This ain't no private club. Share details with all of us please!!

I'll let Marie tell all the good stuff. (But I will say it's BIG!!!)

Oceanic corals is building a 96"x30"x30" tank for me....not many details to share yet :razz:

@Christy, no I'm not a grandma yet....She's taking her own sweet time about when she wants her birthday

30" high, eh? I'll have to give you notice when I come for a visit so I don't catch you topless working on the tank. :mrgreen:

Before I do that I'm going to have to invest in drapes for the windows and that ain't happening until the tank is paid for :razz:

This will be fun, I love new big tanks, just like boats, 2 footitis I started with 4' upgraded to 6', fell into 8' and came real close last week to a 10' but I think I'm going to skip straight to 12'. Need help with anything please call, I have no life and loves playing with the fishes. (Hey Lance, when you going to put a liner in the garage and fill it up? you know you want to go bigger :lol:)

Wow those dims are so awesome until you gotta clean in there or add corals. Wonder what total volume will be factoring in coraline volume...

Hmmm. The wife is fond of dolphins. A 20,000 gal garage/aquarium would be cool. Of course the dolphin police would be on my case.

So I am now 11 months in to my new years resolution of not messing with the tank at all and I have come to the conclusion that I have way too many corals in there. Things aren't going all that well and some corals are suffering badly.
One never really takes into account the bioload of corals until the tank is so stuffed full of them that there is more coral then water. With that said I am posting one last pic of what the tank looks like now and this weekend I am going to break my resolution and completely renovate the rock work....it will be like a typhoon blowing through a reef and washing it clean :lol:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...nov1010004.jpg


Note the new MH bulbs, they are SE phoenix 14k's and boy are they ever blue.....hopefully they whiten up a bit once they are broken in

Oh and the lack of coralline is because there is 2 giant coral and coralline eating, long spined urchins in the tank at the moment. The downside of letting an animal do your pruning for you? They don't care what the end result looks like

:drinking::jaw:

Hehehe, I like a challenge

Got your goggles, chisels and hammer do you? That's gonna be a whole lot of coral crunching.

Are the corals doing that badly that you can't wait for the new tank? You'll have lots of room then.

As a matter of fact I do....although I might pass on the goggles.

I am going to keep a whole, a chosen few mature colonies , some will get pruned right back and others (ugly brown ones :lol:) are going to get chiseled right off the rock

The new tank is going to be a major project and will take awhile before it's ready for the transfer. Besides the new tank is going to be set up a little differently, less emphasis on corals and more on all reef inhabitants.... I want it as diverse as I can get it, even algae will be welcome :mrgreen:

Well I hope you can't grow algae as well as you can corals. I've never seen a 375 gallon refugium before. :mrgreen:

With Doofus and the foxface in there I doubt that will be a problem :lol:

You're in luck I don't mind shipping. What are you after? :lol:

Any progress on the new tank front or has construction not begun yet?

be careful Brett......offering to ship weed on an open forum might not be in your best interests:mrgreen:

Haha you make a good point there Doug. What's the legal possession limit on our stuff?

not sure mang, but Ive had, and seen some tanks that meet or exceed that limit:lol:

The dirty deed is done, it was fun although the end result is not so pretty. The corals are royally ****ed but the fish are excited :lol:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...nov1410004.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...nov1410005.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...nov1410006.jpg

This is my favourite coral combo, the pic really doesn't do it justice....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...nov1410007.jpg

Wow its so spacious, I give it a good 2 week and it should already be grown in for you :lol::lol:. Doofus looks happy as always.

And here's a pic of my new flasher wrasses. I haven't decided whether they will go into the 175g when their quarantine is over or if I'll wait until the new tank is set up

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...nov1410003.jpg

Wow Marie! Look at all the room! You really did go to town on those colonies. Nice job! :biggrin:

I had to put over 9g of water into the tank to bring it back up to level :lol:

I see you got a pic of the Flashers. I on the other hand cannot get a shot of the Assessor. He swims around in the QT, happy as can be. The minute I lift the camera up he is gone into the rocks. Grrrrr!

Wow Marie, what a difference. Must have been a huge job! I too love that pink milli, I love even more that I have a piece of it :mrgreen:

Wow did you ever go to town on that! What happened to all the leftovers? My quarantine was ready to debug them.

9g of water! :lol: Wowza! Busy day. End result looks good to me!

Looks fantastic! That's a ton of coral if you had to replace 9g!!!!!

Um....you don't want to know. :redface:



I do however have a lot of little frags covering my sandbed that I have to do something with tomorrow

Actually Christy, the one in the pic is my red planet....I did say the pic didn't do it justice. In RL it is a hot pink/red colour, it makes my pink millie look blah

Cool! I just got my hands on some of these too...nearly impossible to find them in SE. Yours are 250w? Where did you get yours from?

Yep, they're 250w. I got them from Premium Aquatics in the states

Oh my freaking god, are you serious? That is your RED PLANET??? I got my pink lemonade at the same time you got that and FFS, here I was all proud of my small colony and yours is freaking monstrous!

My hats off to you, you certainly are the coral whisperer! :wink:

Can't believe how much you took out of there! Did you also remove rock? Fish must be ripping around like giddy schoolkids now.

I removed quite a bit of rock, I had fallen into the nasty habit of adding more rock so I could buy more corals. My fish are loving the extra space and have inspected every inch of their new quarters :lol:

An interesting observation.

The big reason I renovated the tank was because I was having problems with the corals, growth had stopped, the tissue on the tips was starting to recede, there was some bleaching as well as coral die off from being stung by neighbours.
After removing half of the corals and some of the rock, things have turned completely around... problems have stopped and growth has taken off again.
I believe I had chemical warfare going on as well as physical warfare, the only water changed at the time was the 9 gallons of new water I added to replace the corals and rock I removed.... there are no softies or lps in the tank and I have at least 6 cups of carbon (replaced monthly) in the sump

They just can't play nice, can they? I have to weed out the mushrooms every once in awhile. If they get to within 4 to 5 inches of the SPS, the stonies stop growing. I always have to use a lot of carbon. If I let the carbon go longer than a month before changing it I can see the SPS start to pout.

On a side note: How are the Flashers doing? Are you getting a male emerging yet?