lastlight's 209
 

It's amazing how much light you can buy for $300 these days if you're old-school!

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Some rubble I borrowed from Maui:

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More to come soon!

Is this beginning of the new tank?

The more things change the more they seem to stay the same :pop2:

Yessir.

Amen.

Brett you're such a tease. At least give us some dimensions to chew on ...

welcome back good sir

Lol I am aren't I? 84x24x24 this time around.

Thanks man. The pull was too strong. It's buy all the equipment's again time.

Nice!
Looking forward to a fully stocked build thread. I'd ask a litany of questions but I'll be patient (for now) 'open open open'

... my sworn nemesis.

Dude, I live in Calgary now, hit me up if you need any help!

Back in town? Guess I'll see you at the next reefers wings event. If those still happen...

There were reefer wing events?

Awkward :drinking:

Hosts and organizes several reef/frag swaps over the years.
Never gets invited to reef nerd nights.
Feels bad man.

I think I went to two over the years? There werent many and you were most def in BC bro. We'll do it up. I don't remember how to reef so you could share tips lol.

Whoa, welcome back!

Thanks bro :)

Nice to see one of the Good Ole boys back in
I agree with the old school. Just wait until you have to find frags of some of the corals we kept 10 years ago let alone see the price! What we used to buy from Kevin & Doug at Red Coral for $10 is now $20-$30 a polyp!

I was thinking the opposite based on some of the prices I've seen so far. Rastas aren't like 30 pp etc. Good thing my goal is larger colonies of only a few corals. Impulsive me might deviate once I'm coral ready of course!

That is true. Most of the corals have taken a flop. The $10/frag at red coral is now worth a fortune but the expensive stuff (rastas, red dragon acros) are considerably cheaper.

Where's your build thread?

No build thread for me. Ive got a 110 display, frag tank and sump. About 150 gallons of actual water.

How long have you been back?! Post a pic or something... details =)

Lets see that FTS Brett :razz::razz::razz:.

The old Lastlight would have had build pics of the completed stand by now. What gives, hoss?

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Well it's not done but I guess a progress shot doesn't hurt lol.

Big milestone and a huge relief. Tank is safely on the stand. Concepts did an amazing job and I really dig the little extras they put in for me like the vinyl background and the CNC overflow insert which is extremely clean. I'll never move a tank without suction cups again. They lent me four.

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Lookin' great so far Brett. I see tigger approves.

Wow. It’s shiny!

Awesome! Looks like a nice setup. Now time for water!

I like the colour of your wall. Are you going mainly fuzzy sticks with this tank? LED’s?

Thx guys. It'll be a mix for sure. Gorgs, acans, zoas, and certainly sticks too. Will be lit by t5 and I may toss some of those bright white led clusters down the middle for some shimmer.

Unfortunately I've been forced to hide the jackposts in the basement since they're in my wife's dayhome space so I've been busy framing and drywalling when I should be reefing. However I did manage to leak test the new tank and put in my rocks. I need to source a
new threaded elbow for my ro/di and filters so I can get to making proper water. My ranco temp controller also came in the mail. Baby steps!

Trouble light preview:

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Looks good. How is the overflow and back panel constructed?

Looking good young fella

Thanks guys. Overflow is standard external with three holes. Primary siphon with trickle down the emergency and third is my return which I still need to fit with some loc-line. Black vinyl on back of tank and the overflow teeth are CNC in a black plexi insert that can be removed.

Tried out the prodibio to kick start the tank maybe a month ago. Have started adding my fish / coral feeders and as I typically do I'm adding all the fish I've had before and loved. Really need a nice Kole tang though! Just have a strip of RGB LEDs I had kicking around over the tank for now just so I can watch the fish. Will hopefully get to constructing the light canopy soon.

No great pics to share but so far for fish I have

7 chromis
2 3-stripe
Pair of squarespot
Naso
Tailspot

And best of all my best friend gave me back the black leopard wrasse from my avatar. She must be at least 6 years old now and she's got adult colorations in her face so it's green marble instead of white spots. She has only been in the tank 2 days and was asleep before I came home from work. Hope to get a picture soon. Wish i still had access to a macro lens. When I'm ready I'll be getting frags of some of my old gorgs as well. Super stoked!

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Looks great so far! Who's that in front of the Naso in the second photo, is that the female anthias? Looks kinda yellow?

Yes that's the female. Similar to previous times I've had these she seems WAY smarter than the male lol.

Looking good Brett.

Tank looks great, as always!