The Journey Continues - Mike & Terry's 280g Reef Savvy

[Mike&Terry]

Looks very good! Congrats on that maturing reef!

Thank You, Rev. After removing most of the overgrown purple stylo, orange/yellow turbinaria and green slimer, it will be nice to sit back and watch everything grow in.

Amazing!!!

Thank You!

Just gorgeous!!

Thank You!

Glad you guys are back sharing your beautiful tank

Thank you for the kind words, Robert! It's nice to be back...

 

[Mike&Terry]

Thought we'd share a couple of pics taken this past weekend...

Genicanthus semifasciatus - Japanese Swallowtail
DSC_3083 by Terry Lauderdale, on Flickr

Psuedojuloides severnsi - Royal Pencil Wrasse
DSC_3062 by Terry Lauderdale, on Flickr

 

[this is me]

Thought we'd share a couple of pics taken this past weekend...

Genicanthus semifasciatus - Japanese Swallowtail

This is so beautiful.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Thought we'd share a couple of pics taken this past weekend...

Genicanthus semifasciatus - Japanese Swallowtail
DSC_3083 by Terry Lauderdale, on Flickr

Psuedojuloides severnsi - Royal Pencil Wrasse
DSC_3062 by Terry Lauderdale, on Flickr

I love these!! The Japanese Swallowtail is on my bucket list for fish.

 

[Wrangy]

That swallowtail is just a sublime fish!! And the colours on the pencil are fantastic!!

 

[prsnlty]

Happy Easter!

Mike and Terry, it is so beautiful! I haven been here for some time... I am going to back up about a year on your thread to see what's been happening all this time.

 

[Mike&Terry]

Mike and Terry, it is so beautiful! I haven been here for some time... I am going to back up about a year on your thread to see what's been happening all this time.

You haven't missed much, my friend... we were off-line ourselves for quite some time.

 

[tweeter]

They are beautiful!!

 

[dodgerblew]

Stunning fish and photos

 

[Mike&Terry]

Stunning fish and photos

This is so beautiful.

I love these!! The Japanese Swallowtail is on my bucket list for fish.

That swallowtail is just a sublime fish!! And the colours on the pencil are fantastic!!

They are beautiful!!

Thanks soooo much guys for taking the time to check out our thread and post such kind words. We truly are appreciative!

We spent the weekend doing some pruning/rearranging of corals as well as some much needed maintenance. We hope to have some fresh pics up by the weekend, so stay tuned...

 

[Mike&Terry]

Now that things have settled down after pruning and moving corals around, we thought we'd share an updated FTS.

For comparison, this FTS was taken about 3 months ago:

DSC_2630_053020 by Terry Lauderdale, on Flickr

And here is the updated FTS:
DSC_3106 by Terry Lauderdale, on Flickr

And we couldn't resist posting a pic of Big Daddy:

DSC_3114 by Terry Lauderdale, on Flickr

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Now that things have settled down after pruning and moving corals around, we thought we'd share an updated FTS:

DSC_3106 by Terry Lauderdale, on Flickr

And we couldn't resist posting a pic of Big Daddy:

DSC_3114 by Terry Lauderdale, on Flickr

Awesome!! I love the scape!

 

[Mike&Terry]

Awesome!! I love the scape!

Thanks Daniel! We moved our large green Acropora austera colony from the center of the tank over to the right and moved the Acropora solitaryensis to the center. In order to make room for the A. austera, we had to move the duncans over to the far left side of the tank. We also moved the red/pink Acropora millipora colony that previously sat below the A. austera over to the left side of the tank to help balance things out.

I need to take a better FTS with all of the lights on in order to more accurately represent the coral colors. The left side looks very purple in this picture which makes it difficult to differentiate corals from rock, lol.

 

[Wrangy]

Love those chonky fish!! It's looking gorgeous!!

 

[Mike&Terry]

Love those chonky fish!! It's looking gorgeous!!

Thank you for the kind words! And they certainly don't miss any meals

 

[nickm]

Thanks Rev!

The counter top installers ran into an issue with the center piece of quartz that wraps around the front and connects to the side cabinets. It fit perfectly on the left side, not so much on the right, sigh... They took the piece back to the shop to make adjustments and will be back on Monday to finish the install.

Not the best picture, but here's a shot where the center piece properly meets up with the left side cabinet:


This past year has been an extreme lesson in patience for me and the next couple of weeks will be even more so. I feel like a kid on a road trip sitting in the backseat of my parents car pleading "Are we there yet?" "How much longer?"... LOL.

-Terry

Quartz and granite can handle the weight?

 

[mattgsa]

You have really nice tank, I love all the fish.

 

[Mike&Terry]

Quartz and granite can handle the weight?

The tank doesn't sit on the quartz countertop, so no problem with weight.

 

[Mike&Terry]

You have really nice tank, I love all the fish.

Thank You mattgsa!

 

[nickm]

The tank doesn't sit on the quartz countertop, so no problem with weight.

Ok, beautiful build. I’m on page 20 loving it. I’m waiting on Reef Savvy to get back with me for my invoice so I can send them the deposit.