Dude that sucks you got a leak especially since ur movin right soon.

Some great pics Doug ! You know whats gonna happen when you do that little bit extra tightening don't ya :2gunfire: :frusty: :snipersm::rant: :cry:. Remember Mr T -" I pitty the fool" That sums up having to move your tanks :wink:. If I can help in anyway when you move Doug let me know.

When you need them, those big channel locks sure do come in handy.
Good thing you noticed the leak when you did.

D'oh!! When it rains it pours.. Unless you live in Calgary where it rains and snows.. And the snow comes at you at a horizontal vector.

Soooooooo sorry to hear this Doug. I hope the floor will be okay. Crossing my fingers and toes for you.

Pictures look great as usual.

Think you're looking at the floor spill from the wrong perspective though. I'd be all "Meh .. what's the landlord gonna do? EVICT ME?"

HEHE, the floor will be fine. At least the tank didn't crack or something bad like that.

tell me bout it guys......nothin like water on the floor first thing in the mornin to "kickstart your heart"!


Thanks bud......Im sooo not looking forward to moving this thing:neutral:......Im thinking about having a "Fishy's free frag tank move party" when the time comes.....some fish are being re-homed so there should be canreefers coming that day for that as well( are you ready for them Catherine?????).....

I guess, Im really fortunate to be sitting at home ATM.......normally I would be up at 6:00 am to go to work......I wouldnt even have noticed.....only noticed as I was sitting at the computer having my "second cup", perving canreef, at about 8:00 that the bottom of the back panel of the stand was wet:surprise:


Hopefully this bad string of events will be out of the system come "tank move time".......

thanks Tony
well he cant evict me but he can keep my damage deposit.....which wouldnt be good:lol:


not sure.....this is the second time its been wet!:redface:.......a cracked tank would have forced me to either upgrade.....or quit:neutral:



all dry today so it looks like I got everything fixed......gonna be a little stressful not knowing if there is any damage there, until I pretty much hand the landlord the keys:neutral:......

Im wondering now if I may have an issue inside the tank......I had two frags rtn on me the same night of the leak...... got me wondering if the colony rtn from last week might be related to this and not the nems fault?....another change I made besides stopping the iron dosing was, I've been doubling up on my "coral snow" dosage, because of the mess in the add-on tank(theres some cyano as well as the macro)....so not sure if this is what caused the stress.........

params before my water change on Monday were.

DKH 10 (perfect)
CA 390 (adjusted the profilux to now dose 30ml, 24 times a day)
MG 1350 (not too bad, presently dose 5/8 cup every two weeksish, will bump up to 3/4 cup or possibly 3/8 cup every week)

I didnt test the nitrates.....will do that after the morning dosing has a chance to run through the system a bit....

only fish I can get a good shot of.....
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coralscape.:biggrin:
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Hey Doug, glad you got everything under control....I nice pics...Hey what camera do you use for all these shots? and did you check out my pics with those lights on:biggrin: sure they will look better with water in the tank...lol I should be out to see you this weekend I hope..

that light is a beast!.....you should be pretty dang happy with it......was nice visiting with you yesterday mang!


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if you look closely you can see that the PS monti has wrapped itself completely around the digitata
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I think I will be happy with it...Ya I had a blast.....oh you have one hell of a system man give your self a pat on the back cause wow I have never scene a tank that nice in person....HEY EVERYONE DOUGS TANK ROCKS!!!! Thanks again mang!:lol:

Thanks Derek:redface:.....

being off again from the construction type work.....Kev has had me helping him do some renovation/ clean up type work at RC.....this means I had the good fortune to personally un-pack the ultra clam shipment RC just got today:biggrin:

da newbies

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Those are some scream'n clams there mister, really like the first one - crocea ? I hope the one I got will be as nice, if not to your house I go :boxing: . Great pic's Doug.

Dang, those are schweet!! I wanted to buy some.. so.. um.. do I go to Red Coral or to your house ? :lol:

K you need to go to the doctor for sure, you have a bad case of the clap.

good choices, so how many is that now ha ha ha

Well I know what I will be dropping $100's of dollars on tomorrow morning first thing :lol:.

Was hanging out at Doug's this evening and snapped some pics of his great tank while shootin the proverbial cow poo.

who be dat?

