Manny Tavan

Today is drilling day. This is gonna be a forever tank for me. Hoping for 20+ years. That means it needs to be modular. No corals will ever grow on the rock itself so I can move them around as needed. The whole structure is modular but frag plugs and frag disks will be modular as well

Looks like natedog is in the lead so far

We need more votes! In case of a tie breaker I will put both tanks in a head to head battle!

I haven’t thought what would happen in case of a tie breaker...

10 minutes ago, The ReefBox said:

I only ask because the last shutdown we were not getting SPS or torch’s then 

Previous ban was wild and maricultured corals. The new ban is wild corals only

1 hour ago, albertareef said:

I would prefer the item sitting next to it personally 🙂.  May not be that useful to run your tanks though...

Are you referring to my 1989 miata? That won’t power anything. Not even a 100w heater

you don't try a nem...it tries you... lol

Yes and it’s heavier! A lot heavier than my 2000w yamaha

Just got this monster home. It’s heavy!!!

is it weird that I am wishing for a week long power outage all of a sudden?

Those are Pandoras and they’ll take over everything. I throw them in the trash cause it’s literally a pest...true story

With the availability of maricultured import, do we really need wild corals?

Saw local ads for $1000 transfer switch including installation, permit and inspection

Now I wish my tank had crashed...I kid of course

You can’t mix both alk and calcium to top off. It will precipitate. 
 

you can add kalk to top off and it will replace both alk and calcium. 
 

Kalk can be rough to ATO pumps though

I would use kalk. That way you replace alk and calcium in a balanced way

$$$$$$

The chevron in clackamas has clear gas year round

honestly though, I would just run regular gas in an emergency and then when it’s all done, take the carburetor apart and clean the pilot jets. Doesn’t take long

I think the second best cost effective option is a generlink 

https://youtu.be/u3hZzNyxGe8

Was feeding LRS to my tank as usual. I just throw big chunks of it. Walk to the freezer to put the rest back. Turn around and I see my yellow tang sideways at the bottom of the tank. He was fine 5 seconds ago. He’s not breathing well and not moving. I reach into the tank and when I grab it - a puff of LRS chunks squirts out of his mouth. He’s moving now but looks dazed and barely swimming. At least he’s upright...10 seconds later he’s back to normal  

so who else has had to perform fish Heimlich maneuver before?

I have a Yamaha 2000 and used it last weekend. But I realized how painful it is to hook up heaters, pumps to two different tanks. And I still didn’t have any power in the rest of the house. It was getting cold too and the heaters had trouble keeping up

so I just ordered a champion 7000 inverter generator from Home Depot. This should run the whole house. I just made a suicide cord for the dryer plug. Don’t judge me

switch panels don’t run the whole house, only the circuits you decided to hook up to it

I think the barren ugly tanks should get more likes lol

I’ve used it. Never had to replace mag when I was using it

9 minutes ago, Parzifal said:

Alrighty.  Full tank shot here!  Some of you have some awesome looking tanks, but I think mine should win just based off the rare concept alone. 
 

i recently (Monday) decided to go for a tank theme I’ve never seen before.  This is my attempt to represent the ocean at the bottom of the mariannas trench.  Near freezing temperatures and no light.   Creates a beautiful barren oceanscape. 
 

thanks to Jeff at cuttlefish for housing all of my normal tank inhabitants!
 

 

I think we have a winner here! 

Brian, how insensitive of you....

to not give credit the right person...Herbert Spencer

So they eat the bubble algae and poop out red mushrooms. I need some of those ASAP!