Minh's 320 reef
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OrionN
Moved on
Everything settled down a little. My brother passed. All the funerals event finished. Life goes on. His family financially will be fine with all his saving and 401K. The two children are older and are adults. Emotionally, I hope we all will be OK after some time.
I have not clean out the aquarium. After removed a lot of the animals that survive the initial crash and dump in a bunch of Prime I have not done anything other than have the tank on auto-pilot. the tank slowly deteriorate with the break down of all the dead animals not removed. There are minor frags of LPS still in the tank. These did not do well and will not survive.
The good news is that all my anemones short of Malu and LTA survived. I still have all my Haddoni, Gigantea and Magnifica and all of my LPS. Over the next few weeks, I will remove all the LR and LS and recycle them. I plan to put everything is fresh water, and maybe acid wash to leach all the phosphates that may be bound to the surface of the rock. I then plan to put these rock into the Corpus Christi bay for several months to re-seed them and then start my tank again.
In the mean time, I will empty the tank and redo some of the plumping and sump, together with adding refugium and frag tank.
I will avoid a too deep sand bed. Just use a very deep sand bed in the refugium where I can do better management of it than in the DT. I will avoid adding Malu and LTA into my DT in the future since I will not have a deep sand bed. I am not sure about Haddoni, since I till have some very nice Haddoni.
It again will be a Mixed Reef. I will not attempt to have huge Clam again but will only get a few Crocea, Maxima and some nice Squamosa. These will get large but not anywhere near as unmanageable like my Gigas.
I will try to document my rebuild progress here also.
I have not clean out the aquarium. After removed a lot of the animals that survive the initial crash and dump in a bunch of Prime I have not done anything other than have the tank on auto-pilot. the tank slowly deteriorate with the break down of all the dead animals not removed. There are minor frags of LPS still in the tank. These did not do well and will not survive.
The good news is that all my anemones short of Malu and LTA survived. I still have all my Haddoni, Gigantea and Magnifica and all of my LPS. Over the next few weeks, I will remove all the LR and LS and recycle them. I plan to put everything is fresh water, and maybe acid wash to leach all the phosphates that may be bound to the surface of the rock. I then plan to put these rock into the Corpus Christi bay for several months to re-seed them and then start my tank again.
In the mean time, I will empty the tank and redo some of the plumping and sump, together with adding refugium and frag tank.
I will avoid a too deep sand bed. Just use a very deep sand bed in the refugium where I can do better management of it than in the DT. I will avoid adding Malu and LTA into my DT in the future since I will not have a deep sand bed. I am not sure about Haddoni, since I till have some very nice Haddoni.
It again will be a Mixed Reef. I will not attempt to have huge Clam again but will only get a few Crocea, Maxima and some nice Squamosa. These will get large but not anywhere near as unmanageable like my Gigas.
I will try to document my rebuild progress here also.
My condolences on your brothers passing Minh.
I'm happy that you have an eye to restart already. I'll have a frag of your purple bonsai and AquaSD rainbow mille waiting for you when your tank is ready for SPS. I'd be happy to stock you with additional frags too from my collection next time you're up in Austin for business.
I'm happy that you have an eye to restart already. I'll have a frag of your purple bonsai and AquaSD rainbow mille waiting for you when your tank is ready for SPS. I'd be happy to stock you with additional frags too from my collection next time you're up in Austin for business.
OrionN
Moved on
Thanks Ty.
BTW, I am in the process of install a valve with lock so someone cannot easily turn it off. I will also lock my generator so they cannot access the control panel either. I posted about someone turn of my generator on my 'neighborhood web' mailing list. Some one PM me about gas smell near my house after the hurricane. This email "speculate" that the person that turn off the gas was worry about a gas leak. The email did not admitted that he was the one that turn it off which I guess I would not either given the damage and lost of life resulting from this action.
As it turn out, one of my neighbor empty house, and elderly couple who recently moved to the senior assisted living, had tree fall damage that cause a small leak on their gas line.
We can planed all we want, but things sometime can really throw a curve at us. I don't think anybody can plan for this contingency, trying to do things to protect their tank/house. Hind sight, maybe I should. It really does not cost much in compare to the cost of the tank, or the cost I went through to disaster proof my tank. I plan to put a tag at the valve, clearly state that this generator is for life support, and not to turn off. Also I will put my phone number on this tag so that concern citizen will need to contact me if any problem. This will not stop the maliciously motivated saboteur but hopefully I live my life in such a way that I don't have to worry about this.
BTW, I am in the process of install a valve with lock so someone cannot easily turn it off. I will also lock my generator so they cannot access the control panel either. I posted about someone turn of my generator on my 'neighborhood web' mailing list. Some one PM me about gas smell near my house after the hurricane. This email "speculate" that the person that turn off the gas was worry about a gas leak. The email did not admitted that he was the one that turn it off which I guess I would not either given the damage and lost of life resulting from this action.
As it turn out, one of my neighbor empty house, and elderly couple who recently moved to the senior assisted living, had tree fall damage that cause a small leak on their gas line.
We can planed all we want, but things sometime can really throw a curve at us. I don't think anybody can plan for this contingency, trying to do things to protect their tank/house. Hind sight, maybe I should. It really does not cost much in compare to the cost of the tank, or the cost I went through to disaster proof my tank. I plan to put a tag at the valve, clearly state that this generator is for life support, and not to turn off. Also I will put my phone number on this tag so that concern citizen will need to contact me if any problem. This will not stop the maliciously motivated saboteur but hopefully I live my life in such a way that I don't have to worry about this.
Jndragon79
Member
I'm sorry about the loss of your brother. I am glad that you appear to be taking steps to go back to your life despite the hardships you recently went through. I'm looking forward to your rebuild progress
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Overboard
Premium Member
Hi Minh, so very sorry to hear of the loss of your brother. Sounds like he took good care of his family and left them supported. Such a sudden event, and I am sure it was upsetting. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
I was thinking of you and your tank as the hurricane was coming in. Quite sad you lost it, especially in such an unusual fashion. You are such a great and capable reefer, maybe take a breath to digest all these events. Sounds like you are already planning your new and improved re-build, which is great news. Please keep us all posted on your progress.
Up here in Sugar Land, we had a mandatory evacuation due to concern of flooding from the Brazos River, but it never materialized. Just inconvenience. Some people nearby were severely flooded, but we were spared.
Good luck! If I can ever help, just let me know. Happy to help.
Take care,
Mark
I was thinking of you and your tank as the hurricane was coming in. Quite sad you lost it, especially in such an unusual fashion. You are such a great and capable reefer, maybe take a breath to digest all these events. Sounds like you are already planning your new and improved re-build, which is great news. Please keep us all posted on your progress.
Up here in Sugar Land, we had a mandatory evacuation due to concern of flooding from the Brazos River, but it never materialized. Just inconvenience. Some people nearby were severely flooded, but we were spared.
Good luck! If I can ever help, just let me know. Happy to help.
Take care,
Mark
Mina_40
New member
Hey Minh...you don't know me, but I follow your thread. First, I am sorry about the loss of your brother. I know that is devastating and my prayers go out to you and your family. I also am sorry for the loss of your beautiful tank. Your pictures and posts were always inspiring. I am glad you are a positive person and planning your rebuilding. Good luck and I look forward to seeing your rebuild.
I wonder if the gas company would have come around and shut off supplies to houses as a precaution for explosion/fire?
