Darren - The Fish Doctor can also help. 

The one with a snubbed face was an ugly looking bugger.

They are good eating if you want it gone ASAP. 

Moving house is a pain without moving a marine tank too. Be worth waiting for sure, when's the house due for completion?

Patience is for suckers, get that sucker full of water. If there's beer involved and maybe a frag or two I may even be willing to help you move it  

Baby on the way! congrats mate, absolutely awesome news.

Setting up a reef tank and a baby on the way. Sounds like your 2019 will be similar to my 2018. It's all good fun though, beats sitting in front of the television. I seriously underestimated the time I needed to put into setting everything up, was a huge undertaking. 

Our baby loves the fish tank - calms her down 9/10 when she is having a sook, I think it's a combination of the lights, the movement of the fish and the shapes/patterns of the rock. 

Good man. You'll never look back or ever have any spare cash again.

What lights did you end up going with?

Looks like your full steam ahead getting things done! You are in the fully motivated stage. 

Will be awesome once all done. Keep up the good work.

Awesome work mate! To set up or not.... 

Thanks mate.

Been chatting to the guys at Reef Secrets over the east - going to get a shipment of new corals sent over in the new year. They have heaps of great SPS - just need to hold out until then which is tough. 

Price on black rays is coming down rapidly!

Calc Reactor is the way to go - set and forget.

Here you go... now start plumbing

Going from FW to SW. It is funny to me what SW keepers consider aggressive. Hear it time and time again, one tang per tank. Yeah maybe if you have a small tank, but even then Tangs probably aren't a great option as the majority get fairly 'large' and they really like a lot of space to graze. I have 5 now, and when i add a new one, the Powder Blue goes after it for 3-4 hours. Then the next day its like the new fish has been there since the start with 0 aggression. They actually even seem to 'enjoy' each others company. Look at the pics the 5 tangs are all within a foot of each other in both pics. This wasn't a coincidence either. They seem to actively graze as a group moving about the tank - even though they are all separate species. With two in the genus Acanthurus and two Zebrasoma and a lonely Naso for now. 

Good stuff. Would have probably been more work up front, but will save you down the track. 

Whack some pics up when you get a chance. 

Hi Steve

Without having seen the set up or anything like that. But by the sounds of it, the set up is incredibly neglected. 

Personally, I would nuke all the live rock and start over. There are lost of different ways to do it with acids, sun and bleach etc. I reckon the reward of starting with the seeded rock would be far outweighed with all the nasty algae pests that would likely come with the rock. 

Thanks, 

so close you can't even see it!

haha. No chance, look up some Golden Trevally fishing pics. 10-15kg brutes.

On a similar note - Saw a heap of juvenile golden trevalley at Ocean Reef Aquarium yesterday, they were tiny ~4cm but awesome to look at. Was so tempted to drop half a dozen in my reef tank. Couldn't handle the headache down the track. 

yeah it is a strange aquarium choice. Most people buying a marine fish that grows huge and trying to keep it in full FW. 

I'm sure there are some people who have had short to middle term success. My guess would be that the vast majority would be dead in under 5 years. 

Discus, may as well get your crockery out of the kitchen put it in the tank and watch that instead. 

Ticking along....