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02-06-2011, 04:15 AM
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Ressurection
Its been a fun filled 6 weeks!
A week before Christmas Art and I went to grab a coffee. It was a nice walk. As soon as we opened the door it was obvious by the smell of something shorting out that something was wrong. We walked into the fish room and there was water everywhere. All we could say was OMFG.. To quote Art.. Its the bottom and that female dog is going to leak out to the last drop. No pics for the rest of the night, it was a little tense. the next morning. We put a level on the stand, everything was still level.   Brad came the next moring and took all the fish, most of the acros and a wack of LPS home. Im so thankful that he had just set up a big tank and had alot of room in it. I took the sump tank out and modified the plumbing to hold some rock and my ricordea. I had an old T5 strip for light.. atleast it kept the mushrooms and some rock alive. Some of the rock i wanted to use again was bleached to kill the aptaisa and algea and was put in a 55 gallon bin to cook. After 4 weeks i bought a few pieces of newly harvested live rock to seed it. The rest of the rock is sitting in a bin outside on the deck.  The zoas and some LPS were scrunched into my frag tank.  fast forward about 2 weeks and the new tank was delivered. After letting it cure for a week a defect in the bottom was discovered, sooo back to the shop for a new bottom. Fast forward another 2 weeks. Since we had the time, we repainted the stand. The sump was put back in and the skimmer put back online.  Starting to fill it up.. that was pretty much a sleepless night waiting for it to blow lol  Im going to transfer the corals slowly. I have a bunch of extra rock stacked in the middle that is coming out after im sure its stable  Mt. VeZOOvias  Ricordea Cove  At this point both ends are basically done, now to do the whole middle 
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02-06-2011, 04:27 AM
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Mt. VeZOOvias is sweet! Good work
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02-06-2011, 04:31 AM
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Shel that looks great i like the rock works basic what you have. love the Ric's too i will get some of them one of each from you here in the summer I can't wait.
Oh ya love the tank
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02-06-2011, 04:45 AM
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Looks great Shelley. Is the new tank the same dimensions, just shallower?
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02-06-2011, 04:54 AM
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02-06-2011, 05:51 AM
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Looks like the start of sumpin kick-arse, Shelly......loooove those rics....
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260g mixed reef, 105g sump, water blaster 7000 return, Bubble King SM 300 skimmer, Aqua Controller Jr, 4 radions, 3 Tunze 6055s,1 tunze 6065, 2 Vortech MP40s, Vortech MP20, Tunze ATO, GHL SA2 doser, 2 TLF reactors (1 carbon, 1 rowa). http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=50034 . Tank Video here http://www.vimeo.com/2304609 and here http://www.vimeo.com/16591694
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02-06-2011, 06:50 AM
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Looking Great! Wish I had the room for a tank like that!
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02-06-2011, 11:50 AM
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Awesome Shelley! Looks great so far. "Mt. VeZOOvius" cracked me up
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02-06-2011, 01:38 PM
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Sounds like you went through a bit of a nightmare, however the new tank looks great! I love the tonga branch rock and Mt. VeZOOvias is awesome
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