Dumped the tank and no longer having to do anything reef for anyone other than just advising people that need help with them. Now just a Livin' Large Lounge Lizzard. A loverly mix of nuts.

If you haven't been to the RC Lounge forum, you should check it out. Leave the drama and fish talk at the door, have thick skin and a sense of humor or you won't last long.

Best wishes for you and all of your family.
Have a great day! :D

I gotta love my big sis. 3 years older. She had just given me her 180g reef and downsized to the 72g bf. So she dropped a grand on a new light. Not good enough. Drops over a grand on a new 120g RR, stand, canopy and sump. New return pump, new cone skimmer, new APEX with conductivity and two EB8. New ATO, sand, MP40.

I get to go set it all up for her in less than two weeks. She downgraded too far too fast. I tell her about all of the things I would get and she buys them. Her basement...

My pretty white sand is all brown! Wah wah wah.

Red slime is all over my pretty rock! Wah wah wah.

I have hair alage! Wah wah wah.

If these people would do more reading and learning and less time crying about these things then they wouldn't be bothering everyone constantly because they would have known what to expect from the start of reefing.

Here's another good one.

My tank is one week old but every fish and coral I put...

I have to get rid of all of the Mushrooms, an orange Florida Ricordia, A couple different Yuma Ricordias, a little green Toadstool and a couple zoanthid colonies that came with the rock I got. I had all of the LR in one 100g stock tank and the corals in another 100g stock tank but now that almost all of the rock is in the DT I want to get those stock tanks out of the room and store them in the basement until I switch from the 55g sump behind the DT to using the rubbermades in the basement.
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I think I have about 1,200-1,400gph moving through the sump now! I rebuilt the 7 way manifold into a wider 8 way with the strongest jets furthest away from the overflow. I have 276lbs of the LR in the DT now and it doesn't look too shabby considering I haven't done any aquascaping in 3 years. Lots-o-swim throughs for the fishies. Not that I have any fishies yet and it will be some time before I do get any fishies. The fishies will be a small school of Heniochus Diphreutes fishies along with a school...