DBarsotti's Tank in Town

thanks norg.!

ok... So i was planning on moving the remaining tank of my system from my previous house where it's been residing for the last few months on "auto-pilot"..

well the s'morning i get a call, 7:00am...

"the fish tank is making a funny noise and the sump is empty"
-me... "is there water on the ground?"
"oh my gosh.. the garage is flooded!"


So as you can imagine my morning started off wonderfully... So i rushed out there to find 90 gallons from my sump and 10g from the ATO had been pumped out of the display all thanks to a snail making his way into the overflow and clogging the drain.. (exactly why my next system will have dual overflows)

I was planning on moving the system this weekend anyway but at this point my water was at 71 and i just so happened to turn off my RO/DI last night to change the filters and didn't have time to finish so i had absolutely no water on hand and only had about 50g worth of salt mix... so i decided.. might as well just move it now...


here's some pictures of my adventure today.. it was CRAZY stressful..
















found this nasty little critter

 

Pink Lemonade & Strawberry Fields



and now everything PACKED into the prop portion of the new setup..

 

I promise i'll start breaking out the camera once i get the new display so i can take some decent pictures instead of these stupid iphone pictures..

 

You had a long day my friend.

 

Ha most definitely. But hey, this is the fun part right? Ha

 

So this is roughly what the new system will look like, plan view. I am hoping to get the sump plumbed in this weekend because i have aout 60+ pounds of rock in a trash can that needs a stable home.. AND I am ordering the new display on MONDAY! ..probably will take about a month to build tho i bet...

 

Sounds like a very long day. I'm along for the ride.

 

thats so amazing! how do you get your corals to stay in place in your DT like that? looks like something at a professional aquarium lol! also what is that "nasty critter" you removed? looks like a blue fire worm or something

 

Thanks, i'll try to keep it interesting ha.

Thanks!. Ha, everything in the tank is just laying around at this point, the bigger colonies you see are just tiny frags that have grown onto the rocks so aggresively i cant get them off.

The nasty critter was a fire worm i'm pretty sure, found a few big ones but that one was definitely the biggest, heres a few more pictures of the little critter.

 

Wow that is big. Glad you got it out of there.