175g Bow-Front + many beers and tears (many pics)

[scmountain]

I have a big troth 150 gallon of ya need it

I appreciate the offer, but I am going scorched earth on this one. Anything alive is getting sold or rehomed.

 

[scmountain]

Some pics on the way out...

Ripping out the faux wall


Shout out to one of my favorites. Clarence... when I bought him his "core" was gumball sized with spines close to baseball size.
Now he is just shy of 12" with spines!



I will have to do a separate post for Frank-The-Tank (Zebra Turbo who I personally had for 9 years)

 

[MuralReef]

Holy wow… My wife and I just went through this entire thread and relived all of the highs and lows. What a journey we’ve been on:

from the highs of watching gigantic RBTAs dancing in the current, to the lows of scooping out masses of those same now-dead RBTAs, all because one stupid baby rainbow nem got blended by the wavemaker…

I will never buy another anemone for a non–anemone-specific tank ever again. No matter how “pretty” the color is to management!


It's time to shut this tank down.

Honestly, this is the restart I need. Watching a slow decline of this tank over such a long period really took the wind out of my sails. The nem war had many casualties, in and outside of the tank...

But I’m also excited to fix so many of the mistakes I made on this build. Some were great ideas at the time, some were budget decisions, and some were just pure cluelessness (like thinking I could indefinitely fit my tall self through a 2-foot opening for maintenance).


So many of you helped us through this journey, and we really appreciate it.


We are not quitting… There just happens to be a 550-gallon glass bowfront sitting in our driveway.


Round two begins...

Wait? Is this for real? You posted on April Fools so I thought you were joking!