Ugly Tanks!

[John A!10]

Let’s see some of this ugly looking tanks that just didn’t turn out how you wanted them too. I am only posting this to cheer me up as I am a reef noob and my tank is UGLY.

 

[brandon429]

mines ugly due to nine years at the time of pic, but I wanted it that way. it was only ugly to others, to me it was prdy~ beauty in the eye of the non pruner. its a decade of corals packed into one gallon, and no its not mean they're not dying, they're growing too well. its been fragged out and cleaned out now, plenty of room.

if it were a canid:

nobody under 25 can id the movie that still comes from unless they fancy google search the image.

 

[cracker]

You want to see ugly tanks? I'm not scared ! I'll get one tomorrow in lights out now

 

[davocean]

I'd play along, but I gotta dive deep back in my photobucket, and for some reason PB is not loading, but believe me, anyone that's been around has ugly moments at some point!

 

[DancingShark]

One of my friends tank.

 

[brandon429]

ooh I wish I had that one in our tank turnaround threads that's not hard at all to fix up. those coralline telltales, nice ion support here. all we'd have to do is rinse up that bad boy, decloud it, catch-up kill some algae and put it all right back skip cycle so clean. I wish that was offered in our tank rework threads, real potential on that one.

declouding means after we're done, the aquarist can reach in the tank and grab any surface, sand included, and swish it around violently in the water and nothing clouds at all. as of now, the cloud would resemble pure mud water, its packed with detritus, which is fueling the low level anchored algae. the corals are in great health it appears, and the calcium and alk here is perfect, don't need to see test kits. the coralline would have alternating bands of purple on white if the ions weren't balanced.

 

[John A!10]

One of my friends tank.

This tank would be really nice without the algae.

 

[John A!10]

mines ugly due to nine years at the time of pic, but I wanted it that way. it was only ugly to others, to me it was prdy~ beauty in the eye of the non pruner. its a decade of corals packed into one gallon, and no its not mean they're not dying, they're growing too well. its been fragged out and cleaned out now, plenty of room.

if it were a canid:

nobody under 25 can id the movie that still comes from unless they fancy google search the image.

Really nice you have so many corals in that tiny thing I got a coral and it never opened till I realized it was dead then I did some research and found out it was a really hard coral to keep. (Flowerpot)

 

[brandon429]

it would be ironic if I had a flowerpot coral in there

 

[Scotty Buttons]

Nice thread, I like it!

 

[Scotty Buttons]

And I think that tank should qualify for the reef tank 365 award! Looks healthy to me!

 

[davocean]

did you have to break it like a coral piggy bank?lol

if it were a canid:

nobody under 25 can id the movie that still comes from unless they fancy google search the image.

All I know, is don't make faces at people cause if someone slaps you on the back you'll stay that way!
I know my 80's stuffs!

 

[John A!10]

You might notice that I have a freshwater shrimp tank as my profile pic! That’s cuz I have no nice reefs or just saltwater tank to add.

 

[DancingShark]

ooh I wish I had that one in our tank turnaround threads that's not hard at all to fix up. those coralline telltales, nice ion support here. all we'd have to do is rinse up that bad boy, decloud it, catch-up kill some algae and put it all right back skip cycle so clean. I wish that was offered in our tank rework threads, real potential on that one.

declouding means after we're done, the aquarist can reach in the tank and grab any surface, sand included, and swish it around violently in the water and nothing clouds at all. as of now, the cloud would resemble pure mud water, its packed with detritus, which is fueling the low level anchored algae. the corals are in great health it appears, and the calcium and alk here is perfect, don't need to see test kits. the coralline would have alternating bands of purple on white if the ions weren't balanced.

This tank would be really nice without the algae.

To late guys tank has been shut down. He used dog dewormer to get rid of gap. Then things got nasty. He will come back with a 300g.

 

[DancingShark]

I meant green star polyps. Not gap

 

[Rattzreef]

10g AIO I built.a few years back. things kinda got away from me for a smidge back then..

 

[Katrina71]

I love it when you guys show me dirty! My son is frustrated with some tank uglies and thinks he will never get past it. I keep telling him to be patient. He actually said a minor cuss word last night dealing with his cyano. Lol.

 

[Waters]

I am a clean freak.....this thread is making me very uneasy

 

[ThunderGoose]

One of my friends tank.

One of you "friends" tank. Right.

 

[norfolkgarden]

Sometimes it takes a while.

Funny note. Where the algae grew best is now where the coralline growths best.

Um, oh yeah, keep the rocks more than 1.5" from the front glass....