Zactly!

That's a negative. The only corals that are left are, a red goniopora (these things love turbid water, apparently LOL), GSP (these things are NUKE proof), a patch of purple death palys, Red Mushrooms, Blue/Purple mushrooms and a yellow gorgonia. Needless to say I have some real estate now :lol:

There is a lot of nice new equipment on the market that I'd like to look into. I definitely want to start collecting more corals again. I do feel like I'm sorta starting from scratch and have vowed to make this tank awesome again.

So far I have spent a couple of weeks just rehabilitating the tank. I cleaned the glass. It took two kent scrapers LOL. Vaccuumed out the sump, cleaned all equipment, brushed off the live rock (man those were nasty). Tonight I have a date with a fish net (no, not my wife), and my three year old sand bed that I plan to scoop out and replace with new sand. I've also been making up RO water all week to do a 50% water change this weekend. Ya, look at me go, I'm on a mission!! :twised:

It's like having a clean canvas, ready for new paint.

Crappy iPhone pictures..

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AWESOME MAN

I've always loved your big clam Kien!:lol:

run a tank or run a marathon. both shall test you and produce a lot of salt creep.

I thought we agreed to keep that on the down low..

haha, indeed! some of those post marathon photos make me look like my sump. :neutral:

Well lookie here, another character I haven't seen around. We're all coming out of the woodwork is seems... :lol:

Tank looks good kien, empty, but good! Nice to see the clam still hanging in there.

wow so empty , this is was one of my fave tanks by far , im looking forward to seeing what you come up with , def is kinda nice having a blank slate, im sure the new version will be even better then the first)

cheers)

thanks :-) The upside is that it's kind of like a new build but without the building part. Sorta like fast forwarding to the end of a build after all the rockscaping has been done and the tank has been cycled. Now all I need to do is add livestock :-)

I did sit in front of the tank for a bit and contemplated what I might do differently but in the end, I couldn't come up with anything, really. I still love the design of the tank, love my aquascaping, my support system underneath. Aside from possibly getting a new skimmer and maybe switching to LED, I don't plan to change anything. I especially liked the fact that I could aggressively take a cleaning brush to all of my rock structures and they didn't move an inch. :lol:

On another note, I've been trolling the various forums to see what everyone's been up to but saddened to see that some great systems have been shut down :cry: I understand that life has a tendency to get in the way of this hobby though.. I've been there (a couple of times). :neutral:

And on yet another note, since I am dishing out here, what kind of person vandalises a fish store for god's sake? This person (or people) clearly are devoid of morals which is extremely troubling to me. I can't help but go back to the parents though and place partial blame on them. Why have they not been taught respect? Yes, I am judging, deal with it. I have kids and if I ever found out that they disrespected someone like this I would seriously rip them a new one!

Anyway, off my soap box. Sorry, carry on!

I am glad you came out of your hibernation and took some photo for us.

I can't tell you how much I agree with you. Losing RC in Calgary is just such a shame, especially because of such a reckless act.

You say that now, but once my name starts appearing on all the new livestock in the city again you will wish that I stayed in hibernation :lol:

Too bad about the corals. Let me know what kinds of frags you are looking for there is a chance I may have something for you.

Thanks man! I will probably take you up on that offer! :-)



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I just wrote up like a BUNCH of something REALLLYYY witty and then accidentally hit the back bar.

I'm hoping that's to the other Levi on the board:lol:.

Oh hey there bro! Sorry, that was left over from earlier this year on my iPad. Guess I haven't used tapatalk on the pad in a while.

..besides, her and I are totally over.

:rofl:

Okay, so as planned, I spent mostly all of Saturday morning continuing on my mission to rehabilitate my tank. On the agenda was another round of sand and rock cleaning, media reactor (GFO & Carbon) and doser repair/replacement, and salt and skimmer creep cleaning. All of this followed by a 50% (ish) water change.

This scene I'm sure is familiar to many hobbyists. :lol:

Buckets and towels and hoses, oh my!

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Don't try this at home kids! :lol:

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not looking good to cloudy Kein

Trust me, I know what I'm doing! :lol:


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:eek: Where the hell have I been, sorry to hear about the coral losses.

You've been busy playing house with your boyfriend and trying to design tattoos and stuff like that :-)

So anyway, that was Saturday. The tank cleared up within a few hours and here's what it looks like today.

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Okay everybody, gather round. Time for a group photo.

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:lol: partly, mostly I've been watching new seasons of TV and Doug is addicted to the computer game stronghold kingdoms.

so in other words, you guys are playing house :-)

Tanks looking good!!

Inhabitants in review.
 

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help! I've fallen (again) and I can't get up!

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FTS 2012
 

The South Face

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The North Face

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Wao.. thats some work and the result is just amazing! Stunning looking tank you have! How often do you find yourself working on your tank on a weekly/monthly basis? I'm trying to get an idea of what I'm getting myself into :razz:

Thanks :-) It has seen better days but it's alright. Could be worse :lol:

This tank has seen all sorts of maintenance schedules over the past 3 years. When I started the tank I was quite religious with the upkeep and would clean the glass every other day and do weekly water changes. I also emptied my skimmer cup every two or three days and frequently made batches of Calcium, Alkalinity and home made fish food.

As time went on I started to get really busy with other things and the tank maintenance took a hit. Everything got pushed back and some chores got skipped :( The tank still hung in there but some of my more delicate corals started to go, sadly.

This past spring I ran into some equipment failures which completely demotivated me because I just didn't have time to fix or replace the equipment and so mostly all of my corals got nuked. My fish were all still fine though so I tweaked my maintenance down to the bare minium. 1. Filling my auto fish feeder, 2. refilling the auto top off reservoir, 3. Cleaning the skimmer cup every weekend. That's pretty much all I did for the past 7 months or so. All of my fish and invertebrates did just fine on just that schedule.

I guess the moral of the story (and the answer to your question is), it depends :-) That is, it depends how complex you want your system to be and how much time and effort you *want* to put in.

Well it looks like you've definitely taken some very positive steps in the last little bit. It looks great. Beautiful pics.

I really like the aquascape, you can really see the middle tower now and it looks cool! Love the angels!

Great pictures as always!

How big are the angels now Kien? Anything that they pick at or are they behaving well? (I see they don't pick at GSP :lol:)

Love it


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is that a new acro i see in there lol

so it has begun :mrgreen: