Im finally doing it.......sand is coming out of the second tank too

[Fly Guy]

ok...well I did not get the water flowing nor the corals moved obviously...but I did finish the plumbing


everything seems pretty ok in their temp home. no fish have jumped out of the rubbermaid, and all of the corals look decent with no apparent fighting going on.
I took a side pic of the frag tank. i dont think those front shots I posted yesterday really showed the congestion in there...the first pic here does...and then a few more shots I took....
tomorrow(or today,,its late) is the day I moe them back. haha

[crvz]

What is that blue coral? It's got amazing color to it.

[Fly Guy]

oregon tort

[Scruffys Catch]

Very nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aquawolf]

A little bit packed but very beautiful. Glad to hear you were able to get them in there without any major warfare going on.

[Fly Guy]

Well, as always...this whole thing is taking longer than usual. And I am paying for the delays.

I am ready to move everything back over....I have about 80 gallons of new ASW, 100 gallons I saved fromt he breakdon in the new display. I am slowly cycling this water into the sump and frag tank.

After it cycles a couple hours I am just going to move everything out fo the frag tank as it sits immediately to the floor of the new tank. then deal with the aquascaping, which I already have laid out for the most part.

Im not pleased with how some of the sps look. I think its a combination of not enough flow in the cramped spots, too much light for the 2 hours I have been running the lights for some, and not enough light to others. Nothing is losing any tissue or anything, but I am seeing some color changes I dont like.

My PB I think has killed my leopard. I never saw him do it, but when I moved the fish into their new home I ntoiced the leopard has hardly any tail left.
The PB is pretty much the only suspect as he is kind of a ******* like that, and in that cramped place for 48 hours I think he just picked a fish to beat on and the leopard was it.

He is still alive and breathing ok and looks otherwise healthy......but not swimming too well. I doubt he will make it. but fingers are crossed.

I also have been trying to find a good home for a large condylactis anemone and its 2 clowns. I changed my mind and decided to keep them. I put them in the polyp tank. My trigger is trying to get to the larger clown but she is hiding in the nem so all should be well.

[Hop]

Well things are looking good.

Sorry about the leopard and hopefully things color back up after they are all situated...

[aquawolf]

I wish you the best in getting everything moved over safely Bill. Sorry to hear about the Leopard it sure doesn't sound good at this point.

[Wiskey]

Originally Posted by Fly Guy

here is a teaser of the 90 for you Chris.

Forgive the salt streaks down the glass and the lighting, but the aquascaping is 90% done and 75% of my polyps and non sps are moved over. The lights are a POS 36" PC set up. I am short onlights and the sps frag tank obviosuly gets the priority. The canopy and 250 w halides for this tank are on the frag tank/sps holding tank at the moment

Now that Is Killer looking!!! Very nice work How are the fish doing without many places to hide? How is this tank doing?

That SPS holding tank is some super tight quarters, how you got everything in there without having one huge battle on your hands I'll never know. Sorry to hear about the color changes, but I'm sure you'll get everything turned around once there in the new tank

Best of luck with the compleation of your project Look great so far.
Whiskey

[Fly Guy]

Originally Posted by Wiskey

Now that Is Killer looking!!! Very nice work How are the fish doing without many places to hide? How is this tank doing?
Whiskey

Thank you sir. Appreciate it. I am pleased with it as well.

The fish are covered as far as sleeping spots I believe. Thte two clowns have their nem, and that rock in the center floor fo the tank is actually leaning up against the back wall with a few inches of floor in between two spraybars that is fairly mellow flow....thats where the trigger sleeps and the tomini has a hole in one of the rocks.

Im adding a yellow coris tommorrow. I am going to pull one of the spraybars off and plug all the holes on one end and lean a rock up against it hopefully creating a bed for him, as if I didnt do something he would get exhausted and end up on oen of the cls intakes.

When I broke this tank down before all this started I almost lost the tomine by doing something stupid. I took all the rock out the night before I planned on dropping the fish off at the lfs for a month. Hindsight is 20/20. The tomini was stuck agisnt one fo the intakes when i woke up. Thankfully he made it. This is incidentally the same tomini that was the sole survivor out of everything in the tank when it hit 100 degrees last summer. I would have been so ticked off at myself if I did soemthing stupid to kill it after it pulled through that.

[Fly Guy]

well....a few troubles. I have been waking up to a couple RTN'd frags a day since I moved everything into the new home. A couple that kind of bum me out.....all of them were smaller frags, and not any colonies. I just hope it stops.

Its my fault for not makiong sure the time in that frag tank was limited to a day or two. other than that, everything seems to be doing ok. Its just goign to be a matter of reacclimating everything to more light.

Im not giving up any pics of the new tank until I finish the aquscapign whcih will be a couple of weeks when i feel comfortable m oving everything off of the floor of the tank and getting the lights back on for more than a few hours a day



On a brighter note......got surface skimming??

main flow is of course shut off for that pic and its just the return running...it doesnt look quite as cool when the surface is being chopped up, but with the rest of the flow shut off you can see how thin of a shet of water Im pulling out of the tank

[aquawolf]

I wish you continued luck with the move and hope the rest of the corals hang in there for you Bill.

[Fly Guy]

Originally Posted by aquawolf

I wish you continued luck with the move and hope the rest of the corals hang in there for you Bill.

thanks

so far ive lost:

purple moster frag(thankfully I have two)
ORA hawkins-this was the largest coral lost. it was just starting to get some size to it
minicolony of the ponape bird(thankfully i have two)
Jesus stag
frag of the O tort I had just cut for someone
large frag of my peaches and ***** stylo

and a handful of others. those are the ones that bother me

Im out of town for the next 5 days. I hope nothing changes by the time I return *crossing fingers*

[crvz]

What's a Jesus stag? I'd keep it in the tank, wait 3 days or so.

And you and your holding back the photos for aquascaping. Yeesh!

[Fly Guy]

Originally Posted by crvz

What's a Jesus stag? I'd keep it in the tank, wait 3 days or so.

And you and your holding back the photos for aquascaping. Yeesh!

Its a sweet blue stag that came out of a guy named Jesus tank. Not THE Jesus, and there isnt a snowballs chance in you know where that this one in question is going to rise from the dead. Thats all im going to say on that topic as I have a habit of getting myself into trouble when I keep going with that one............

There is nothing to take a pic of at the moment. Just imagine the frag tank I pictured.......with more space in between the corals....and less color Hopefully that color thing will be different by the time im ready to aquascape.


the aquascaping is actually already done for the most part. I just havent moved the rocks into place. I did it before i even filled the tank with water.