400Gal Down Under

Ok it's been a little while since I did a proper update, here is the major things going on with the tank:

New ATO reservoir and Supps container, I still need to get a lid made up for it, but the dividers are in and leak tested.

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The frame on the family room side has been given a 1st coat of paint

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Other than this it's been pretty much a case of hands off and let it grow out, the clowns now lay eggs pretty much like clockwork and have taken to the elegance coral I put in near their corner, there is a shot in the mix below. I have lost 1 or 2 heads off 1 of my torches, but 1 of the absconders turned up
stuck to a rock behind my birdsnests so I am leaving it be.

Here are a few other shots

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Well the tank is pretty much a year old. [smilie=nerd.gif]

So here are a few pics

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I reshuffled some corals to make space and prevent all out chemical warfare.

This chalice had been partly in near complete shade, the smoother textured section was shaded, showing a drastic difference in growth from light to dark
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This acro colony was very high in the scape and since lowering it, it has colored up more and I found I have 2 crabs living amongst the spikes.
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I managed to get a great screencap from my webcam
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12 months since my last update, you guys went real quiet so I didn't bother, then Spar said he posted pics of his rebuild and I decided to drop by.

1 of a mated pair of flamehawks
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My prize leopard wrasse, which suddenly died 2 days after this pic :(
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Now the tank is 2 years old I am needing to revamp a few things and change what isn't working. 1st phase was rescape the end bombie.

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Next phase is pull out some morph infested rocks and rebuild the centre rockwork a little more minimalist and pass the less pleasing corals on to other reefers.
 
Well I was planning on crashing a meeting in December when I visited Spar but cash and time just aren't going to let that happen. :(

Maybe next year.

In the mean time I will do a big update shortly with a rundown of my changes and a heap of pics :)
 
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