Mark's 180 Starfire upgrade

[Jim_S]

That FTS is great! Worth seeing twice

Very nice!

 

[jtarmitage]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12368879#post12368879 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Marko9
I know that there are two pieces in town. One is in Johns display and the other one in a few pages back as well.

3.

 

[mpoletti]

I couldn't remember if you sprung for that order or not

 

[jtarmitage]

I've sprung for a few too many orders recently. Need to get that 125 hooked up to give things a bit more room.

 

[jtarmitage]

Mark, you do remind me that I really need to learn how to use my camera!

 

[slojmn]

Mark,
It was great to see the tank. It was an amzing difference from just three weeks ago. The colors are just off the hook popping compared to a few weeks back. Way to get it all under control. Thanks for the frag and the frag sitting. Nice red fungia...I got one a week or two ago but the tenticles only come out in the wee hours of the morning...as soon as the light comes on they retract. I hope in time it will show off its pretty red tenticles but like my neon orange one I hardly ever see them.

 

[mpoletti]

Alicia- It was nice to see you too, but it was even nicer to see that smile on Emma's face when she saw you

 

[brianbigoats]

Mark
ATL Shades of Fall looks happy poylps are out. how does the SG look?
great to see your tank today looks sweet
i am going to get the helois 20k's for the elos

 

[mpoletti]

I can see the full potential in that piece

Steve was running the helios 20k on his tank today and it just reminded me how much I like them. Pam saw them and she really liked them as well. I always have a pair of pheonix's in the garage if the helios don't float your boat.

Its always great chatting it up with you. Remind me about the vesuvious for a tank moving present.

 

[cbui2]

great FTS Mark, your running out of rock real estates to add any more corals . time to mount them on back wall

 

[mpoletti]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12369398#post12369398 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cbui2
great FTS Mark, your running out of rock real estates to add any more corals . time to mount them on back wall

There are a few pieces in the tank that have one coralite out the door already. I have about 2-3 inches between my rocks and my back plane of glass. That is where I put the pieces I am still undecided about.

I do know that the last couple of days being around all these sticks and plate lovers have reminded me that zoas and palys don't tickle my whistle. Its only a matter of time.

 

[tbone28]

Mark, I really think it's time for a bigger tank

 

[mpoletti]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12369424#post12369424 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tbone28
Mark, I really think it's time for a bigger tank

Really, what are you going to get

 

[tbone28]

haha, u got me. I meant you! If anything, I should downsize with my 3rd tier corals

 

[mpoletti]

I'm good for my little 1932 cottage. Maybe if the market gets better and if we decide to add on to the family. Thats the dealio though; If we add to the family, it would cost a whole bunch more as we would need a new house and a new tank

 

[tbone28]

As long as everyone in your family gets something that they want, then all is good

 

[mpoletti]

I've already popped out the bathroom wall and added a "pottery barn" bathroon, out a new roof on and restucco'd the exterior. Its king of hard to walk away from that in a down market for selling. I don't know if I'd trade my neighborhood for anything. Its an older neighborhood where there are large trees and all the houses have their own character.

 

[tbone28]

Location is key. It would be hard to walk away from a home you're attached to, whether you've done work to it or not, and whether the market's hot or not.

 

[KMP]

mark, great build thread - gorgeous tank!

 

[JohnL]

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