drummereef's 180g in-wall build

[Nanook]

All the faithful departed return Where are the pics???

 

[pmangels17]

Whoa I missed this thread, its been too long. Glad to see that Brett is finally back, and that the reef will live on. This tank has been the model for the tank I want to build one day.

 

[tegee]

I feel your pain Brett.

I have almost the same exact setup as you have and shared many posts with you through the past several years. I've been in the hobby for over 12-years and been through alot over the years. Had great success and literally had to reaquascape my 180-gl sps because it had become over grown from all the growth.

To that end, one year after I did my reaquascape and aquired a good deal of new Milli's, etc I had a MAGOR green hair algae outbreak. It literally overtook my tank in weeks. I never, in all my reefkeeping years, ever experience such a GHA outbreak like I did. To this day I still can't figure out what went wrong other then my rock release phosphates AGAIN and maybe my frozen food.

Anyhow, it brought me to my knees and I still haven't recovered from it. This happened in the winter months. I lost almost all my sps corals and the only thing remaining in my tank is my beloved Riterri anemone. Likely all my fish are doing great.

Well.....that's my buckling moment and feel your pain. My goal is to do a full redo and pull all my sand, grab some washed rock from a friend of mine and completely start form scratch. I am hopeful that will be the end of my GHA. If that does not work I may throw the towel in or go to an anemone only tank or something like that.

Ok.....enough venting!

 

[igot2gats]

WOOHOO! Brett's back! :bounce1:

I almost didn't look in here, figuring the thread got bumped by another poor soul looking for an update.

Glad to see you back. Looking forward to pics.

Ditto.

What kind of rock are you going to use this time, Brett?

 

[aquaph8]

And he's gone again, haha

 

[Eliphion]

[profanity]! The rockstar has returned to the stage. Looking forward to updates good sir!

 

[crvz]

brett, remind me what rock you had at the end before you pulled it? I think you started with marco baserock, which is what I had, and I've not been pleased with it long term. I've since collected 150 pounds or so over the last couple years and have started to include it/remove the original base rock.

 

[Krazie4Acans]

I'm pretty sure he had Marco baserock through all of this and just pulled that out. He hasn't said what he is going with instead yet (or at least I don't remember reading it). He just needs to come back and update us on stuff.

Krazie:jester:

 

[worm5406]

Well we can continue to guilt him into posting by asking him questions!

 

[d2mini]

He's such a tease! :sad1:

 

[tdykes3256]

Glad to have you back been following from the begining

 

[iced98lx]

Merry Christmas??

 

[Krazie4Acans]

I feel robbed! lol

 

[drummereef]

Merry Christmas??

I feel robbed! lol

Haha, Merry Christmas guys! Santa brought me a Matted Filefish this Christmas so hopefully he has an appetite for Aiptasia. I'll keep you posted on the progress.

 

[iced98lx]

Haha, Merry Christmas guys! Santa brought me a Matted Filefish this Christmas so hopefully he has an appetite for Aiptasia. [emoji14] I'll keep you posted on the progress.

Merry Christmas Brett, let us know if you want to let this thread die lol.

 

[drummereef]

Merry Christmas Brett, let us know if you want to let this thread die lol.

Ha! Heck no I won't let this thread die! It's the only hope I have that my tank will get back to it's former glory.

 

[iced98lx]

Start with a current FTS to document

 

[Saltydrip]

I second that!! FTS to help monitor progress! Or lack there of...

 

[moondoggy4]

Fashionably late but always worth the wait, good to see you back Brett.

 

[Saltydrip]

I think he merely came out of the darkness to say merry Christmas