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[Craig Manoukian]

Way cool Dave!

 

[SeaHag]

WONDERFUL...WONDERFUL...WONDERFUL!!!

Excellent job David. As all have stated, you have done great and the tank is looking AWESOME! Only 49 days until I get to see it in person!!!

I am looking foward to more photos.

 

[addict]

Thanks all.

Well, I took a few shots of the tank, and decided to post a couple that actually turned out decent.

Here's a shot of the new psychedelic mandarin... he's already tooling around and picking at all the rocks.

 

[addict]

And here's a shot of some orange zoa's I bought about two months ago... I can't wait til they're totally covering the rock.

 

[Montanareefer]

Very beautiful Dave. Love the mandarin!

 

[addict]

Thanks Johnny.

Well, UPS stopped by a little bit ago, and dropped off a new toy...

Now I gotta convert the plumbing from the old chiller to the new one... I've already taken the trip to Lowe's and I'll post back later with the results.

I was able to hammer out a deal with the guy I bought my original chiller from, and it's going back here in the next couple of days... let's just hope that AquaLogic doesn't go out of business anytime soon.

 

[CaseyDude]

Dude love that carpet!

 

[Montanareefer]

Black Chiller on a pink carpet. Nice touch!

 

[CaseyDude]

Johnny its pink from 500 watts of Vho on it all blue

 

[Montanareefer]

Cool!

 

[addict]

That's too funny Casey...
I think I remember you mentioning in the past that we had the same carpet... ours is in definite need of a steam clean.

Attached is a shot of the interconnect plumbing between the old chiller and the new one... it probably wouldn't have been so bad if the top hole on the chiller had been the IN point... since IN is on the bottom I had to cross the lines... and you can see the result...
Thank goodness for spaflex... this stuff is definitely worth the money...

 

[addict]

And here's a shot of it installed in the dirty crawlspace... I hope I don't have to climb under there again until it's time to give the chiller a cleaning...

(the spill mark is from where I disconnected the bypass tube between the two flanges... miraculously I didn't have any leaks)

 

[addict]

I was also able to get a shot of the Tangaroa shrimp goby, but it's kinda hiding under a rock... It hasn't paid much attention to the pistol shrimp yet, but it's still hanging around the shrimp's burrow (which is off to the right of the photo).
I'm crossing my fingers.

 

[addict]

Well, since I had the camera out, I decided to take two more closer shots of each side of the tank (from the front).
Here's the right side...

 

[addict]

And in stark contrast... here's the left.
It'll be growing SPS pretty soon now so it'll get prettier... right now it's a no-man's land, except for the encrusting red montipora that's healing up top.

 

[Montanareefer]

Thanks Dave for sharing. It has been one heck of a journey!

 

[Craig Manoukian]

Awesome Dave!

Hope you have enough pods to keep the Mandarin fat and sassy. They are voracious grazers and make short work of all but the maturest pod populations.

 

[semigodd154]

nice new pics RA everything looks nice and healthy glad everything worked out for ya with the chiller

 

[brian_e]

tank looks very good ready to see some of my frags growing in it

 

[addict]

Oh yeah... our tank is filled with pods...
we brought a bunch with us in the old rock, and we're experiencing a virtual explosion in the new pod population... there's so many floating around in the current the water looks cloudy.
Plus we have a big pod pile in the refugium (live rock rubble), and we supplement their pod diet with cyclop-eeze, live brine, live red tubifex, urchin roe and it'll also probably nail a few flatworms...
Not too bad of pickins for a 1.5" mandarin.
Thanks for the concern... I also don't like to see stuff killed.