Shells' Reef Tank

[Shells]

As most of you know, I am about to move so I thought I would do a tank build/upgrade/move thread

We (my husband and I) started with reef tanks back in 1996. We had a 40 gallon and it lasted for a few years until children. When my youngest was about to turn 6, and I had some spare time on my hands, I wanted to get back into reef tanks.

I re-started with a 24 g AP



Quickly realized it was too small and upgraded to a 90.



Since we were going to put in new flooring - It was the perfect time to upgrade, once again, and pushed it to a 180g.



After being set up for about 5 months



Now the move .......

[Shells]

In preperation for the move, I bought the exact same dimension tank to set up in the new house and then move the corals to it. This way my light canopy will fit and I can then slowly move the corals and then take my time re-setting up my tank.

Here is the temp tank rolled into the new house

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Some of my corals before the move

Looking down

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Here are some of my fishies

Baby blue



Sunny



Butter



PJ1 (there is a PJ2 also)



Nico & Pico (can't see Pico - he is behind Nico protecting his eggs)

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Lady Jane



Spaz



Ka-blueeee



Piggy (look at the belly and know you know why we call him piggy)

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Some Cyphastrea

Meteor Shower


Atlantis Ocellina


Tyree Blood Red


Zepplins Minefield (slooooooooow grower)

[da6d2003]

Looks great! Good luck with the move!

[vlad_acosta]

great pics cant wait to see how you put everything back together...this is one of my favorite tanks that i've seen stuffed with so many different corals and yet it looked very open for many fish to move around in..


are you going to keep both tanks or re-sell one after your all done

[Techknowledgy]

Beautiful Shelly! Good luck with the move and can't wait to see the results. It will no doubt rock us!

[GoTakuF1]

My future babies look so happy, Shelly! I can't wait for a frag

[vinny73]

I didn't even notice those til you said something Minh! I am so jealous of moving and setting up new tanks! One day! Great Plan Shelly! Good luck with the move and mortality rate! Hope all goes reeeeeealy smooth! Keep the pics comin!

[Shells]

Looks great! Good luck with the move!

Thanks 6

great pics cant wait to see how you put everything back together...this is one of my favorite tanks that i've seen stuffed with so many different corals and yet it looked very open for many fish to move around in..


are you going to keep both tanks or re-sell one after your all done:what

Thanks. I may keep both tanks and set the 2nd one up as a fish only tank, but time will tell.

Beautiful Shelly! Good luck with the move and can't wait to see the results. It will no doubt rock us!

Moving the rock work is going to be a challange



Minh, Here is yours right here. Fragged and almost ready to go for you.

I didn't even notice those til you said something Minh! I am so jealous of moving and setting up new tanks! One day! Great Plan Shelly! Good luck with the move and mortality rate! Hope all goes reeeeeealy smooth! Keep the pics comin!

I am a little worried about mortality rate, but I am going to go slow and hope I don't have any

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Here is the temperary tank getting filled up.



This will be the new location of my tank. Still need to do some work in this room..



I will be looking for helpers to move my tank in the next couple weekends. Pizza and beer provided! Exact date to be determined. Move from Rancho Pensaquitos to 8 miles North - Felicita Park area

[Blaze]

looks good,nice work.