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iphone pic + dirty glass....im ashamed lol

Wow Phil, your tank is growing out the corals nicely. Did he change lighting or anything? So nice to have ya back Phil.

Hat, as far as I can tell the lights and everything else are pretty much identical to how I had it. Tuan and I have always run nearly identical systems with identical maintenance, but somehow corals always seem to grow twice as fast for him. He has the touch.

Phil

phil so your running or use to run a ats? i would like to see some pics of how it is/was setup

I'll assume you're refering to the Algae Turf Scrubber and not my Auto Top-off System.
But yes, it did wonders for my tank as you can see in the older picture. I'll snap a picture of it when I feed the fish at noon. There should be photos of the build in my album if you hit my profile here. I use a vertical screen style, and Paul B has a really nice horizontal set up. His success was one of the reasons I decicded to try it.

Phil

Can anybody play?

Well the rock is behind me in the picture cooking in a 55g tank. It was completely overgrown with xenia and other stuff, so I left to sit dry fro 3 days and then let it foul in some old tank water and then moved it to the 55g with all new saltwater in it. All the xenia is gone and the rock looks great. The cycle was minimal and is already complete. The only real loss was all the white sponge that was growing on the underside of it. But I will be happier xenia-less

thanks Hat! and phil so your running or use to run a ats? i would like to see some pics of how it is/was setup

Wow Phil, your tank is growing out the corals nicely. Did he change lighting or anything? So nice to have ya back Phil.

Joeogio, very nice reef. Loove all the rock.

Midnight, nice to see your temporary setup finally. I'm also glad to see the majority of ya livestock doing well. Where did ya put all ya rock? Have you decided on how much rock you are going with in the new setup?

And Midnight, your livestock are going to feel lost in that 400 after being cramped in that temp tank. LOL

It definitly needs a good cleaning. I was comparing this photo with one from a couple weeks back though and it's starting to look up. Not sure what happened, I suspect the guy I gave it to a year ago was running GFO, which killed the algae scrubber. But he sure knows how to grow coral. Check out the torch coral that's taking over the right side of the tank. You can see the same coral on the left side below. Also the same birdsnest and pocillapora SPS corals in their same locations.

here is my temp setup

I have lost 6 fish and several corals....I am hoping to get the new tank soon.



This is the whole setup



This is the bigger half of the rose BTA that I split during the old tank tear down.

BTW Phil it looks like your tank could use the move that you are about to give it.

here joeogio



you right click on image and "copy image url" and then paste that to the picture insert tool.

ok for some reason when i click on insert image it wont let me do anything accept post a url

http://postimage.org/image/54anliew9/

Looks like I get to be first this month. Here's how my 55 looks now. I'll be moving it home again in a couple weeks.

sorry to hear that but you'll be back.

Thanks Lonnie, I appreciate that. I'm still going to hang out here. I really like all my friends I made at Reef Addicts.

Just cause you sell your reef doesn't mean you have to go. Its guys like you that keep me motivated to keep mine. I look forward to your full tank shot thread every month, haven't participated due to mine looking like crap but I still enjoy it. Hang around it just won't be the same without ya.

Thanks Phil and Chris! Yeah I have learned more about reef aquariums in the past few builds while here on Reef Addicts than I did in the past 20 years doing reefs. There is a vast amount of information now. When I first started reefs the only info was from the local fish stores.

Thanks Marc and my friends her on Reef Addicts!! It's been fun!

HAT

And I can feel your pain. I had to give away my reef tank a year ago. Now that I'm back on my feet financially I'm really looking forward to getting it back and upgrading to the "perfect" system this time. LOL

So hang in there, I'm sure this will only be a temporary reefless period for you.

Phil