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SEA-SALTED said:
I am good for thinking outside the box. But I do have to say, the kiddie pool was very smart. When I moved I kept all my live stock in rubbermade tubs. I lost more stuff doing it that way. And I have had the plastic tubs leak. I was always leery about silica sands. I have always used playsand (silica free). One thing I have learned in this hobby is, if it works, great, if it don't, lesson learned. I'll try anything once. Well, most anything. I'm tagging along, as long as there are no cats.lol
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I'm all about tryin new things too. I still haven't lost anything except the 2 fish my now ex squished.


And I'm replumbing the closed loop next weekend. Found all kinda of air leaks.
 
Ahhh now we know why she left... Squished fish.

At least it was not a toad fish or a rock fish. That would have hurt.
 
I wonder what the relationship failure rate is within this hobby????? Our spouses and significant others have to put up with a lot.
 
We broke up the day before. But she didn't help her case by crushing my mystery wrasse and my full grown mandarin I'd had for 2 years.

Well a little update. The oceans motions still isn't working after replumbing it completely, and replacing the magnets. But that's not the worst of it. It completely failed and the top blew off while the pump was running and pumped 60 gallons into the living room. The screws still had the plastic threads on them. Things junk. And the company doesn't stand behind anything
 
Well the oceans motions blew it top literally. It's garbage. Apparently they have no warrantee for catastrophic failure. Told me it was my fault. Anyways so the closed loop is out of commission so I bought 2 mp40s. And replumbed the drain lines to allowe to open up the returns And now I've got some good flow. Also added some new live stock to the system. Picked up another mandarin so I've got 2 now, 2 Halloween urchins, a clown trigger for the predator tank, and finally got my sea horses! A m/f pair of redei.
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And my burgias are breeding and eating!
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cooterbrown said:
Haha hopefully the drama is gone from this thread. I'm sick of people acting like I'm a newb
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^^ +1 This

Great looking setup, and I'm a huge fan of ingenious containers used to hold livestock! If I remember correctly, my wife was thoroughly unhappy when I broke out her canning jars during my 65 to 125 upgrade. LOL

UPDATES??
 
only real up date is the mp 40s are great!!! but still losing corals. mostly sps and acans in th display, move them to the frag tank and they come right back. its really weird. the sps are bleaching in one and thriving in the other. same bulbs, same water, same sump. so no idea.

the frag tank spilt a seam and dumped 200 gallons down the floor drain. luckily i had a brand new 75 sitting in the garage for emergencies. so it didn't take much to get it online and everything lived. need to reseal the 150 though, got some rtv 108 fom work, its got an insane psi rating and is proven reef safe. so it should never blow out again.

lost my male sea horse. ordered 2 replacements and they showed up under an inch, they died within an hour. so I'm giving up on the horses. not worth killing them. but the regular fish are thriving! I'm still in love
 
what do you think the GPH turnover rate is in the frag tank or water from the rest of the system? Is it enough to keep temperature and parameters stable?
 
Main tank is 4000gph to sump turn over. Frag tank is around 1800gph. They do great in the frag tank. My temp stays 79.9 in all 4 tanks 24/7. Heater only comes on around 5 hours after lights off. And the highest swing I've ever seen is .5 degrees up or down
 
Well good and bad news. Bad news is I found my half black angel swimming upside down with no abdomen. Good news is I suspect he may be a nipping culprit causing the diference in polyp extension. The tusk must have heard me bad mouthing him and decided to help. So I caught him and euthanized him. Which I hate doin but I don't think he had a chance at recovery with no organs. So I guess we will see if one little fish in a big tank can cause that much trouble.
 
Well haven't updated in a while. Had a pretty rough patch. The 220 sprung a leak so I had to completely tear it down and reseal it. But I used this opportunity to remove the closed loop plumbing. Lost all my sps and most of my acan collection. Didn't lose any fish though. It's back up and running and looking amazing now. Really took my time on the aqua scape. Looks better than it ever has. Didn't use all my rock. Went with a minimalist look. http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae16/Cj65_jk10/74F32DFC-32E9-4D51-890B-A6367A57290D.jpg
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well its been a year since i updated this. so here it is.

after the big leak, i lost every single coral i had minus 2, a purple stylo and a green pavona. have lost 2 fish since the purple died from old age. and the yellow eyed hole disappeared. have added 2 more hippos and a yellow, and a clown tang. all doing very well. have also added to my clam collection and may be adding another 26" squammy soon if the lady decides she wants to sell
 
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