SeaHorse_Fanatic's 165g mixed reef - THANKS CHIN!!!!

[tang daddy]

Whoa man, sorry to hear about the 225 cracking. Did most of the livestock make it?

The new tank is off to a good start, Hopefully this one will be better luck!

[skabooya]

Lovely tank. Cant wait to see more pics

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Originally Posted by tang daddy

Whoa man, sorry to hear about the 225 cracking. Did most of the livestock make it?

The new tank is off to a good start, Hopefully this one will be better luck!

Saved over 90-95% of the livestock. Would have been much worst if the tank had blown 36 hours earlier since nobody would have been home & we would have been out in Manning Park still. Then it would have been 300+g of sw on the floors, dead rock, dead fish, dead corals, ruined drywall, carpet & furniture, burnt out equipment & a royal stink throughout the place.

So yeah, could have been waaaaaay worse.

[lastlight]

Wow and you even got the rock to look much like the last layout. That itself is a reefing miracle nicely done.

Your fish sure love the hand that feeds. They're all jammed into that end of the tank for photo ops lol.

So what happened to Chin's stuff he had in the tank? That sounds crazy (and super swell) to just up and empty a tank for a buddy...did he have a new tank ready for them?

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Wow and you even got the rock to look much like the last layout. That itself is a reefing miracle nicely done.

Your fish sure love the hand that feeds. They're all jammed into that end of the tank for photo ops lol.

So what happened to Chin's stuff he had in the tank? That sounds crazy (and super swell) to just up and empty a tank for a buddy...did he have a new tank ready for them?

He had a 120g downstairs that he transferred most of his fish & corals into. The LR he's selling off and most of the remaining corals were also sold. I ended up with a couple small fish (yellow wrasse & candy hogfish) as well as a couple of corals from the teardown.

Yeah, totally unexpected act of generosity to help me out in a crisis. Chin's really stand up guy & a "friend in need" indeed.

I left the left side of the tank a bit more open since that's where I will see the fish while working on my computer. Seems like 80% of the fish hang out in the left 20% of the tank, hehehe.

Anthony

[Doug]

Nice aquascaping Anthony. Going to be a nice tank.

[Tom R]

Hi Anthony

The new tank looks great.

May the Aquarium Gods watch over you new tank.


Tom R

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Originally Posted by Tom R

Hi Anthony

The new tank looks great.

May the Aquarium Gods watch over you new tank.


Tom R

You should come over for a visit soon & see it live. Haven't gotten together in quite a while.

Anthony

[Mrfish55]

Sorry to hear of the disaster, fortunate you were home, new tank looks great, I am due for another city trip, I'll give you a call when I figure out my schedule.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Some new pics from today:

More full tank shots:



(You can see the new Yellow & the new white YT in this shot)


Orange shoulder & Vlamingi tangs hanging out:



A "white" yellow tang I just picked up from my friend Mike:



Elongate or A. mata tang: