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Old 10-19-2013, 09:39 PM
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I am in the process of a "do-over" on my 400 gallon display so I thought I'd start a "build thread" so to speak.
Here is a picture of the tank with a couple of hundred pounds of rock already out. (yes it is a big mess but who cares? It's getting a revamp and will be empty pretty soon. The only reason it isn't completely emptied now is I need the rock to support the the critters my mandarins & pipefish feed on) To save power I disconected some of the lighting on the RH third of the tank which is now barren.

Anyway I have added some "non-polluted" live-rock to seed the new dry rock in a 120 gallon tank that I am using for the transition & rock curing process. I moved a T5 fixture over the tank so I can keep an eye on some test corals & I added a pair of true percs to help with the cycle.
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And there it starts the fun or rebuilding a piece of the reef in Greg's home. ..the coral master at work....will be following along. ...lots of pictures...
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Here is a partial shot of some of them crowded into one of my prop tanks. They seem anxious to move back to the reef.
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And there it starts the fun or rebuilding a piece of the reef in Greg's home. ..the coral master at work....will be following along. ...lots of pictures...
The new "scape" will be featuring some of the sweet shelf & branch rock I got from you. Cure baby cure!!
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Here's some shots of a few corals that are in storage & patiently waiting for the move back to the display.

Hawkins Echinata


Tri-color Vermiculata


Meteor Shower


Peach Prostrata


Pacific Chaos


Sarmentosa


Fijian Blue-tip Red Hyacinthus
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A few more

Exquisita


Crocea clam


Maxima Clam


Grape Humilis


Misc zoas



Florida Ricordia (starving for light so although healthy they are getting a bit faded)


Yellow Tip Rose Mille


Shocking Pink Mille
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I discovered today that I have a "vivid" setting on this camera and it makes the colors pop more so they look much closer to how they look in person.
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Your prop tank is nicer than 90% of peoples regular tanks haahaa!
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I discovered today that I have a "vivid" setting on this camera and it makes the colors pop more so they look much closer to how they look in person.
First thing I noticed was the better quality pics! Good job!
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Omg Greg.! I have to agree with Scott... Your "prop" tank is awesome!

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