HybridAZN's 180 gallon build

[hybridazn]

George,
Are you still going to use your "Building an Obsession" frag rack?

I am, but I will be holding off the "conversion" until get get some of these frags mounted lol

psh is that all lol. Ok I might a little jealous because I thought I brought home a bunch, but I think you have me beat. Erin and I sat on my living room floor sorting all of the corals out of our coolers like it was halloween candy, she still managed to go home with my goni somehow lol. That mushroom I got off of you is absolutely massive, I might have to move it out of the shroom tank and put it in the 90 lol. I had to giggle when I noticed the name last night haha.

Glad you like that shroom! Its a pretty quick grower.

Nice picks!! Beach Bum was one if I went I would have picked up. I go Steve’s tomorrow to pick up the one coral I did spring for - Walt Disney Acro. Can’t wait to see it in person as the photo the seller sent me it looks great.

Steve showed me it at the show, it's def a nice size! I'll take a frag of it when your ready hahaha


A picture update is coming soon, I just snapped a few and will be editing soon. Gotta watch the new episode of big brother first lol. And maybe the walking dead too

 

[hybridazn]

So here are a few pics I took. Due to the lack of room on the rack some of the pieces are really crammed together. So anyway here it goes

First up is the Reef Hero Canada Blue Demon

ORA Pearlberry

CITR Red Dragon

AV99 Sunset Envy

Sexy Corals Orange Passion

Jason Fox Beach Bum

Reef Raft Skittles

Diabolic Pacman

Mantis Drop the Mic Acro

Thanks to @aquavista99 @Big E @Renton777 @Swayne_07 for the great pieces! i'll take pics of the rest of the pieces as i find time this week!

Thanks for looking!

 

[fabutahoun]

Beautiful frags, you got many corals on my wish list.
IMO you need some kind of SSC , and ORA red planet.

 

[hybridazn]

Beautiful frags, you got many corals on my wish list.
IMO you need some kind of SSC , and ORA red planet.

I had a huge colony of red planet a few years back, it ate up a huge amount of real estate so I'm not sure I'll go with that piece again.

 

[Tahoe61]

Great stuff.

Love the ORA Pearl Berry, that Beach Bum is pretty cool as well. Heck I like them all.

 

[hybridazn]

Great stuff.

Love the ORA Pearl Berry, that Beach Bum is pretty cool as well. Heck I like them all.

Thanks Cheryl! The pearlberry is probably hands down my favorite acropora of all time. I can't wait to grow this piece out again

 

[ksfulk]

Thanks Cheryl! The pearlberry is probably hands down my favorite acropora of all time. I can't wait to grow this piece out again

Yeah, the problem with the Pearlberry is they look like garbage for a while until you start getting some nice growth. Then its a matter of "why are all of those pretty colors coming out of that dull gray stick?"

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Good stuff, bro!

 

[aquavista99]

I think 13 of those gems came from me, but two are for George's friend who could not attend LEAR this year.

Looks like someone met up with Tim

Hey how are you liking the Reefbrite t5 retro?

 

[aquavista99]

Looks absolutely amazing, George! Very nice haul! Glad I could return the Beach Bum to you and all the other amazing gems too. Brad's Drop the Mic acro is awesome to see in person. You are going to enjoy that one as well. Seth, Nathan and Ed all had amazing corals at LEAR too.

 

[hybridazn]

Looks absolutely amazing, George! Very nice haul! Glad I could return the Beach Bum to you and all the other amazing gems too. Brad's Drop the Mic acro is awesome to see in person. You are going to enjoy that one as well. Seth, Nathan and Ed all had amazing corals at LEAR too.

Yes I'm happy to have the bum back to me. And it was a huge surprise to my wife, I didn't tell her I was getting it and while we were walking around at the swap she kept talking about how that is her favorite coral and I need to get it back lol. So it's safe to say she is happy to see it's return.

 

[aquavista99]

Happy wife, happy life! Spousal approval is very important in this hobby.

