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say I shouldn’t be so pessimistic. Can you imagine? Me, in THIS hobby, a pessimist?! That’s ridiculous. I’d never become a pessimist. I probably wouldn’t be any good at it anyway.
Anyhow, the latest planned date for the swap is Saturday, June 4, which is just a couple days from this writing. The sump has already been drilled, 90% of the plumbing has already been laid in (dry), and the extra water has been made (which is currently circulating in a vat in our family room. Wife not happy.), so it looks as if the 4th may indeed be feasible. Therefore, look for a full report and tons of pictures next month. Sorry to leave you hanging.
[UPDATE 6/3/05: Due to the undependability of a vital member of my team, I have been forced to postpone the swap yet again and find a replacement member. And since locating this replacement will take time, not to mention the extra time it’ll take to bring them up to speed, it is now my estimate that the new sump won’t go in until late July. This is also because my daughter’s summer vacation begins in a couple weeks and I just can’t put any more on my plate right now; especially something as large as swapping out a sump on an existing system. So instead, Ray and I will spend the next several days training the new guys so that when I return in mid-July, we will all (hopefully) be finally ready to go. |
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Please don’t get me started on what happened to my previous ‘teammate’. Actually this month, I prefer to save my ire for another bit of wonderfulness (read: crap) I had to wade through in dealing with the public. But first, let’s begin with the positive (See? Would a pessimist say that?) and go to the tank (#187). It’s really not much different from last month’s shot, which means I’m actually holding true to my pronouncement of no more new stuff for a while. Of course, a contributing factor here is that I’m completely out of room. In fact, I’m beginning to have a rather serious overgrowth problem that can only be alleviated at this point, by some rather aggressive fragging. A few of the corals have gotten so large that they’re blocking water flow to both themselves and other pieces immediately ‘downstream’. I’ve even noticed a slight return of cyano in some of these problem areas. Also, in a few places I let the corals grow together, it appears that some problems have begun to develop (‘Gee Mike, couldn’t have seen THAT coming’.). For instance, take a look at what’s happening to the base of my Staghorn Jungle,  . The problem here is both lack of flow and light and it’s highly doubtful that I’m ever going to have the kind of either I’d need to sustain this type of growth…at least, not in this tank anyway. So the plan here is to just remove the whole thicket, save a couple frags and begin anew, albeit a bit more sensibly. |
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