120 gallon Revival

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Update! I’ve done nothing since my last post. Well kind of. I decided to eliminate the internal overflow and switch to a modular marine overflow. They warned me about a wait on the website but I had no idea it was going to take 5 weeks. In either case I postponed breaking down the tank and I’m planning on doing it sometime in August or early September. I will break down the tank, eliminate the internal overflow, drill the tank for the external, and set up the tank on the new stand with new plumbing and partial new aqua scape…. Seems a little overwhelming. I may have to take a whole long weekend to get this done but I think it will be worth it in the end

 

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All sps doing well even though everything is in a temporary home I think I’m getting good color and decent growth. I’ve managed to sell 95% of all the recordia which was another reason I was dragging my feet. I really wanted to get those out of there before breaking down the tank

 

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So I’m order to drag this out as much as possible I took a bunch of extra work. At last I put it into the schedule during the few weeks I take off at the end of the year. Sometime between Christmas and New Years I’m going to break down the tank and do everything I mentioned above. (Unless the kids convince me to take a road trip(I love taking road trips with my kids(and evidently putting off the tank move(parentheses(!))))) Let’s see! I have all my supplies and the temporary spots the corals are in are not going to work much longer because they’re starting to encrust and grow.

 

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Some top down shots of the sticks

 

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Well we all got Covid for Christmas vacation! Was pretty weak but there was no way I was going armpit deep in the tank during my infection. Right now I am committing to taking a 4 day weekend and doing the switch before Spring is done! Couple picks I snapped today

 

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Well I managed to kill everything except for the ricordeas(again). One of my kids talked me into starting the tank up again. We cleaned it up added a mimic tang and cleanup crew and a hand full of frags. Going with mainly LPS this time around. Wish me luck.

 

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Here are the first pictures after re-re-starting the tank. Everything’s going good…so far….

 

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Have one more section to aquascape hopefully in the next couple weeks. And I am making a commitment to switching out the stand before the end of the year

 

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Sailfin blenny, living in a derelict snail shell.

 

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Tang Gang

 

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Things are looking great!

 

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Couple more fish pics

 

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Finally finished the scape on the right, still needs some minor tweaks

 

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This Goni is really turning a nice pink/purple

 

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Great looking torch! How long have you had it?

 

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Great looking torch! How long have you had it?

Not long still a little frag. After restarting the tank it seems like I’m getting into the sweet spot now and things are all doing well.

 

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Hammer Time

 

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Progress pics. Very happy with 95% of how everything is going.