watson_barrett

ok this thing is offically GARBAGE. just drained another tank in 1 week. this time setting it up, i adjusted psi to 20 (factory issue was over 50!). had my normal buble count going and was checking it pretty much every day. was fine up to wensday evening, didnt' check it yesterday and it was dry today. bummer!

that sounds like way too much work, haha, i guess i will resist...

Anything special to worry about in water perameters for keeping carnation corals sucessfully? I see they have stronium and mabye iodine or something??? Does anyone keep these corals without monitoring anything special? Thanks guys/gals.

I think that is the one with a green base. I have seen it called miami hurricane digi but not sure if it has an official common name within reef community. I don't think that is your typical "orange digi" but am not certain. I have 4 huge colonies of it now that all started from a small 2" frag from leishman a year and a half ago. Great grower, pretty, and hardy coral.

85 is getting a bit on the hight side, you may want to consider keeping it down around 80, especially during the summer months.

ok got dave on the phone and my blood pressue is getting back down to normal... it does appear to have a blow out valve if pressure gets too high so it looks like that is what happened since the psi was probably over 100 since i didn't know how to adjust it. dave i took that outside nut off and it has an alen wretch adapter inside that, i'm guessing that is what you have to tighten to reduce the psi pressure down to normal range. so product might not be that bad after all, just TERRIBLE INSTRUCTIONS.

I was able to get the buble counter at normal rate, had to be something with the pressure but who knows, tightened with wretch....JUNK.

here is the link. http://www.fosterandsmithaquatics.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=9895 this thing is trash, that is what i get for buying a reg made in tawain, directions are broken english and make NO sense. i called customer service and they said this unit requires a ph controller, which i'm not sold on, that has nothing to do with adjusting the pressure right??? What! Also says NOTHING pertaining to needing a ph controller to run grrrrrrrrr.... $20 co2 fill down drain and now i have to mail this crap back, sigh....

ok thanks guys, the new reg is an azoo from dfs, anyone every hear of or use a reg with only a nedle valve. my other millwake has another valvue that you can adjust the flow prior to the neddle valve. Also, all i did was use the gray circle thing that came with the reg so i'm not sure what went wrong. hole or not an airtight seal in airline maybe??? baffled....

do you use tefelon tape? what about those plastic circle thing, do you put those on before connecting main regulator valve to co2 tank? i got a neg regulator and it only has a neele valve (my mistake for rushing a purchase and not chosing one better), my co2 tank went dry in 3 days, wondering where i went wrong. forgot to put tefelon tape on, wondering if this is what happened?

Shark vid is 6th row far right. turtle vids are in row 30. all pics and vids taken with snorkel mask and fins, no animals were harmed in the making of these vids ; ) haha. let me know what your fav pic/vid is.

Figured I would share my pics and videos from my recent trip to Guam. Few turtle videos and managed to capture a close shark video. Saw about 15 black reef tips sharks ranging from 2-6 ft. The 1st one i saw was the the 6 ft. and it was at the edge of a huge drop off into a very deep trench area so I was a bit nervous to say the least. Tank survived the 3 week trip without much harm so that was welcoming. http://s375.photobucket.com/albums/oo191/watson_ab/Guam%20pics/?start=all Let me know if the copy/paste link doesn't work. enjoy! adam.

not pods but he eats frozen food and blue zoo mix so i don't see why he wouldn't if he was hungry enough, maybe not though... dave i may take you up on that, i'll give you a ring sat.

chris your comment is inspiring, while greatly overstated, haha...thanks man.

thanks guys, things are really coming together with everything starting to fill in. It is always nerve racking leaving town for weeks at a time, this time is realy rough b/c my wife will be out of town two of the three weeks as well so it's going to have to be 100% fully automated while i'm gone. lets just hope all is in one piece when i get back : ) hoping i can get some arm at wallys if not bens has some for me. Justin the orangespot is in time out in my sump right now, haha. he was just picking evenly for the 1st 5 months i've had him and just recently he started attacking certain corals all out so i'm spot feeding him frozen food again, back to square one. didn't really fully train him the 1st time b/c i was worried he wasn't eating enough. should have waiting longer. let me know if any of you experienced reefers are up for babysiting the orangespot while i'm gone in one of your tanks, if not i would hope he would have enough live pods in the sump to hold him off while i'm gone.

and a few i took today....

well been a while since i posted some pics and i'm heading out on travel for 3 week so i figure i better post some while everything is still alive, haha...