First marine tank build (New pics/changes Feb 3rd)

[Mr.nintendo]

Ya my plan from this point is to wait with the exception of a few frags. I don't wanna push it to much

[Mr.nintendo]

Just noticed some hitchhikers on my green star polyps, little starfish with black and white striped arms

Can anyone I.D these?

Nevermind found them, there are about 5 black brittle stars from what I can tell

[Mr.nintendo]

Algae issues are down to almost nothing, some brown here of there but hair barely comes back.
The Gramma is a pig! eats anything I throw in now and fights with the clowns for the food! It has a whole large portion of rock with lots of little cave areas and tunnels defended and swims circles all around it and is quite active.

The mushrooms I got seem to be doing alright, one is a little hagard looking but still is lively. The Zoo's that came on the frag as hitchikers have a third head poping out now, and another type of starfish! Not sure what this one is but that's 6 stars I've seen so far, just little babies. Both pieces of corals came from J&L so I'm thinking they had a baby boom recently

[Mr.nintendo]

New shots as of October 13, 2009:

FTS:


The fish all hanging out:


Royal Gramma:


Clean up:




Few additions:


Shrooms with Zoo's that hitched along with the frag:


TDS:

[argan]

nice bridge rockwork, keep up the good work

[Mr.nintendo]

So as I'm sure most people have seen I posted an Emergency tank needed thread becuase my tank decided that it was done living and is slowly falling apart.

One of the corners has crazy salt creep and a constant dampness ( cant visible see the seperation because the tank is painted black on three sides ) and also shows visible bubbles along the front edge seems. Ive aquired a non-drilled tank and am gonna head to J&L tonight for a cpr overflow box.

One bonus to this is I can now raise my water level to the top for better visual/ capacity. I wish I could just go buy a 50gallon or bigger but I'm pretty broke and not ready to buy more haha. I'll keep a detailed picture log of the switch over process. If anyone in the lower mainland sees this before 6pm that has done this before or wants to lend a hand message me! I certainly didn't think this soon after starting a new tank I would need to swap so wish me luck

[Mr.nintendo]

Failing on so many levels

off to rush to j&l hopefully transit gets me there quick enough

edit*

Nvm they close at 6, BAH

[Mr.nintendo]

So as it stands, everything is in the new tank...

Fail # 1

Funny part is when it was dropped off as a 33, it's really a 42. Actually not all that funny cause I was un-prepared for the extra water needed and almost couldnt cover all the rocks. Luckily I had another ten gallons-ish of fresh saltwater to add when I moved the rock back in and it just covered everything.

Fail # 2

I recently split off the small zoo's from the mushroom rock and at somepoint they disapeared during the rock move

Fail # 3

Filled the tank just to the bring of the new CPR overflow box, went to connect the hosing and realised mine was to small, no sump tonight I guess.

Fail # 4

One of my more rare and expensive snails is now a smoosh on my floor, fell off the moving rock and met my boot


all in all a rough ride, but considering how much of a newb I am and how little prepared I was to find the tank with a crack in it this morning instead of just a few bubbles in the silicone. I figured it didn't go half bad, the only issues present now are things that can be solved in the morning

Here's a pic of the new tank, I'll post a better one when it settles down and I can hook up the overflow and sump