mhart032

Looks great Kim!

Im interested in the yellow tang

Have you decided on a sump?

The temp transfer is a good thought, i wouldn't have thought about that. during the summer my master bath shares a wall with the back of the garage and the floor gets heated from the slab. same with the colder temps the tile gets cold. you could use celotex or some kind of thicker sheet insulation to kill both the leveling and the temp transfers, they make it up to 200mm thick and its moisture resistant.

I finally cut the Chaeto back, i have 1/4 of a brute trash can full of it. I wont be in Austin anytime soon, but i can mail it to anyone that wants it.

Looks great! i love a nice manifold. your better off than the flex PVC in my opinion not to mention it looks nicer.

i used spears gate valves everywhere i could to go away from the ball valves, they get sticky and sometimes can be hard to adjust just right. the cost from the local plumbing store like Ferguson is really much better than HD supply or US plastics not to mention they keep most things in stock frpm 1/4" to 4" for commercial use. forgot to mention the aquascaping looks very nice.

I need to cut my Chaeto back, im going to cut it back by 1/2, its roughly 12 lbs ive been tossing it but being that i will be in Austin the next couple days i wanted to see if anyone needed it. Its clean no pests i seed pods every month and feed phyto every other day.

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Jolt, ill take a couple bigger pieces when i get back on the 12th of Aug. 53 and 55, if you have any more of the Goblin, and whatever else you can put together. Ill be at the 6 month mark by mid Aug, everything been pretty stable just doing 2 part for now. So i think its ready for the sticks.

If it were me, id just get some containment and call it a day. its concrete and vaced up easy, you could always put the commercial water mats on the floors like a few of us have in front of our tanks to catch the water from our hands from maintiance and fragging and so on. the space isnt that big. the cheaper route would be the containment i think. for instance you can get something like this that will hold 110 gals and they can be plumbed together if you need any more. they make them all different sizes and heights. My wife said this to me... "what do we do if the tank floods"... i said "call the insurance company.."

Its getting there, going through some of the uglies but its getting better, no GHA but a little cyano. I need to post some pics. Not quite ready for real coral, but i figure when i get back from vacation in Aug ill get a few test pieces and see how it does.

Just so you know.. im not jealous at all.. 🙄

I'd use the epoxy as well if it were me. For something that small you can use the garage floor paint, it repels water and simmiler materials, it's fairly inexpensive and has grip to it so your not sliding all over the place, if you go with epoxy there is a material called sharkgrip that's great for traction that can be mixed with the epoxy. In my opinion there's too much that can go wrong with a silicone or butyl rubber based roll on material, it normally requires a ton of prep work primers and cleaners to maximize adhesion, and even then if you scratch it nick it or liquid is able to get underneath it somehow you will have to rip it out and redo it. There is another material you can buy made by Derakane it's a polyester vinyl epoxy resin it's the toughest stuff you can get it's used in bulk chemical tank trailers it can resist anything up to 98% sulfuric acid there is no solvent that can break it down. It's not all that cheap, but it's the best.

Look at uline for the containment you can get any size really, and it true containment. That really will hold 55gals and so on.

following along I had the same idea, with my redsea 115 under the stairs closet is a good room. right in the middle of the house so it stays cool. and have access to lots of power on both sides of the walls. Ive pulled power through both sides ran the dosers and ATO through the wall as you can see the ATO container and containment. Peace.exe

Thanks i appreciate that, no real updates, Everything is the same, dosing phosphates to keep them up, had a small dino outbreak but fixed that up with dosing phosphates, went through a small patch of cyno, kicked the fuge back on to its fullest and backed off the phosphates a little and its clearing up. i havent really added anything as its mainly a fish only tank with live rock for the time being, im leaving out of town for 11 days in Aug on vacation so made the decision to not have to worry about corals and crashes while im gone for that long of a period. but the fish are doing great, no issues there, i did add a UV in line that i can kick on with the apex as needed. Ill take some pics this evening for a true update.

So, I'm pretty upset that you took pics of my tank without asking... Lol I wish! It's nicer in person than in pics that's for sure. Well done for sure!

most of your GHA issues see to be on the left side of the tank, makes me wonder if flow is playing a major roll in some of the issues in that side trapping detritus and left over particles on that side of the tank. id prob throw another powerhead on that side to to get some turbulence, depending on the return to give you flow in that type of tank is (in my mind) not a good idea as flow restricts depending on how often you clean that pump and turnover in the tank. I do see some Cyano but id vac it up when i did another water change and test phosphates as suggested, ditch the chems to clean it up and watch the water quality more, add a couple lbs more rock. Id probably feed a little less than that too, thats a small tank to feed out everyday depending on the feedings. corse this is all based on what i think/ or would do.

Welcome to the club!

I believe it would. I believe there is a fine line between what they love and hate. We all know sps is very finicky, there kind of like a naso Tang you look at it sidways and it gets sick. It's very possible it bleached losing all the zooxanthellae and not actually rtned at first just gave the appearance. We also don't really know how quickly the rise was in the p04 either. (Spell check sucks)

The waterbox is 100% glass and can be drilled. I looked into this with the 20gal i have that i broke down. I was going to remove the baffel and drill it if i was going to update it. the silicone can be easily cut out with a thin razor knife, then it can be drilled for an overflow. to even piggy back on that a large sump would be nice. when i built my "dream" tank at the time it was a 60gal sump with a 40gal 1/2 starphire display, to get the bigger body of water but still maintained the smaller feel.

I have 14 fish although smaller fish. maybe i need to cut the fuge back, although its really saved me from algae and issues in the display big time. i guess i can cut the sea lettuce out. its a phosphate magnet from the start. Ill pull it tonight and see what kind of difference that makes.

I am running a big fuge, well roughly 20gals give or take, with chaeto and sea lettuce. I've cut the lighting to help some.