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Originally Posted by Bblinks (Post 787772)

Wayne,

Thanks very much for taking the video for me, much appreciated! I will have the video up as soon as I get some time to edit it. You know you guys are real jerks.:twised: Now I want to switch up my AI sols for some colors. Maybe I will have to sell my 12 sols and buy some fancy ones like the Mitra or Vegas but .....pipe dreams. lol

Sell all the ai plus RSM250 and more corals..

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Originally Posted by apexifd (Post 787797)

Sell all the ai plus RSM250 and more corals..

Damn you Peter! :mrgreen:

Beautiful! That's the only judgement I can offer.

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Originally Posted by mseepman (Post 788105)

Beautiful! That's the only judgement I can offer.

hahahah, thanks mseepman.

Rich, you can buy your new lights if you sell all them gorgeous frags! :twised:

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Originally Posted by Rice Reef (Post 788121)

Rich, you can buy your new lights if you sell all them gorgeous frags! :twised:

you can help him out by buying all those frags..

[youtube]v=IMiBByrhY60[/youtube]

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Originally Posted by Bblinks (Post 788834)

HTML Code:

<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IMiBByrhY60?feature=player_detailpage" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Looks good, amazingly good actually.

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Originally Posted by Ginu (Post 788840)

Looks good, amazingly good actually.

Thanks Ginu, I don;t know why I can't embed this video. weird.

Direct embedding of video is disabled on Canreef.

Colours are off the hook great job!

Haha, that makes sense, Thanks bud. :wink:

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Originally Posted by Bblinks (Post 788841)

Thanks Ginu, I don;t know why I can't embed this video. weird.

Not sure if you can embed vids on Canreef... could be wrong though.

Regardless it looks amazing.

I could do with a few pink and purple coloured frags.

Sent from my HTC Incredible S using Tapatalk 2

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Originally Posted by gregzz4 (Post 788894)

Great vid Rich

Thanks Greg! BTW I am heading to North Van Saturday AM but should be home around 3 if you want to stop by.

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Originally Posted by duncangweller (Post 788898)

I could do with a few pink and purple coloured frags.

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I have what you are looking for.:smile:

nice video...

good shooting, excellent editing..

I still think its lacking of something...

don't say it please.....:sad:

Beautiful, and very well done video. But have to say, nothing beats seeing this tank in person. It is more than awesome, and don't think any vid or pic could do it justice.

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Originally Posted by Reef Pilot (Post 788925)

Beautiful, and very well done video. But have to say, nothing beats seeing this tank in person. It is more than awesome, and don't think any vid or pic could do it justice.

Thank you for your kind words.

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Originally Posted by Bblinks (Post 788912)

don't say it please.....:sad:

The M word or the V word??

Great job on the vid edit! :wink:
Ditto on the new close ups too. :biggrin:

Just a quick update on the tank. I had recently noticed some sps had a tiny bit of algae growing on the tip of 1 or 2 branches. I instantly thought some thing is up with my alk. 2 days ago my wife did a water testing and what do you know friken 5.2dkh, can you say oops. So I decided to dose a bit of brs's soda ash. Note to self, not a good idea when you are all wasted. I bumped my alk from 5.2 to 8.9 in one night. :redface: Luckily everything is still looking good. narrow escape. :smile:

some pics
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...psd2a7b461.jpg

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...psb9f8822c.jpg

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...psbe939eb1.jpg

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...psbc0b02e7.jpg

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...pse060bf9a.jpg

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...psd11d051f.jpg

new addition, labouti wrasse. round 3 but I think I got a good chance.:twised:

Rich, Great pics, especially of the clams! Sigh... See your tank now makes me sad...:cry: but it does give me a glimmer of hope for mine ...:neutral:

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Originally Posted by Rice Reef (Post 795451)

Rich, Great pics, especially of the clams! Sigh... See your tank now makes me sad...:cry: but it does give me a glimmer of hope for mine ...:neutral:

Don't worry bro, we will get through this. I have a frag of every coral I have for you and Brad, just bring your cutters.

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Originally Posted by Bblinks (Post 795454)

Don't worry bro, we will get through this. I have a frag of every coral I have for you and Brad, just bring your cutters.

