jfly Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 Hey everyone. I posted on the old TRT web site that I was back in town and was referred to the new site. I see things have changed a lot in the last four years. Anyhow, my parents managed to keep my 20H alive for me while I was in the Army with basically just topoff water and fish food. Whenever I came home I did a big maintenance session, and in the last few weeks the tank is obviously looking a lot better. I had a few long hours of valonia picking with tweezers and whatnot, but overall the tank is doing well. I don't have an FTS at this point as the pictures were just me playing around with a new lens for my camera. Equipment: 20H tank. 150W heater Koralia 2 AquaClear 50 HOB filter (empty, just for flow and easy access for food, etc) Sand (no idea how much... 4+" that I put in over 6 years ago) Rock (also no real idea. Lots though) 2x32w 50/50 PC's. *I should really switch those to one act and one 10k Livestock: Lots of ricordia (that spread really far and killed most of my really cool zoos) 2 rather large toadstool leathers and 4 or 5 smaller babies. 1 Clarkii 1 cleaner shrimp hermits, various snails and an astrea that makes my turbo snails look small. xenia gsp various small zoo colonies green sinularia that I just picked up at waves pincushion leather (also new) lots of different shrooms (red, orange, blue, green, eleph. ears, etc) I'm in the midst of setting up a 40B with much better lighting, so we'll see where it goes from here. Quote
coralreefaquarist Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 looks good id love to see more pics(clap) Quote
dsoz Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 Welcome back. Thank you for serving your country. Are the clarki hosting the leather corals? Very cool. dsoz Quote
chewie Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 I remember you Jeff. I met you at Steve Weasts house a while ago. I think I even traded some frags with you. Thank you for serving our country! Quote
stylaster Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 looks good, need a whole tank shot pleeeeeeezzzzzeee! Quote
jfly Posted July 7, 2008 Author Posted July 7, 2008 Okay, so here's some more shots of the tank. I guess I need two posts for that so I'll explain in post 2. Quote
Benny503 Posted July 7, 2008 Posted July 7, 2008 Welcome back and Thank you for serving our country!!! After 4 years and your tank still healthy? Wow... your parents must kept it very well (congrat) , I wish someone can take care my fish tank that well for two months vacation. Quote
jfly Posted July 7, 2008 Author Posted July 7, 2008 So, I included a full shot of the tank with the stand and hood. It's been at my parents house and my mom somehow thinks that family pictures belong on top of the hood I made to match her oak cabinets. It's a reef tank mom! The pictures can go in a book, the tank gets to be displayed! I'm having a bit of trouble with the white balance but the colors are pretty close unless there's a lot of sand in the picture. The clarkii does host in the toadstools, which is pretty fun to watch, but its a clarkii afterall... she'd probably host in my hand if I left in the tank long enough. The whole tank is sitting on an old TV stand which is actually hand becuase the tank is small enough that I can very slowly roll it across the carpet if I need to get at the back side. However, as you can see from the shot of the HOB filter, there's not a lot back there. I've got my cables all routed nicely so I really dont need to do much to the tank. I've got an old auto topoff that I made in college but without a sump its just sitting there waiting for my new tank. I tried to rig it up the other day but I have way too much surface agitation. Thanks for looking! Quote
jfly Posted July 7, 2008 Author Posted July 7, 2008 Also, you're all very welcome. I never know what to say when people thank me for serving the country, but it sure is nice to know that people care. Quote
chewie Posted July 8, 2008 Posted July 8, 2008 Also' date=' you're all very welcome. I never know what to say when people thank me for serving the country, but it sure is nice to know that people care. [/quote'] HUUUUAAAH! Quote
tidalsculpin Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 Hey you must have great parents too. Keeping a reef tank going for 4 years for someone else is pretty nice. It looks great. Quote
biomekanic Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 Glad to have you back! The tank looks really good. Quote
Nocean Posted August 8, 2008 Posted August 8, 2008 wonderful color and clarity in your photographs. Quote
jfly Posted August 9, 2008 Author Posted August 9, 2008 Thanks, though in the last one you can tell there's some unclean glass in the bottom quarter of the image.. :P Quote
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