Christy's Reef

Finally it is here! NEW TANK!!! I managed to get it setup last night with all sorts of fun issues to deal with: drilling new holes in the stand, caulerpa hidden everywhere (and I thought I was doing so well). Extra fish, disappearing fish. I think I came out even in the end. I gained one and lost one. One of my masked gobies mysteriously disappeared. He was there one minute, then I took the last rock out and he was nowhere to be found. I shook out the rock but nothing. That rock went into the crap pile as it was just growing too much darn algae to go into my nice new tank. The "found" fish was a trimma goby I had bought at the beginning of september. I got two and the last time I saw them was as they were swimming into the rock flipping me the bird as they did so. I was quite surprised to find one in there. I have no idea where its hiding now and no doubt I'll never see it again as I'm never ever changing tanks again :P

I was so sure I could get it done in a reasonable amount of time. Say 6 hours or so. It was only because I had someone helping me. I'm sure of it! You know where you say, oh it won't take that long and then when someone is there you embarass yourself when it takes twice as long? Yeah well that was me. I started at 5pm and managed to get everyone back into the tank by midnight. Who knew the fun you could have spending 2 hours aquascaping because you have corals on rocks and have to have them fit almost perfectly so you don't have a pile of frags and bare rocks? :P

Then today after work I had to hook up the sump because my sea swirl doesn't fit on the eurobracing and I needed some new plumbing for that. Of course I figured I might as well clean out my skimmer and sump while I was at it. Then I ran out of salt so I don't have the skimmer running. I'm sure there will be an algae heyday in there. Anyway, all is well now. Mostly. Sorta.

So the new tank is a Seastar eurobraced 90 gallon. Scratch free and beautiful. I did a DIY overflow. Well not me, a friend did it but I glued it in :P The teeth were a bit overdone and the water level is about a half inch from the top of the tank. I can remedy that easy enough (so she says).

Of course, after fitting all that rock together (which suspiciously looks like less rock than before) I have no room for all my frags. What is up with that? They all fit on there before?? Now they're littered along the bottom. I've scouted out a few spots but I have more frags than spots. I guess we're down to the wire. Time to seperate the wheat from the chaff. Could I possibly fit any more retarded sayings in here? :P Anyhoo, I guess I'll be getting some store credit, or rather paying off my huge bill :P

Now to get some sleep! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..............