Evolution...Hobby Wise

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by jus68

Just curious, how long did the evolution take??

The time-line is two years

[lastlight]

This is embarrassing.

Early 2006 I built a peninsula upstairs. Late 2006 I began building a 400 gallon downstairs and moved the ~70 gallon (which never looked that great to begin with) down as well so I could reno the main floor. I haven't had anything living in a tank since late 2006. The 400 was cut apart and sold (I filled it once to leak test) and the wall torn down to sell the house.

Check out that sweet ro/di feed to my sump!

[Canadian]

The new tank is SEXY! Well done. I'm a sucker for a nice trimless tank with careful attention to detail like that.

Originally Posted by lastlight

This is embarrassing.

Early 2006 I built a peninsula upstairs. Late 2006 I began building a 400 gallon downstairs and moved the ~70 gallon (which never looked that great to begin with) down as well so I could reno the main floor. I haven't had anything living in a tank since late 2006. The 400 was cut apart and sold (I filled it once to leak test) and the wall torn down to sell the house.

Check out that sweet ro/di feed to my sump!

[fishytime]

I thought I would revive this thread.....I edited the first post to include a few new pics....cmon lets see em guys/gals

[fishoholic]

It all Started back in Jan. 2006 with a 60g tank.

This pic. was from March 2006 when the tank had pretty much just finished cycling.
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60g Sept. 2006
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60g Feb. 2007
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We also added a 10g biocube in Jan. 2007 (which we used cured live rock to set it up with) and in Feb. 2007 this pic. was taken
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[Dez]

I love that you have Canreef on your computer beside the biocube!

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by Dez

I love that you have Canreef on your computer beside the biocube!

I was going to point that out, but I thought I'd see if anyone would notice Also that was back in Jan. 2007 as you can see (other then tank sizes) not much has changed!

[fishoholic]

Now the good stuff, my 230g reef debuting in Jan. 2008
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April 2008
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July 2008
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also added a 28g tank in July 2008
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back to the 230g reef Nov. 2008 (we also added my 230g FOWLR tank at this time but I'll put those pic's separate)
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Jan. 2009 last pic. I have of my reef tank before the velvet incident.
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December 2009
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FYI I just realized that my green bubble tip anemone is my longest living saltwater thing (other then the live rock) and It's gone through 3 tank moves and I've had him since the summer of 2006

[fishoholic]

Now for my 230g FOWLR tank (gee I've had a lot of tanks no wonder it's taken all night to post about them)

Nov. 2008
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Dec. 2008
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Jan. 2009
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April 2009 (one week before the marine velvet incident)
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Sept. 2009 (still looks the same now)
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[fishoholic]

April 2007 we added a mantis and damsels 10g bowfront tank (which I can't find or didn't take a full tank shot of) and also at this time I sold the biocube and transferred the clowns into a 15g long tank, but again for some reason I can't find a pic. of it.

Mantis (which to this day still lives in my sump and eats mysis, krill and silversides, that I feed to it with prongs, and is still about 2-3 inches)
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Devil damsels (used to dive bomb and terrorize my mantis until I gave them away)
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Dec. 2007 120g (which was set up May 2007 but no other pics)
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Dec. 2007 30g cube tank (which was set up in the summer of 2007 but no other pics)
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