I can see an intervention for you two in a few years..... :lol:

new carpet at the very least :lol:

And a whole lot of Renuzit!:lol:

actually Laurie's system is around 700g.....mine is only gonna be around 400g.....she has me beat on volume but I will have her beat on tank size:mrgreen:



in a few years???? I think we need that intervention now!!!:lol:



some actinic type shots


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You too should just rip up the basement, seal it with a pool liner, lose the tanks and have yourself your own indoor snorkel pool reef. :lol:

you might be on to something there Greg......we could charge admission to snorkelers and divers to help pay for things:mrgreen:

The prospect of randoms farting "in" my fish tank puts me off that idea :lol:.

Tanks looking wicked Doug! Whats the name of those first zoas, have not seen them available in Calgary for some time now.

farting might not be so bad.....but peeing????....eww:lol:


thanks mang!......I think they are fruit loops/ lariats.....you dont have those ones???:twised:

I wish, I'm running out of room too would be nice if there wasn't 600000 different morphs out there.

I see room...... It's right there..........no not there...over there...to the right....a little to the back..... Oh wait, I'm looking in my tank :lol:

I believe its 6000001 different morphs.....and half of those are lunar/maul/RPE morphs:mrgreen:......

gee I cant believe I have something you dont:razz:.....maybe we could work something out tradzies wise

:lol:.....you crack me up mang



more "blue lagoon" shots

thats a great set of pom poms but shake them somewhere other than on my scoly please:mrgreen:

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nice pics buddy i havent seen any of the "fruit loops" either in a while one of my faves:):) funny once im outta the zoo collecting all these rare and awesome zoas are now easily accessible. if i was to start collecting again tomorrow.... i bet the market would be all of a sudden dry lol ;ppp

I try my best :lol:

Doug your picture taking is awesome man. Love the scolly too:biggrin: the zoa's that you have are amazing colors man.

Wow.. Great looking corals! I only hope my tank will look this good one day!

Where do you get a lot of your SPS corals?

Also.. how do you take such good photos?

He pimps himself on the weekends, a guys gotta do what a guys gotta do.... :D

Intervention???? What makes you think that :lol:

Hummmmmm......I like how you think

Agreed :mrgreen:

:lol:

Actually he works at Red coral Calgary so a lot of his corals come from there.

I heard its like a trade off, labour for coral :biggrin: and it sorta sounds like he is pimping himself out to me :lol:

Actually, that is why he is always broke. Just assuming Doug, nothing that was told to me :biggrin: I think he probably has to cut Kevin a cheque each month.

I know if it was me in Dougs place I would owe Kevin twice what I made in a month working for RC :lol:

I think I would need to go work up in the oil fields to support a tank like this.. lol

Thanks bye.....they are one of my faves too.....that why I put them way in the back of the tank.....so I can say to people ...."naw man....I cant frag those, they are way to hard to get to":mrgreen:......I dont know, most vendors seem to have clued in that zoas are hot and there are some serious zoaholics out there.....I dont think the market will dry up.....


thanks for the comp guys.....Ive said it before but .....its easy to take good coral pics when you can dunk your camera and get to within a couple inches of your subject to take the picture:lol:....the scoly is my prized coral ....I sure hope it takes the move to E-town well.....I'll be super bummed if I loose it...

working for Red Coral has its advantages:biggrin:......most of my coral has come from there, but not all of it.....in fact a lot of my "high end" sps has either been bought elsewhere or from canreef peeps.....most monthes I do get a paycheck from Kevin....Im not really that bad for taking stuff home....although in November my check for the month was $60:lol:......this is entirely because Im trying to stockpile things that I will need for the tank in E-town......Ive been buying things like rowaphos, epoxy and glue, carbon, salt, spare heaters etc, etc, etc....I feel more like a dealer when Im at the shop than a pimp, feeding the coral junkies fixes:wink:


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all sweet pics Doug, but the last zoa shot is really awesome!!!!

thanks a bunch Larry:biggrin:

For the big move to our town, would you need extra things like battery operated air pumps?? I've got quite a few of them (6+), so if you need them, lmk.
I also have extra small heaters, 10' (or is it 12'?)trailer for furniture and tanks:mrgreen:. 6' diameter pool-style tub to put everything into until you got the tanks set up...

