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[lastlight]

Yeah I forgot the peeDisclaimer at the top...shoot!

[christyf5]

"lastlight's 97 - get out yer Depends!"

Frankly I find it a little wild that all of your tanks so far have looked so damned spectacular. My tanks are all about making the insides look great to detract from the DIY-ness of the system. Yours look fantastic even without water in them. I can't wait to see where you go with this one

[lastlight]

Lol seriously this build is so simple. I didn't even seal my wood it's like a whitewashed plywood cover slapped on! Thanks though! Maybe it's the drawer slides I've sorta made them my buildBeatch?

And you know where this build likely leads but maybe I'll have livestock in it for a little wee bit haha.

Nice disclaimer tho. Consider it adopted =)

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Lol seriously this build is so simple. I didn't even seal my wood it's like a whitewashed plywood cover slapped on! Thanks though! Maybe it's the drawer slides I've sorta made them my buildBeatch?

And you know where this build likely leads but maybe I'll have livestock in it for a little wee bit haha.

Nice disclaimer tho. Consider it adopted =)

Maybe its your creativity with lighting and photography then I wonder if it might be the white. I really thought Tony's tank room was sharp. Maybe I should paint my stand white and it will look more professional instead of the plywood and 2x4/2x6's that it is now.

And yes, those drawer slides are pretty sexy.

[lastlight]

Transfer went super well except for a few things:

- I got too frustrated with the volume of rock I had bought. Way more than I thought I needed and 2 feet of depth is not that much. Rockwork turned into a big pile but I'm ok with that.

- Incorporating my 4 large rocks with glued-on corals SUCKED.

- My tiny frags look even smaller now

And some good news:

- The blenny I lost more than a month ago in the tank slide/move into the kitchen turned out to be in the skimmer compartment! I usually let just a few food pellets make there way down the overflow just in case and it paid off! He's cruising the tank like a champ!

- Corals didn't even slime while some have lost a little colour overall things look really good.

Solana got emptied and tossed in the basement. I have my water change setup plumbed thru the wall for a reason with the big tank. Didn't want to STILL be doing the bucket thing with the small tank at the moment so the dedicated nem tank is on hold.

Pics with just the T5s on (My mh shots seem to blown out so I didn't bother) but with the fiji purple and coral light tubes everything in the tank also looks either red or green but you get the idea:

[BlueTang<3]

Looks good your going to have a lot of pruning to do when those frags take off.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Whats in the door behind the tank with the caution danger tape across it? Monsters?

[lobsterboy]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Lookin good there Brett. Looks like that little guy has alot of charcater

[lastlight]

Yeah so I sorta got new fish already. I never said I was perfect

Bangaii I had already mentioned. He's been in another reefer's care for a year and is nice and large. Eating mysis like a pig. Kole grazes like a machine and loves mysis too. Working on pellets. Wrasse hunts pods with a vengeance and today also had some mysis.

[lastlight]

So it's been a few days since I made the trek to visit DEZneyland but here's my small army of new additions. Hopefully I match them up with the id list he gave me. Always a pleasure buying frags from Dez and my family even stayed for dinner with his. Thanks man!

Blue smooth which receded on me first night but seems to be holding sorta steady with no recession today. fingers crossed:



Snappy's supergrape (the white bit was from me snapping it off it's plug):



Rainbow stylo:



pink pocci:



unknown teal:



Acro abrolhosensis:



Super teal:



A. loripes



Orange cap (looks very pink tho. Melted away first night but has been like this holding steady for days now):



Purple cap also melted first night and also holding steady with polyps out:



Tony gave this gorg to Dez a while back and now it's all MINE:



Blue-tip green stag:



green orange tip:



alien green:



Jay (reefcanada) also stopped by and gave me a sweet green digi (thanks!). Clumsy me dropped it so I mounted all the pieces including a daring attempt to decorate the acrylic hiding my overflow box. Will look silly for some time I suppose!