120 in the Wall
 

Hey everyone,

Decided to hit up the journal section here, Today my tank crashed.... and hard. With some quick thinking, a little over Half a pail of salt, lots of work, and encouragement from people here I am confident i have saved what i can. As I look at my tank now I am actually very pleased with how it came out, all things considered of course. The list of dead is appalling, but the fact that the majority of my corals look like they are going to make it is comforting.

A little history on my experience and this particular tank. Ever since i was a kid i have loved aquariums, and always wanted a wall that was a fish tank. About 5 years ago I finally got my first fish tank... 1.5 yrs in I went Salty and haven't looked back (probably because i still keep a FW tank too) Last June I bought a house with an unfinished basement, and while I couldn't make an entire wall a fish tank i was able to build one into the wall

This is what it looked like about 2 weeks ago
[IMG]http://i1001.photobucket.com/albums/...20Reef/FTS.jpg[/IMG]

http://i1001.photobucket.com/albums/...f/IMG_1519.jpg

http://i1001.photobucket.com/albums/...f/IMG_1513.jpg

And here is todays FTS after damage control,

http://i1001.photobucket.com/albums/...emSuicide.jpeg

All in all not too different, other than only the clown fish left.

Anyway, i plan to make it a fairly slow rebuild and am going to be focusing on the reef side of the tank firstly this time around, once the water settles out I plan to build up the corals and variety, the idea being to have an amazing reef then add a few fish at the end just for some character and i wanted to document things this time around because it is always fun to get peoples ideas and opinions and to go back and look to see how far things have come. And so........ here we go again.

nice tank, beautiful bluetipped and zoas, hope they make it

So today I came home to my yellow watchman goby and his pistol shrimp hanging out in a new cave. Huzzah more survivors


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Following the build..
How did the crash happen or what went wrong...

Anemone committed suicide sushi style via my VorTechMP40.


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Well, apparently life got in the way of posting anything here, the best news, pretty much all of the corals made it. In the middle of the crash the BTA decided to split, and both survived. I am back to adding stock again the clowns survived along with the goby, I added a mandarin since i had kept one for over a year that had survived the upgrade from 90 to the 120, but he seems to have passed :( so wont even be attempting that again for a while. Today i found a baby Banggai Cardinal during feeding so that is kind of exciting. All in all the tank is doing quite well, bit of a Kenya Tree and Mushroom overgrowth situation but there are definitely worse problems to have than overgrowth of coral i guess. Anyway I will try to throw some pictures up tomorrow and better document the rebuild.

So anyone with gorgonian experience? From everything I have read it seems that the majority of the purple species are at least partially photosynthetic. If that is the case I would love to add one. If not then I will wait until I am ready to give nps corals a go


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Just wondering if anyone knows anywhere in calgary I can get some additional dry rock for my tank. The tank is well established but I've decided I want more taller rock work and maybe a shelf across the back and in the interest of saving a little cash and not throwing my tank into a cycle dry rock would be better. Attachment 13323


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Best dry rock you will ever find and I think they are based in Calgary and do Canada wide delivery..lol...Any time you want just let me know and we could pick any rock you want.