Lol unfortunately we rented those because we didn't have the means to hold 130 gallons of water. We are planning to buy bigger storage bins for fresh and salt water. Right now we have a designated container for RO/DI water that we use for this tank, my nano and saltwater. We do have several 5 gallon jugs that are designated for fresh saltwater and waste water.
We wanted to make sure this tank had most of the kinks worked out, and that we didn't repeat some of the same mistakes from our previous tank.
Long time without a post and we have added a bunch of stock to the tank. I'm trying to get a buddy over to take some sweet pictures of everything. Here is what we got:
2 Duncan colonies
Jacko lantern leptosaris
Green/purple frogspawn
Gold octo frogspawn
Gold hammer
Aussie elegance
Aussie blasto
Blasto merletti
Red Aussie blasto
Rainbow lobo
3 different acan colonies
Rainbow pectina
GSP
Green toadstool
Several zoa and paly colonies
Bright pink gonoporas
Green and red wellso
Several ricordias
Several ridactus
Green pocillipora
Mint birds nest
Magenta birds nest
The second picture is our blasto rock. Those are merletti's that we've had for about three years, and the big one is an Aussie blasto. Not pictured is a new blasto that we got recently that has all red polyps. In the very back is an acan that we have moved down into the sand bed.
And our fish stock is finished. The wife wanted to go up to Oceans Avenue today after I got home and they had a pair of juvi leopard wrasse. We also picked up a bubble tip.
Oh yea, we were checking out a new store over the weekend and found a mandarin that is know to eat frozen food, so we got it as well.
The same store had a very unique Niger trigger. I thought it was dead, but the store owner said "Nope, he's just sleeping". And to prove it, he put his hand in the tank and pulled on its tail. The trigger looked at him and said "dude, I'm sleeping!", and just nudged closer to its corner. If I had a bigger tank then I would have walked off with him.
A lot has changed since my last post; lots of corals, fish and...we moved! The scape changed dramatically when the guys reassembled it, fortunately we like the way it turned out. We also built a new canopy that looks like it went with the tank. Will upload some pictures of the critters soon.