Death and Dismemberment

[KEEPERZ]

Leishman- want to bump this so you can update R2R on your re-aquascape, I am sorry I somehow missed this and am sorry to hear about all the losses but am glad you got right back in the saddle-congrats and looking forward to your new reef!!!

 

[oceanparadise1]

Wow i want to see it now, sorry for ur lose bro!

 

[Leishman]

So I set this thing up a while back and have had varying degrees of success over the years. This ~250 replaced an Oceanic 110g (60"x18"x24") that was ½ overflow boxes and ½ center brace.
This system has had AEFW, red bugs, monti eating nudis, 95 deg temps, no power for 3 ½ days; the list could go on…. So after the ' no power for 3 ½ days' thing (where I lost some sweet corals and fish) I decided to gather some things, recruit a team of 'expert' reefers, and rebuild the display.
It started w/1 Lumenarc and 2 RO IIIs and a pile of rocks

then it was 3 Lumenarcs and 2 piles of rock

At this point things started to look OK, then good and finally awesome

and my colors started to pop

 

[Leishman]

Then I had back to back AEFW and an overnight alk spike (~8 to 16) and lost the below:

Then came the power outage in June of '08 were I lost this

 

[Leishman]

and ½ of this

Both together from below

And next will be the rebuild:

 

[Leishman]

Before (complete w/dead red table as frag shelf)

and the 'expert' reefers at work this past Saturday
Out with corals and rock

In with the rock (that was just taken out)

 

[oceanparadise1]

this is why i dont do sps

 

[Leishman]

And now the new look of my ~250 (wish I could work out the white balance)

 

[Leishman]

This is the rock that came out and did not go back in.

HUGE thanks go out to the 'experts'
Justin: Substrate specialist
Robie: Artistic Design
Chris: General Contractor/Photographer
Scott711 (he came to watch)

 

[Atomikk]

Its painful to see you go through this! I wen through a similar ordeal when I moved my two tanks into one.. and then I had to do it again recently where i had to move most of my livestock. I am not moving again for a while :)

Good to see rthat you are back, just need to get that hyacinthus back into your tank.. and mine ;)

 

[KEEPERZ]

How much did existing encrustations become a problem when you were remounting corals and did you rinse off the rock much before you put it back?

 

[Nate82]

that's terrible can't believe it that was a great piece