$1.50 Spiral Star (Astraea) Snails

$15 Pom Pom Crab

$15 Bristle Worm Trap

~~$13 Lettuce Nudibranch~~ R.I.P. :(

$5 Bumble Bee Snails (x5) *Banished to the refugium b/c they ate my tubs! Grr!

$10 BIG Nassarius Snails (x5)

$5 Margarita Snails (x5)

$200 Sundial T5 HO x4 light fixture

$40 Sun polyps

$15 White Bubble-Tip Anemone

$3 Glass scraper

$15 Mandarin Goby/Dragonette (Female)

~~$16 Peppermint Shrimp (x2)~~ R.I.P. Dazed + Confused :(

$15 Peppermint Shrimp (x2) <---Dazed + Confused II

~~$15 Cleaner Shrimp (x1)~~ R.I.P. Mr. Sparkle Sanchez II :(

$15 Cleaner Shrimp (x1) <---Mr. Sparkle Sanchez III

$20 (Better) Glass scraper

$30 Pink + White Yuma rock (15+ polyps)

$45 Hot Pink Yumas (6 polyps)

$12 Yellow Clown Goby

$25 Pink "Cat's Paw" Stylophora

$10 Neon Green "Cat's Paw" Stylophora

TRADE Yellow w/ white center + green skirt zoo frag

TRADE Green Star Polyp frag

$10 Orange Cap Montipora

$20 Purple-Up

$7 Phosphate absorbing filter pad media

$15 Chemi-Pure

$9 Scarlet Hermit Crabs (x3)

$30 Prizm Skimmer

$75 Octopus Skimmer

FREE AquaClear 150 Filter *Modified into refugium

~~$10 LED light strip~~ *I fucked up and attached the wrong power supply to it and fried it! :(

$10 LED light strip

$6 12V power supply

We stopped keeping track about 6 mo into it. Def throwing down some major dough though... :/

MERC + BRAD'S MINI-REEF PROJECT:

Friday, October 2, 2009

SUPER AFFORDABLE REFUGIUM!

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