Mike and Terry's 300g Reef

Mike&Terry · Jun 23, 2015

Our M. bipartitus female decided to pose for a shot:

hatfielj · Jun 23, 2015

The new tank is going to be awesome, 72 x 36 x 24 are killer dimensions! Way to go sticking through all the rough times. It will be worth it someday:)

A_CoupleClowns · Jun 23, 2015

Wow that fish is amazing! It has a nice smile too :D

bigmiker32 · Jun 23, 2015

Can't wait to see the new build! Going to be outstanding as always!!!!
What type of overflow are you going with?

falconerr · Jun 24, 2015

Those tank dimensions are going to be super nice. Have you gotten any of the details worked out with Felix yet? Also curious if you going to do one of his ghost overflows or if just a standard overflow. Also curious if you will continue with the closed loop. I'm sure you will update us all when you make decisions.

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Mike&Terry · Jun 26, 2015

hatfielj said:
The new tank is going to be awesome, 72 x 36 x 24 are killer dimensions! Way to go sticking through all the rough times. It will be worth it someday:)

Thank You for your kind words! We don't mind losing 3" and are looking forward to going rimless.

A_CoupleClowns said:
Wow that fish is amazing! It has a nice smile too :D

Thank You! Hadn't really noticed until you mentioned it, but she does look like she's smiling. :D

bigmiker32 said:
Can't wait to see the new build! Going to be outstanding as always!!!!
What type of overflow are you going with?

falconerr said:
Those tank dimensions are going to be super nice. Have you gotten any of the details worked out with Felix yet? Also curious if you going to do one of his ghost overflows or if just a standard overflow. Also curious if you will continue with the closed loop. I'm sure you will update us all when you make decisions.

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Thanks guys! We have talked with Felix, but have not worked out all of the details yet. Hoping to get that done in the next week or so. We will post more details once everything is hashed out.

In the meantime, we thought we would share a few pics taken earlier this evening...

Aquaph8 · Jun 27, 2015

Beautiful pics, I can't stop staring at those geni's everytime you post pics, the male is just amazing!

maroun.c · Jun 27, 2015

Love the bipartitus shot. Amazing fish unfortunately my ornatus killed the 2 I tried to introduce.which wrass is the one in the last picture?

Mike&Terry · Jun 27, 2015

Aquaph8 said:
Beautiful pics, I can't stop staring at those geni's everytime you post pics, the male is just amazing!

Thanks Brett! And congrats on your Geni pair!

maroun.c said:
Love the bipartitus shot. Amazing fish unfortunately my ornatus killed the 2 I tried to introduce.which wrass is the one in the last picture?

Thank You Maroun! You never know how leopard wrasse species will react with one another. Our M. bipartitus female was not happy when we added our M. choati. There were moments where we thought we would have to remove the M. bipartitus female and put her in timeout for awhile. Thankfully, it didn't come to that. Interestingly, our male M. bipartitus never bothered our M. choati. The last pic is of our Cirrhilabrus johnsoni.

Big E · Jun 27, 2015

Those are awesome fish and pcitures!!

kuba · Jun 27, 2015

Tonyreefer said:
BEAUTIFUL tank not a spec of hair algae I'm having a major battle with my tank whats your secret !

Use Red Sea's no3 po4x. It works miracles:)

SeahorseKeeper · Jun 27, 2015

Gorgeous pics!!!

Mike&Terry · Jun 27, 2015

Big E said:
Those are awesome fish and pcitures!!

SeahorseKeeper said:
Gorgeous pics!!!

Thank You Big E and Krista!

prsnlty · Jun 28, 2015

Stunning, beautiful, fantastic, yeah it's all of that and more! Loved the shots as always too :D

Can't wait to see the new build started!

Mike&Terry · Jun 28, 2015

prsnlty said:
Stunning, beautiful, fantastic, yeah it's all of that and more! Loved the shots as always too :D

Can't wait to see the new build started!

Thanks so much Jackie! Waiting on the new tank is going to be an true exercise in patience for us, LOL, but we know it will be so worth it...

Mike&Terry · Jul 20, 2015

Custom Stoneworks came out today and de-installed our Cambria counter tops so that we can finally move the 300 off the stand.

We also received some awesome news from Felix (Reef Savvy) the other day... He's planning to bring our new tank to MACNA and put it on display during the conference. We're only a couple hours away from DC, so had already planned to drive to the conference this year. We'll just need to recruit some volunteers on Sunday to help us load it up on the truck for the drive home. WOOT! It is such a relief to know that our fish babies (and coral) will be in their AWESOME new home much sooner than we originally anticipated!