FINALLY the plumbing is done! I now have all of my livestock in thhe new tank, and the old 55 is tucked neatly in the bottom of that stand. Encountered a new little problem though... the IN 250 that I bought will not fit under the frag tank as is. GAH!!! I'll have to do a little thinking on this one. Also... one of my wave boxes is no longer working. It's just on full time (doesn't pulse). No good.

Anyways... here's a few pics. Don't mind the aqua scaping.... that's for tomorrow.

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/...7/DSC01418.jpg
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http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/...7/DSC01416.jpg
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BTW... WOW! Is this ever a lot of work!! I didn't think it was going to be this labour intensive!! lol

OK... all seems to be well and good! Thankfully! Here's a few shots of the preliminary aquascape. Most of this will be staying as is, but there will be a few changes. Specifically, many of the corals will be relocated to space them out some, and already a few of the rocks look to me like they need a tweek.

Anyways, let me know what you think.

The view from the couch.
http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/...7/DSC01419.jpg

The right side view.
http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/...7/DSC01420.jpg

The left side view.
http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/...7/DSC01421.jpg

Looking down the tunnel.
http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/...7/DSC01422.jpg

And, of course, the full frontal!
http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/...7/DSC01423.jpg

Please excuse the wires and junk. They didn't make the priority cut, and this took WAY longer than planned/expected.

Oh... and btw, it's not actually that blue. I'm running 4 New Gen, 3 Super Blue, and 2 Fiji Purple. (I'm still down a FP because of my jerk dog's foot) And sorry for the poor pics... get used to it! lol

Love the plumbing behind the foosball table. Did you finally lube it up?

Haha! No, not yet. Basement has been in pretty rough shape, and no time for foos lately. I actually found an unopened bottle of lube with the spare handles though!

Alright... here is the second attempt (more or less final) at the aquascape. I can't figure out why my pics look so blue... any tips? I may have already mentioned this, but I'm running 9/10 4' t5's (one broke, no replacement yet). There are 4 KZ New Gen, 3 Super blues, and 2 Fiji Purples. It's really not that blue. Anyways, here ya go!

Here is the left side:

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/...7/DSC01425.jpg

Here's the right side:

http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/...7/DSC01426.jpg

Here's the semi secluded, and fully temporary (until my frag tank arrives) 'frag bed' (almost all of these frags have been accidental casualties of the 3 tank moves in the last 4 months) Anybody need some birdsnest? lol But seriously!
http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/...7/DSC01427.jpg

And last, but most importantly, the full frontal! Take note of the set up at the front right of the tank. There are 3 marco rock in a little island secondary to the main rock set up. There`s a smallish one on the left, then a really big one that is mostly flat, with a decent sized protrusion on the top, (in betwween these two is the green candy coral) and then on top of it is another smallish one that I epoxied to the big one with the protrusion. I really like how that part turned out. There is a sepertaion of about 4 inches in between this section and the main section.
http://i1197.photobucket.com/albums/...7/DSC01424.jpg

Got home last night to disaster!! Could have been much worse, but the was a water spill all around the tank. I checked the actual tank... all seems well and good. Checked the plumbing... dry. The only thing that I can come up with is that the waveboxes started to spash over the edge somehow. I don't understand how, but this is what I came up with. When I set them up, I was getting a pulse that was hitting every 3rd wave. The waves were fairly small, about 1/2"-3/4". The trail of dried up salt was over the one side right beside the wavebox that I've been having some troubles with. I wonder if there was an issue with the wave controller, and the pulses changed giving me a larger wave which spilled over??? Who knows. I wish I had a video camera on there to see what happened. Unfortunately, the puddle of water hit the drivers and the wavecontroller, so I don't know if I have wave boxes at all any more... :-( I'm going to let them dry out for a day or 2, and see what happens. I just wish that my 6105's were not on back order. All I'm running right now is 43 koralias (various sizes up to 750 gph) and my return pump which claims 2100 gph @ 4' - no way I'm getting that out of it. I'd guess that since I've got my 1.5" valve on the herbie choked back... I'm gettting about 1000gph out of it.

In other news, I now have my Zeo reactor running, and the Zeo dosing has begun.

Tonight (assuming that I have no more water on the floor) I'm going to set up my dosing pumps which will be fed from a 5 gallon water jug in order to keep maintenance down to a minimum. I'm hoping that 5 gallons will last me about 6 months. That's likely a little bit of wishfull thinking, but we'll see.

Also, Im' starting to get a little bit of a diatom outbreak. To be expected I guess. I should probably do a parameter check... especially for amonia and nitrites. Maybe on the weekend.

Oh... one more thing. I lost a coral in the switch. My orange M. Cap is on the way out, if not already out. Not really sure why, but it happened.

Not really sure how/why I didn't think to put this in here, but here is my current stock list:

Fish
2x Black and White Oscilarris Clowns
1x Regal Tang (not to toot my own horn, but one of the nicest I've ever seen)
1x Purple Firefish
1x Back Capped Basslet
1x Rainfords Goby
1x Tail Spot Blenny
1x Barnicle Blenny (one of the coolest little dudes I've ever seen)
1x Flame Hawkfish (one of my faves!)
1x McKosker's Wrasse
1x Yellow Clown Goby

Inverts
1-2 Small Emerald Crabs
1-2 Pom Pom Crabs (LOVE THEM!)
1-2 Fire Shrimp (have only seen one lately... starting to think the other has died)

Clams
2x 2" Ultra BLue Maximas
1x 5" Golden Teardrop Maxima
1x Purple with unique greyish pattern Crocea
1x Blue mantled Squamosa

Corals
1x open brain
1x Hammer
1x Chalice
4x Really nice Zoa Colonies (don't care about their names)
A whole bunch of various SPS (Milles, Acros, Montis, etc)

And here is what I want to add:

Fish/Inverts
1x Majestic Angel or a Glod Flake Angel (I like the size/looks of the Gold Flake, but the price of the Majestic)
1x Powder Blue or Achilles Tang (can't decide which yet)
1 male, 3 female group of Anthias (likely Lire Tail, Dispar, or Bartletts)
1x Six Line Wrasse
1x Other wrasse (Melanarus, Blue Star Leaopard or Ruby Head)
2x Blotchy Anthias (I prefer to call them 'Punk Rock Anthias')
1x Fathead Sunburst Anthias
1x Venustus Angel
3x Purple Firefish
1x Blue Spot Jawfish (maybe)
1x Pitol Shrimp/Goby I like Yasha Hase, and High Finned Red Banded... we'll see.
1-2 Neon goby
I want a group of 3-4 Fire shrimp (have to add accordingly)
3-4 Cleaner Shrimp

I'd certainly appreciate some input. If you see something that I've overlooked that won't work, please inform me. BTW, I know that the Angels are risky... wish me luck. Also, I'd appreciate opinions as to what to add first and last. To me, the only things that may be an issue are Achiles Tnag and the Angels which I plan to add last. Everything else I think should be ok whenever... Yes?


Oh... and of course I'll be adding whole bunches of more corals!!!

I'll have some better pics coming very soon. It seems that my cell takes better pics than my $400 camera. GRRRR!

6-line wrasse will most likely terrorize any other wrasse and probably any anthias you want to add.