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

[lastlight]

This ain't no private club. Share details with all of us please!!

[Lance]

Originally Posted by lastlight

This ain't no private club. Share details with all of us please!!

I'll let Marie tell all the good stuff. (But I will say it's BIG!!!)

[marie]

Originally Posted by lastlight

This ain't no private club. Share details with all of us please!!

Oceanic corals is building a 96"x30"x30" tank for me....not many details to share yet

@Christy, no I'm not a grandma yet....She's taking her own sweet time about when she wants her birthday

[Lance]

Originally Posted by marie

Oceanic corals is building a 96"x30"x30" tank for me....not many details to share yet

30" high, eh? I'll have to give you notice when I come for a visit so I don't catch you topless working on the tank.

[marie]

Originally Posted by Lance

30" high, eh? I'll have to give you notice when I come for a visit so I don't catch you topless working on the tank.

Before I do that I'm going to have to invest in drapes for the windows and that ain't happening until the tank is paid for

[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 )

[lastlight]

Wow those dims are so awesome until you gotta clean in there or add corals. Wonder what total volume will be factoring in coraline volume...

[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