Shaun's 2000 Litre (530 USG) Living Reef & Red Sea Max S 650 LED Design & Build

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I just remembered that yesterday my tank was officially 3 years old, and I guess now mature

So, here are a few pictures, probably posted before showing the development of the tank over the years, and wow what a journey this has been.

And just to recall this is pretty much my first fish tank of any kind

The adventure so far........

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Clean wall when I realised I wasn’t supposed to leave it dirty! Lol

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Absolutely beautiful! You should be very proud [emoji41]
 

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I just remembered that yesterday my tank was officially 3 years old, and I guess now mature

So, here are a few pictures, probably posted before showing the development of the tank over the years, and wow what a journey this has been.

And just to recall this is pretty much my first fish tank of any kind

The adventure so far........

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Clean wall when I realised I wasn’t supposed to leave it dirty! Lol

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Phenomenal progression! Beautiful reef!
 
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Happy anniversary.
Quite a transformation it made in the past years.

Just a little, it’s quiet a comparison when you see the pictures together and were I started out
 
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So I arrived back from Spain yesterday, and all is well, infact the tank was looking beautiful in the evening.

I cleaned the dirty glass and then thought, I’ll turn the protein skimmer up a bit.

And then I spent all evening with it over skimming, the old skimmate went back out of the container into the tank, which made it go even crazier. The Tunze ATO was freaking out to top the water up....

So I had to turn the skimmer back right down, and now I’ll have to tune it back in again, having had it working perfectly well for months while I’ve been away with no issues!

Shaun, KEEP YOU FLIPPING HANDS OFF THINGS!!! Lol
 
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Do you have .peacocks ? ! Lol

Found this fella making himself at home......

My thread seems to have gone all ornithological! Lol

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Happy u made it home safe.

He says "the tank looked beautiful just cleaned the glass, so I figured I'd start changing things!"

Haha. Welcome home man. And thanks for sharing that experience with us!
 
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Happy tankiversary! And we've all been there - let me just tweak this one little thing and all heck breaks loose.
Lol! I think it’s the constant striving for perfection, to make something better, but it doesn’t always work.

And this is the exact reason I don’t touch anything the few weeks before I leave the tank (unless it’s vital)
 
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So I was bored today, left work early, and thought mmmm I’ll call at a shop....

And into my bag fell

Yellow Goby
Silver Belly Wrasse
Sailfin Tang
Heralds Angelfish

And with self control and not wishing to empty all there tanks of fish I left, promptly!

But they had a small emperor angelfish and a small blue faced angelfish and I really want them, but I know they might eat the contents of my tank, but they might not, mmmmmm
 
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So my updated fish list is below

Regal Angelfish
Heralds Angelfish
Flame Angelfish
Coral Beauty
Yellow Tang
Regal Tang
Purple Tang
Tomini Tang
Sailfin Tang
Pair of Blue Throat Triggers that have spawned on many occasions
Pair of clown fish
Magnificent Foxface
Red Wrasse (can’t remember proper name!)
Yellow/banana Wrasse
Silver Belly Wrasse
Cleaner Wrasse
Fairy Wrasse
Neon Dottyback
2 Yellow Goby
Starry Blenny
Mandarin fish
5 Green Chromis
5 Azure Damsels
3 Lyretail Anthias (originally 7)
 
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