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| I like this pic of my valentini: 
I hope you do too. More updates later - I got a new light!
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| I am lazy and don't feel like taking any pics. But I will expand on my current lighting situation. In the previous pics, there is only a 30w flourescent light, nothing special. A client of my stepdad had an old tank he claimed to be 80g with the same footprint as my 50g. So we picked up the tank and he also gave us some of his old equiptment. Needless to say, there were reciepts in one of the boxes for fish related items dating back to the eighties (I wasn't even born when he was actually using that tank). I measured the box the tank was in and it turned out to be the same size as the one I already have. I figured I could splurge a bit and set up a dual tank system with two overflows, two return pumps, and one shared sump. That way I could keep fish that would fight in the same system but in separate tanks. Cool right? Well, the tank is cracked beyond what I am willing to repair. So that is a no go for me. Then I looked in the box of supplies he gave me. There were two air pump, one broken, the other working but extremely loud and large. The filter the guy used was a diatomic canister filter. I tried to set it up, but I can see why they don't sell those ones any more. It was hard to install and even harder to remove. I can't see how cleaning that thing could have been easy since you have to pull out almost all of it just for regular maintenace. And it was the noisiest thing in the world. Ok, the good part. It came with a light hood. BUT, it is only 24" long and holds two screw in bulbs. It had two incandescent 15w bulbs, but I replaced them with 50/50 20w PC screw-in bulbs. Now it looks weird because half the tank is receiving about 65w of light and the other only 15.
Question - does anyone know where I could get another light hood to match? Marine depot doesn't carry any. Thanks P.S. The feather dusters I was so happy about getting, some were eaten by the achilles. 
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| Most LFS will carry replacement light strips that you should be able to get. The incandescent aren't as popular so you may have to ask them to special order them. Or you can also look in the reptile section (or specialty store) as incadescents are used quite a bit for reptile tanks. HTH,
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but I'm having a terrible time getting out of them.” - Harry Tofcano
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| Well, I pulled a fast one, I never took any pics of my 1/2 bright 1/2 not so bright tank. I also betrayed you guys cause I bought my first aquarium related purchase not from marinedepot. It wasn't my fault, you don't carry the mini PC screw in bulbs, so I got them from BigAls. The bad thing is it takes a couple days to get stuff from Cali, and a week from NY to Vegas. So I won't get them till Friday. Until, then, I was wondering if there are any corals that toby puffers might be less inclined to eat. I always wanted a reef, but don't want to take out my puffers. At least I removed the trigger. I will only have ~ 2 watts per gallon, so I am limited. Thanks,
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From what I understand they will simply pick at everything. If you were to try it possible some type of mushrooms would do ok, or maybe a leather coral. But those are big maybe's.
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What about macroalgae that will live under 2 watt per gallon?
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| Whooo!!! I get my lights tomorrow!!! And I may be getting a part-time job at my LFS!! Yeah!! With the discounts I might be able to get more lighting opening more doors!!! Yeaaaaahhhh!!!
More updates as stuff happens.
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Congrats!!! But be careful. I got my first job at a Pet Store when I was 15 and for the past 23 years I have made a career of it (even through college I worked at a pet store). Discounts are the only way I can afford this hobby, LOL.
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| LOL! Too late! I got the job and start on Wednesday. I got my lights and have cautiously added two corals, a mushroom and a zooanthid rock.
The shroom has been nipped by the valentini, but I don't think it liked it as it did not look happy and has not had another taste test. The hair algae that was covering the rock is gone, the achilles ate all of it.
The zoos will probably have to be returned. The Hawaiian puffer has decided they are worth eating and has probably taken at least one bite from each polyp. Here are my pics, enjoy. 
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Well, the zoos were short lived. Not that they died, but they were getting nipped at by the hawaiian puffer. To be expected, but you never know, the valentini ignored them. So I removed them and added another mushroom frag. Yea!
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