Yes, he/she is larger than mine. How long have you had it? Mine might be 10", but I've only had it for about a year and a half.

I have only had it 6wks (came with the rest of the livestock that was in the tank when I bought it) the former owner added it 5 years ago and I do not know how big it was then, not the most colorfull fish but definately one of the more active.

Well those clowns from Marie wasted no time making themselves feel at home, spent the last hour laying eggs.
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/r...5/IMG_2466.jpg

Now reach in and try to move them :razz: .
They are very productive, sometimes there have been 2 batches of eggs on the go at the same time...poor little male is run ragged trying to look after them :lol:

Clarkii females have been known to share a male. I feel sorry for that little guy... like one women isnt bad enough lol.

Poor Bastard!

OMG I forgot about this thread and the BEST part is I can fastforward right thru and read it all! I love it, it looks so awesome! Congrats!

Thanks, It's getting to be quite the attraction, you should try to make it up for the next reef tour and see it in person.

I will definately try, I saw that there was one yesterday but Drew was working :(

Yesterday's meet didn't happen because of ferry trouble. Rescheduled to Nov. 29th.

Oh! I should be off that day, if Drew is also I'd like to come :)

The more the merrier. A few are coming over from the Island as well.

I think its time for an update on this tank!

I agree.....maybe a video clip of thows giant fish?

I do not have a video camera, so a video at the moment is out, I will try and get some pics in the next day or so, no real changes as I have been suffering with the flu the last couple weeks.

Dude that is the most creative misspelling of "those" I've ever seen =)

Oops lol.....didn't even notice that, but thanx for noticing
(Spell check was invented for me)

im new to all this just setting up my first tank 46G bow your tank makes my mind wander, my g/f would murder me because if i did that i couldent ask :P ill be down in van city to visit my bestfriend, mabey me and my g/f could see it. might make it more possible to convince her in the future haha.
i mean she would have to see its awsomeness first hand right?

This is certainly one of those tanks that needs to be seen in person, the pictures just don't do it any justice, I am not exactly in Vancouver, it would be a full day trip to get here (2 ferries) If you are up to the trip you are more than welcome to come see it.

Got home from work today, lost the Aussie Tusk and the male Blue Chin Trigger, the 10 hour power outage looks to be taking it's toll despite running back-up gen and monitoring everything till 4 this morning, a few others are looking seriously stressed and I have a number of sps in the reef looking pretty questionable, kinda sucks as the reef was really starting to turn around. :(

No way! This is horrible news.

Oh geez :sad: , If you need a place to keep stock until your back on track, I have a 60g cube tank with no fish at the moment and lots of sand bed space in the big tank for corals

Thanks for the offer, I will do a water change tomorrow and give things a few days to settle down, tank is looking a little cloudy right now, I will run some tests tomorrow to see what I can do. Sad part is I was home and able to get the gen going right away, makes you wonder what would have happened if I wasn't home.

Sorry to hear, but it's just a bump in the road. Things will turn around, I don't want to hear any more nonsense of a tank for sale. Your too far in now to let something like this discourage you.

Aww that sucks!! I hope things look better tomorrow!

Sorry to hear that. How can the power blipping off for a few minutes do that though? Does that mean you can't for example shut the return off a few minutes to clean a pump? Doesn't seem to add up?

I don't recall pictures of SPS in there. So this will be a full reef?

Too far in is an understatement! I am sure everything will straighten itself out, they went thru much worse on the move, must have been the dip in temp as I could not run heaters without tripping the gen.

So do I, power has allready gone out twice tonight, just came back on, thought we should be good after last night but looks like another long night.

Power was out for 10 hours, tanks were without power for about an hour while I was getting the gen and extension cords set up. No corals in the big tank, I have a 300 reef on the opposing wall. I did not do anything different than other times I have lost power and never encountered problems before, must be one of those tests to find my breaking point! Thinking a newer larger gen is in order so I can run everything. On a positive note, the kids got to sit with a flashlight and watch clown babys hatch out last night, with all the pumps off and no circulation they all gathered around the light, looked to be a few hundred of them.

Now that's magical!

Hey with a tank that size you have no breaking point anymore. Taking it out I think would be a lot slower than your build.

Sorry to here of your misfortune. I hope all works out for you. Having local support from other REEFERS in the area (Marie & Lance) is important.

A couple of years ago when we had that major wind storm that took out all those trees in Stanley Park, a number of the local REEF NETWORK members goto together and discussed Disaster Planning. Many of us partnered off with 1 or 2 others who lived close together, who could support each other and share thew plan. There were a number of different plans discussed as the size of the systems required different plans.

My system being 525G required me to buy a generator capable of running my Amp Master main pump and 2 X 250W heaters. I set it up in September and test it for about 2 hours and then leave it in the ready mode hopping never to use it.

A DISASTER PLAN is only good if you actually test it and it works. We have so much invested in our systems that running without a well tested DISASTER PLAN is very risky.

Tom R

Your Generator should run your main circulation pump and at least a couple of heaters to be of any use.

How are the tanks doing today? Do you need any salt or anything?

I know this doesn't apply here but people with smaller systems and a vehicle can just run a few items off the idling car. I know my truck outlet is 400W so I'd run my Dart and one heater. I could do that for a LONG time and already have everything I need (50 foot extension cord).

I'm good for salt, tanks are looking better today, at least they have cleared up, still a few corals in the reef that may have to be fragged as they are losing tissue at the base.

Good to hear. (Except for the corals of course).

Everyone has recovered from near disaster, so I finally added my clown trigger. Was an interesting show when the snapper watched dinner swim away (note to self, do not add new fish thru same hole in top that food goes in)
http://i472.photobucket.com/albums/r...ownTrigger.jpg

LOL that would be a pretty expensive meal :)

Cheers,
Vic

Hey Dave. I just read something interesting:
"Every drop of seawater contains 1 billion gold atoms".


If you could process the gold from your 1,000 gallons you could probably get enough gold to buy enough salt to fill it up again. :lol:

Bored by any chance Lance?? :lol:

Yup. Joan's at work; raining out; tank maintenance all done; got no money.:sad:
Besides, I've got to get to my post count up, so I can be popular and knowledgeable. :lol:

well you have the post count up i will say that the other things wellllllllllllll nice guy tries hard bottom 3rd.

lol

HAHA, Not gettin any closer!!!!


ANd I'm really intrigued about this Gold thing