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Again, awesome tank and thanks for letting me visit. I'm glad I got a chance to before it got torn down and moved.

Holy...CRAP! Doug you take great pics but WOWZA look at that freakin' tank!

Is that Greg?

Thanks for the comps on the clams gentlemen.....Its not too often that Im lucky enough to be at the shop when the shipments come in.....but saying that, Im scheduled to be at the shop again this week on the day another "ultra" clam shipment is coming in:twised:.....I do love my job:mrgreen::lol:

Thanks Brett.......my camera is ok but there really is no substitute for good equipment (and a brochacho that knows how to use it)

thats not Greg......that would be the best side of me:lol:

Thanks Kien.... it was my pleasure.....your welcome anytime man......and thanks for taking the pics.....they are all fabulous (as usual):hail:



not reef related but,was puttering around the yard the other day and took a couple pics......

Im not even sure what this first one is......might be a weed for all I know, but I thought it looked cool.......
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and as I was taking pics of some of the flowers, I noticed some very obvious damage to alot of the leaves......the culprit?...........a baby bunny (mini-bun), about the size of a chinchilla.........cute little flower muncher:twised:
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Cute bunny! :biggrin:

D-day(moving day) is a little over a month away and I'm really starting to worry about it......I've been giving some serious thought to temporarily re-homing some of my more sensitive critters and perhaps a coral or five that I simply cant loose.....the tank is sure to go through a cycle and I dont want to subject my clam collection to that.......problem is finding someone willing to babysit for a couple months who has a large, mature, clam friendly system with a similar feeding regiment and enough room for everything.......any volunteers?:lol:

I will help you out if needed.

i can't keep anything but give me a ring if you need help moving. fill a couple of cars and get it done asap

Holy WOW Kien those are amazing photos:surprise:! Doug if you need a hand moving drop me a PM, my giant 2000 ford explorer comes in handy for things like that.

Why doesn't Kevin look after your prize stock while the tank is readjusting?

Didn't you hear about that other livestock Doug left in Kevin's tanks? I don't think that's going to happen.

JOKES :mrgreen:

:lol::lol:

thanks for the offers guys!....

Im sure Kevin would watch them but.....the tanks at the shop have constant influxes of livestock making things a little too unstable for my liking....sometimes peeps dont realize the challenges LFSs face in their systems.......


so what do I do?..........take home a couple more crocea clams.......Im weak.....and dumb:mrgreen:

one of the newbies was being really sensitive to the camera movement so I didnt get a good pic.......but heres the other one

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Haha nice man. Moving should be MUCH easier if you can pack that tank even fuller. Soundest logic EVER.

the only reason I brought them home is......I found someone who is gonna babysit my babies (thanks for the offer Sean).....couple more pics of the recent additions......

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Hey, just a word of advise... when you do the move, Swap out for a 180G. :wink:

Nice collection of Clams though. Geez, probably got more clams than anyone in town (including LFS'):lol:

I wish I could Josh........its just not in the cards financially atm.....btw, any progress on that project Dan has been "workin" on?



I have a new nemesis.......Ive seem him a few times, always in a rock at the bottom of the pile though.....
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Whoa, Is that a crab?

yes.......yes it is.........and a big butt-ugly one to boot......*said in a Stewie type voice* " I know where he lives......I see him there......inside his lair.......mocking me!......I will get him........I will!":lol:

Doug, get yourself one of those long turkey skewer things and skewer the SOB. Works great. I tried trapping them etc. didn't work. Just stab Mr. Crabbie right between his little stick eyes.

150G? lol anything to have a BIT more room for growth..

Will ask him about it... he's pretty busy getting ready to move into the new place this week.

OMG Lance!:surprise:.....that sounds so brutal..........but I like it!.......of course by the time I read your post and got my poker ready.......it was gone.......crawling off into the tank, laughing at me!



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Make a crossbow out of popsicle sticks (or similar) and elastics and shoot toothpicks at him. If you have shrimp, usually an injury is enough to turn them into a frenzy and they'll eat their clawed brethren alive (you say 'nems are evil.. I say anything with claws is evil .. some are just pretty enough to keep around).

Make sure your aim is good though. I wouldn't trust myself to do this idea at all. "Whoops... Gosh I really liked that clam/fish/insert-something-other-than-undesired-crab here" :( )