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I have been into reefing for about 10 years and once upon a time I had a beautiful 90g in my living room. Then came Hurricane Laura last year. We decided to ride out the storm as we have done many times before, but this time around 4am in the morning a huge pine tree came crashing through the house and nearly killed two people. Luckily no one got seriously hurt but the house. The tree landed on my outdoor pond that was only four months old, and pretty much destroyed the front of my house. Somehow the reef tank didn’t get hit. But with a tree in the house and getting hit by another hurricane just three weeks later and the house flooding with rain water the reef tank suffered. By the time a had a chance to do anything with it, I suffered a complete tank crash. Well I was able to save some fish. Every coral was nothing more than a white rock.
I vowed that I would have another reef. So now starts the new chapter. I have an old 6 foot 125 that was a African cichlid tank for many years that I have decided will be the new reef. We are now over a year since the hurricane and my house still isn’t fully fixed due to a contractor abandoning the job and leaving me fighting to get the money to finish, but there is finally light at the end of the tunnel and hopefully within a month the house will be done and setup of the new tank can begin.
I am going to post a follow up post with some pictures and more details so stay tuned.
I vowed that I would have another reef. So now starts the new chapter. I have an old 6 foot 125 that was a African cichlid tank for many years that I have decided will be the new reef. We are now over a year since the hurricane and my house still isn’t fully fixed due to a contractor abandoning the job and leaving me fighting to get the money to finish, but there is finally light at the end of the tunnel and hopefully within a month the house will be done and setup of the new tank can begin.
I am going to post a follow up post with some pictures and more details so stay tuned.