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My Oceanic Tech 120
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Re: My Oceanic Tech 120 and a request for input.
I was running it at 25 on my AP. I errored on the low side to be honest with you, I had never made my own water and some of the water I had in my tubs was lower then what I am running now so I didn't want to shock everthing by changing sality too much or too quickly. I plan on slowly bringing my sality up to 1.025. Would it have been better to just push it all the way up or better slowely?
Thanks for the complements...I can only hope my corals are as happy as yours.
I was running it at 25 on my AP. I errored on the low side to be honest with you, I had never made my own water and some of the water I had in my tubs was lower then what I am running now so I didn't want to shock everthing by changing sality too much or too quickly. I plan on slowly bringing my sality up to 1.025. Would it have been better to just push it all the way up or better slowely?
Thanks for the complements...I can only hope my corals are as happy as yours.
Re: My Oceanic Tech 120 and a request for input.
Slowly is always better. Nothing good happens fast in reefing!
A higher SG will give you better levels of all the essentials, but it was wise not to change too much during the transition.
It's also a good practice with nano's to runn a little lower since it doesn't take much for it to rise.
JRWOHLER said:
Slowly is always better. Nothing good happens fast in reefing!
A higher SG will give you better levels of all the essentials, but it was wise not to change too much during the transition.
It's also a good practice with nano's to runn a little lower since it doesn't take much for it to rise.
Re: My Oceanic Tech 120 and a request for input.
if Air is getting sucked in at a high velocity, it will sound like a gurgle swish, like a flush almost. Try to increase the hole size on the durso standpipe, or you can try to add a length of tubing (the larger size, not airline size) either one should work, it's basically allowing more air to go in reducing the flushing sound, and adding the airline tube restricts it. Right now, you are right in the middle- try that, iyt's worked for me like 3 times... until I created a Stockman pipe which has no flush whatsover....
if Air is getting sucked in at a high velocity, it will sound like a gurgle swish, like a flush almost. Try to increase the hole size on the durso standpipe, or you can try to add a length of tubing (the larger size, not airline size) either one should work, it's basically allowing more air to go in reducing the flushing sound, and adding the airline tube restricts it. Right now, you are right in the middle- try that, iyt's worked for me like 3 times... until I created a Stockman pipe which has no flush whatsover....
Re: My Oceanic Tech 120 and a request for input.
WOW, JR, I love it! Terrific job on the aqua/rockscaping. Nice, nice, nice. ;D
Good job on fixing that thermometer, I bet you get really accurate readings now, LOL.
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Wendy
WOW, JR, I love it! Terrific job on the aqua/rockscaping. Nice, nice, nice. ;D
Good job on fixing that thermometer, I bet you get really accurate readings now, LOL.
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Wendy
Re: My Oceanic Tech 120 and a request for input.
Thanks I stole all my good ideas from you
. I find the readings to be as accurate as they were before :.
My idea was sort of to have two distinct hills the smaller one on the right has those corals that well could almost be considered pests...GSP, Kenya tree, some mushrooms ect. Then the right has the more intersting ones. I have maybe more room in the back then I had planned on but it gives me some room for the future.
JerseyWendy said:
Thanks I stole all my good ideas from you
. I find the readings to be as accurate as they were before :.My idea was sort of to have two distinct hills the smaller one on the right has those corals that well could almost be considered pests...GSP, Kenya tree, some mushrooms ect. Then the right has the more intersting ones. I have maybe more room in the back then I had planned on but it gives me some room for the future.
momof6kids
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Re: My Oceanic Tech 120 and a request for input.
JR your tank is running!! YEAH!!!
And now the fun begins, filling it up. ;D Good thing the swap is coming!
JR your tank is running!! YEAH!!!
And now the fun begins, filling it up. ;D Good thing the swap is coming!
Re: My Oceanic Tech 120 and a request for input.
Hello wanted to give an update as it has been a couple weeks.
First...I still have a lot of air in my drain lines. I tried to straightening hoses and adding some extra holes in the top but still I have a lot of air siphoning in. I did get rid of the flushing sound though.
I'm pretty happy with all the water parameters..my Ca is only 380 but I have just gotten the specific gravity up to 1.025. All nitrates nitrites phosphates ammonia are negligible or zero and everything else is in line.
Temp has been running 79-80 degrees. I am going to have to maybe consider a chiller next year if fans don't work.
All the little diatom problem that everyone gets is gone, it was really minor, more an annoying couple days.
I went to MikeM to get some cheato and rubble to help stock my fuge.
I ended up walking away with so much more. I cannot say how generous Mike is and I am sure he has forgotten more then I will ever know about reefkeeping. I also met wannabereefer so got to pick his brain too.
So a few pics. FTS
Two beautiful corals from Mike. Thanks again. ;D
And one more.
If anyone can tell me what happened here let me know...could my Clown have laid eggs?
I turned the lights to do some maintenance and then after there were all these pinkish "eggs?".
They mainly got snagged by the GSP and they were gone short while later. I pulled one out and it sort of deflated, it was not a bug from what I could see and didn't move on its own.
Any suggestions or confirmations as to what they were?
