Lance's 225 gal tank

[lastlight]

Talk about a quick meal! Beautiful tank Lance. What's that massive round coral at the back? It almost looked like it was pulsing.

[Lance]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Talk about a quick meal! Beautiful tank Lance. What's that massive round coral at the back? It almost looked like it was pulsing.

Pipe Organ I got from Marie. She had it for years.

[Lance]

The tank turned one year old today and I can't say it was easy going. In fact, it has often been pretty damn frustrating. In comparison, the first year of the 90g was a piece of cake. This tank, however was one problem after another. First there was the horrible hair algae bout, then the Ich/Marine Velvet outbreak which led to quarantining all the fish for 8 weeks, followed by a period this past summer where I lost several SPS colonies. And finally a 3 month go with some sort of short, brown very ugly algae that was next to impossible to remove.
Thankfully, there has been some good points: I have a nice collection of fishes that all get along well; some of my LPS have grown like weeds; and then of course there was the very interesting boobies incident; the fugly brown algae is nearly gone and the SPS are growing again.
I sure hope year #2 is a lot easier.

A couple of pics

[Parker]

Looks great, you have some very nice pieces in there... What hours are you typically not home?

[Lance]

Originally Posted by Parker

Looks great, you have some very nice pieces in there... What hours are you typically not home?

Sneak in and help yourself. Only stipulation is that you take my wife's Beagle with you.

[PoonTang]

Originally Posted by Lance

Sneak in and help yourself. Only stipulation is that you take my wife's Beagle with you.

dont do it !!! the dog is a viscous killer LOL JK. Lance those pictures dont do the tank justice, it is just freeking awesome. How about a FTS?

[Lance]

Originally Posted by PoonTang

dont do it !!! the dog is a viscous killer LOL JK. Lance those pictures dont do the tank justice, it is just freeking awesome. How about a FTS?

Here you go:





And the vicious killer in question:

[Mrfish55]

Originally Posted by Lance

Sneak in and help yourself. Only stipulation is that you take my wife's Beagle with you.

Not interested in a Beagle, is it OK if I steal that sterilizer you have? I hear it works real good and even has a new bulb.

[Lance]

Originally Posted by Mrfish55

Not interested in a Beagle, is it OK if I steal that sterilizer you have? I hear it works real good and even has a new bulb.

OMG I forgot again. I'm putting it in my car right now. Drop it off tomorrow.

[Parker]

Originally Posted by Lance

Sneak in and help yourself. Only stipulation is that you take my wife's Beagle with you.

Deal, but if I'm taking your wife's Beagle then I'm leaving my wife's cat behind.