soak the carpets in skimmate the day before you leave or buy a fish from the market and leave it in a heater vent....heheh it looks like you have lots of help hard part is finding a place

:jaw::shocked::eek: ... That BLOWS... on the bright side (if there can be one) at least you got 3 months.. :wink:

That really blow Doug, typical landlord to put some one out while building a house that I bet will be huge.

On another note Doug, can you tell me what you are using for bulbs again on your tank. This time I promise I will write it down. :redface:

Hey Doug, sorry to hear that you have to move out. If you need help let us know and we will help you move.

On another note, thanks for installing our hardwood flooring....it looks amazing........We are not completely back to normal but getting closer.

Picture of the new floor.
http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/u...e/IMG_1000.jpg

you and me both:wink::lol:

Thanks guys.......I might just take some of you up on that offer for help.......me moving is not that big of a deal.....its totally the tank that I am worried about........I've moved the tank successfully twice before but never with this much "life" in it before(now close to 20 fish and a titch stocked with coral).......Ive been totally wracking my brain trying to figure out what to do...........everything from selling the tank to fragging it heavily ( to lighten the bioload) to selling all the live stock has crossed my mind.......I have no idea what Im gonna do........I haven't really even started to look for a place yet as there seems to be quite a bit of rentals available here now........

here's a few recent pics.....

heres a couple frags that have been sitting on my frag rack waiting for a place to put them.....

A Loripes (if I remember correctly.....right John?)
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4141.jpg

an Aussie pink and blue tabling acro
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4142.jpg

Pocillopora
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4143.jpg

A. tortusa "cali tort"
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4144.jpg

Aussie deepwater unidentified acro....
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4147.jpg

and here is a frag that I have been waiting for for a long long time...... and I wanna thank Laurier for finally coughing it up:razz::wink: I know getting this frag didnt come at a very good time with me moving and all but Laurier recently moved his tank too and he want an insurance frag out there, just in case.....
"Red Planet"
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4135.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4131.jpg

Nice corals. I think your loripes may be a lokani. Either way it looks like it has lots of potential. I think the Aussie unknown might be a echinata or turaki.

Love the red planet :love:

lol didn't realize how many nubs are on that frag. looking good mang. btw is that tabling acro encrusting onto your frag rack???

Hey Doug thanks for the help today. I will be back for more, and want to check out your tank next time I'm down if possible.

Ok now I know what all the hype is on this RedPlanet! Beautiful!!! Grow it out quick! You're favorite frag customer would love one of those!!!!!!!!:biggrin::mrgreen::wink:

Thanks for both the offer for help moving and the work guys......the floor looks good with some furniture in there again!

Thanks Christy........I still have a lot to learn when it comes to acro IDs............ps. did you forget to do something??:wink::biggrin:

You didnt notice?.....you were the one that snipped it!:razz: (thanks again mang!.... that Aussie just might be encrusted to the frag rack.....lord knows its been there for months:redface:

Hey....your welcome and anytime man, I always enjoy shootin the breeze about reefs......

And the sps vultures circle my house.....already a line forming through pms for frags of my RP frag:lol:


I dont have enough water in my house and my fondness for clams has turned out to be a full blown addiction!...............so......................I m gonna be adding another tank to the system after I move. The tank is 24x24x12 (Josh's old cube) and will be lit by a single 250w MH(galaxy ballast, lumenmax elite reflector) or if the budget allows I may order in the 24" 8 bulb ATI, we'll see what happens......I will need to upgrade the return for the system.....Im currently running two in sump return pumps(one for the 110 and one for the "anti-pony" tank).....so Im thinking about drilling the sump and putting a "dart gold" with a manifold on the system....that would free up quite a bit of space in the sump and reduce heat transfer considerably......its all still a couple months away so plans may change:mrgreen:

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMG_0085.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...IMG_0086-1.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMG_0087.jpg


I have a bit of work to do on the tank......the patch covering the holes need to be removed (weeeeee I love scraping silicone) and the "Scary Movie" face that Josh made needs to be exorcised from the tank and a new overflow cut and installed......
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMG_0088.jpg

But...I'm first in line right?......:wink::lol:

See...I told you that you couldn't be without a reef tank...it's what you're all about...and now your adding on! Yay!

dammit I did it right away!! Stupid computers.

Best of luck removing that piece of glass doug.. I know I wouldn't want to deal with it. :lol:

Alright Doug!

I'm all caught up on your tank journal, just like I said I would.

Gorgeous photos!! You make me so envious. :twised:
:biggrin:

No line, no cover and Im pourin:wink:

psssssssssst Kev has got a 180 in his garage:twised:.....I didnt just think that did I?????......now would be the time to upgrade......wouldnt it?.....that would mean I would need a bigger skimmer:biggrin:......more lights:becky:

Thanks Christy.......I owe ya one:wink:

I thought about just punching through the exist holes but then worried about the bulkhead sandwhiching three layer of glass:wacko:.....glass is gonna have to come out.......I guess:neutral:



Thanks Lisa....most say it looks better in person:wink:



Red Planet a little more settled in

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4172.jpg

alittle late on this post, but yeah I have been told that its an A. Loripes, it does look like a Granulosa but i think the polyp shape is a bit different.

anyways, its looking good there bi. :razz:

A Loripes (if I remember correctly.....right John?)
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4141.jpg

I know I should just leave this one alone. But well I can't...so here it comes "It looks better in person" :wink: This sounds interesting. :redface: I really have been missing things around here. :lol: :mrgreen:

Leah.....you know Ive been offering up that "distraction" for weeks now.....why dont you just come out and see it???:twised:.................the tank, I mean:wink:


Heres some Aussielicious frags from the last shipment

pink lemonadeish
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4198.jpg

The un-identified "sleeper" acro
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4199.jpg

"crayola tabling acro that was from the previous aussie shipment....and yes Laurier, it was encrusting the frag rack:surprise:
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4200.jpg

Daymn, thats nice! I saw those on the latest Red Coral photo thread and actually sighed. I wish we got those out here.

Well shoot Christy.....you and Leah should organize a road trip to Cowtown:wink:


more recent pics.....

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4197.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4191.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4190.jpg

Thanks John......both for the Id and the comp....


heres one that has finally started to get the purple that its supposed to have( I have a colony of the same coral on the opposite side of the tank that has been in the tank for over a year and has been brown the whole time(in fact I'm thinking about selling it, because its starting to get stung on the bottom by an ever increasing in size nem))
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4189.jpg

heres another coral that is starting to regain its former glory....this monti was getting shaded out by a pocci that is doing quite well.....
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4184.jpg


a somewhat blue stag
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4186.jpg

bird
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4185.jpg

Neat!

couple things to report......I stopped dosing KZ Eisen conentrate!........the add-on tank is such a mess with algae that Im gonna see if starving the tank of iron helps knock it back a little......

I mentioned a few days ago that I had a colony of sps that a green BTA was starting to get within reach of......lesson learned:neutral: dont be lazy like me.....I thought that just the part of the base of the colony that the nem was touching, would be affected......I was wrong:onfire:......overnight

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...IMG_0017-4.jpg

the RTN of that colony also took out a large portion of a green monti cap that was touching the colony on the back side.....a two-fer......so boys and girls......move it or loose it!


I started preparing to get things organized for the move.......I borrowed the label maker from work and got started on printing off everything to label my electrical lay-out so I wont sit there scratching my head about where to plug everything back in, in the "tank move scramble"......Ive come to a conclusion, we reefers got a lot o crap we need to plug in!.......

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4201.jpg


Im positive that this is not all of them:biggrin:

Doug where ya moving too again .

No idea Mike.....havnt even started looking yet.......but I hope that I will get lucky and find a place in the same neighborhood.....I'm less than ten minutes away from Red Coral where I am now and would like to keep it that way........never mind the benefit a short distance move would have for the tank:wink:

dude was that the killer colony you had mid tank in the far left corner???

It was.........the yucky brown (sposed to be a dark purple) one with the killer green polyps.....:neutral:


but on a shinier note:biggrin:

"pretty in pink"

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4180.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4182.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4183.jpg


a couple a favs that I cant seem to stop takin pics of....forgive me if its gettin old:mrgreen:

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4179.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4178.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4181.jpg

Dude those are some sweet pics....I have to come check them out..in real time...lol

I keep tallin ya, you have an open invitation(you might wanna make time before I tear this thing down:wink:)


Im definitely a zoaholic, but when you couple that with the fact that Im also a clamaddict usually equals very little cash actually makes it home from RC:redface: there gotta be some kind of twelve step program somewhere for us reefheads

gonna be some "doubles" in here but I was shooting with two different cams

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4223.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...IMG_0016-1.jpg

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4222.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...IMG_0022-5.jpg

same clam.....different angles
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4219.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4218.jpg

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...IMG_0026-2.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4216.jpg

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4217.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...IMG_0027-4.jpg

well, you going to be around this weekend....I might be able to get down there and check things out.

Like "12 Steps to Building a Great Reef Tank"? :mrgreen:

Which pic goes with which cam? I'm curious...

Your rock work is soooo nice.
How did you get all your rock to sit like that?

well.....work at RC both days but will be around in the evening


the structures on each end were done with a pvc sub-frame, the rock is attached with "zipties" and "firmed" up with epoxy......the center structure is free standing.....
take a guess:mrgreen:.....all of the first pics in each clam pic set are taken with the same camera


these pics are in random order:wink:

*sings* "Im off the wagon and Im hitchin a ride":mrgreen:
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4206.jpg

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4224.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...IMG_0018-5.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...IMG_0025-5.jpg

sprung a leak at some point last night:neutral:.......not much water made it to the floor, but the floor under the tank is definitely wet*just what I need.....damage the hardwood floor two months before I move*.....I found the leak(one of my hose clamp connections) and quickly fixed it, but in the process I created another leak at the bulkhead......I go to grab the big channel-lock pliers the give the bulkhead a turn...... and doh!:doh:.......Mikey has all my pliers and wrenches!.......@#$*......now Ive got a drippy bulkhead.......thats when frustration set in and I managed to get the bulkhead tightened(ever so slightly) by hand.....seems to have stopped the leak, but will have to snug it more later when I get decent pair o pliers.....I sat there for an hour trying to get the water under the tank to leech into towels.......got a big fan blowing in the general direction......hopefully I didnt bugger the floor up:twitch:

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...IMG_0024-6.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...IMG_0023-3.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...IMG_0019-4.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4243.jpg
http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP4244.jpg

Sounds like your off to a good start to the day