Pratt Reef Project - The Transition

[masterswimmer]

:yo: This is the live feed from Pratt:

7:30 am - Everyone is making an appearance at ground zero.

In Attendance:
Randy :duh:
Russ (master)
Jim (house)
Mike (Slama)
Frank (fry - electrician extraordinaire)
Dave (daceman)
Dave (spykes)
Brett (bad coffee)
Eric (digitalreefer)
Krisen (nano dude)

7:35 We siphoned out about 100 gallons of tank water into a couple of holding bins for some of Randy's massive colonies.

Mike figured he'd teach everyone how to siphon without getting a lung full of saltwater........after he spit out the lung full of saltwater :lol2: we all agreed his 'system' worked great :biglaugh:

More to follow.

swimmer

 

[jhale]

way to go !

guys don't suck on the siphon tube just submerge the tube in the tank hold you thumb over the end coming out of the tank place in bucket and let gravity do the rest

 

[masterswimmer]

We got all coral colonies out. I'd say we're looking at about 14,503 frags! :lol:

The fish are all in buckets swimming with the corals. Anemones are out. Clams are enormous and open in the buckets.

Sandbed is removed.
Frank is working his masterful skills on the electric.

Lights are moved to Randy's other reef. We'll be moving the lights from that tank to the new tank until a total replacement is setup.

Hopefully we'll find a cable to upload the pix Brett is taking.

Updates to follow.

R

 

[masterswimmer]

way to go !

guys don't suck on the siphon tube just submerge the tube in the tank hold you thumb over the end coming out of the tank place in bucket and let gravity do the rest

Water is all gone already. Where were you when we needed you! :lol2:

swimmer

 

[prattreef]

New arrivals:

Mike (simike)
Tristan (master plumber)


New tank is in place.
Electric is almost done (75%)
Plumbing is moving right along

Sand is in the new tank.

Fish and coral in holding tanks are doing remarkably well.

We're rollin'.

R

 

[prattreef]

A couple of pix:

 

[prattreef]

A prize colony:

 

[prattreef]

For those of you who don't know what a 6 y/o sandbed looks like, this isn't pretty. Makes you wonder about a BB tank. BTW, it smelled worse than it looks.

 

[prattreef]

The loss of 95% of this encrusting green pavona was not fun. Lots of frags for the crew though

Next you can see the old tank with Brett.

Evidence that the bucketed corals are doing ok.

 

[scarf_ace1981]

what's growing on the wall to the left of the pavona?

 

[prattreef]

Not particularly nice Zoanthids. I have hundreds of them.

 

[House of Laughter]

Many guys are working hard on this project - but if we had to vote, I would say Fry (Frank) worked the hardest and man, what a job he did on the electrical work - unbelievable, Frank - my hat goes off to you.

House

 

[SlamaJama]

worked hard we all did...fun we all had...David (daceman) manned the cell phone (he was so proficiant that we all had our calls forwarded to his cell num)...kris (nanoreefer) remarkably enough kept his hands out of his pockets...and eric (digitalreefer) caught the fish that it took 3 years to catch...so much more to tell, too tired tho...much fun!

o and frank was kickin arse...nice work fry

 

[Josh]

Where are the rest of the pics!!!

 

[Dace]

dito

Many guys are working hard on this project - but if we had to vote, I would say Fry (Frank) worked the hardest and man, what a job he did on the electrical work - unbelievable, Frank - my hat goes off to you.

House

 

[heuerfan]

Nevermind, figured it.

 

[FRY]

thank you Jim it was my pleasure,

frank

 

[nanoreefer22]

Randy was a pleasure helping you set up that monster!!! So much for one day but it was very enjoyable.

Nice seeing everyone, especially Daceman(Dave) who worked ohhhhh so hard :teeth:

 

[bad coffee]

It was great to see everyone. We all worked all day (except Kasei who decided to show up at lunch)
The thing is up and running, and is really nice.
Josh:
"currently copying picture 275 of 394"

and that's just the first 1gig card that's full. I'll be posting a couple, then giving copies to randy to make the official thread.

B

 

[masterswimmer]

Frank, a beautiful, well crafted piece of work. You can do electrical work for me anytime.

Everybody (almost ahem) worked real hard and did a great job.
Mike, next time leave those garbage bags where they belong :hug:
Eric, great fishing expedition.
Eugene, looking forward to seeing pix of the Arc de Triomphe :lol2:
Randy, thanks for the Pavona and pizza (great combination)
Kasei, next philanthropic project will be a Dremel diamond wheel for you! :lol2:
Brett, you know the pic, please keep it to yourself (pretty please)

Had fun everyone. Thanks for a great day.

R