kelhuffman
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Since we're all whores for fresh posts in this forum its my turn to start one. I've been absent on the boards for some time now and have just been lurking while I contemplated the move of my old 120G and the setup of my 270G. For all of you who post regularly in this forum my thanks go out as I've used a lot of your info and designs in my own new setup. THANKS!
I should have called this thread "the good, the bad, and the ugly" as my move and upgrade has been a nightmare. First the good. We bought a new home 5 miles from the old and that home came with just the things I wanted, one decent space for a built in tank, and a (unfinished) basement for the gear. Now the bad, my 120G tank in our old home was packed with great stuff and had all kinds of great sps that would love the new space I was planning for them. About a month before the move however many corals started showing signs of stress. I had a feeling it was water quality but I didn't have the capacity or the time to change a lot of it as it was a 120G with a basement setup of another 220 or so gallons and I was on the road for work all the time while my company imploded, my wife grew larger with our first child, and we rushed to close on the house and at least pour a concrete floor to set up the basement and make the transfer. Short story long, when move time came it was too late, the move (all of 5 miles) was a catastrophic event and I lost almost everything except for a few fish, two clams, some tougher LPS/softie corals and ONE acro. Murphy was there to start the disaster, each tank in my system was modular. He picked the night I unplugged them from each other to jam a heater and cook the basement 100G tank that was full. Hey Won brothers you owe me! The GOOD that came from that event is that my blue squamosa actually survived 100+ degree water that killed everything else. it gaped for 2 weeks but now is growing better than it did before. Then I lost more acros from the main system while I moved the basement setup over to the new house. The surviving acros were transferred, I made a judgement call on those that looked OK (a bad judgement call) and the night they were in the new place at least one large one croaked and set off the reaction that killed the rest, and most of the fish with it overnight. The UGLY is the pile of skeletons left piled in the back yard. So sad. Besides that heater, SO my fault on so many levels. Here's the 120G about 6 months before.
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I should have called this thread "the good, the bad, and the ugly" as my move and upgrade has been a nightmare. First the good. We bought a new home 5 miles from the old and that home came with just the things I wanted, one decent space for a built in tank, and a (unfinished) basement for the gear. Now the bad, my 120G tank in our old home was packed with great stuff and had all kinds of great sps that would love the new space I was planning for them. About a month before the move however many corals started showing signs of stress. I had a feeling it was water quality but I didn't have the capacity or the time to change a lot of it as it was a 120G with a basement setup of another 220 or so gallons and I was on the road for work all the time while my company imploded, my wife grew larger with our first child, and we rushed to close on the house and at least pour a concrete floor to set up the basement and make the transfer. Short story long, when move time came it was too late, the move (all of 5 miles) was a catastrophic event and I lost almost everything except for a few fish, two clams, some tougher LPS/softie corals and ONE acro. Murphy was there to start the disaster, each tank in my system was modular. He picked the night I unplugged them from each other to jam a heater and cook the basement 100G tank that was full. Hey Won brothers you owe me! The GOOD that came from that event is that my blue squamosa actually survived 100+ degree water that killed everything else. it gaped for 2 weeks but now is growing better than it did before. Then I lost more acros from the main system while I moved the basement setup over to the new house. The surviving acros were transferred, I made a judgement call on those that looked OK (a bad judgement call) and the night they were in the new place at least one large one croaked and set off the reaction that killed the rest, and most of the fish with it overnight. The UGLY is the pile of skeletons left piled in the back yard. So sad. Besides that heater, SO my fault on so many levels. Here's the 120G about 6 months before.
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