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I get stung by my hammers and by birds nest . The best thing I have found is to run the hottest water I can tolerate over my hands and fore arms when I am done in the tank. I let it run for a minute or two. Since doing this I have avoided the really itchy bumps associated with those stings.
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Forrest is the tank I gave you the one showing streaks? I hope it isn’t tempered on the front and back panels!
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I have a used 75 in my basement that I will give away for free. The bottom is tempered and I am not sure about the sides. It is not drilled. I got it for free from wamas user tooth decay who ran it as freshwater cichlid tank. Pick up in purcellville or centerville..
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I replaced the ro membrane and my filters and Di are fairly new (maybe 40 gallons through the filters an di). My tds is now zero or one each time I make water.... all good on the rodi front!
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The RO is original to when I bough the system about 2 years ago... weird to see the TDS shoot up that quick.. one hting I didnt mention is that on the last go around the system was making a wheezing sounds which is the first time that has ever happened.
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I have an Air Water and Ice cyclone system and I changed the filters about 2 months ago (less than 50 gallons ago). This morning I made 5 gallons that showed 2ppm on my portable tds meter. The next 5 gallons showed 3ppm and the next 5 gallons showed 7ppm. The filters all look brand new. I did not change the horizontal sealed looking canister on top of the unit when I did the filters. I have never replaced that unit. How often does the enclosed unit need to be changed? My rodi system is about 2 years old. By the way what is in the horizontal canister?
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So I have to put a gallon of fresh water into my sump every night due to evaporation. My thought is to put in one gallon of fresh into the return pump chamber.... siphon out one gallon of tank water from the skimmer chamber... and then add a gallon of salt back in.... effectively doing a one gallon per day water change.... after time it seems this would be the best way to keep all parameters stable. I have about 80-85 gallons of total water volume in my system. What do you think?
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If you feel confident that a tang would help then get a small one. Keep it until it gets big and then trade it in for another small one. The cost would not be terrible since you would probably get a year from the tang before you need to trade it in and really....at the end of the day how valuable is your stress relief?
Maybe run a little GFO, manually remove what you can, an toss a beautiful yellow tang in there!
I hear the tang police sirens in the distance but in my mind I would bend the rules to reduce my stress and stay in the hobby.
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Thank you ma’am
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Madweazl can you post a link to the bucket deal. I. Can find the boxes but I prefer the bucket. Thanks
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I have had my new 75 DT set up since October 18 and everything has been running pretty good. I soaked my dry rock for about 6 months before I set the tank up. I added new sand, about 40lbs of dry rock and one or two pieces of live rock from my old tank because they had coral stuck to them (see the big birdsnest in the top middle of the tank).
Here goes... please be easy on me... I have only changed the water twice... once was 20 gallons around Dec 15th and then I did 10 gallons on Jan 5th. System volume is around 95 gallons.
Here are todays test results:
pH- 8.0 API test kit
KH- 5 API test kit
CA- 440 Salifert
PO4- 0 Salifert
PO4- 0.03 Hanna Ultra Low PO4
My system:
75 G DT
Skimz UP34 Sump
Vertex 180i Skimmer
I run one sock and clean it under the tap about every three days
I use RODI water that I make and it has had a TDS of 1 or lower since I started this tank
I feed once a day and rotate between pellets, flakes and frozen daily
I have one small clown, one small purple dart fish and one medium black cap basslet (basslet has only been in the tank 2 weeks).
Small CUC that probably needs to be replenished soon
Question is do I need to address the KH or should I leave well enough alone?. I have some KH Buffer that I used once or twice in an old tank about a year ago but I hesitate to use it since things have been stable in my tank.
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As weird as it sounds I get those same symptoms from brushing against my birds nest coral. But mine itch intensely for a day or two then disappear. Nothing else that I handle irritates me but if I bump that birdsnest I will be in trouble for a few days!
