Rob's 150 gal reef build

[Rob A]

Ha! That's a pretty blatant mismatch! Glad that they're taking care of you.

 

I'm very pleased! It is supposed to arrive today so I can stop manually rolling the paper and let it work on it's own, lol. In other news, I think Coralvue is going to send me a new motor assembly for my Gyre 150 under warranty. I got it in Dec 2014 and noticed frayed insulation 6 months later. I just assumed it was somehow my fault but I saw a recent thread where AlanM mentioned that it might be a warranty fix so I wrote to them and they just wrote back asking for my address, so...I assume they are sending me a replacement. 

[Rob A]

I received the wiring adapter for the rollermat and ran it for a bit to get the water cleared up. I had to remove it while I fill the sump with rock, and will install it later, hopefully with it being fed from the overflow.

On Sunday I broke down tje holding system and moved everything the tank and sump and frag holding tank...

Here was the barrel...just had to find the fish, lol. Every piece of rock had to Co e out first.

 

 

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[madweazl]

I'm sure that is exciting! Hopefully everyone is accounted for.

[Rob A]

Well......

 

I'm very happy to have everyone moved into their tank and happy that I can actually see them.

Most of the fish that I had have survived but I did lose a few over the last 13 or 14 weeks that they lived in the barrel. It has been hard to manage them in there where you can't see them well enough to take inventory and catch potential problems before they become critical, so I guess it wan't the best long term holding solution.

 Among the missing fish are 4 small lookdowns that I got at MACNA 2015 and a hippo that I had for a little over a year. I know at least one lookdown died while we are on vacation in June according to my pet sitter who reported a "silver fish" was floating.

Anyway, I have 10 fish left. I went from a 220 to a 150 so maybe it's too many, but we'll see how things play out.

 

1 percula clown

1 Picasso clown

1 3-stripe damsel

1 file fish

1 foxface

1 sailfin tang

1 yellow tang

1 clown tang

1 kole tang

1 naso tang  

[Rob A]

Here is an end shot of the tank. I only had blue lights on this end while the corals get light acclimated. I'll have to try and get a better pic. See if you can see the Picasso clown. He camouflaged by the spotty looking rock. Everyone but the filefish made it into this shot.





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Edited October 13, 2016 by Rob A

[Bruleyii]

I bet they are much happier.

[Rob A]

A little over a week in. I got a great magnet cleaner from WAMAS member small reef so I was finally able to clean the sides if the tank. All my old cleaners were for glass...

Here are some pics. The corals and anemone are the survivors of the 12 weeks of living in a tub. Captions will be beneath the pics...a change from how I've been doing it.



Full tank shot

 

 

Action shot

 

 

Acans

 

 

Frogspawn

 

 

Duncans

 

 

Favia of some sort

 

 

Acans

 

 

Gorgonian

 

 

Blastos. It was packed with polyps on top but has died off in "storage"

 

 

Hydnophora

 

Zoas

 

 

A turbinaria peltata (I think) and some dreaded blue clove polyps.

 

Hammer

 

Rainbow BTA

 

Impromptu frag tank with a bunch of pulsing xenia, kenya tree, and a very sad yellow leather coral hidden in the back. Oh and a couple of palythoa grandis

 

 

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Edited October 19, 2016 by Rob A

[smallreef]

Looking good! Everything looks much happier to be in a nicely lit tank again!

[Rob A]

Looking good! Everything looks much happier to be in a nicely lit tank again!

 

Thanks! Yes! And now I am less stressed because I can actually see/monitor the fish and corals much better than I could when they were in the tubs. 

[Rob A]

Finally hooked the rollermat filter back up. I'm not sure if it will stay in this configuration or not. I wanted to run the entire tank overflow through it but that is too much flow . It's designed to handle about 600 GPH so the main overflow has a drain valve branched off of it so that I can regulate how much goes into the filter and how much just dumps into the sump. This means that only a portion of the return water is getting filtered through the rollermat. I guess some is better than none. There are also chunks of detritus accumulating in the bottom of the rollermat tank. Maybe I need to put some hermit crabs in there, lol.

 

Wide shot of filter area

 

 

Piping to rollermat

 

Look how dirty the paper is! I recently added a carbon reactor. I guess it put more card in the water then I realized even though I rinsed it first.

 

Food bits collecting in the roller mat tank after just a couple of days of use. I shut the pumps down for 10 minutes for feeding. Maybe I need to feed less or delay the pumps longer.

 

 

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Edited November 30, 2016 by Rob A