Zactly!

That's a negative. The only corals that are left are, a red goniopora (these things love turbid water, apparently LOL), GSP (these things are NUKE proof), a patch of purple death palys, Red Mushrooms, Blue/Purple mushrooms and a yellow gorgonia. Needless to say I have some real estate now :lol:

There is a lot of nice new equipment on the market that I'd like to look into. I definitely want to start collecting more corals again. I do feel like I'm sorta starting from scratch and have vowed to make this tank awesome again.

So far I have spent a couple of weeks just rehabilitating the tank. I cleaned the glass. It took two kent scrapers LOL. Vaccuumed out the sump, cleaned all equipment, brushed off the live rock (man those were nasty). Tonight I have a date with a fish net (no, not my wife), and my three year old sand bed that I plan to scoop out and replace with new sand. I've also been making up RO water all week to do a 50% water change this weekend. Ya, look at me go, I'm on a mission!! :twised:

It's like having a clean canvas, ready for new paint.

Crappy iPhone pictures..

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AWESOME MAN

I've always loved your big clam Kien!:lol:

run a tank or run a marathon. both shall test you and produce a lot of salt creep.

I thought we agreed to keep that on the down low..

haha, indeed! some of those post marathon photos make me look like my sump. :neutral:

Well lookie here, another character I haven't seen around. We're all coming out of the woodwork is seems... :lol:

Tank looks good kien, empty, but good! Nice to see the clam still hanging in there.

wow so empty , this is was one of my fave tanks by far , im looking forward to seeing what you come up with , def is kinda nice having a blank slate, im sure the new version will be even better then the first)

cheers)

thanks :-) The upside is that it's kind of like a new build but without the building part. Sorta like fast forwarding to the end of a build after all the rockscaping has been done and the tank has been cycled. Now all I need to do is add livestock :-)

I did sit in front of the tank for a bit and contemplated what I might do differently but in the end, I couldn't come up with anything, really. I still love the design of the tank, love my aquascaping, my support system underneath. Aside from possibly getting a new skimmer and maybe switching to LED, I don't plan to change anything. I especially liked the fact that I could aggressively take a cleaning brush to all of my rock structures and they didn't move an inch. :lol: