Poseidon's NEW Adventure!

Ok, had the good camera out, so I snapped a few quick shots:

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Full tank shot

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The stand isn't that red, I set the WB for the tank. I think I have another image with a more accurate stand color later.

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These are the paly's from the club meeting. Not sure what they are, but they are brown, and uh not going to stick around long.

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First Chalice in the tank! This one is from Bob, not sure if it is named or not, but the color is RED!

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Super Green in this Frogspawn!

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Sticky Punch? I got these from Dknuckles.

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Raptors Peace Coral

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Mexican Turbo!

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3-4 Duncan Heads.

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From the Right side.

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Closer up to the Frogspawn.

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From the left side.

Sweet pics Mike ! Tanks looking great! How ya liking the flow inductor ?

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Originally Posted by binford4000

Sweet pics Mike ! Tanks looking great! How ya liking the flow inductor ?

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I like it a lot, that and the vortec make all the flow I need, for now.

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Originally Posted by chort55

Man Mike I thought u said you were taking your time and going to be picky this go around.... brown zoas and trumpet coral.... :confused: lol

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LOL! The Trumpet stays, this particular version is from my old tank. It is a frag from a frag that I sold to a friend a long time ago. I bought this particular coral from the Trop back in the late 90's, it was one of my very first corals.

Now as for the zoa's/paly's those are going away... Logan picked them up at the MMMC meeting, I'm not a fan. Under just Blue LED they actually look pretty cool though.

Any updates Mike ??

Hi Chuck!

Lots of updates, unfortunately they are not good ones. I am getting a divorce. I have moved, the tank came with me though, but I am now in an apartment. I could not set up the basement sump here. :( I have the 30L under the tank, the 45 went to a friend that helped me move. I had to remove the shelf from the stand to fit the sump under the tank, now I need to skin the stand.

Overall I had only one loss during the move, which I will call successful. Funny how your life can change so quickly, less then 6 months ago, everything seemed to going so well.... now I am sitting in a whole new apartment with half my stuff in another apartment that Stacey lives in.

The good news is that I will have more time to work with the tank, and hopefully enjoy some doing a couple of DIY projects.

I'll post up some new pictures either later tonight or tomorrow evening. :)

Sorry to hear that Mike ! Looking forward to seeing what ya do with it. Hang in there. My hippo fragged my blue tip stag so if you need a nice piece LMK !

Ok, I had a BRIGHT idea the other day, and decided it was worth a shot, worst case if it didn't work, I would be out basically nothing.... I have a need to add Ca/Alk to the tank, and with funds being short, DIY is the only way to go. I have been keeping my eye out for the 5 gallon buckets of "Driveway Heat" but have not come across any, and I have a 3lb bag of Baking Soda around here somewhere. So... Any guesses?

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I know, an empty gatorade bottle...

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Epoxy? A paper plate? WHAT!?!?

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This will NOT keep the gatorade in anymore....

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Are those 1/4" tubing couplers? On top of a GatorAid Bottle? Yes, yes they are!!

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Hmmm.... What could that be?

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PRESTO CHANGO!!! KALK REACTOR!

$10 worth of plumbing parts, some of which I already had, and about 30 minutes later. (Okay a couple hours to make sure the epoxy was good and dry.)

I have a 5 gallon bucket full of Lime, so I am "in there like swimwear" on that. I know this is a bandaid, and I will DIY up a real nice one as I get my life back on track. I am thinking of a dual chamber DIY, Kalk reactor on one side, with a CaRx on the other.... a couple small chambers, 4" square buy 12" tall would fit in my stand nicely.

I hope you enjoy the update, it was a fun afternoon project. ;)

Thanks Chris, I amy take you up on that. I don't have much for demand.... yet. ;) I am hoping this is enough to get me buy for a few months.

Nice!

Here is a view from the couch:
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Only blue LED's, and the iPhone is not real sure what to do with all that blue light. ;)

Actually, I was planning on copying Binford! His looks really nice, and it is something that I think I can do.