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    And so it begins again

    in New to the Hobby

    Thanks guys.

     

    I agree Dave that's what got me when I left, the meltdown and could not get back to a stable environment. I will start small again and see where it takes me. At least now it's much easier on the electric bill, but not the wallet :).

    And so it begins again

    in New to the Hobby

    Hi All

     

    After a 6 year hiatus I've decided to start back up. This time I want to start small to see where it goes. Here is the RSM 130D 34 gallon tank found on Craigslist. All setup and ready to mature before adding the good stuff.

     

    tank 2

    tank 1

     

    Continuous water changes?

    in General Discussion

    The only real way I can see this working as a totally automatic reduced worry situation is if you used 2 dosing pumps set to the same speed. One feeding the tank with fresh Saltwater and one pulling from the tank to drain. Any other solution to me would require floats and pumps which to me would scare me. 

    Hi All I'm back

    in General Discussion

    Hello Everyone

     

    I'm back. It's been awhile since I was here and had a tank running but I really missed my tank and you guys. So I just I'm planning my 34 gallon nano at present and should be back online in the next couple weeks. Can't wait to catch up and see whats been going on. 

     

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    At a loss Help please..

    in General Discussion

    I have to assume thats what is was since that's the only change I made. The only other thing it could have been is temperature. The tanks were at about 78 degrees and now they are up to about 85, but the temp was 78 when they were doing well in the beginning.

     

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    At a loss Help please..

    in General Discussion

    update

     

    Well it looks like there is a problem being tooooooo clean. I turned off my second skimmer and the growth that color have come back back on all the corals.

     

    Thanks all for your help again..

     

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    At a loss Help please..

    in General Discussion

    the system is very lightly stocked with a couple of pink birdsnest, green slimer frag, red monti cap, and a couple other assorted sps frags. Softies include kenya tree, couple torch branches, and a small leather coral. others are LTA and Flowerpot nem with 2 clowns 2 damsels and an engineer gobi.

     

    I added a second skimmer a couple of months ago since my main skimmer was underpowered for the system. Skimate has not changed and I seem to be producing the same amount as usual.. I have not tested MG so I don't know were that is Chip..

     

    GFO has beem removed and I will start the water changes I have 30 gallons that have been mixing for a week now...

     

    Thanks Chris

    At a loss Help please..

    in General Discussion

    Hi All

     

    About 5 months ago I replaced my I replaced 1 of my 75 gallon glass tanks with an acrylic due to a leak. During this replacement I changed all the sand in that tank and replaced the 5 T5 lamps with Blue wave bulbs, 2 actinic, 1 daylight, 1 power blue and 1 purple. I replaced about 80 of my 200 gallons of water with fresh SW. I let the new setup stew for about 6 weeks before adding any new livestock. I went through a small algae bloom and diatom bloom but I have no algae now.

     

    During the fall meeting I picked up a bunch of frags for the new tank and they loved the setup. Color was great growth was the best I have ever seen. About 6 weeks ago this all stopped.. Colors faded and growth stopped almost immediately.. About the time it stopped I started using GFO so I stopped and removed that reactor about 3 weeks ago with no change.

     

    System

    2 75 gallon tanks with a shared 100 gallon sump.

     

    Water parms

    Ammonia 0

    Nitrate 0

    Phos measures 0 and no algea so it must be low.

    Alk 9

    Cal 430

    Temp between 75 - 80

    Salinity .28

     

     

    At a loss here... Any thoughts?

    pond foam

    in General Discussion

    I used the black pond foam on my rock wall tank. It was running for a year and the foam held together fine. I had huge issues with algae and microbubbles but I can't tell if it was the foam or the epoxy I used. I replaced that tank a couple of months ago and the system seems to be much healthier without it.

    ctreptow's dual 75 rebuild

    in Dedicated Tank (Build) Forum

    Thank guys

     

    During this restart I replaced all the sand with new agronite from Marco Rock. I also replaced ny Maxijet mods with Korilia Magnum 5's and added the mag rock I saw on El Camaron's tank :) to fill the center...

     

    The sump is still in the basement but I am running 2 skimmers now with filtersocks and carbon.

     

    I am looking for a Kalk stirrer at the present time so if anyone has one let me know.

    ctreptow's dual 75 rebuild

    in Dedicated Tank (Build) Forum

    Tank Update

     

    Hi All

     

    Last fall I noticed a small leak in the foam rock wall tank, so I contacted Naga for a replacement. He delivered an awesome 75 gallon replacement tank with external overflow.

     

    What I learned from Rock Wall.

     

    The foam held up good even under the lights. When I removed the structure the foam had not deteriorated at all and the rock and sand were fully embedded. That being said that

    Rock wall DIY'ers

    in General Discussion

    WOW!! never thought about the foam Rock wall causing microbubbles. I had the same problem with mine, I kept getting microbubbles from my closed loop and could not figure out why. My other expereince was hair algae I could never get ahead of it.

     

    My rock wall tank leaked 3 months ago and I replaced it with a new tank from Naga and the system has been great since.. HA almost gone and new corals are doing great.

    Wave point T5 lamps

    in General Discussion

    I put them in about 2 months ago when I restarted the reef after a tank leak. They are much brighter then the uvl's I replaced. The bulbs are very nice but I can't speak to growth yet since I just restarted the system.

     

    My Setup is 5 54W on IC 660 ballasts

     

     

    Wave Point Sun Wave 12K

    Wave Point Super Blue 460

    UVL Actinic White

    Wave Point Super Blue 460

    Wave Point Coral Wave Purple

     

    The color is great and coverage seems even across the tank.

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