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Joefish
12-04-2010, 01:57 PM
The last 6 months have been a real bummer for this tank. When I ripped out a ceiling, furnace and duct work the water quality in all my tanks took a big hit even though they were covered. I lost both my clams all colorful z&p's, 4 acan colonies, 10 chalices, 4 varieties of candy cane. The only lps to survive were the orange wall hammer, a frogspawn that is coming back and a pencil eraser size head of regular hammer. Now that the water is back where it needs to be and a re-aquascape its time to start collecting corals again. Here is my starting point.

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii104/joefish_photo/PC040163.jpg

Sir Patrick
12-04-2010, 02:21 PM
Sorry to hear about your run of bad luck! Tank sure is looking good!

Joefish
01-15-2011, 10:06 AM
First coral added since the disaster. Big thanks to TM01

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii104/joefish_photo/2torch.jpg

Sir Patrick
01-15-2011, 02:12 PM
Nice torch!

Joefish
02-11-2011, 11:32 AM
Decided at the last minute to go to the swap and Im glad we did. My wife won 4 draws from the livestock raffle and picked up a few more nice pieces. Here is the first pick from the raffle, camera didnt grab just how bright red this is. Pics of the rest coming soon. Also added a blue midas blenny that wont hold still for a pic.

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii104/joefish_photo/P2100267.jpg

Joefish
02-11-2011, 06:55 PM
Heather went "Japanese tourist" on the blenny and this is the best of her 200 shots. Fish is over 4inch and I thought we were getting the standard midas when I said I would buy it. Always amazes me how blennies can perch in corals and not **** them off. Six more swap coral pic before monday coming up.

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii104/joefish_photo/blmds.jpg

MizTanks
02-11-2011, 10:30 PM
Oh my! Is that a beautiful Blenny! My Tail Spot just loves perching on my Favia, doesn't bother it a bit :)

Sir Patrick
02-11-2011, 10:37 PM
Nice pix!!!!

Raffles will hook ya at the swaps- I am sure we will see you at more!!!

Keep us updated on this tank!

Joefish
02-25-2011, 08:10 AM
Still working on more pics. Went 52 hours with no power. Had a small generator running but the heater just couldnt keep up with the house temp at 60. Tank got down to 66 degrees before I rigged up a heat exchanger using a maxijet, some air line and an oil filled space heater. Things looked a bit rough when power came back on but fine the next day. Only lost a green chromis but I think that was more from the shock of lights and powerheads popping on.

Sir Patrick
02-26-2011, 12:35 AM
Glad to hear someone pulled through the long power outage!!! I have read far too many sad stories. So glad to hear a relatively positive one!!!!

Looking forward to new pics!