Thanks for the compliment. My tank somewhat crashed due to a suregrip that rusted for months with me not knowing.However, I have several lps that survived and a couple acros. Suprisingly with the tank being as bare as it is(all the rock is cooking), and no refugium, the sps and lps have never looked better.
All fish are lookin real good to. The rock will be done cooking at the end of august. I will let the tank get situated for a while once the rock is in and slowly start aquiring sps frags from members in the dallas/fort worth area. Im very fortunate be part of a good club like dfwmas.com
Plumbing scared me in the beggining too. In the end it was very easy. I tried to keep it as basic as possible.
Can't wait to watch your tank build. Im interested to see how your skimmer will do. My euro reef has been kind of wimpy lately. Even though theres not much in the tank, i noticed that when i did have a big bioloaad. I dont want to replace it soo I will try a gatevalve mod, maybe a mesh mod, recirc... that should help out.
I have taken a couple pictures of how the tank is lookin and will post the asap. Looking at all these pictures of what my tank use to look like makes me sad, darnnnn suregrip!!! I am looking foward to rebuilding it, as there were MILLIONS of tiny little things I wish I did in the begginng but couldnt do. Now I can! lol. Lukily all my old corals were through trading with people, so not a lot of money was lost ffrom the crash.
Cheers