Ahhh man that sucks. I've always admired your tank. Hopefully the New Year is a better year for reefing. I still owe you some corals and if my tank transfer goes well I might have to drop off a box full of frags in May

You comin into town in may

Yea. My wife's dragging me to an event and I'm meeting buddy who's buying my tank off of me to deliver it to him.

wow, im sorry to hear that....
Ive heard the same thing about the dry rock, & Ive been talking to a Florida company about a very large shipment of live rock & sand, fresh from the ocean. just waiting to hear back about the flight cost... hopping to have it in my hand for under $4 lb...

sorry for bringing back up a sad event ....
but with a new fish was it QT? what would have you done different?
Im just trying to learn from what happened as thats a very big tank to have that happen into.... my next tank is going to be the biggest Ive ever had, and after reading your thread im going to try to talk the wife into giving be 6' of the living room, then I could probably almost double the size of the tank i want...
My next tank is it, the last one... trying to do everything right even if it takes a long time to do...

thanks

I was always the person who said no more fish but bought that one more, it's part of the hobby and learning I have had a few tank crashes from equiptment and human error and basically a matter of time it seems. I am very fussy now about purchasing fish only from other members after they answer about 100 questions. I didn't really leave room in my fish room for a qt setup as I never really had dont it i tried it but never had great success at it. The best advice is study the fish at the store for colour, activity, behaviour and how it eats. Look at all the fish in the tank or what else in plumbed into that system. I know what fish I added had it an remember when I saw it in the store thinking its a bit pale but its a finky rare fish I really wanted and it was just spooked.

Yeah the 6 foot is nice for swimming room and what not, wanted a 8 foot but didn't have the room in our house.

Well once my spending splurge arrives ill put some more effort into the tank it's just hard to go from a 180 gallon full Sps reef which was thriving to have to do a move and start from scratch after looses.

One of the reasons I went with dead rock and sand was I wanted the tank to be pest free the last tank I started with second hand rock and I was haunted by crabs, worms and all sorts of other plagues. Ended up worth clove pylops and star pylops everywhere too so I wanted to start fresh.

WOW that totally sucks Wes sorry to hear this, your tank was so amazing the couple times I got to see it in person.

That's why we kept low well be back, have the pictures to keep us going, just need to clear up this algae issue and well start again. I am missing my t5 lights tho I think ...

One main reason I am investing in some big battery back ups just in case of a power outage.

Well yeah actually looked into one of those natural gas generators

Well we spoiled the tank and not ourselves for Christmas

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Oooo, nice new toys!!
What made you grab the libra over the ghl??

Congrats to your tank lol

It was fancier, if that makes sense. We picked it up with a good Black Friday price wanted something different from what everyone else seems to have. I liked the touch screen although its not as nice of display as I expected but I think it's going to be easier to program.

I would say because you can play angry bird in that :lol:

I will just drool silently now.............

First, I your tank is incredible. I wish I had the skills to build all the stuff around it that you did, it looks like a professional installed tank that's been there from day one, but from the looks of it the only 'permanent' changes to the house were a couple of holes in the wall. Brilliant.

Second, did you get your algae problem under control? I know that many people think this is cheating, but when I was struggling with a serious algae problem last October, nothing I did seemed to work. I was changing the GFO every few days, had a biopellet reactor running at full bore, but it just wasn't helping. I think once the problem reaches a certain level the algae is sucking everything up before your export systems ever get a chance.

I ordered API's algaefix marine off eBay (It's not technically legal in Canada still I don't think), and in about 8 days my tank was 100% algae free. It didn't hurt the corals or the fish, and once it was gone my export systems actually had a chance to do their job and the tank quickly dropped down to the ULN range with aggressive GFO changes, the pellets, and regular water changes. In fact I think I drove it a little too low and everything went all pastel for a few months. I've never had a recurrence of hair algae. Only thing it didn't kill was coraline and bubble algae, but I don't think bubble algae will be even a little fazed when our sun eventually expands to a red giant and vaporizes all other life on earth, and it can switch to using my hatred for fertilizer when nitrate and phosphate levels are too low, so I'm not really surprised.

If your'e struggling with it, it's a quick fix that lets the infrastructure you've set up actually do it's job.

Thanks I am geting the algae under control now have a bit of cayano but can live with it, I kinda hate using chemicals.

As for holes a couple in the wall and then a few vents in the outsider the house.
As for the canopy it's hanging from two screws in a floor joists so I can fill the holes in with silicone I hope if we take it down. Had a lot of planning on the build, and a lot of help from the cod ather and outta control

Hey Wes, just curious, how often and what sort of things are you feeding the carpets?

Your purple has gotten to a nice size! Mine is still about half the size of the green. I had forgotten we both seem to have a pair of gigantea's in our tank and both green and purple like that. :)

I feed that Pacifica krill when I have time other than that they are troopers, the purple is about 5-6 years in captivity now bought it the size of a toonie. The green I bought from xtreme hasn't changed a whole bunch.

As for the reds a year ago I started with 1 I am up to 10 now feeding this, don't know how much it is this or flow or lighting

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...d.php?t=103577

Absolutley stunning build. As a saltwater new comer this is inspiring. Makes me one to buy another house just to do a build like this. Lol.

Well done

Hey Wes, is your tank is coming along? You haven't posted in almost a year. So sad...