Origami May 18, 2018 May 18, 2018 Did the hospital grade AFCI/GFCI solution work? Where did you get them? Several years back, I had a problem with certain power strips that had built-in inductive (noise) filtering. Whenever my T5 lamps came on, the GFCI would trip. When I went around the inductive filtering (actually, I stripped the hardware out of the long power strip), the GFCI stopped popping. That's why I asked the question.
wangspeed May 18, 2018 Author May 18, 2018 Did the hospital grade AFCI/GFCI solution work? Where did you get them? Several years back, I had a problem with certain power strips that had built-in inductive (noise) filtering. Whenever my T5 lamps came on, the GFCI would trip. When I went around the inductive filtering (actually, I stripped the hardware out of the long power strip), the GFCI stopped popping. That's why I asked the question. The hospital grade receptacles are GFCI only. So far so good. The one above the tank was a pain to replace, because I have a crowded shelf with a lip in front of it. In retrospect, ceiling hung receptacles would have been nice there, if that's even allowable by code.
Lowefx May 19, 2018 May 19, 2018 I'm curious on what fans you put in your canopy, and how quiet are they? Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk
wangspeed May 19, 2018 Author May 19, 2018 I'm curious on what fans you put in your canopy, and how quiet are they? Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk I use an AC Infinity controller with 2 of their fans at low speeds. The fans themselves are super quiet, but adding the grills on the outside cause noise. No easy way around this short of reducing the speed, which is what I do. The very top of the cabinet gets to about 95F, if I run insanely bright schedules. With par around 150 at the sandbed it’s about 85F. There is also a continuous inline fan running to exhaust air out of the canopy area to the outside of the house.
Coral Hind May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018 ...ceiling hung receptacles would have been nice there, if that's even allowable by code. Receptacles in or on the ceiling are allowable per code.
wangspeed June 2, 2018 Author June 2, 2018 I think perhaps I need to start a build thread for my very strange invert QT tank. I’m getting all sorts of strangeness in here. I practically screamed What this morning when I looked in and saw a little fish staring back at me!!! It’s too little for me to tell what kind of fish it is. I’ve had some other strange creatures in here too. This thing looks like a pill bug that mated with the moth from Silence of the Lambs: There’s this strange centipede like isopod [MEDIA=youtube]aVpIHN4ldfA[/MEDIA]
Origami June 3, 2018 June 3, 2018 The fish resembles some sort of dartfish. They often hide in holes or burrow in the sand, under rocks. But, it's hard to really tell because most of the fish is hidden and the part that's not is just not detailed enough. The second picture looks like an isopod - a fish parasite. To the right is an amphipod. It's a good critter. Finally, the last looks to me like sn amphipod that's swimming. The leg-pairs per segment are unlike a shrimp or a lobster, where the legs mostly come off of the thorax area. The shape of the tail end and the way it's all stretched out is just unlike any amphipod that I've seen, though.
wangspeed June 3, 2018 Author June 3, 2018 The fish resembles some sort of dartfish. They often hide in holes or burrow in the sand, under rocks. But, it's hard to really tell because most of the fish is hidden and the part that's not is just not detailed enough. The second picture looks like an isopod - a fish parasite. To the right is an amphipod. It's a good critter. Finally, the last looks to me like sn amphipod that's swimming. The leg-pairs per segment are unlike a shrimp or a lobster, where the legs mostly come off of the thorax area. The shape of the tail end and the way it's all stretched out is just unlike any amphipod that I've seen, though. This little fishy messed up my QT cycle for the invert tank. Not sure what I'll do now. He's too small to put anywhere else. Honestly, I'm surprised the filter hasn't sucked him up. He must have come in as an egg on the macro algae. The 2nd pic is a strange looking isopod. It doesn't have the big eyes that the parasitic types are known for. Either way, he's gone. The last one, someone on R2R said it looked like something from the Idotea genus.
Origami June 3, 2018 June 3, 2018 I had to look it up, but Idotea is classified under the order Isopoda. So that one's an isopod. Not all isopods have large eyes. It's funny that you mentioned pill bugs in your other post because they're isopods, too. Isopods have two sets of antenna on the head and 14 legs (7 pairs). The photo seems to show that (or pretty close). Not all are parasitic - that's true. It could just live on detritus.
wangspeed June 4, 2018 Author June 4, 2018 It took hours to get this picture. He is super shy and is really tiny.
