Thanks dude. I am pretty proud for my first time wood working. :redface:

haha no it looks nice, I cant wait to start my build thread, I just built a wild cherry/oak stand and am dying to so it off, its simple but I'm proud of myself. you should be too!

those are more than a worm!! more like a python.

No sarcasm :biggrin: I just couldn't believe it he seems to be a moody man sometimes but actually he has a very good heart. Lucky for us to have him work at our LFS though.

You hit the nail on the head. He does give off a snobby feeling when you first meet him. It gets better with more interaction you have with him. Jeff is a very knowledgeable person when it comes to this hobby, he has been in the hobby for quite some time now and I usually direct all my question his way. Although some of the question are elementry, he still trys to explain to me the best he can, it's only when you start to ask the same elementry question over and over again he starts to get annoyed, but for the most part I just google before I start asking. :smile:

This explains where I got all my bristle worms from.
The biggest one I've pulled out so far was 1" wide, an absolutely ugly MFer.

Thank you so much for giving me WORMS! Haha!

I can't wait until you get this tank flourishing like your old 210. And just remember that you can always fit the wife INSIDE the tank the next time there's a disagreement. :wink:

Thanks buddy, its gonna be a few month before it stabilize. I can't wait till I can put some fish in there.

Just a small update
 

I have been busy for the last week or so, didn't get much done. I have also been fighting off a new tank syndrome hair algae outbreak since I nuked all my rocks by fresh water dipping everything for 4 minutes to kill all the pests.

I am almost finished my skin for the tank, all it left is fill and sand then off to a good friend of mine's shop to get it paint it.

I finally did some testing last night alk is at 6.5, cal is at 500, and mag is around 1100. No wonder the hair algae is growing out of control, I bumped my alk up a couple of points and plan to do a water change later.

Here are a couple of recent photos.
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/117457fa.jpg
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/aaa62431.jpg

Tank is looking good, must say I love the rock placement as it looks nearly identical to the way I did mine.

Thanks for the compliment. The rock work took me a fair amount of time to get it right. I think thats the single most time consuming part of setting up a tank. I have done my fair share of fruit stand look so this time I wanted some thing different. I am even considering take out a few more pieces of rock just to make it look cleaner...

Ps love to see what your tank look like.

Tank is looking awesome Rich! Can't wait to see it again next time I'm out that way!

I will have to get some current shots and update my thread, no real huge changes to the tank itself but I did just complete a sump and equipment overhaul, if you check my profile it will direct you to my build thread.

Thanks Darryl. For sure dude, come out anytime. I will have a cold one ready for you buddy.

Cool, I will definitely check it out!

Anything new??

I'm surprised that even though you've picked up a few frags recently that there aren't any updates........tsk tsk!

Get off your lazy @ss and post some updates ASAP!!!

All right guys, just a little update while I am bored at work. shhhh don;t tell anyone Ken.:twised:

I have been running the system for a bit more then a month now, every thing is looking great. Lots of the sps are coloring back up again. I had a major alk dip just recently, it went from 9 - 5.5 in a little less than a week, I had to bump it up with soda ash from BRS, I guess its always good when the corals are using it up.

I also dumped my CPR refugium so to eliminate any chance of the thing getting stuck and flooding my floor again. Never again.

I did get a new toy last week.
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/292234b2.jpg
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/5b25ab28.jpg
Here it is running.
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/24d3c80d.jpg
The Kalk stirrer is from Avast marine. I think its a replicate of deltec km500s, compare prices I would definitely get this over the deltec. I also bought an extra motor for 50 bucks just incase this one poops out.

Tank running for a bit more than a month
 

Here are some more pictures, sorry for the low quality pictures, I rather buy equipment and live stock then a camera.
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/4e55e89b.jpg
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/8fc4b06b.jpg

Here is a video, crappy quality.:redface:
http://s1088.photobucket.com/albums/...t=065422cb.mp4

Cannot tell from your picture but it is a beautiful tank you have and very expensive too. Can you tell me more why it is special and what does DD means ?

I know all about low quality pics Rich! :lol:
Tank is looking awesome like your old one did

Took you long enough to post updates!!!

Now I don't have to go over to your house to look for updates anymore. Haha!

About time you moved the Blonde Naso OUT of the BioCube! Haha!

Like I've said before............you have a little too much GREEN on the left side of the tank. :twised:

If you move some of those bad boys over to the right side, you'll have more balance of colours throughout the whole tank.

