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The 12 Days of Reef Christmas


extreme_tooth_decay

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Well, I recently broke down my 125. It had a very deep sand bed, and I cleaned all the sand well (that was not fun).

 

The following is a list and pictures of what I found under the sand bed (not on top of it). I didn't know any of this stuff was there.

 

 

 

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my sand bed gave to me.....

 

12 empty pointy shells,

11 astrea shells,

10 bristle worms a stingin',

9 dozen tiny rocks,

8 large rubble rocks,

7 dozen Ilyanassa shells,

6 dozen turbos,

FIVE SNAIL TRAP DOORS,

4 suction cups,

3 branch rocks,

2 lonely strainers,

and a tube worm with no worm.......

 

Happy Holidays WAMAS.

 

tim

 

 

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Some of those 6 dozen turbos:

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11 astrea shells:

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12 pointy shells (one of them wasn't pointy enough to make the cut)

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5 SNAIL TRAP DOORS....

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2 of the suction cups

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the other 2

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the empty tube worm

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How long had the tank been up and running??

 

bob

 

 

3 or 4 years I think. Hard to recall. I had another one up before this. It's possible I transferred some of the stuff from the old tank and didn't know it.

 

Every time I pulled out a strainer or tee fitting or some such, I could just sit there and think, "What!?"

 

I had about 300 lbs of southdown in there. Lots of hiding places for stuff. Lots of sand moving gobies over the years, too.

 

heh

 

 

edit: ha! I discovered another WAMAS auto-replacement (not h-e-double hockey sticks this time though)

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Every single time I have emptied out a tank over the past couple years, which has been a lot, I've thought about this post.

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lol, Merry Fishmas everyone!!

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