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littlebigreef
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So that first group of pics takes us through August of 2024. I let the tank run another few weeks and then I started moving sps over from the trough en mass. I’d accrued a large collection of sticks from friends both near and afar. They ate up nearly an entire bay and many had browned/greened out due to the low par and higher nutrients.
Rather than gluing plugs down I make holders out of epoxy. It’s modular (until the corals grow down) and you can make surface specific shapes - ie slanted bottoms, lips to glue to edges. I settled on the rockwork pretty early on and, using more rocks from the trough, built out an open latticed pile. I also started adding in my chalices.
This brings me to November of 2024. The opportunity came a long to get a golden Angel. I’d always appreciated my buddy’s and it was an Angel I’d wanted but never had the opportunity to own. At this point I’d moved over a Tomini tang and a few gobies but that was all. I went ahead and pulled the trigger.
Thing got a little quiet in December. I was laid off a week before Christmas after 7+ years. I’m not bitter, just an unfortunate casualty of automation + cost cutting moves. It’d turn out to be a bit of a blessing in disguise. From December through early spring the tank just cruised along.
By early June the tank had largely filled out.
Rather than gluing plugs down I make holders out of epoxy. It’s modular (until the corals grow down) and you can make surface specific shapes - ie slanted bottoms, lips to glue to edges. I settled on the rockwork pretty early on and, using more rocks from the trough, built out an open latticed pile. I also started adding in my chalices.
This brings me to November of 2024. The opportunity came a long to get a golden Angel. I’d always appreciated my buddy’s and it was an Angel I’d wanted but never had the opportunity to own. At this point I’d moved over a Tomini tang and a few gobies but that was all. I went ahead and pulled the trigger.
Thing got a little quiet in December. I was laid off a week before Christmas after 7+ years. I’m not bitter, just an unfortunate casualty of automation + cost cutting moves. It’d turn out to be a bit of a blessing in disguise. From December through early spring the tank just cruised along.
By early June the tank had largely filled out.
