Marie's 175g mixed reef (new pics added jan 27)

[Lance]

Originally Posted by Mrfish55

This will be fun, I love new big tanks, just like boats, 2 footitis I started with 4' upgraded to 6', fell into 8' and came real close last week to a 10' but I think I'm going to skip straight to 12'. Need help with anything please call, I have no life and loves playing with the fishes. (Hey Lance, when you going to put a liner in the garage and fill it up? you know you want to go bigger )

Hmmm. The wife is fond of dolphins. A 20,000 gal garage/aquarium would be cool. Of course the dolphin police would be on my case.

[marie]

So I am now 11 months in to my new years resolution of not messing with the tank at all and I have come to the conclusion that I have way too many corals in there. Things aren't going all that well and some corals are suffering badly.
One never really takes into account the bioload of corals until the tank is so stuffed full of them that there is more coral then water. With that said I am posting one last pic of what the tank looks like now and this weekend I am going to break my resolution and completely renovate the rock work....it will be like a typhoon blowing through a reef and washing it clean




Note the new MH bulbs, they are SE phoenix 14k's and boy are they ever blue.....hopefully they whiten up a bit once they are broken in

Oh and the lack of coralline is because there is 2 giant coral and coralline eating, long spined urchins in the tank at the moment. The downside of letting an animal do your pruning for you? They don't care what the end result looks like

[Chaloupa]

Originally Posted by marie

So I am now 11 months in to my new years resolution of not messing with the tank at all and I have come to the conclusion that I have way too many corals in there. Things aren't going all that well and some corals are suffering badly.
One never really takes into account the bioload of corals until the tank is so stuffed full of them that there is more coral then water. With that said I am posting one last pic of what the tank looks like now and this weekend I am going to break my resolution and completely renovate the rock work....it will be like a typhoon blowing through a reef and washing it clean

[marie]

Originally Posted by Chaloupa

Hehehe, I like a challenge

[Lance]

Originally Posted by marie

Hehehe, I like a challenge

Got your goggles, chisels and hammer do you? That's gonna be a whole lot of coral crunching.

[Lance]

Are the corals doing that badly that you can't wait for the new tank? You'll have lots of room then.

[marie]

Originally Posted by Lance

Are the corals doing that badly that you can't wait for the new tank? You'll have lots of room then.

The new tank is going to be a major project and will take awhile before it's ready for the transfer. Besides the new tank is going to be set up a little differently, less emphasis on corals and more on all reef inhabitants.... I want it as diverse as I can get it, even algae will be welcome

[marie]

Originally Posted by Lance

Got your goggles, chisels and hammer do you? That's gonna be a whole lot of coral crunching.

As a matter of fact I do....although I might pass on the goggles.

I am going to keep a whole, a chosen few mature colonies , some will get pruned right back and others (ugly brown ones ) are going to get chiseled right off the rock

[Myka]

Originally Posted by marie

Note the new MH bulbs, they are SE phoenix 14k's and boy are they ever blue.....hopefully they whiten up a bit once they are broken in

Cool! I just got my hands on some of these too...nearly impossible to find them in SE. Yours are 250w? Where did you get yours from?

[marie]

Originally Posted by Myka

Cool! I just got my hands on some of these too...nearly impossible to find them in SE. Yours are 250w? Where did you get yours from?

Yep, they're 250w. I got them from Premium Aquatics in the states