New tank

[hans24hrs]

well the day was yesterday. I was going to wait another week to add corals, but after much convincing from two urchins and a massive turbo snail, we (me and Jay Verna) transferred all the coral from 75 into the new tank. The culprits named above have been responsible for me losing almost a dozen sps and chalices (come home from work and corals were face down in sand or on top of my galaxia). So I figured it was either deal with that or add them a week or so early. After hours of dipping, glueing and hand colored by puddly everything is in its place (a couple of pieces in the fuge on frag racks)

Will post pictures soon. Also added the rest of the LEDs into canopy. Can't wait till everything is on.

 

[hans24hrs]

First hick up tonight. One of my heaters crapped out on me (month old). Tank temp dropped 3 degrees. Thankfully I still have a couple back ups.

 

[Mike H]

Tank looking nice Hans. Don't you love "new" heaters. Had the same problem on my 80 gal tank... that's why my new 420 gal I went inline.

 

[hans24hrs]

Yeah I think I am going to save up and get one.

 

[hans24hrs]

I have given up on reef octopus heaters, love their skimmers, but no luck with heaters. Came home from work and tank was in low 70's again. Put in old glass eheim heaters and back to normal.

 

[JRWOHLER]

I have given up on reef octopus heaters, love their skimmers, but no luck with heaters. Came home from work and tank was in low 70's again. Put in old glass eheim heaters and back to normal.

Have to agree with you those are the most reliable heater. For my new water buckets I do like something that you can beat around a bit but for the tank the Eheim just work...correctly.

 

[mnat]

We have the eheims as well. We went with three 300w so one alone could not mess everything up.

 

[hans24hrs]

I just bit the bullet and got an inline heater.
Also had a few changes. Swapped my UV for a smaller one (would have like to keep bigger one, but needed the space) also picked up a 1hp chiller, gonna need it when summer hits.

And let's not forget the leak. A couple weeks ago I came home to a nice puddle on the floor. At first I thought the ATO hose moved and shot over the side, but that would have been to easy. Actually after checking all the equipment I noticed that my overflow box had a small leak, that was going all day. Thankfully I had some acrylic cement (no clue where or when I got it) and problem was fixed with in a couple of hours.

 

[hans24hrs]

Inline heater is due in tomorrow. Going to install that, UV and chiller this weekend.

 

[Mike H]

Let me know when you get it working.... what you think.

 

[hans24hrs]

Well mike that might be a little longer than expected. As I was reading through the manual I noticed it said the stainless steel model is not for marine use. I checked both champion and aqualogics websites and the discription, never mention this. Contacted aqualogic and they said I have to return it to champion and order the titanium one. Of course I didn't read this till later in the evening, after champion was closed. Have to wait now till Monday.

Very frustrating, took one of my three personal day tomorrow thinking that I would get heater, chiller and UV plumbed in Saturday. Guess that isn't happening.

 

[Mike H]

Hans

Sorry you missed that.... yes... Titanium model for saltwater only... that is the one I have

 

[hans24hrs]

Lesson learned the hard way.

Also switched out the geisman Azure bulbs with actinic blue. They were a little to "white" for me

 

[hans24hrs]

Titanium inline heater came in Wednesday. No thanks to UPS who beat the hell out of the box (actually had to take pictures and contact them before I opened it). Anyway hoping to have it home up along with chiller and UV. Wanted to wait till I had all three so I could do it in one shot.

Must say that my tank is coming along pretty great considering the minor set backs. I set up my dosing pumps and ran them for a couple of weeks but notice the corals were looking a little drab so I stopped dosing to see if that helped, and it seems like it has. I originally set the doses to about 75% of what I was running them at on my 220. But I also switched from reef crystals to Red Sea coral pro. After all the appliances are hooked up and i am running at the temp I prefer (77.5 compared to 76 right now) I am going to do testing on water evey other day to fine tune dosing schedule.

And as soon as I can get a minute or two to research how to take "good" pictures with the camera my sister gave me I will post some better pictures.

 

[trivan]

Any recent pics? When you get a chance , I'd like to know your thoughts on the inline heater. I've been using the ehiems as well and those have been solid.

Get the gel filters for pictures of the tank.

 

[Mike H]

Hans
did you get the titanium heater going?

Mike

 

[hans24hrs]

Sorry for late reply, working a lot. Heater is all up and running. Works great. I will say for the price of it I would have like to see better couplings. Also I am not a big fan of how the threaded connections were double sided with no where to really grip them while tightening. Other than the connection issues this heater is amazing. Very accurate and heats fast.

 

[hans24hrs]

Some updated pics

Some updated shots, mostly frags in there still. Can't wait till they start filling in.

 

[hans24hrs]

More pics

Few more pics

 

[JRWOHLER]

I don't know what you do ...maybe it is me getting old but the pictures are tiny. Wish I could see them better just FYI.