Back from the dead...

[Mr. Ugly]

Both my tank and me.

Been away for a few years dealing with elder care. During that time, the tank went completely to hell due to lack of time and motivation.

I finally tore it all down towards the end of last year and started back up a smaller super low tech tank. No sump, no skimmer, no dosers or reactors; just a heater, a vortech, and water changes.

Posting to say hi and also to share a video of the mutant hybrid turbo conch that lurks in my tank.

He/she/it shares the tank with a non-mutant turbo snail, 3 tube anemones, a tiger tail cucumber, and a tiger conch.

 

[fingerwrinkles]

Welcome back from another ghost of sorts ;-)

 

[Coral reefer]

Welcome back norm!

 

[boun11]

Welcome back Norm! Come by anytime for frags!

 

[Newjack]

welcome back!

 

[jonmos75]

I'm liking the resurrection of past member coming back to the club.

 

[LordHelmet]

You can never leave it fully.

 

[xcaret]

Welcome back Norm!
So the snail's name is Mrs. Ugly?

You can never leave it fully.

Tell me about that...

 

[Mr. Ugly]

Thanks for the welcomes, everyone.

Hope you all are doing well.

Robin, still clowning these days?

Boun, I may take you up on that. Staying with mostly softies. Have a couple brown leather frags and random zoas doing ok.

I used to have a lavender candy cane that I fragged out for swaps. If anyone knows of it still being around, that would be great. That was my first ever lps, and I wouldn't mind growing it again.

Snail's name... nothing so far. How about Kaiju? Need to remix that video with Godzilla sound effects.

 

[sfsuphysics]

NORM!!!!!!!!!!!

No chance of Mr. Ugly's Red Prostrada still floating around in that tank? Been quite a big request for "old school" corals recently.

 

[iCon]

Welcome back!

 

[Newjack]

plus 1 on the "red prostrada"
would love to find one locally

 

[Mr. Ugly]

Sorry on the prostrata, guys.

I'm starting from zero. I lost everything in the tank. At the very end it was a murky algae farm. I only kept the water circulating so I wouldn't have to deal with the stench of anaerobic decay.

Maybe some floating around with the Northbay guys or the folks that were in MARS? I used to frag a bunch for their get togethers.

 

[Ibn]

Welcome back Norm!

 

[sfsuphysics]

No worries Norm, I'm not exactly one to get upset that I haven't gotten the corals back I had pre-crash of... crap I don't remember how long ago that was. But regardless I'm not yet in a comfortable spot with growing out SPS again, so no hurry on my part

 

[Coral reefer]

I think there was a dude out in Livermore that was selling some frags of it awhile back. Maybe @Vhuang168 knows where to find it?

 

[Vhuang168]

I'm not sure but I can check


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[dswong01]

Welcome back Norm

 

[Mr. Ugly]

Cool to see all the welcomes. Nice to be back.

 

[Mr. Ugly]

iPhone pics of the current tank, 58 gallon ADA 120P.