Wayne is fine, just having a bad week. If you figure all the weeks you've got in the hobby, some of them gotta be bad :) We'll get him through this and his rebuild will be even awesomer!!

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Originally Posted by hillegom (Post 795456)

Nice

Thanks.:smile:

Really crappy weekend

Well...it has been a fun filled weekend for me, NOT! It all started Friday morning with my filter sock over filling and I felt some water on the carpet, thinking nothing of it I replaced the filter sock and assumed that was the cause of the leak. Saturday morning wife said the carpet isn't exactly dry so I instructed her to draw a line where the water level is on the sump and also to turn off the autotop-off, sure enough by the time I got home from work the water level has dropped an inch. Upon closer inspection I realize there is a small crack on the bottom corner of the sump about an inch long. At this point I had no choice but to call in the reinforcement.
First attempt to fix the crack.
Jim from OA and Peter Apexifd (Thank you very much for your help)
Draining the sump.
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...psbe191c0e.jpg

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...ps3d7a4144.jpg

Peter trying to seal the crack with 2 pieces of glass that Jim cut.

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...psb2966b8d.jpg

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...ps57a587ac.jpg

Finished product.
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...ps66cc0e61.jpg

So I waited over night for the silicone to set and woke up early Sunday morning to prep everything else for the refill. I was so happy that I am in the clear but little did I know its only the begining. I had dinner plans with a few friend so by the time I got back it was late already. It didn;t help that Peter forgot to seal the rest of the corner with silicone and we had to apply on Sunday. As soon as the silicone felt dry I started to fill the tank and guess what, SNAP! the friken thing cracked all the way up.

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...psdf9b430c.jpg

At this point I was so ready to pack up and sell everything but through the support from my buds here and the kindness of Wayne (ricereef), who offered to come all the way over from the island just to help right from the get go and Brad (aquattro) , who offered me his sump to use for the time being, I decided not to give up and do some major damage control. I made some arrangements to head out to the island the next day to pick up the sump. It was a good trip for all the wrong reasons. Thanks for the sump Brad and wayne for the lunch.

Round 2
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...ps5d021e9c.jpg

Cleaned out the old sump Monday night after we retrived the new sump from Victoria. I cleaned the new sump out and feeling pretty good. As we proceeded to remove the old sump my buddy hits the down pipe and it craked the bulk head. MF please, water falling everywhere from the overflow. FML. I just couldn't believe it. I was so ****ed off I was lost for words. Anyways long story short, after removing the 12 ai sol wiring and all, off comes the canopy. I cleaned and replaced the bulkhead but had to modify a **** load of stuff. 4a.m. I am by myself still trying to get the frag tank back on line. I said f it, I'll do it tomorrow.

Here is a picture of my buddy cleaning up the tank. (I had my non-reef friends also helping out) Man its good to have reliable friends.
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...ps601f8800.jpg

still having a good time.

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...psa260bae4.jpg

Tuesday evening and really lacking sleep.
Finally everything is back on line.

Lost 2 colonies, 6 frags and a wrasse that was inside the overflow. I did;t even knwo until I went to put the new bulkhead in. RIP

New sump is on its way but 600 bucks later plus another trip to the island to pick it up 320, lost corals 200, lost fish 100 but friends that are willing to help out anytime of the day, PRICELESS!

I guess the moral of the story is make sure you have good friend.

THANKS AGAIN GUYS, SORRY TO PUT YOU GUYS THROUGH ALL THIS ****.

Booooo for busted sump. Yay for happy endings! Seriosuly, that sounded epic.

Whoa Rich, sorry to hear and hope it will only get better.

Cracks and leaks are a pain to deal with, but probably not the worse in this hobby.

Happy to help Rich! Glad it worked out reasonably well :)

Holee crappy Rich :surprise:
Hope that's it for bad luck

Don't be a-feared to call me if something like this ever happens again ( like, why didn't you call me for help ? )

Holy crap dude, that sucks. Glad to hear you got lots of help. I hear all these stories and know it's only a matter of time till it's me or someone near. Makes you glad to have a place like canreef where you meet people you can rely on :)
Kudo's to everyone who helped out!

Nice to hear people lending a hand.

when it rains it pours!

good job sticking through it - looks like you owe some guys some high end frags :D