Squire's 90 Gallon Build, Now With Salt Water

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by ensquire

Thanks Greg, It's getting full LOL
I didn't have your patience, just hoping it doesn't bite me in the ass.
I would like to thimk that if I had easy access to things that patience wouldn't be such a problem. I really lost it at Frag fest. # boxes of fish and corals, although not all for one tank. But still......

We all understand ...
You're far enough away from any LFSs that you have to splurge
I would too in your shoes

Hope everything settles in nicely

[ensquire]

Next order came from Denny, with some assistance from Steve @ RCE.
Denny sent a awesome box full of Zoas and Palys....
Of course the box came about 14 hrs before I was leaving ona week long holiday, and a new tank sitter to top it off.
Young lady showed up and started talking tank with me, her uncle is a reefer froma ways back. Stress level dropped way down.


























Great selection and everything arrived alive and opened up with in hours...

Got home from holiday and besides a small outbreak of algae , both tanks where running great. Just a little glass cleaning and all was great.

[reefwars]

looks great man your going to need an upgrade soon hehehe:P:P

[ensquire]

Originally Posted by reefwars

looks great man your going to need an upgrade soon hehehe:P:P

That is the danger isn't it

[ensquire]

Tank update video, since I don't have a decent camera to take pics....


http://youtu.be/7an_e5n6OPc

[reefwars]

looks great buddy quite the zoo garden and nice scans ya got going!!

that piece you asked me the name of the green one is a hydnophora

cheers

[ensquire]

It is doing awesome , thanks

Originally Posted by reefwars

looks great buddy quite the zoo garden and nice scans ya got going!!

that piece you asked me the name of the green one is a hydnophora

cheers

[ensquire]

Unlike most holiday photos , these have nothing to do with non aquarium activities.
There is a Pet Center in Campbell River that I spend a fair bit of time in .
Stopped in during the first couple of days and looked over the fish and corals, made arrangements with Sarah and staff to put a few things away for me. On the last day I showed up with the fish box I brought with me.
Well, we filled it in short order.....

Some of the larger pieces....



Chalice is bigger than my hand









Gramps came out for a visit....









Big thank you to Sarah and Larry and the staff for helping me out. It's nice to talk reef with people in person.
Ended up with some large LPS pieces and some softies, A trembley Damsel, Yellow Watchman, Pygmy Angel. Almost left with a nice pair of platinums but the strip on the visa was too warm.

[ensquire]

So I got back from holidays and got everything in the tank with no casualties. Tank didn't seem the worse for wear, considering everything that had been added over the course of 9 days. But it looked fairly full.
Started glue pieces to the rocks and started seeing bare spots here and there.... hmmmmmmmmmm. Really wanted to go to Frag fest but being that I just got back from holidays and I'm kinda cheap ( cept when it comes to fish things) I was reluctant to spend money on another ticket south.
A week had passed and the tank is humming along nicely, everything is open and looking happy. Wednesday arrives and Ken starts posting pics and lists of fish and coral on Canreef, so i started sending lists.
Wife comes by the computer and starts looking at some of the pics and asks me whats happening , so I told her about the sale and she says " You should go" .,......hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....I told her that I had thought about it but thought that a ticket would be to expensive on such short notice. She said " Check it out" "Okay" I says...About 600 for 2 days. Kinda put me off. In the mean time, she talks to a friend at one of the airlines and lines me up with a buddy pass discount ticket.
Then the carnage began....................

Frag fest was awesome, but I kinda lost my mind just a bit.

Ken brought in 4 Naked Clowns for me (Goldfish as far as Doug is concerned) so I grabbed them and there favorite nem.

























Then there were all the vendors and reefers outside with all there goodies. Well, not wanting to play favorites. And because I wanted a few pieces of SPS I visited everyone and tried to buy at least one thing.
















You would not believe the looks you get when your going through an airport with a luggage cart piled up with 3 large fish boxes with LIVE FISH on the side. But once more everything survived the plane ride home. Even one of the bags that popped with the brain coral in it survived after a bit of time in the sump. Got off the plane at 9:30 PM and took me until 3:30 am until I had everything acclimatized and in all the tanks.
Added a ton of LPS. Lots of Blastos , Acans, Dendro, duncan, Bicolor angel, Flasher Wrasse, Solarus Wrasse, Yellow Coris, Pair of Bangaii, 4 Naked clowns, Yashi Goby
Can't wait till next year