I am back in the game!!!

waterdog

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Finally, after the bottom seals on my 55 gal tank came apart and I started leaking water all over my floor I had to take drastic action which I thought was just going to last a week or so. The action I took was to take out all of my live rock and put it in one of my spare 55 gallong tanks (yes, pathetic I know), siphoned all the water out, and put all my corals in that tank with my light on top. What I ended up with was a peice of crap bare-bottom tank that started an immediate and massive ammonia spike (the levels were off the chart of my LFSs testing kit). My corals didn't look too affected so I left them in there until I also started a massive hair algae bloom. At this point all of the corals were showing some signs of recession so I sent all I could to my friends tank to hold for me.
Well, the new 37g tank I ordered came in two weeks late. The stand that I made in Chicago wouldn't fit in my car to take it back with me to MN so I had to wait 3 weeks until I got that. Combined with other delays it has been almost 3 months from when I last had a tank I wasn't embarrassed about. Granted, some of those delays were caused by my stupidity, but a lot was bad luck.
Which brings me to my point: I now have a new tank!!!!
I am going to post the progression pics up to today.
 

waterdog

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The final product as of today. I have a Green/Purple Galaxia, Green/Purple Traciphylia Brain, formerly green/purple frilly mushroom, green ployphilia coral. (the color scheme was not coordinated by the way :) )
 

waterdog

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DVS,
The rock is almost all figi. There are two pieces of lace rock in there too. I know there are some dangers with lace rock leaching metals into the water, but these peices were in my old tank for almost a year and everything thrived, so no worries.
Thanks for the compliment!!
 
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