Marc Weaver

These are going to be thrown away soon. I didn't realize that. Good thing we did it outside. Thanks for the heads-up.

Thanks!!

Thanks!! You are welcome to stop by anytime if you can endure the drive.

Thanks!! I'll let you know if we do. I'm going to visit you sometime. My wife wants me to set up a separate LPS/softy system as well which will be my existing tank re-purposed. She loves to watch coral move (she thinks SPS are boring) so I'll come there when that system is ready and check out your coral. At least she likes the hobby!!

And finally, the fish enjoying their new home!! More progress to come soon. We are building the fuge next and will continue to transition my existing tank's fish and coral to this one over the coming months. Not to mention some cosmetic upgrades (most notably some new nozzles.) We made these with a blowtorch.

We are going to build an acrylic shallow in-wall mangrove tank/fuge with miracle mud for decorative purposes in this hole. We'll probably put a few banggai cardinals in it and breed them.

Stone work in process: FINISHED!!

Some shots of the tank and aquascape:

Here are a few shots of the fish room. Excuse the mess as it was still under heavy construction at that time (and still is.) The 8-Way

My friend and I decided to set up one of his tanks in my basement. It's a custom-made 375 gallon acrylic tank that's triangular-shaped. Only the front pane is visible due to the way it was designed. Total water volume is around 625 gallons. We added around 600 pounds of well-dried rock seeded with rock from both of our existing tanks, added a liter of rowaphos in a reactor, and let it take off. Phosphates have never been above .01 yet. It's been running for around a month now. The initial cycle was completed with fish food and has finished and we added 8 baby chromis today. Here is a youtube video of the tank in its prime before he tore it down. We hope to reach the same level someday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnO3ylY2cTc Display Tank is 375 gallon custom acrylic with a rear-overflow with 2 1.5" drains Frag Tank is a standard 125 gallon glass tank Sump is a 125 gallon Rubbermaid Skimmer also holds around 50 gallons Display return pump is a Reeflo Super Dart Gold Frag return pump is a Pan-World 100PX Flow in display tank provided by an OM 8-Way on a Reeflo Hammerhead Flow in frag tank will be 4 Tunze 6105's Display tank lighting will be 4 400W Reeflux 12k halides supplemented with 36 royal blue Cree LEDs. Frag tank will be lit with 2 250W halides and supplemented with 18 Cree royal blues. Skimmer is a Volcano 1860. It's huge and working great. Check out the bud light can on top of it in one of the pictures. System is on an Apex controller.

Maybe it was molting. Mine stay still for days after a molt. Free it!!!

I'd use a bucket or box of instant ocean for the cycle, if not permanently. It's cheap, readily available, and you will most likely change all of it out anyway within a month after your cycle completes. Good luck!! Nothing will try your patience more than a cycle.

It could be the start of Lymphocystis, a virus copperbands commonly get. With a good, stress free few weeks to a month the cysts will drop off and most likely never come back. Stress-free is the key. Info http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fa181

Matt, it was under $10 and will last for years. I've dipped 30-40 frags and still have 90% of the bottle left. It will not necessarily kill acro-eating flatworms, but it will stun them enough to make the come off of the coral, especially with the aid of a turkey baster. Sometimes, at least for me, the flatworms have still been alive an hour later in the bayer water, but it did get them all off the coral.

I really enjoyed visiting yesterday and your tanks are truly amazing. Great job!!

If you haven't ordered them already, wanna go halves on some so we can get free shipping for $25+ order? I'm down to my last 10 or so. I can let you borrow some till they get here if it's an emergency. The other online sites that sell them have $10+ shipping and the free shipping threshold is too high for just reagents. I've never seen them in a LFS before.

I like to use Sprayway glass cleaner, the foam type in the can, then buff with a clean rag or paper towel.

Shoot in RAW format, then you don't have to worry about white balance. Lightroom can read RAW files directly and you can play around with color tints and while balance and convert the finished pictures to JPG, but it's 80 bucks. RawTherapee is a free RAW image editor, but I haven't tried it.

If all your drainage goes through the sock, you can ditch the filter pad and change your sock every 2 or 3 days. I think 2 or 3 weeks may contribute to nitrate buildup Before I used filter socks, I used to vacuum my sump every few weeks. I switched to filter socks and my nitrates dropped rather quickly. I think uneaten food and detritus sitting in the filter sock for weeks (or in the sump, in my case) breaks down and pollutes the water. The object is to remove it before it starts breaking down.

Good Luck Ryan.

This one keeps on changing and has started to grow FINALLY. April 2012 10 Days Later (Bleached) Nov 2012 January 2013

Not yet. It ate all the majano I had (200-300) and I have seen none since. It eats anything, even nori. I keep the fish well fed, so I'm sure that helps.

Thanks All!! I was starving my coral, so I pulled GFO and cut carbon dosing and the colors are coming back better than ever and growth is taking off again. Also, a friend and I are starting up a 375 gallon acrylic in-wall tank in my basement with a 300 gal rubbermaid sump, in which I will move all my SPS corals to. This tank will be fish and LPS/soft corals to keep maintenance time lower. I want to tear it down but my wife wants me to keep it going. I will probably buy 3 evergrow LEDS in the group buy for this. This tank is on my main level and the heat from 1600 watts of lighting makes this room stay 80 degrees in the summer with the central air running almost constantly, so less heat be a good thing. I'll post up a build thread soon as we are now just getting the equipment from storage and cleaning it up.

I have read that copper usage in a tank, even by the person who owned the quarantine tank before you if you acquired it used, can kill inverts. Some say it is absorbed into the caulk and anything else in the tank and can leach back out. Turbos and astrea snails have been very easy for me, like smallreef I just float the bag for an hour and put them in and have never lost an abnormal amount.