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

[fish.freak]

looking good!

[Fly Guy]

Well........I ended up losing more than I want to talk about in the big tank. It seems every day I wake up there is something else. Much of it looks great. I just screwed up....took for granted they could take the abuse and was wrong...... some of them couldnt take it.

On a brighter note........Im super pleased with my results so far in this polyp tank. Besides losing a bunch of color due to the PC lighting over it for so long, all of my polyps without exception are larger than they were in my other tank....and getting better by the day.

Just today I got the PC's off the tank and put up 2 250w reeflux 12k's along with 2- 48 supr actinic vho's. jury is still out whether I like the color or not.......it looks too blue for me to be honest....but im so used to 10k's........thats to be expected......we will see........

anyway.....some pics I took today.....

[Fly Guy]

[Fly Guy]

[crvz]

Now come on, Bill, you're just showing off. What a superb collection of zoanthids and other softies.

[aquawolf]

Sorry about the trouble with the sps tank, but the polyp tank is rockin. Those are some awesome zoanthids you have. Great colors on everything.

[Fly Guy]

Thanks guys

Originally Posted by aquawolf

Sorry about the trouble with the sps tank,.

ya.......I knew better.....got careless

There really isnt any problem with the tank I dont think........It was just my methodology of moving a couple hundred corals out and back into a new tank.

If anyone can learn anything from this should they have to do soemthing similar, either get the dang thing built fast so they are only in that temp home for a day...........or set up the temp home better suited for the situation. simple as that.

One thing I didnt do was run any carbon. In hindsight I should have had carbon running through a reactor 24/7 for that tight fit. Might not have made a difference...but it surely couldnt have hurt

[fish.freak]

looking good bill, sorry for the mishap.

[Fly Guy]

Thanks scottie


This was the bigggest loss.......my carolinian

woke up to it pretty much gone a few days ago

I tried to frag it but had zero success. none of the frags cut were there the next morning

[crvz]

I had the same problem when I upgraded tanks... some of the corals just died for no apparent reason. Sorry to hear, hope that's the last one.

[volivier]

Looking beautiful as always, what camera do you use? Very nice pictures!

Do you think you'll have any nitrate issues removing the dsb?

[Fly Guy]

Thanks Valerie

I use a nikon D80 and a tamron macro lens.

nitrate issues?? Not a chance. Ive had the other BB tank running a couple of years, it was just recently I took it down and rebuilt it to be polyp dominated. There is no doubt I will never be limited in how exactly I want to run a tank by a sandbed again.

[Ratpack]

Polyp tank looks amazing, sorry about all the issues with the SPS. I have to congradulate you on taking on something this big. No way I would do it, at least not at this point in my reef journey.

[BrookeB]

WOW!! Your Polyp tank looks gorgeous!! Sorry to hear about the problems with the SPS

[Fly Guy]

Originally Posted by Ratpack

Polyp tank looks amazing, sorry about all the issues with the SPS. I have to congradulate you on taking on something this big. No way I would do it, at least not at this point in my reef journey.

Originally Posted by BrookeB

WOW!! Your Polyp tank looks gorgeous!! Sorry to hear about the problems with the SPS

Thanks guys.

Ratpack.....I didnt have much of a choice in concern to the big tank rebuild. it was only a matter of time before the thing popped. I had been planning on replacing it with a better tank and going BB anyway.........but not for another year or two.....

And Ive been wanting to take care of my polyps better for a while anyway so it was just as easy to kill two birds with one stone. The polyp tank wasnt actually much of a tank "build" per se. it was more of just reaquascaping as the tank had previsouly been set up as a sps tank and i was already pleased with the set up so didnt really need to change much.