Isaac Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 sand! lovely lovely sand cloud. filter socks in place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 added about 40% of the original rock (acid washed months ago). was relatively clear until we changed socks and put live rock in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 once it clears up, vacuum up the fine sand/silt in the sump, drop in a rock from MY fuge to seed it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 ze dust has settled.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 and new pump! Jebao DC-12000. its only running at 2 "dots" who makes a progress bar w/ 6 dots? 16.66% a dot... good job guys. anyways, 33% on this new pump is equal to 100% of old pan pan world px100. room for more flow and a manifold.....later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 what do you do when the pump on your reef octopus gen1 hasnt been made in a longlong long time? dundun dun, macgyver it! yes, thats a lazy-man PVC splicer.... not much choice when dealing with metric PVC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 the rocks have cycled!! well, close enough to add the rest of the rocks anyways. Last wekend we added some haldies that came w/ my tank originally... really sped things up! cycle time: 4weeks. ammonia 0 nitrite <.25 nitrate ~15 pH 8.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 remaining rock added. I'm hoping having half of it already cycled should cut the 2nd cycle time 30-40%.. we shall see! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 So, i cant believe it... 5 days later... ammonia/nitrite... ZERO, nitrate still around 15. most diatoms are caught in the sock too. How the heck did the second batch cycle in under 5 days? AND we have algae now too! I guess tossing MY old change water in, and the holding tank's skimmate in helped. I'll be doing a sanity check tomorrow... this seems a bit too quick. If we're still at zero, i guess we're aquascaping this weekend. "test fish" and CUC soon after! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BobcatReefer Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 Question for you Isaac: Why not aquascape first, then add water and cycle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 1 minute ago, BobcatReefer said: Question for you Isaac: Why not aquascape first, then add water and cycle? well, we used his RO/Di to fill it.. took... 2-3 days? I dont want only ro/di-water inside the rocks, there is no circulation in some of those. why we went w/ water/mix first, add rocks after. why half and half rocks?..He had too much rock, we had about 50% acid washed and ready, and not the other half. no point in buying extra containers to soak in acid when you can do it in stages. Plus I think cycling it all at once would have taken longer, no? Adding to an already cycled system is always faster in my experience (just not THIS fast). While its going to be a PIA and a mess to take everything out to aquascape, i think we shaved some weeks off by jumpstarting it this way. plus, i thnk some of the "base" look good already.. and we just dropped it in, so it has a somewhat boulder-pile natural look in spots. he wants some caves/shelves.. so we're definitely gonna be moving crap around. something his tank has mine doesnt is "depth"... i plan on having more "sand" areas on this one.... after all, its now an extension of mine.. using my change water n all MUAHAHAHAAAAAAAA. lugging 30gals across the street is... bleh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BobcatReefer Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 Short answer: Time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted March 16, 2017 Share Posted March 16, 2017 29 minutes ago, BobcatReefer said: Short answer: Time yes, extra messy steps to save overall time. in a patience hobby, cutting time where possible is friggin awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 aquascaped! only one halide running now. test fish floating in sump. CUC ordered. So far we're far ahead of a "@jolt" timeline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolt Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Isaac, it's not a race buddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 10 minutes ago, jolt said: Isaac, it's not a race buddy i dunno, in a patience-based hobby, race where you can gotta take it slow from here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolt Posted March 21, 2017 Share Posted March 21, 2017 1 hour ago, Isaac said: i dunno, in a patience-based hobby, race where you can gotta take it slow from here. I can totally respect that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 the holding tank is no more! we've moved all the corals, fish, & snails to the main tank. moved the lights back. everything is at the bottom, we'll move them up once acclimated to the light again. By the time i got the lights back on the tank, it started getting blue... ill try and get better picts tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellfish Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 That's a awesome rebuild! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 daytime picts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted June 6, 2017 Share Posted June 6, 2017 tank looking good lately. we have some loss, which i think is related to a heater not behaving. He picked up an apex (yay!) which i put in place lastnight. Hopefully managing the heater down to .5 w/ the apex will help. All parameters in the system are w/in range. The heater was ON at 82 lastnight before we put the apex inline.... ugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 So we finally picked up an apex... temp is now stable... finally: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 cabinet wire/pump mess finally under control... manifold in place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaac Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 and tank picts.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jnaylor Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Looking good!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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