Chaloupa's 10 foot build

[Lance]

I had the pleasure of visiting Sarah's (Chaloupa) new store today and I was very impressed. Fishes and other livestock all looked healthy and fit, and the tanks were all clean and well maintained. The new 10' display tank is killer! Gonna look great when those corals grow in. Good job Sarah!
I came home with Dave's (MrFish55) new Moorish Idol, a very nice Squamosa, and some nice-looking zoas. I'll get some pics of the clam up in the next few days.

[Mrfish55]

Thanks for the Idol, he's a beauty. Thanks Lance for bringing it home, I will get some pics up in the next few days, I am sure it will make a nice addition to the 750.

[Chaloupa]

Thanks Lance! Glad to see you again! Thank you for transporting the MI for Dave

Dave.....I miss him already, he's an amazing fish..and the biggest I've ever seen. He was AWESOME in our tank...but I want to keep coral more...*sigh* Glad he's in your tank, I'm sure it will be perfect!

[Mrfish55]

Well, didn't take long, the other fish were chasing him last night, this morning he was swimming out front and the rest were all hiding in the back! Looks like we have a new king in town, beautiful fish, thanks again.

[Chaloupa]

Soooo been awhile since the last update on the tank...I have a couple of videos up on youtube;
http://youtu.be/gHmotiBbVv0

and
http://youtu.be/gjrKbOo7Pus

(sorry for the background noise, I'm not really great at the video editing!)

But it gives you an idea of how the tank was looking.....did you catch that "was"? The tank had a leak.....and a fairly bad one...so last Sunday we ripped it down, transferred all contents to my 150g (luckily it hadn't sold yet) and some of our store tanks, and cleaned it out A company from Victoria came to our store, cleaned the old silicone off and resealed it all....and found there was not only 1 leak but 3!!!!! So, now we go into rebuild mode.....to look on the bright side, we won't have to do it again, and we were able to change some of the plumbing that we weren't happy with...and we put a better base under it with some underlay to help cushion it. The rebuild has started...we did save all our sand, cleaned a good portion of it and put that in.....all our water was saved, and all our rock is still perfect. We put the sand back in yesterday, and added some water to start circulating again, and start skimming again, so it's circulating through the sump now, and we added a truckload of Hagen Cycle. Going to check some levels over the next week to see what kind of die off we still had/have in the sand...hoping to get it up in a week...but we'll see. FAIRLY excited to get it back up and running as it really is missed by customers and staff alike! Will try to update it when we put stuff back in and get another video up. Wish us luck, we're going to need it!

[fishoholic]

Wow that sounds pretty busy, best of luck to you getting it all back up and running

[hillegom]

Thats a lot of work. Glad its coming together for you.
Amazing tank

[Leah]

The tank is amazing...good luck with the rebuild.

[Chaloupa]

Thanks everyone! This was every reefers nightmare...but we survived...lesson be learned...if you buy a used tank, know the people or get the age of the tank, and possibly reseal it if you aren't sure of the silicone. Would have saved us a ton of grief if we had done that especially with a 10 foot tank.

Oh well, the rebuild will be fun and leaves us the option to add a few new tangs to the mix now that everyone is moved out. I've got a Powder Blue, Flame Fin Tomini and a gorgeous Blonde Naso Tang as well as the Orange Shoulder we took out after Tennenti Tang tried to kill him, then the Tennenti went after our Maculiceps Tang (formerly we called him an Earspot Tang which is what we bought him as)but that war is over with those 2 so adding new ones in the mix might be nice, plus the perfect time is now! Will update!

My current fish list is;
6 Yellow Tangs
1 Maculiceps Tang
Tennenti Tang
Sailfin Tang
Vlamingi Tang
3 Picasso Clownfish
3 Hawaiian Flame Wrasse (2 are males now)
1 Sixline Wrasse
1 Rhomboid Wrasse
1 Golden Dwarf Eel
1 Diamond Goby
1 Hector's Goby
1 Target Spot Mandarin
1 Potter's Angel
1 Black Blenny

and I think that's it!

[Chaloupa]

Oops...and a Foxface!