Yes I'm happy to have the bum back to me. And it was a huge surprise to my wife, I didn't tell her I was getting it and while we were walking around at the swap she kept talking about how that is her favorite coral and I need to get it back lol. So it's safe to say she is happy to see it's return.

 

[hybridazn]

Happy wife, happy life! Spousal approval is very important in this hobby.

Indeed it is lol

 

[prsnlty]

So my acclimating is complete for tonight. The rack is now beyond full

And here is a quick teaser pic, and by quick I mean cell phone haha. The SC Orange Passion I picked up from @Big E instantly got PE as soon as I put it in the tank.

More pics to come later, right now I'm exhausted.

Beautiful George! I miss my orange passion... it was one of my favorite acros

 

[prsnlty]

So here are a few pics I took. Due to the lack of room on the rack some of the pieces are really crammed together. So anyway here it goes

First up is the Reef Hero Canada Blue Demon

ORA Pearlberry

CITR Red Dragon

AV99 Sunset Envy

Sexy Corals Orange Passion

Jason Fox Beach Bum

Reef Raft Skittles

Diabolic Pacman

Mantis Drop the Mic Acro

Thanks to @aquavista99 @Big E @Renton777 @Swayne_07 for the great pieces! i'll take pics of the rest of the pieces as i find time this week!

Thanks for looking!

I'm drooling and SOOOOOOO jealous!!!!! [emoji7][emoji12]

 

[hybridazn]

Beautiful George! I miss my orange passion... it was one of my favorite acros

I'm drooling and SOOOOOOO jealous!!!!! [emoji7][emoji12]

Got to admit, I'm jealous myself hahaha. I'm really happy that my tank is doing well again. And I agree a happy, healthy OP is hard to beat.

 

[Renton777]

Thanks! I picked up the following

Jason Fox beach bum (my original piece I gave to Tim a while back)
Citr red dragon
Diabolic pacman
Reef Raft Skittles
Ora pearlberry
Bubblegum milli
Sunset envy
Pc superman
Ora turquoise staghorn
Crt delight
Reef hero Canada blue demon
Sc orange passion
Mantis drop the Mic acro
Mantis plum crazy acro
Ora Hawkins
Reefshine guys rainbow milli
Asd yellow efflo
Another milli I can't remember lol
Cherry corals white walker zoa
Sc playboy bunnies

There are a couple others that are escaping me right now haha.



Thanks Ed! Yea man I'm excited to get this tank full again. Thanks again for the great pieces!



They are close, within 6" from the water surface.

I almost pulled the trigger on the homewrecker since I almost my last piece of it that I got from @Renton777 last year, but I decided that getting a few other pieces in place of that made more sense at this point. I really want to fill this tank up again lol

Autocorrect may have struck, are you saying that you ended up losing last year's Homewrecker? If so, let me know if you want a replacement at a significant discount

 

[hybridazn]

Autocorrect may have struck, are you saying that you ended up losing last year's Homewrecker? If so, let me know if you want a replacement at a significant discount

Ugh I wish it was autocorrect. Trying out zeovit was one of the worst decisions I ever made haha.

Dang thanks man! I appreciate that buddy!

 

[bif24701]

During my quarterly cleaning of my pumps I was scrubbing clean my wavs and I found this

The magnet is scrapped up and is swelling. I contacted Neptune and they sent me an RMA to send in the pump. Now these pumps are from 2015(won in the macna raffle by @mdbannister) but they sat in the box until last year when I got them and fired them up.

So my question is, should I send in the pump even though it's clearly out of warranty or just order a new impeller? The person I spoke to said he can try to get it covered under warranty but can't make any promises which I totally understand.

What would you all do?

Neptune will tell you to buy a new pump I assume or impeller from previous discussion I have seen poses but wouldn’t hurt to try.

 

[hybridazn]

Neptune will tell you to buy a new pump I assume or impeller from previous discussion I have seen poses but wouldn’t hurt to try.

Well here's to hoping. I'm putting it in the mail today so it should be there friday. Obviously I'll update here as I hear anything.