I’m not really surprised. I'm just a small fish in a big ocean.

You still can. It’s not too late :biggrin: Also, Space Invader Pectina.

Sadly, it's too large to frag now.

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Greetings from Campbell River. Nice to see it still running and with halides and its been awhile. regards Ken

Hey ya! To be honest, I'm kinda surprised that it is still running.

So ya, the Halide fixture is still the original Maristar Halide+T5 combo fixture from day one. It has served me well, but so old skool. Unfortunately, it is getting increasingly difficult and more expensive to replace the bulbs on it. As a result, I am in the process of formulating a plan to replace the fixture.

Yesterday I decided to clean out my overflow box. I don’t think I’ve touched it in over two years. That was a mistake. It was completely filled with tube worms. And not the soft skin feather dusters either. The ones that make the hard calcium tubes. Nasty.

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Oh man… how did they not disrupt the drains and overflow water amount! Nasty looking for sure. Now I better take a look into my overflow…

Ya I was surprised it didn’t completely clog up. There are 3 overflow drains and one of them was practically clogged. The other two took over I guess. It’s very satisfying to see a clean overflow box again.

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Ugh, I need to do this too. I’ve been avoiding it by refusing to look back there.

Ya that’s definitely how I ended up with that mess. I pretended that it didn’t exist :lol:

Exactly what I've been doing. And this morning I could hear the trickle of water down my emergency, so I know the main is getting worse. Maybe I'll actually do it today...

The long weekend coming up would be a good time. I thought cleaning out my overflow would be an hour chore. Ended up spending 3 hours on it. I kept clogging the pipes with that mess and had to pull out my auger to clear out the pipe. Also made a big mess outside the tank I had to clean up :facepalm: Maybe yours won't be as bad as mine. Good luck! :lol:

Haha darn, I was going to ask how you didn’t have a huge mess… but sounds like you did lol. I have the bean style drains as well. I’m going to have to pull the pipes and give it a good clean, and of course the tank is against a wall.

Aren't most tanks against a wall? :lol: But ya, I hear ya. It was really awkward to get back there since the overflow is literally inches from the wall. I tried so hard not to make a huge mess but ended up with one anyway. What I ended up doing was taping up a huge sheet of painters poly wrap plastic on the wall and under the overflow around the tank. That helped a lot. Getting up there was awkward too. I'm not a tall person so balancing on a combination of step stools and barstools was interesting. Hopefully I'm good for another 5-10 years :lol:

Right on! I like the painters plastic idea, makes sense to minimize the wall mess haha. I am going to give it a go as well.

Took advantage of some awesome weekend sales this past weekend.

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Nice pieces and good variety. Envious of the amount of corals being sold in Calgary compared to Edmonton.

Hey, what's that in the back? Looks suspicious.

That's my flame angel. He's definitely sketchy.

Ok fine. After a bit of an hiatus from collecting I thought I’d take up your suggestion to do the sticks again. Wish me luck! I feel like I’m new to this :lol:

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Greetings, those corals sure look nice, did you win the lottery? Nice to see pics when you attached to the rock. But keep the halides!!!!!! regards Ken

Oops!

After 13 years of running Halide+T5 combos on this tank, I have finally entered the 21st century. Sorry Ken.

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Using the CoralLabs AB+ template.

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I seriously need to learn how to take pictures of LED lit tanks.

Thanks dave@concepts for hooking me up with these bad boys.

Definitely looking good, loved the Radions, glad to hear you are back at it, but I still think you won the lottery LOL regards Ken

Thanks! Have only had them a day and I'm already loving them. Don't get me wrong, the halides were nice and got the job done, but the amount of flexibility in LED lights is astounding. I've been missing out! I love that I can dial in the exact colour rendition that I want. As it is, I tweaked the AB+ template to give me a more appealing (to me) colour cast. I also love that my temp doesn't swing anymore. The halides raised my tank temp a few degrees a day. It is never a problem in the fall/winter/spring months, but in the middle of summer it can be a huge issue. It HAS been a huge issue. Especially the last few years where we have had much warmer summers.

Welcome to the future.

The future is so bright, I gotta wear shades. Seriously, I need to find those yellow/orange shades that I've seen people wearing to view their LED tanks. Also, I can't believe it took me this long to go LED. Now I kinda want to get a set of vortechs.

Couple of new additions.

Octospawn. Love the subtle movement in this guy.

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Tyree toadstool. So adorbs.

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Some trippy photos. 100% actinics with lens filter.

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FTS south side

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Sometimes, I got relieved by watching this forum cause of these beautiful pictures of reefs. How wonderful

looking good mister popcorn eater, i might have to get some frags from ya


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hahahaha

Looking good Kien