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Jimroth's Big Ol' Tank
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We had a similar problem with a green pistol; he was tiny when we adopted him, but when he grew up he was tagging our fish. He eventually got our helfrichi
good luck getting yours out!
Started construction on the new backend setup. It's a new bench that will go over my 100G Rubbermaid horse trough. It's going to be tricky, I have to move my water barrel tower a few inches. It need to be open in the front so the trough can slide in and out but also have shelves for the skimmer and return pumps. I have most of the lumber fut but it's going to be a bit of a challenge to make the thing. I also need to think out the setup inside the tub, with respect to bubble towers, filter sock holders, eggcrate shelves, etc, etc. I'm waiting to cut the bulkheads into the tub since that's hard to undo. AND I have to get my new skimmer figured out, Bax...
Things looking pretty good in the reef. My tiny patch of pink and blue Millie is stating to branch, it will be a colony again. I had a chance to pick up some of ORAs poor offerings and added purple stylopora, plum crazy, blue voodoo stag and green velvet. So much for restraint. They don't seem to have red planet or pearl berry anymore. Maybe someone should send them some. My own Joe the coral seems to have some live branches, so I am hoping for a comeback there!
The bench is mostly done. I can pre-plumb the setup using one of my spare pumps, and just swap it in when the fateful day comes.
Lately I've been doing kind of simplified reefing. No additives but
conservative two part, no vodka or pellets, I haven't kept up on carbon changes. So far so good.
The bench is mostly done. I can pre-plumb the setup using one of my spare pumps, and just swap it in when the fateful day comes.
Lately I've been doing kind of simplified reefing. No additives but
conservative two part, no vodka or pellets, I haven't kept up on carbon changes. So far so good.
Getting ready to plumb the MRC skimmer to the new sump, need to ask you a couple questions about best plumbing and feed pump setup.
As for care packages... Probably like to wait until I complete the changeover to LEDS.
Yes probbaly best to wait for your lighting change. Whenever you're ready!
About the skimmer, are you going to feed off the return or off a dedicated feed pump? In terms of outflow, zero back pressure is a must you want to control it with a gate vale and no other variable.
Nikki!! AEFWs!!!! Uhg! I feel your pain!
Bax, to say I was unhappy to see them does not do justice to the level of my anger. We have been battling for months now, using zeo flatworm stop. We are not losing coral, but we have not kicked the flatworms yet either (hence the fact that there are no acros in the ELOS tank right now)- all of the acros are in the frag tank where we can keep a close eye on them. That said, Jim, once we kick the AEF (and I have to believe the promised land will come) I will let you know.
Unfortunately, the bulk of my documentation of my flight with AEFWs was lost when the site crashed and dumped a year of posts last October.
I used Levi and isolation in a frag system to beat the AEFWs. I then treated the whole system too. It is a very tough way to go and I did loose some fish do to oxygen depervation during a treatment.
Heavy dipping in isolation needed for sure leave the DT SPS bare for as long as you can take it.
Using a feed pump is the best most consistent method to feed the skimmer.
Bax, we may take that route if necessary. We can disconnect the frag system from the main tank, I will do that if I have to. We have a UV on the return, and as I said no acros in the display at all. I just don't want to risk parasites in the display.
I am going to give the elos treatment, plus manual removal of all AEF that I see (yay Tweesers!) and scraping/epoxying of eggs a bit more time; the volume of bite marks is down, as are the number of AEF I see, and the acros are almost all colored back up. Trying to keep ahead of them. If all else fails, we will remove the Acros to a QT, nuke the QT, and then return the corals that make it to the frag tank, but that is a last resort.
Jim, sorry to hijack your thread!
No problem Nikki, I feel your pain! Just dreading the little b@stards myself. Went though monti-eating nudbranchs once, heartbreaking.
Changed the stock pump on the 29 Biocube for a much quieter powerhead with about the same flow. It got noisy, I think it was going to fail.
It's funny to think you can make a tiny invertebrate happy. I bought some carefully sized cone shells on ebay for my Halloween (cone shell) hermit crab, and it was like Underwater Christmas, more than an hour of inspecting the shell, then the fitting. That is a happy crab. Plus several larger ones to try later.
Still crawling along on my sump project, assembling the plumbing, there's always one more thing, this time it's 2" nipples (heh) and 1" spaflex. I will need to just set aside a weekend and do it, bite the bullet. It doesn't help that it's like 50F in the garage.
My adult lemon meringue wrasse bought the farm. He had become an expert shrimp-and-hermit-carb-killer, so good riddance. He malaformed his head and jaw trying to bury himself in the fused substrate, despit the sandbox I provided him, I think he starved. Nothing left but the foxface and the happiest shoal of chromis in NJ.
It's funny to think you can make a tiny invertebrate happy. I bought some carefully sized cone shells on ebay for my Halloween (cone shell) hermit crab, and it was like Underwater Christmas, more than an hour of inspecting the shell, then the fitting. That is a happy crab. Plus several larger ones to try later.
Still crawling along on my sump project, assembling the plumbing, there's always one more thing, this time it's 2" nipples (heh) and 1" spaflex. I will need to just set aside a weekend and do it, bite the bullet. It doesn't help that it's like 50F in the garage.
My adult lemon meringue wrasse bought the farm. He had become an expert shrimp-and-hermit-carb-killer, so good riddance. He malaformed his head and jaw trying to bury himself in the fused substrate, despit the sandbox I provided him, I think he starved. Nothing left but the foxface and the happiest shoal of chromis in NJ.
