BornToHula

How do I put this all back together again???

Congrats on the new place!  I just moved my tank on Monday.  It seemed a lot heavier than I remembered!

Got the tank moved to the new house last night.  If I ever have to move it again, I'm going to need to invest in some hydraulic dollys or something. My back can't take any more lifts like that .

I have the livestock in the temporary tanks currently.  I more than likely wont be able to get the big tank running again for several more days, so I am going to have to look into setting up some temporary lighting for the corals.

The only loss so far has been the pistol shrimp, which I have a feeling the melanurus wrasse thought looked like a good snack.  I probably should have made a better place for him to hide. 

I also got my water mixing station up and running.  Once the 240 is filled I'm going to pull the stand out a paint it with some waterproof paint. Just didn't have enough time to beforehand.

In preparation for the move I built a stand that will hold two 40 gallon tanks.  The plan will be to put the coral and fish in these for a couple of days while the 240 is moved and set up again. All the other live rock with no corals will be put in a brute trash can.  If the tank move takes more than a couple days, I will need to make a stand for one of my powermodules to sit on to get the corals some light. Hopefully I can move quick enough not to need that though.

On 3/10/2017 at 7:25 PM, ShawnM said:

Are you going to continue dosing vibrant and were you doing weekly or every other week?


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I am going to continue until the bottle runs out, about two more doses.  I have been dosing weekly, but haven't noticed any effect.

This thread is worse than Ty's tank build thread!

You could use some pvc piping and live rock to create the cliff, and utilize that dead space underneath as a crypic zone.  Steve Tyree did a speech on it at C4, seemed very interesting and he had a lot of good research on a crypic zone's benefits.

After 4 doses, vibrant doesn't appear to have an effect on this stuff.  Once the move is done I'm going to have to come up with a new game plan.

Speaking of moving, the tank should move to the new house sometime the week of the 20th! Here is some pics of the room the tank is going in and the room behind it.

Hah, didn't mean for it to be creepy.  That vibrant looks interesting, I'm going to give it a try.

Those amps seem about right, the EB8 will be able to handle that fine as long as the big one is plugged into 4 or 8.  The only bad thing about the 4 & 8 plugs is they make the popping sound when they come on. 

I have two 300w heaters currently that do fine until the inside of my home gets below 67. After that a 3rd 300w heater has to kick in. 

Dang, how many amps are your heaters pulling? If I remember correctly, on the EB8 each regular plug can only have 5 amps on it, but plugs 4 and 8 can have 10 amps. The EB8 can handle total of 15 amps overall.

Ty, it looks like you are running out of room in your frag tank.  I'll happily solve your problem and come take some!!

Wow time flies! Thought I would do a much needed update.  

Our new home is nearing completion, we are scheduled to close on 3/15.  It'll have a semi fish room behind the tank with a utility sink, water source/drain for the RODI filter, and separate drain for saltwater that ties into the water softener drain.  We are beyond excited to move!

The tank is doing okay. I still have a big issue with the golden/clear algae, to which I am admitting defeat for the time being.  I'm almost certain the issue is Chrysophyta, which seems to be a more uncommon problem. There are a few threads of reef2reef about it that I have been following but so far no consensus on how to get rid of it yet from what I can tell.

  Here is a video of it, I only showed what grows on the glass, but its on the rock too.

These pics were taken at 900x with a children's microscope. The colors and focus were impossible to get correct, but I guess its better than nothing.

The conclusion so far is the algae doesn't care about nutrients.  I reduced and maintained nitrate and phosphate to undetectable levels for over two months with no reduction.  The side effect of this is I lost several corals to the low nutrients and the ones that survived had a major reduction in color.

The lights out didn't seem to have an impact either.  I didn't black out the tank with cardboard on the sides though, so I may try this again.

After the tank move I plan on:

• Set up refugium with macro algae
• Add some actual live rock to get more bio-diversity into the tank
• Possibly: dose hydrogen peroxide and/or add UV filter
• Add a lot more fish and corals to the tank! 

I didn't realize it was that RCA. Good to know.

It took me months of hounding Jake for a piece and he finally relented once I mentioned backup. [emoji12]

I've been hounding Jake for a year now. I just don't have same pull as you!

Creepy without an eye for now but very cool man! That's some talent. Can I get a tassled filefish?

Thanks. I need to get a black paint pen for the eye, a sharpie wouldn't work. And no, no tassled filefish! Unlike your band saw, mine will defiantly cut fingers!

That is very cool.

Thanks!

Not tank build related, but with building our new house I wanted some decorations to go in the office that will have the fish tanks.

I tested this design and style out and think it turned out pretty good. I want to do one for each fish I have. I'll need to invest in a scroll saw, cutting the smaller parts on the band saw was a little dicey!

Is Jecod the new name for Jaebo? The pump I received today is different than the one I ordered, but I think it may be the updated DC-12000 pump...

Wow awesome Moorish Idol! Aren't they coral eaters like some butterfly fish though?

So the issue is heat from the build up on the pump shaft again. The issue has to be a bad o-ring, so I will replace that. Then the Vectra will be the backup to the Jabao

Didn't even know there was a new one!

You should move a float valve to your sump and program it to turn off the skimmer when it gets triggered.

I've been planning on doing that for awhile, just haven't gotten around to doing it. I need to make a bracket for the float valve. Maybe I can come MacGyver a solution for this weekend.

Wow! I have a Sicce Synchra 12.0 return pump just sitting around if you need something to hold you over.

Thanks for the offer. I have a Lifegard pump that will get me through the weekend if I can't get the Vectra running again tonight. I think its the build up on the shaft again so once I clean it, it should be good for the weekend.

Yikes. That looks messy. At least the tank got a skimmate treat.

I like how you put the float valves in the dosing container. I may do something similar on mine.

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I caught it before the skimmate bubbled out of the sump, so the mess wasn't too bad. Thanks, the float valves work good so far.

Another Vectra failure! This was the final straw, I ordered a Jaebo DC12000 to replace it for now. I'm thankful the failure happened to today and not tomorrow, I'm heading out of town for the weekend!

He would be a bit smaller than my powder and I don't have a high fish population now. Probably not a good idea. I'll take my name out of the running.

Haha, poor tang.

If you do re-home him let me know, a purple tang is on my want list. I would need to have a discussion with you on if you think he's compatible with my current tangs (powder blue and regal).

A friend was nice enough to let me jump on their free shipping and 15% off at Live Aquaria so I ordered the ORA Laura's Purple polyp acro I've been coveting since they released it last year.

It didn't disappoint!

I thought you were done getting new frags? Hope you triple dipped it!

I gave up my crazy sanitary ways. With a baby coming, that's not feasible anymore! Kidding, I did dip it like there's no tomorrow.

I am however highly contemplating ditching the ich free business. I know I can make it happen now but with the big life change coming up, I'm more worried about being able to maintain it. The real answer is I won't be able to maintain it ich free so my thoughts lately are to just dump in all the fish, crank up that giant UV sterilizer and if that's not enough to keep it at bay against the Achilles and powder blue tang, scrap those two out of the livestock plans and move on from that experiment.

With all the time you invested it would be nice for you to get to the "ich free" stage, however with a baby coming its probably wise to move on and enjoy all the fish in your tank.

You would have to go though another 70 something days without the regal in the display, right?