Renton's Evolution from 200 to 440 gallons

Renton777 · Oct 19, 2020

The Blonde Naso tang really enjoys the much higher tank vs his old confines. Lots of swimming up and down and doing laps back and forth

this is me · Oct 19, 2020

Renton777 said:
and a great place to hide from the wife and kids.......

Excellent! Looks nice’n cozy. I dig it.

Renton777 · Oct 19, 2020

I built another arch and added a bit more rockwork to give the fish more hiding spots. I took this pictures in the middle of cleaning the glass, please excuse the dirt and grime.

Renton777 · Oct 20, 2020

Please excuse the mess, I just finished moving a bunch of corals into the new tank and took the video before cleaning up. King Achilles also made the move today!

I had my first real "Oh, no!" moment. I dipped all of the corals coming out of the old system before they went into the new system. I dipped my DFS Pink Panther little colony for just a couple minutes like all of the other coral. Except when I removed it from the dip it really smelled bad......and totally lost all of its color

. Hope it pops back in a couple weeks.

Renton777 · Oct 23, 2020

My wife had a hair appointment last night and it could not have come at a better time. I had ordered some aquarium room wall decals and they arrived yesterday and I was able to put them up while my wife was gone.....I may have gone a little overboard.

My wife came home while I was in the middle of putting up the Kraken decals, I caught her taking a video of it all. I think she sent it to her friends to show them how awesome her husband is.

tripdad · Oct 23, 2020

A little bold but I like it. It leaves no doubt where your heart lies.

Renton777 · Oct 24, 2020

All the fish have been moved into the new system:

Active Morning:

The Yellow Tail Tamarin was the last fish to make the transfer

Wrangy · Oct 25, 2020

Love those decals!! She was definitely telling all her friends how awesome and cool you are! ;Dead

The tank is coming along in leaps and bounds, it's looking fantastic mate!

Renton777 · Oct 26, 2020

Slowly but surly I am transferring components from the old system to the new system. Over the past few days I got the apex setup, dosing pumps, auto water change, 2xtunze controlled via apex, kalk dosing and carbon reactor. Trying to manage the wires and tubes is quite a bit of work. I will get the Alkatronic running in the next couple of days.

Also added a light to the refugium.