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I bought this Ricordia (?) and this SPS today at the great Black Friday sale at Supreme Reefs. Ben or other can you help me identify the exact name of these two corals?
Hard to tell but the Ricordia is bright orange with a green mouth and the SPS is yellow with green hints and Ben told me it was a good starter SPS when I bought it today.
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wow.... ask and you shall receive.... fantastic answer madweazl!
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This is a rock flower that I bought at Blue Ribbon Koi last weekend. They also had about 20 awesome clams when I was there but I have no idea what s left.
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Mine was placed on on a small rock on the sand bed. I have a 75 gallon tank with AI Prime above each side of the tank so I dont think I have too much light going to it. It decided to crawl under the small rock I had and is half buried under the sand. I think I am going to move it to my large rock work and see if it will attached and be happy there.
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Reef Escape is more expensive but my understanding is that they do an in-house quarantine with copper treatment when they receive fish. You also have Supreme Reefs just off the beltway which has a very cool operation going with fish but largely focused on corals and some really high end corals. It could a little out of your way but you have Blue Ribbon Koi near Manassas and Capital Aquarium in Manassas. BRK has a great selection of fish and corals. You also have Quantum Reefs which I have only been too once a few years ago and I dont recall good or bad about that LFS.
In a nut shell I really like Reef Escape and Blue Ribbon Koi for fish and I really like Supreme Reef and Blue Ribbon Koi for Corals.
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I bought a stunning RFA but it doesn't want to stay out an look good. It is trying to shove itself into the smallest crack it can find on the rock I placed it on. Is it normal for them to try and hide for a little while? I am hoping he ends up sitting out and showing off. Here is a pic of the one I bought!
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I believe brs is running a 25% off sale on them right now. That is the full extent of my knowledge of these lights...... haha
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So I finally moved from the 36 to my new 75 last weekend. I used new sand and mostly new pukani rock. The rock had been curing in heated circulated trash cans since march 26th so I hope to avoid any extra cycle problems. I moved my corals and fish and some rock to bins and filled them with the old tank water and threw in a heater and pump. Broke down the old tank and set up the new. I had about 75 gallons of newly made saltwater heated and ready to go. I put the cured rock in, 40 lbs of new sand ( no old sand transferred)and filled the tank with water. I put some old rock (only about 5-7 lbs of old rock) and returned my corals and fish to theDT. I used the old tank water to fill my sump (I was careful to match salinity and temp). Turned the system on and it has been running great. Everyone seems happy and about two days ago I started getting the brown diatoms on the clean rock surfaces. I am hoping this is caused by the new sand. I am sure the diatoms will be gone in a week or two but I have anxiety about what other nuicence algae blooms I am gonna have to deal with!
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Here is the thing. As I unscrew the cap the water begins to flow out since the plunger is in the down position. If I were to unscrew it and grab the plunger the event would already be over as the returns would have drained out the side with the cap...and a gallon of water with be on the floor.
I think the shop vac is the way to go here. Hopefully I get enough time to try it today.
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So the valve is brand new. This is the first tank with a sump that I have built so I connected it all up and ran it in my garage for two days to make sure my plumbing didn't leak. Now I have drained the tank and sump and i am ready to move it inside. I think the shop vac idea is a good one... as long as I get most of the water out of the two lines I should be fine.
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I put in the valve as an extra layer of protection in case my pump dies. I believe my sump would handle the extra water if it did reverse siphon but why bother hoping? This tank will be in my carpeted family room so I just put a valve in place.
Since the plunger is in the down position ( the pump is off), if I unscrew the cap to grab the plunger all the water comes out!
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I just drilled my first tank about two weeks ago. It really is as easy as everyone says. Watch a few YouTube videos and drill away. I was nervous but everything turned out fine.
Also you should plan your plumbing before you drill... things like return lines and whether or not drill for them too is important.
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Hey treesprite is that the 75g that I gave you? If so I am real glad to see you drilled it successfully.
dave