BTW, the tank looks like cr@p! I expected more from you.........



Haha Just kidding bud!

It looks awesome! I can't wait until you glue down some of the new pieces you've picked up recently.

I expect more tang from the 300DD.

1 purple
1 chevron
1 black
1 powder brown
1 sail fin
1 regal

Tank looks great Rich.


Chris

DD stands for deep dimension, it's a factory marine land tank and they called it deep dimension due to the 36 inch depth. I am not sure what you mean by special but my wife did gave me the okay to upgrade. I thought that was pretty special.😃

36" depth ... wow no wonder someone told me the tank is special, but I didn't ask why its special :biggrin:

Thanks dude. Very much appreciated.

Is that a list for me or a list for you??😁i am not the only one who has upgraded! Isnt there a black body tang with a orange spot on the tail swimming in a 210 gallon tank in Richmond somewhere...😉

Hey Chris, thanks for for the complement! I still have to come by and check out your tank one of these days.

Oh oops, my bad. 😊

I think there is another one lives in a 75 gallonF

Tank's looking super nice already! I will sadly go stare at all my tiny sticks now :cry:

210 is too small for all those fishes... so those are you shopping list.

Small update.
 

Just a small update on newly accquired live stock.

Achilles tang
Blonde naso tang(grew up in my biocube, I got a purple tang going in there next) bring it on Tang police:twised:
Yellow flanked wrasse
Orange back fairy wrasse
Solon wrasse
MacCosker flasher wrasse
Line spot flasher wrasse
Pair of marjorie's wrasse (pretty rare deep water wrasse)

I have been going on this wrasse binge for some unknown reason but I love it. Next on the hit list for wrasses are labout, hooded fairy,scott's fairy, and a lineatus wrasse.

Tank has been up and running for almost 2 month, all the sps are getting there colors to come back up. In the last few month through my tank upgrade I have meet up with a few awesome reefers in town. Apexfd, Chowder, Reefie, and Tang daddy. I like to Thank all you for letting me come over to your houses and drool over your tanks, Thanks for all the great frags and good times! It's amazing to find people who share your hobby and in many cases our passion.

Anyways what a update without pictures. sorry for the low quality pics but my buddy is coming over with his camera that cost more then my left leg and hopefully we will get some nice picts taken.

Funny that you'll spend thousands on equipment and hundreds on fish, but $50 for a coral is out of the question! Haha you cheap @ss! Maybe you'll qualify for TWMEE (Tank With the Most Expensive Equipment) and TWMEF (Tank With the Most Expensive Fish), and even maybe TWCC (Tank With the Cheapest Coral)? Hahaha! :twised:

BTW, the Tang Police called me about knowing anything about a Canreefer keeping a Blonde Naso in a BioCube. I told them that I didn't know YOU, and the pics I sent them of your BioCube, I had no idea how they got onto my phone........Maybe someone photoshop'd the Naso? :wink:

PICTS
 

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/bf41e5f5.jpg
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/450ea726.jpg
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/1f90f227.jpg
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/6fddd0b9.jpg
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/e2196d6b.jpg
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/126bf4b7.jpg

Get me a piece of this! I'm on a Mille fetish right now. Haha!

You should've posted up pics of the SeaHare and Tunze duel!!!
Yummy!

And NO, you can't borrow my SeaHare anymore! Haha!

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/97a836d0.jpg
shaggy acro and pink lemonde.

crap I forgot to mention kpg007 and reef digger. :redface: oops sorry guys. Thanks guys.

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/5fbecb29.jpg
Some kind of tort.
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/35f965ce.jpg
Blue milli from millipora maniac. trying to make a comeback.

I got some hair algae on the rocks, got a seahare a while back and it was doing a good job until I got home last night at 11:30 from visiting my good buddy. Just as I was putting the sps I had purchased from JL into a small container to dip, my wife looked at me and said I think the seahare is stuck on the tunze. I immediately grab a stick and poke it, long story short, it was stuck and yes it was dead. I had to fish the tunze out and separate the pump, It took every ounce of strength not to puke. It was stuck in a such a weird position, I had to cut the seahare in half just to get it out. GROSS!

http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/5be2b39b.jpg
Marjorie female, very shy fish.
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/87006a3a.jpg
Achilles tang are my favorite fish, even after fresh water dip with paraguard it still got ick, but on the bright side its eating everything including pellets. I dont know if I told you I love this fish. yellow is still the boss of the tank.
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/...s/7a7cb827.jpg