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Old 10-23-2013, 04:47 AM
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It's tough when you loose colonies but it's not as bad if you were able to snip an insurance frag before they kicked the bucket.
Below are a few insurance frags (some grown from 1/8" nubs & nursed along for what seems like forever) that are starting to make a nice come back that will be heading to the reef in the near future.
My long lost - Ultimate Prostrata

Tri-color Mille

Purple Polyp from Fiji

Sunset

Blue Polyp Mille

Blue tip Green Slimer

Purple Passion digitata
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Some of my 'Coral Master' favorites there.
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Only as every time I look at Greg's photos of his old and new to be system makes me want to switch to full SPS ...And now I could say there is a decent chunk of me in his new setup....(fijireefrock.com)
Cannot wait to see how your doing your aqua scape.
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Some of my 'Coral Master' favorites there.
It's been a while for some of these.
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Only as every time I look at Greg's photos of his old and new to be system makes me want to switch to full SPS ...And now I could say there is a decent chunk of me in his new setup....(fijireefrock.com)
Cannot wait to see how your doing your aqua scape.
I quite liked my old aquascape so the new will be similar to the old but with some cool changes because there will be more accents with branching rock
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The master is at work again.... can't hardly wait to see your new creation! I still remember sitting infront of the monitor and drooling over your totm on rc few years back. You are an amazing reefer, thanks for sharing it with us.
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What's going to run this beauty behind the scenes for equipment?


So now with a fresh start do you think you'll change anything in the way of maintenance or routine?
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Old 10-25-2013, 09:37 PM
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The master is at work again.... can't hardly wait to see your new creation! I still remember sitting infront of the monitor and drooling over your totm on rc few years back. You are an amazing reefer, thanks for sharing it with us.
Thanks for your generous & kind remarks Rich.
Since I did my main build on RC last time I figured I would do it Canreef this time.
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So now with a fresh start do you think you'll change anything in the way of maintenance or routine?
I will be recycling most of my existing equipment but may spice it up a bit but haven't decided on exactly what changes I will be making yet.
I will update things as they come up.
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Default Thank goodness for grounding probes

Had a close call on Sunday when doing a water change in my prop tanks. When I put my hand straight into the water there was no issue but if I just lightly touched the surface I would get zapped with a pretty strong shock that actually hurt. I thought it was wierd and knew I must have a stray current issue but couldn't pin point it. A short time later my overflow alarm starting to beep so I went to investigate and noticed everything plugged into one of the power bars had no power so I unplugged it all and rigged up some power to get things going again. When I plugged the heater in it started to spark and there were literally flames in the sump water so I quickly unplugged it and saw the glass housing of the heater had broken in two and the element was electrifying the water. I then realized where the stray current had come from earlier - and with an obviously cracked heater glass I was very fortunate to not get electricuted so I believe the grounding probe did it's job. Neither me, the fish or corals in the tank suffered any damage so I feel blessed - I think it could have been ugly if I didn't have the grounding probe hooked into the system. They are definately worth the few bucks I spent on them!!

Lesson learned - don't use an old glass heater as a permanent solution because when - not if they eventually go it could get dangerous.

I will post a picture of the heater when I can but I am out of town this week and since the pix are still in my camera at home it will have to wait.
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