Mike and Terry's 300g Reef

Saltgator · Apr 10, 2015

So nice!

Mike&Terry · Apr 10, 2015

Electrobes said:
Spectacular! I forget... Are you guys going to Reefapalooza tomorrow?

Thank You! No RAP for us... wish we could, but we will be at MACNA.

Saltgator said:
So nice!

Thank You Brad!

stormdolp · Apr 10, 2015

Genial muchas felicidades, esta grandioso

Mike&Terry · Apr 10, 2015

stormdolp said:
Genial muchas felicidades, esta grandioso

Muchisimas gracias!

CoralFragZ · Apr 11, 2015

Just hooked up Chromecast to my old school TV - The Video came out great!

Mike&Terry · Apr 12, 2015

tdb320reef said:
Just hooked up Chromecast to my old school TV - The Video came out great!

That's just too cool!

Mike&Terry · Apr 23, 2015

Thought we would share a few pics...

gerards_reef · Apr 23, 2015

Beautiful!

revhtree · Apr 23, 2015

Beautiful Mike and Terry!

SPS_ · Apr 23, 2015

wow those pictures are amazing!

Mike&Terry · Apr 23, 2015

iamgant said:
Beautiful!

revhtree said:
Beautiful Mike and Terry!

SPS_ said:
wow those pictures are amazing!

Thank You all so much!

stormdolp · Apr 23, 2015

Excelentes bichos, felicidades, saludos

zibba · Apr 24, 2015

Mike&Terry said:
Thought we would share an overdue update on our reef, starting with the bad news first...

A couple of weeks ago, one of our detritus eating sea cucumbers released toxin and we ended up losing 3 fish ...

Hunter shared this news with me as I've been away from the forums for awhile. Very very sorry to hear this but sounds like, and the later pictures confirm, you've got things dialed back in. I have two sand-sifting cucumbers in my tank at the moment and I guess I'm in "fingers-crossed" mode. Was there any warning?

Your pictures are really stunning! You've gotten that new camera dialed in, for sure. I love your guys' reef and the photographs do a great job at bringing out the character of your fish.

Looking forward to seeing more!

SeahorseKeeper · Apr 24, 2015

Gorgeous!!!

Kris Belgium · Apr 24, 2015

an amazing last picture !! Great SPS, super colors !!

TinpanVA · Apr 25, 2015

Pure awesomeness as always!

TUSI · Apr 26, 2015

M&T absolutely stunning tank, pictures, colors and everything that any reefer could dream for

prsnlty · Apr 26, 2015

+1 to what Zibba said, could've said it be tter myself! ....when I want inspiration I love to come to this thread :D

Mike&Terry · Apr 27, 2015

zibba said:
Hunter shared this news with me as I've been away from the forums for awhile. Very very sorry to hear this but sounds like, and the later pictures confirm, you've got things dialed back in. I have two sand-sifting cucumbers in my tank at the moment and I guess I'm in "fingers-crossed" mode. Was there any warning?

Your pictures are really stunning! You've gotten that new camera dialed in, for sure. I love your guys' reef and the photographs do a great job at bringing out the character of your fish.

Looking forward to seeing more!

Thank You Z! As far as warnings go, in hindsight, yes... Sometime in the wee hours of that morning, I happened to wake up and check the system (bad habit since our 2010 catastrophic tank failure) and found both skimmers flooding. It was unusual, but has happened on a couple of occasions over the years when something has spawned in the tank. Once the skimmers were dialed back in, I checked both the frag tank and the display with a flashlight. Nothing appeared out of the ordinary, but the lights were off and the majority of our fish were tucked away in the rock structures and sand bed sleeping. Our Kaudern's Cardinalfish and Tinker's Butterfly were out and acting normal, so I didn't think more of it at the time.

Looking back now, it makes sense that the toxin release triggered the skimmer flood and had we realized this and acted sooner, perhaps we could have saved the (3) fish that were lost.