Fish room build “this is the way”

[Rossim2i2]

Awesome fish room. When the kids are older and on their way outta the house I hope to do something similar in my basement!

 

[CosmicMan]

Awesome fish room. When the kids are older and on their way outta the house I hope to do something similar in my basement!

Maybe you can convince them you need a fish room for educational purposes that way you don't have to wait so long!

 

[amado]

well I got my ICP test results. it looks like I have low iodine. In my last tank I had a refugium so I would dose iodine to get the macro algae to grow. This tank has no refugium so I am not sure I will dose any iodine.

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Someone wants to show you the water test results and shared this link to the evaluation. Click on the image above to explore the water test results.

www.triton-lab.de

 

[deepblue68]

I have 3 kessil 360x from my last tank.
but those lights are not strong enough to penetrate a 30”deep tank. So they will move to the frag tank and I will looking into buying a new kessil AP9x and set that up in the middle with two 360x on the side.
I have a seneye as a par meter and that works really good for me. If you could find a used seneye I would recommend it.

I could also get 3 used AP700 and that should also reach the bottom and give me the spread I need.

I would save and go with the ap9x!! Iam thinking of buying one myself!!

 

[amado]

Awesome fish room. When the kids are older and on their way outta the house I hope to do something similar in my basement!

Thank you it’s a work in progress.
I got lucky that my new house the basement had a low ceiling so I really couldn’t do much else.

 

[amado]

I would save and go with the ap9x!! Iam thinking of buying one myself!!

I have a AP700 in the middle of the 210
But I am also looking at that kessil. I don’t need anything fancy since it inside a canopy
But I really like that light.

 

[deepblue68]

The coverage is really supposed to be great with the ap9x so would be good for that deep tank of yours.i understand where your coming from.

 

[amado]

Ok so today I did a water change.
I also received my eb832 and eb8 from Neptune. They fixed both.

They also replaced my trident with a new one. The new trident is up and running it working the way it should be.

Hanna alk was 8.5
Trident is 8.15
I still have to calibrate it let’s see how it goes in the next few days.

 

[deepblue68]

Iam glad things are working out with the build!

 

[amado]

Iam glad things are working out with the build!

We keep moving forward

 

[amado]

Well I was not home for Labor Day and that’s the day my Neptune apex base station decided to die. It looks like it lost connection around 1pm. I didn’t get home till around 7pm all my live stock was good but my apex was down. I had to open up a ticket with Neptune. They gave me a choice to purchase a refurbished apex base station.
It was only $50 cheaper than buying one retail so I decided to pass.

 

[ericrodriguez]

Well I was not home for Labor Day and that’s the day my Neptune apex base station decided to die. It looks like it lost connection around 1pm. I didn’t get home till around 7pm all my live stock was good but my apex was down. I had to open up a ticket with Neptune. They gave me a choice to purchase a refurbished apex base station.
It was only $50 cheaper than buying one retail so I decided to pass.

Good looking buddy keep up the good work!

 

[amado]

So I did a small water change today. (35 gallon)
Since my apex head had to be replaced.
I wasn’t able to dos or monitor my alk so it drop down to seven.
I am slowly bring it back over 8 dkh

I got the replacement head from Neptune.
Now everything is back to normal.
Moved some frags from the frag tank to the display.

Let’s see how they do.

 

[amado]

So my alk was low at 7 so I did a 50 gallon water change using instant ocean reef crystals and now my alk is 12

Thats why I don’t like using that salt the numbers are always crazy.

I know some people are ok with high alk but 12 is a little high.

So I am turning off the dos and let it come down naturally

 

[ericrodriguez]

Looking nice this Frag looks happy there...

 

[mnat]

Smart to let it come down slowly, that is a big spike for a water change.

 

[amado]

Smart to let it come down slowly, that is a big spike for a water change.

Instant ocean always mixes high alk

 

[amado]

So here are some tank shots. The tank is still empty. But it’s good to see the progress.

 

[amado]

I had one rainbow anemone and today I have two.

 

[amado]

I got done with work early so I had some free time so I picked up some frags.

Everyone has their own system of how to dip and acclimate corals.

I had good luck with revive from two little fish so I use that.
I also dip in seachem reef dip it’s basically iodine.