Maroon Lagoon V2.0
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I did all the tank work well before kick off. Hopefully Mond will stop giving the ball away in the 2nd half! [emoji28]
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Are you going to add new frags in place of the ones you removed? If so, what do you have in mind?
You got to get Ty to start you over with a confetti, lol.
You got to get Ty to start you over with a confetti, lol.
His wife had to offer me the beer... Not him. So I left the frag in my pocket. Decided he wasn't ready for it.
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I was going to offer! She just beat me to it. I was waiting for the next 1st down opportunity [emoji12]
And she baked me chocolate chip cookies last night... Why am I even friends with you? I'm going to see if she wants to catch a beer next weekend and talk about corals.
Come to Austin! I'll setup a sleeping bag for you in the fish room! It'll be like a themed hotel room but geared to reef geeks. [emoji16]
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Haha good luck! I’ve been trying to talk to her about corals for years. It lasts about 4 words and she loses interest. But best of luck with that!
Hey, did you steal that today when I wasn't looking? [emoji51]Thanks to @FarmerTy I have a replacement piece of the Vivids Confetti I brought back from LA almost exactly a year ago. Starting the clock over again now! Let’s see how it grows this year under the new lights!
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If it grows as fast as your last one did it will be a colony in no time!Thanks to @FarmerTy I have a replacement piece of the Vivids Confetti I brought back from LA almost exactly a year ago. Starting the clock over again now! Let’s see how it grows this year under the new lights!
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I mean, uhhh, I just bought this second frag from Vivid Aquariums this week! Brand new purchase, definitely not sourced locally!
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Dude, give us a heads up next time he is coming 'round, let the Mrs distract him with beer and baking, ... it leaves his tank unguarded, start saving bags!?
Good, while he's stealing from my tank, I'm going to grab a couple goodies from his tank while he's preoccupied!Dude, give us a heads up next time he is coming 'round, let the Mrs distract him with beer and baking, ... it leaves his tank unguarded, start saving bags!?
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So last night I noticed that there was some salt creep coming down from one of the return bulkheads of my tank. The bulkheads Marineland included with the tank are spigot style so I had hose clamped the return lines to them. I guess the wiggle of the manifold cracked the bulkhead and when I went to check the tubing this happened...
I didn’t even pull that hard! I guess I’m lucky it happened while I had the return pump off, but it still made a mess and was not how I wanted to spend my Friday evening as I was winding down to relax with a drink. Two separate trips to HD and Lowe’s and I got it repaired with a new bulkhead, reducers, and unions to get it back up and running.
I was a little shocked at how much detritus and junk had built up in my overflow. I had to completely drain it and dry it to get the new bulkhead in. Here’s the cup of gunk I drained out of the overflow
I definitely never want to have a bottom drilled tank or deep overflows like this EVER again. Any future build will be drilled in the back utilizing solid bulkheads and plumbing. I should have bought my own bulkheads instead of using the cheap ones that Marineland provided with the tank. Hindsight is always 20/20... [emoji20]
I didn’t even pull that hard! I guess I’m lucky it happened while I had the return pump off, but it still made a mess and was not how I wanted to spend my Friday evening as I was winding down to relax with a drink. Two separate trips to HD and Lowe’s and I got it repaired with a new bulkhead, reducers, and unions to get it back up and running.
I was a little shocked at how much detritus and junk had built up in my overflow. I had to completely drain it and dry it to get the new bulkhead in. Here’s the cup of gunk I drained out of the overflow
I definitely never want to have a bottom drilled tank or deep overflows like this EVER again. Any future build will be drilled in the back utilizing solid bulkheads and plumbing. I should have bought my own bulkheads instead of using the cheap ones that Marineland provided with the tank. Hindsight is always 20/20... [emoji20]
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