One other cool thing was I was feeding my flower anemone (who took up residence in the back far side of the tank in the least accessable point basically)krill and my serpent starfish came charging out of the rocks like some Martian invader. He took a couple krill from me directly then crawled back in under the rocks. I was very cool I wish I had a movie of it.
Thanks again Mike for everything!
Hello wanted to give an update as it has been a couple weeks.
First...I still have a lot of air in my drain lines. I tried to straightening hoses and adding some extra holes in the top but still I have a lot of air siphoning in. I did get rid of the flushing sound though.
I'm pretty happy with all the water parameters..my Ca is only 380 but I have just gotten the specific gravity up to 1.025. All nitrates nitrites phosphates ammonia are negligible or zero and everything else is in line.
Temp has been running 79-80 degrees. I am going to have to maybe consider a chiller next year if fans don't work.
All the little diatom problem that everyone gets is gone, it was really minor, more an annoying couple days.
I went to MikeM to get some cheato and rubble to help stock my fuge.
I ended up walking away with so much more. I cannot say how generous Mike is and I am sure he has forgotten more then I will ever know about reefkeeping. I also met wannabereefer so got to pick his brain too.
So a few pics. FTS
Two beautiful corals from Mike. Thanks again. ;D
And one more.
If anyone can tell me what happened here let me know...could my Clown have laid eggs?
I turned the lights to do some maintenance and then after there were all these pinkish "eggs?".
They mainly got snagged by the GSP and they were gone short while later. I pulled one out and it sort of deflated, it was not a bug from what I could see and didn't move on its own.
Any suggestions or confirmations as to what they were?
One other cool thing was I was feeding my flower anemone (who took up residence in the back far side of the tank in the least accessable point basically)krill and my serpent starfish came charging out of the rocks like some Martian invader. He took a couple krill from me directly then crawled back in under the rocks. I was very cool I wish I had a movie of it.
Thanks again Mike for everything!
Re: My Oceanic Tech 120 and a request for input.
Gosh, your tank looks terrific, JR. Are you loving it? ;D
Sorry, I can't see the "eggs" in the picture.
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Wendy
Gosh, your tank looks terrific, JR. Are you loving it? ;D
Sorry, I can't see the "eggs" in the picture.
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Wendy
Re: My Oceanic Tech 120 and a request for input.
I am super happy with everything but the air in the drains. The "eggs" are the little spots that look like dirt on the glass mostly 1/3 of the way up on the left hand side. I just never saw anything like it.
Oh and I don't like those turbo snails so much any more they were easy to turn right side up in a 24G but not so much in this tank.
Thanks for the compliments they mean a lot. I have to do some painting too a little delayed. :-[
I am super happy with everything but the air in the drains. The "eggs" are the little spots that look like dirt on the glass mostly 1/3 of the way up on the left hand side. I just never saw anything like it.
Oh and I don't like those turbo snails so much any more they were easy to turn right side up in a 24G but not so much in this tank.
Thanks for the compliments they mean a lot. I have to do some painting too a little delayed. :-[
Re: My Oceanic Tech 120 and a request for input.
great looking tank...love me some tech tanks
great looking tank...love me some tech tanks
Re: My Oceanic Tech 120 and a request for input.
So my main tank is doing great. I am still working on the drains trying to adjust them to get them quieter but OK not terrible.
But my QT has taken a beating. I lost the cleaner shrimp. I have no idea what happened he was eating fine.
And then yesterday my hippo tang has a major outbreak of ick.....so now I have to lower the salinity. I know should go to exactly 1.009 but how fast if anyone knows. I did everything to try to keep the bugger healthy garlic, selcor(sp). Thank god I QTed them I guess. Without the shrimp I can lower the sanity so that is the positive of losing him when I did.
Here are a couple new pics.
My MikeM Micromussa 4m don't know name.
and my extremely successful cheato farm.
So my main tank is doing great. I am still working on the drains trying to adjust them to get them quieter but OK not terrible.
But my QT has taken a beating. I lost the cleaner shrimp. I have no idea what happened he was eating fine.
And then yesterday my hippo tang has a major outbreak of ick.....so now I have to lower the salinity. I know should go to exactly 1.009 but how fast if anyone knows. I did everything to try to keep the bugger healthy garlic, selcor(sp). Thank god I QTed them I guess. Without the shrimp I can lower the sanity so that is the positive of losing him when I did.
Here are a couple new pics.
My MikeM Micromussa 4m don't know name.
and my extremely successful cheato farm.
Re: My Oceanic Tech 120 and a request for input.
Super cool to finally meet you and family.
I don't think I would have met you had I not been watching the paypal laptop.
Sorry I didn't get a chance to say goodbye - but I was dead tired and I had told my wife I'd be back early to help watch the sick kids. With the crazy rain and lightning the NJturnpike felt sooo slow.
Catch up with you later. After the swap and being overwhelmed with all those choices - I really have to take some time to consider what kind of corals I want in my 120.
Super cool to finally meet you and family.
I don't think I would have met you had I not been watching the paypal laptop.
Sorry I didn't get a chance to say goodbye - but I was dead tired and I had told my wife I'd be back early to help watch the sick kids. With the crazy rain and lightning the NJturnpike felt sooo slow.
Catch up with you later. After the swap and being overwhelmed with all those choices - I really have to take some time to consider what kind of corals I want in my 120.