The idea is to have his big tank up and running before he comes, but good to know just in case :biggrin:

thanks for the offer Lenny.....have I ever mentioned how much Canreef people rock?........ I just may take you up on that......but like Laurie said.....we're gonna try and get the big tank running and cycled with the dry and live rock that is cooking in E-town already( about 50lbs dry and 30ish lbs live).......my coral is going up and being dispersed to various babysitters in small batches each time Laurie and I visit each other....the livestock from the small tank will be going up there shortly and into Laurie's 34g cube.....the goal is to have only the rock from the system and fish to move when I finally shut the 110 down.....I will then be tank-less for a while, while I get my house moved up there......man thats gonna be weird not having a tank:neutral:.....

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so I have made up my mind about the lighting for the E-town tank...I had decided for sure that bulb changes would kill me on a tank that size so I was gonna go LED.....I waffled back and forth several times between the AI Sols and the Radion.....its somewhat a good thing that I waffled for so long as it gave time for people to have these units and start giving some feedback......I decided on the Radions(wallet is gonna hurt for monthes)......I been playing with one for a few days now and I am super impressed with the features and program-ability on it.....obviously one isnt enough for the 110g so I have it over the 25g.....Im thinking of starting with four for the new tank.....if four isnt enough then I will pull one off and put my T5s in the back al le Levi.....I rent so I couldnt hang the unit.....this is what I came up with with inspiration from that Mr. Salty tank dude.....its kinda ghetto but it being over the 25g is only temporary, so it is good enough for now...I used a plank of wood and a pair of TEK legs that I already had......it actually was so easy that I may do something similar for the new tank , except a little fancier


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and a FTS shot of the 110g for good measure

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Tank looks AMAZING under that Radion mang! Oh, wait ... um... In my defense, I thought that was just something you're supposed to say when someone posts anything about Radions. :redface:

Nice mounting work though! Funny how it makes ghetto look ... not really very ghetto at all. :lol:

Doug it beats the pants off the kit Ecotech doesn't include lol. You could even apply a stain to that badboy :biggrin:

Before ya leave for e-town please drop your badge off at my place. YOU KNOW WHICH ONE! :twised:

thanks guys......like I said this one is just a temporary thing ....just so I could play with the light......probably wont do too much more to it.....but ya it doesnt look too bad, so thats what got my considering doing the same thing for the big tank..... would probably do a wider board and the holes staggered slightly front to back.....either 45 off the square corners of the board or round them off.....router a rounded profile on the edges, just cuz I can.....small 1/2 "x1/4" trim around the lights just to keep them in place.....Im thinking maple for the wood with just a marine grade varnish to keep it natural.......that would look cool with the black tek legs and black lights......


how did I know you would say something about the club.......can I just turn in half the badge???......it only on one of my tanks.....and the small one at that:mrgreen:


and um.....havnt taken any pics of the coral under the LED yet:razz:.......thats all T5 you see there Tony:wink:



how bout some more T5 shots?

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Uhm .. no... I was looking at the little tank. You know .. the one needing a slight cleaning of the glass in those pictures :p

That one picture with the chromis in front of the PBT ... the chromis practically blends into the PBT. It took me a few seconds to realize what was going on there :lol:

Love the shot from the end looking down the front - that tank is doing awesome. Zoa patches look pretty keen too.

ooops....my bad.....just assumed with so little of the little tank showing that you were referring to the other shots


that chromis does kinda blend in doesnt he?......all I could think of when I took that shot is "stupid chromis wrecked what would have been a pretty good pic of the PBT

Thanks again Tony.....

I had to do a double take too and I knew he posted a pic of a chromis in front of his powder blue! For a second I was thinking the chromis's eye was a HLLE spot :redface:

HLLE?!.....no way!.....My PBT is perfect:mrgreen:.....that chromis was like, "can you see me boys and girls.....Im camouflaged":mrgreen:


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heres a monti that is starting to show its true colors......picked it up a month or so back, completely bleached....all you could see was the orange polyps..../I must say that Im liking how its shaping up:biggrin:

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smore pics:biggrin:


pink prostrata (I think)
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Red Coral's "crown royal" monti
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strawberry shortcake
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superman digitata
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turaki?
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and Wes's "slightly" blue milli:mrgreen:
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Looks awesome!