Thanks!
On the bright side, its nice to have a chance to start fresh.
That does seem like a new code. I don't recall anyone out there having a system when I lived there in 2012-2013. It is a good thing to have in any space you brew/cook in IMHO. Cost/SF goes up but should help out on insurance bill. Definitely a sweet set-up. Wish I had the SF to do something like that. Basements in Texas are nearly non-existent.
Yup - I jokingly told my wife it's cheaper than a mistress. Not sure if that's true but my family loves the tank and they enjoy helping me pick out coral frags and fish.
When I moved the professional tank movers killed about $25k in coral. They apologized and gave me about $300 in frags to start over with.
Dude that whole set up you have is awesome! ......by the way did I read that right 25k as in 25 thousand dollars in coral reef ???
Yes, but with lots of asterisk. Generally speaking a quarter sized head or frag of coral goes anywhere from ten bucks to a grand depending on how desirable it is. I started with maybe a dozen heads worth around $50 each. Over the ten plus years the tank was running those small frags grew to about 500 heads. Don't think I could have sold all 500 to any one person or shop at the full retail price, but could sell a few at a time on eBay at round that price. Part of the reason they cost what they do is they are mostly tank grown and those tanks are expensive to run and the coral grows slowly.
I have added about twenty or so frags and will grow the tank out again over the next few years.
