Hark's 125

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Been meaning to do this for a while, finally transferred some of the photos from my phone to my PC so now is a good time as any. this isn't my first tank, been doing this for 20 years however this tank is now almost 2 years old.

First few are building the stand....

 

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next few are deciding where to put it. all my previous tanks had been in wall tanks so I went with that again. there is a perfect spot behind my bar in the basement that gives me an entire room that's about 14x14 to use as my fish room. View attachment 9775

 

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fun....of course there was a pipe in the way for the central vac, had to reroute that and all the wiring in the wall. replaced the drywall with water resistant drywall, the blue stuff

 

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next up a few early setup photos

 

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setup underway, first few fishies next about a month later....

 

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a few corals next, somewhere around the 90-120 day mark I cannot remember. wasn't for long though because my anemone ended up in the Gyre and killed everything in the tank except the clown fish of course...

 

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so went out and dropped another 4-500 on fishies again and started over.

 

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my next disaster came when I lowered my LED's by 1 1/2". It ended up nuking my corals and started off what was one helluva algae battle at about the 1 year mark

 

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but I bought more....and invested in a little Disaster Recovery my own frag tank using a hydroponics flood table. I took a piece of everything I had and fragged it, growing it out for the next time I do something dumb

 

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needed a better water change station, I got tired of hoses even though I have a laundry sink in the fish room. this setup made it SOOO much easier

 

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and that brings us a bit closer to today, tank is two in February not including the two nukings I did to it. happy with the progress and wondering what else I am going to replace next. I think light upgrades

 

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[Joshbrookkate]

Nice! What was in those bags?

 

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Nice! What was in those bags?

coral frags