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16 minutes ago, ShawnM said:

Now you should add for arc eyed hawk fish and I think there is another style of hawk fish and it can be the hawk tank


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Live aquaria actually has a bonded pair of long nose hawks but I don’t want to push my luck! Would be cool to say I have a hawk tank 😎 lol 

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Added a few things to the tank today. Went to rca and grab the pair of golden nugget clown fish with a Sherman anemone. Also picked up a green slimer. Then I stopped by Ty’s house and grabbed a couple frags. Got a tyree rainbow stylo, Oregon tort, and a satosa! ff19a2b298bd16f66589d6d4079d3269.heic84a38fc278595f74ccde98679a7e7660.heic


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11 hours ago, Jen_h said:

Added a few things to the tank today. Went to rca and grab the pair of golden nugget clown fish with a Sherman anemone. Also picked up a green slimer. Then I stopped by Ty’s house and grabbed a couple frags. Got a tyree rainbow stylo, Oregon tort, and a satosa!

Ty got the goods! I'm glad I don't live closer to him. 

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Ty got the goods! I'm glad I don't live closer to him. 


I know i still pretend he doesn’t live right down the street from me so I’m not over there every day [emoji38]


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I know crappy pic. The frags seem to be fairly happy today. All my parameters are inline except my phosphates 0.08. Should I do a small 10% water change to get them a little lower or just leave things alone for the time being?


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I know crappy pic. The frags seem to be fairly happy today. All my parameters are inline except my phosphates 0.08. Should I do a small 10% water change to get them a little lower or just leave things alone for the time being?


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0.08 ppm is just fine. I personally don't like it to go over that number in my tank but I run predominantly SPS so different needs than a mixed reef.
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Oh, and I would totally pop that slimer off its plug it came with and reglue on another plug. This is from years of getting stuff in my tanks I didn't want. Just simply regluing ti new plugs will prevent a lot of those unwanted hitchhikers.

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Yea I was trying to find another plug! I re-did the ones you gave me. I’m sure I have a plug somewhere just have to find it [emoji3]


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Just let one of mine dry out completely and use it. [emoji16]
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Little update, frags and fish are doing great. Do have a cyano outbreak so I broke down and bought a bio pellet reactor. Should be here soon. Also started running gfo through a filter media cup. Hopefully that will help some. Added kalk to my ato, after my ato dumped a bunch of freshwater into the sump. I’m really confused why when I fill the up the reservoir later it just dumps water until the float valve stops it. Seems like it’s only an issue when I fill it up. Now I’m kind of worried about the problem since there’s kalk in there. Any ideas? 19aa3c81b968480b7be2d7ba4ee5e511.heic63d644bbc08a3ed30409d49f39c0e522.heic

It was completely full, that’s how much water it dumped at one shot


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8 hours ago, Jen_h said:

 Added kalk to my ato, after my ato dumped a bunch of freshwater into the sump. I’m really confused why when I fill the up the reservoir later it just dumps water until the float valve stops it. Seems like it’s only an issue when I fill it up. Now I’m kind of worried about the problem since there’s kalk in there. Any ideas?

Is it overfilling the return chamber in the sump by a lot? If it is then maybe the pump has created a siphon and water flows even with the pump off. If not then first thing comes to mind is one of the sensors is not working. One tells it to fill when low and the other tells it its full. The full is not working. The float valve is the back up. The float valve should stop it close to where the full level is. Its looks like its close to the full sensor level. If this is correct and its taking that much to fill the sump from low to high then you need to place the low /full sensors closer together if you want to use that ATO container.

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I don’t think it’s a syphon, I have the hose hanging from above the sump. It’s probably the sensors like you say. Hopefully the eye isn’t bad I just bought it a couple months ago. I’ll try to line them up better like you said and see what happens.


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Good thing i don’t do photography for a living.
iPhone 8 pics, best I can do. Like ty and juice would say, time for a photo dump
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Blue tort (ty)
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Red and orange caps (Tom)
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Green slimer (rca)
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Setosa (ty)
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Green bird nest (Tom)
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Green birds nest w/purple polyps (Tom)
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Purple stylo (Tom)
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Rainbow stylo (ty)
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Red planet acro (Tom) ps I hate this one...giving me a hard time [emoji19]
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Palmers blue Mille (Juiceman)
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Media shower (Juiceman)
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Juicemans blue stag (Juiceman)



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Just got off the plane from Hawaii. Got home and the tank looks like a disaster [emoji30]. Long green hair algae everywhere. Sps looks pale. Off to rca to get water for a huge water change. Got to love vacation!


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Just got off the plane from Hawaii. Got home and the tank looks like a disaster [emoji30]. Long green hair algae everywhere. Sps looks pale. Off to rca to get water for a huge water change. Got to love vacation!


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Tank was just pissed you didn't take it with you. I feel the same way! [emoji19]
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