Origami June 5, 2018 June 5, 2018 Not a dartfish.... Looks like a tiny tarpon. Lol. Sent from my tablet using Tapatalk
wangspeed June 16, 2018 Author June 16, 2018 I’m finally going to get the calcium reactor going this weekend. Til now I’ve been dosing by hand as needed. Not too much is using up the big 3 since I have no corals or appreciable coralline. Slightly nervous since I’ve never used one before. I’ve always used dosing pumps til now. Good thing is that there are only fish in the tank and I’ll have lots of safe guards on CO2 release.
GraffitiSpotCorals June 16, 2018 June 16, 2018 Very nice man! The fish looks like a tarpon mated with a carp... give me a call if you need help with the calcium reactor.
mogurnda June 19, 2018 June 19, 2018 It took hours to get this picture. He is super shy and is really tiny. Looks like a killie. Maybe a mummichog.
wangspeed June 22, 2018 Author June 22, 2018 A few fishy pics DSC00177 by Warren Wang, on Flickr DSC00182 by Warren Wang, on Flickr DSC00212 by Warren Wang, on Flickr And my current favorite (group of) fish, my 7 resplendent anthias: DSC00247 by Warren Wang, on Flickr
wangspeed June 22, 2018 Author June 22, 2018 Nice. Do you have a photo of the 7 anthias together? Sadly no, they really are not very cooperative photo subjects. 6 of them tend to hang out together behind a rock. The 7th lost an eye due to an injury. She wedged herself into a hole in QT when I tried to get them all out. Like she was seriously stuck! A few days later, her eye swelled up to grotesque proportions, and finally popped. She'll live as long as she keeps eating. It seems I always end up with a 1 eyed fish.
YHSublime June 25, 2018 June 25, 2018 Nice! Your rock work looks very natural, I dig it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
wangspeed July 8, 2018 Author July 8, 2018 Clearview lid from Artfully Acrylic DSC00271 by Warren Wang, on FlickrDSC00271 by Warren Wang, on Flickr DSC00271 by Warren Wang, on Flickr
wangspeed July 23, 2018 Author July 23, 2018 Well, I haven't posted updates for a while because I got hit first by cotton candy algae, like a massive crazy outbreak while I was on a work trip (of course). Then came ostreopsis dinos while the algae was dying off. The dinos came on strong, and very suddenly. I've finally beat them back. This is what I did: Dosing Vibrant once a week Dosing Fritz Monster 460, Tim's Eco Balance, or Tim's Refresh every day that Vibrant wasn't dosed Changing UV flow rate to 400 GPH for my 50W High Output Pentair Adding turbo snails to clean up the dying red algae Increased skimmer to 40W on my Bubble King Double Cone 200 Dosing potassium nitrate to keep at least 1ppm of nitrates Micro bubbles 10 minutes/hour + 6 hours continuous overnight Changing return flow nozzles I think that last 2 really helped a lot. I noticed after I added the micro bubbles that a fair amount of the bubbles would go straight from the returns, get pushed by the pumps and into the overflow. This meant to me that a lot of the return water was also going straight into the overflow, so I changed the pattern significantly, which also boosted my return flow rate to about 4x display capacity. Just a few days later, they are all gone. Almost overnight. Really, it's quite amazing.
YHSublime July 23, 2018 July 23, 2018 Curious. What did you do to add the microbubbles? I'd be interested in doing this in my tank as well, as I'm getting algae build up in places I know detritus is resting. I'm not getting enough flow over the rocks, because I blow on it with a turkey baster, and it just spouts up waste. BUT everything is growing, and looking really good, so I'm not looking to make changes to something that isn't really broken if I don't have to.
wangspeed July 23, 2018 Author July 23, 2018 A very small and quiet piezo based air pump connected to a wooden air stone which sits under my return pump. Air pump. It’s the quietest one I could find! Wooden air stone What it results in when on
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