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yesterday morning i came downstairs to a collapsed rock structure :( sadly its the side with the arch...

 

so i no longer have an arch. I think the orange monti cap grew too large and offset the balance.. so now i have a different looking column.

 

I'm not the fondest of it yet.. so i might move things around again. hate when that happens.

 

 

with tanks i've had in the past i usually rearrange the rock work alot. I've had the same structures in this tank since i set it up.. which is pretty amazing, considering how bored i usually get with the arrangements.

 

So now i get to play a little. I do really miss the arch though.

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  • 2 weeks later...
On your march 13 post with the clown/zoas the ones to the immediate right are Solar Eclipse? If so I finally identified one of my frags haha

 

 

correct. :)

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i finally had the time to sit down and give a good look at my left rock column to see if i could get my arch back after the collapse...

 

not only did i get the arch back I feel i improved it . its more delicate and a little more interesting.

 

here is a quick cell picture of the column

 

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here is after the collapse.. a quick repair of the structure:

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here is before the collapse.. the way the tank was for almost 2 years

(old picture but you can see the structure here well)

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well.. its been two years already! tank is still doing great. I havent added much in last couple months.. but i do get a new frag from time to time in trade or at the monthly club meetings.

 

I had a collapse a little bit ago and lost my left arch. I put things back together rushed in disgust and frustration but eventually a couple weeks later had the time and ambition to get it back to where it was.

 

I think i actually improved it a little.

 

 

So things were going well until like a week or so ago cleaning the tank the other side started to top over. I was able to grab it before it fell. The right side top rock with the caps, pink birdsnest and 6 or so other corals are all on one rock. This rock was epoxied down but over the last couple years the epoxy fell off and the rock was just delicately balancing there.. It was only a matter of time before it fell too.. So the other day i was able to take some rocks from the frag system and get the column way more secure. Another plus is that i was able to rotate the rock down a little more to give the sps more room to grow upward.

 

all in all i'm happy again with the way the tank is looking

 

 

 

 

 

Here are two full tank shots

 

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( video was uploading still at time of post so it might take a while for it to actually be available)

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thanks guys!

 

i need to get my hands on another small yellow tang.. i had mine for a year and a half and he was always healthy and ich free.. one day i found him upside down in the rockwork.. next morning he was dead..

 

 

also lost my 6line wrasse. I was expecting that though. When i first got the wrasse (was a donor) he had a little white dot on his side.. then a couple months ago the dot went away but the wrasse had a large hole where the dot was.. then i think it he fell victim to it.

 

so i have a couple fish i want to replace.. i might skip the 6line and try and get a nice flasher wrasse.. thats something i've always wanted.

 

i've been giving thought to getting rid of my tiger tail cucumber too.. He does a great job but i find that i have way less pods in the tank than i did before he came around.. The bottom is always clean.. but a high pod population would be nice too..

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Wow, everything looks great! Congrats on the longevity of the system. One quick question, I see in your video info that you have replaced a few bulbs due to going bad, but have you had to replace any due to usage time?

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Leds don't have a half life like.flourescent and incandescent bulbs do. If a led is working its good. If its bad it burns out..

 

The ones Ireplaced were mostly my original bulbs from before this tank. I had a 5g that had 8 bulbs or so over it. But Itook the optics out and some of the leds came offf the heat sink. So Ithink the ones that went bad were my fault. I haven't had any or thye newer ones go bad yet

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Its been a while since i posted some updated pics..

 

 

I recently rebuilt the right side column with a rock that fit a little better. The awesome coral combo colony i had at the top of that column ended up getting full of majanos.. so before they ventured further in the tank i took the rock out, broke free my pink birdsnest and stuck a different rock in its place. I think it will look sweet once it fills in.

 

My huge ORA green birds nest has been restarted too. It grew too large for the tank so i had to break it up and sell it. I have tons of frags from it in the system downstairs and have one larger piece upstairs that i am restarting the colony with.

 

anywho.. here are the pics!

 

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After 5 years of borderline neglect... i bought some new live sand, rearranged the rock, bought some snails and an algae blenny and took a picture. 
 

cant believe this tank has been up for about 9yrs now. 
 

Still lit by gu10s. In the 12years i did a full replacement of bulbs once and then replaced about 6-7 as they randomly failed over the years. 
 

looking forward to putting some more time into it. 

 

 

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