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I will have to check that stuff out, considering the rock is sitting in a tub right now, there are not fish and corals. Thanks again for all the responses.

I woke up that morning sick and hungover (two seperate feelings). Had a cough and sore throat for a few days afterwards, did not want to taint the group. Adding to the fact that we were back from a 12 day vacation, we needed to catch up on some sleep.

We totally agree on the rock, that is why we tried to etch it, but not destroy it. We will see how it goes. Real Reef has released some branch but not a ton, they do have the shelf and other sizes down pretty well though if we need to figure something out. We will never get rid of all the...

Yes we were doing them sometimes more than once per week. We tried every trick in the reefer hand book and we could bring the levels down, but they would always go back up. Yes safety and ease of use were a factor as well as consulting with Ethan at Ao. I agree with my wife (said every man...

Will have to check that out, thank you.

James, the problem with running closed loop is that the pumps can be electricity hogs and our tank was not drilled/setup for that. I think with the new advances in powerheads we will be just fine as now we can aim pumps at the back walls. Yes muriatic may be the best way to go but we went with...

Nice, glad to see the tank back on track, looks great.

ATI hybrid fixture, and yes I agree this hobby can be maddening sometimes but I guess it if was easy we would not have reef forums to commiserate in the fun. Soem corals responded very well to the LEDs and some did not, so we figured lets go with the best of both worlds and run the hybrid...

Nice update, fish look great.

Spam filter, basically we don't allow non members to post links. We used to have a massive problem with spam and once we turned that off it all went away. Looking forward to following the thread.

It did plenty, trust me. The rock is stripped white and it actually became brittle as we broke a few pieces by just setting them down. I think if we used anything stronger, we would have been left with a pile of rubble.

What has done so far: 1. All rock pulled and soaked overnight in vinegar. 2. We spent today hosing and scrubbing it all off. Very white now and lots of dead stuff. Bubble algae still alive but comes off much easier. 3. Back into fresh water to soak a bit, we will monitor and switch to salt...

Thank you guys, the fish are doing very well. Little update on the tank in general: We have been battling high phosphates for a while now which of course rears its ugly little head in the form of algae. Now even with the nature reef (which helps a ton btw), changing out a ton of phosguard...

c. johnsoni is the spawning pair.

They just kept going:

Our camera cannot focus on the black tang so this is as good as it gets: The next set of pictures gets a little hot and heavy so hide your kids eyes and prepare to clutch your pearls and/or monocle

Some random fish pictures:

Damn joe that sucks. Hopefully you get all the bad reeding karma out before you setup the tank.

Any time you disturb a reef there is always a chance things can go bad. However, given that you have a ton of time, you can plan this pretty well and take a lot of the risk out. If you can setup a tank at a temporary residence (that can be a tank or rubbermaid containers or anything inbetween)...

At that time it was around 8.5 to 9. Now I keep it lower (long story) so it would probably actually work again.