Dont think I posted it but I had crash after crash last year with power outages left and right, I wound up losing most everything in the 8 footer and got rid of it.
The cube got shut down for a bit only corals left are the large leather and the toadstool, moved them and the fire shrimp to a cheap 10 gallon and put it on top of the dresser.
Got the bug again and set the cube back up using the old rock, surprise surprise I got dinos right off the bat.
Did the blackout and fixed that, was taking care of the aiptasia one at a time, and decided to just buy new live rock and sand...
Had some shipped to the house from Salty Bottom Reef, and naturally with my luck UPS decided that it needed to sit on the truck overnight for an extra day so the rock could get down to 40 degrees...
Now if you want to experience an unforgettable smell, that is the way to go...
After a few days, I had to pull all the rock out and give it a good scrubbing, pull off all the dead stuff(Most notable was a 3" mantis tucked up in a hole), probably 10 100% WC...( not but like 5 gallons so no big deal there)
So all this bring us up to today...
I have my cube back up and running, rockscape that I can live with for now (planning on reordering some smaller pieces and more sand)...
I have the rest of the rock I bought sitting in a 10 gallon on the window sill for now...
I also have to Turkey wing clams that made it through all this alive and well...
Rock has been in the cube for 11 days now, thinking next week I should be good with getting some snails in it...
Planning on adding a pair of panda gobies and a fire shrimp or a cleaner shrimp, unless I find a really weird looking shrimp instead...
Anyway, enough typing here's a pic the arrows point to the clams...
