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03/05/2013, 07:57 PM | #76 |
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Looking real good. Lots of planning is the key to successful reef keeping
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04/15/2013, 11:26 PM | #77 |
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It's been over a month. Any updates?
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04/24/2013, 11:37 PM | #78 |
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Sorry for the long hiatus. This have been going well with the tank. Always slow compared to how you hope it will go.
I have added some fish and quite a few frags. This will be my first SPS dominant tank and I'm learning how much flexibility I need to have to make this work. I will let the pictures do the rest of the speaking for me. Note that I am terrible at taking pics. Today I added this guy to the main display. I got him for a deal that could not be passed up. Normally I would have waited to add a Sohal last so that some other Tangs could go in. Hopefully I have screwed myself on this. The yellow tang immediately started beating on him. Lights went out and hopefully they can work it out. This tank has plenty of room for both of them. Any suggestions for dealing with this?
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05/01/2013, 09:56 AM | #79 |
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Don't have any suggestions on the tang aggression, but what's your plan on water flow in the tank?
I see that you don't have a closed loop and was wondering how you'll be getting sufficient flow on the "far-side" of the tank (especially if you're keeping SPS). Thanks, Chad
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05/06/2013, 10:42 AM | #80 |
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Lots happening with my tank these days and very little of it is good. Against my better judgement I added that Sohal tang directly to my display...well although it was healthy and fat...it gave pick to everything. Lost a large black and white clown plus my flame angel by the next day....then the sohal started looking rough. I moved him to quarantine and he passed. The my two truepercs went. Now my big yellow is struggling...hoping he makes it.
Read of this kind of mistake over and over...but thought I would never make it myself. On your question of flow...the two 6105's and the 6205 all have to be turned way down otherwise the flow at the far side overwhelmed the corals there...don't see a problem for now.
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05/06/2013, 11:32 AM | #82 |
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[QUOTE=mseepman;The yellow tang immediately started beating on him. Lights went out and hopefully they can work it out. This tank has plenty of room for both of them. Any suggestions for dealing with this?[/QUOTE]
sorry about your lost. Egg crate divider, not pretty but works quite well for me. I added a stripe of sponge on both side that have contact with the glass to avoid any scratching. I have it up for few months until I finished my stocking list. I opened the gate up during the weekend for a brief moment to get an update on the situation then closed it up again. good luck!
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05/09/2013, 11:17 AM | #83 |
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Thought I would just post an updated pic of the tank from my new phone. Hopefully I'll look back at this pic in a year and say...wow how did these corals grow so much?
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05/09/2013, 11:31 AM | #84 | |
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05/27/2013, 03:22 PM | #85 |
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Just thought I would provide a quick pic update on the tank. Things are progressing and I'm slowing filling things up with frags. Will be interesting to see how these all grow out.
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05/27/2013, 03:39 PM | #86 |
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the end view is my favorite on my peninsula...wish I went a foot wider...very nice set-up...
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05/28/2013, 06:13 PM | #87 |
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Looking good.
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06/03/2013, 01:06 AM | #88 |
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Wow...this has been an awesome build. Not only did you build a stand and tank, but you built a very nice home to go around them!! You should post some home pictures since we need updates on it too!!
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As for the tank...got some crazy nice frags this week in a shipment from the other side of the country.
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01/29/2014, 11:04 AM | #90 |
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Wow, I realize that I've let this thread fall behind. Here are some updates on the tank.
Things are going overall pretty well. I've been battling some issues with PH and ALK. They were both really low and after dosing a ton of both ALK and KALK I still couldn't raise them much. I also had a cyano issue which I read could be linked to the really low ALK. I treated with Chemiclean and the cyano disappeared...although the treatment killed my birds-nest. Once that was over (tons of water changes) my ALK and PH started to rise. They sit at about 9 and 8.1 now which is better than the 5 and 7.75 that they were at before. I use prodibio and my tank is pretty much free of Phos and Nitrates. I stopped using Reefbooster when I had cyano and my corals all look pale or brownish so I think things are starving a little. Will add that back into rotation. Here are pics.
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01/29/2014, 11:38 PM | #91 |
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Mark love the new set up!! Things appear to be doing very well for you, nicely done man!!
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Thought I would put a few new updates on here.
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04/28/2014, 07:49 PM | #93 |
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Wow that looks really amazing!!!! Very nice work!!!!!!!!
You should be very proud;-)
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I do need to find a way to boost the colors but one thing at a time.
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04/29/2014, 12:46 PM | #95 |
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Absolutely gorgeous build!! I love how clean all the plumbing is!! I tip my hat to you sir!
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12/11/2014, 02:47 PM | #96 |
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Wow, I just realized that I haven't updated this in forever. The tank is doing well. I actually have battles between all the corals since most of the space has filled in. I've struggled to keep my Alk up as well but otherwise all is good.
Here are some pics.
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12/11/2014, 06:18 PM | #97 |
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Your tank and home are beautiful, love the way your stand blends with the home. It truly appears like it belongs. Not much worse than a tank that appears forced into a spot or one that appears out of place.
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Sorry for the long in-activity...it's just been a busy period for me with work and family.
As for my fixture...I really love it. I have added two single 36" T5HO tubes to the fixture as I wanted some of the purple hues given by the ATI or KZ purple bulbs and so they run for several hours in addition to the LED's each day. If I had to say one thing I would change it would be that I would allow the light to drop closer to the water than the 12" that I allowed for. It's an easy fix but as yet I haven't found the time to make the change. As my corals grow, I think the increased light will be needed to compensate for the changes.
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02/15/2020, 11:31 AM | #99 |
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Sadly it's been a long time since I updated this thread. There have been many challenges along the way and the tank had a major crash that I'm still working my way out of. In 2016 I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and that set me back a little. To add to that, while away on vacation my Apex failed and just zeroed all info out... It even ignored all the fallbacks. So it dumped 5 litres of ALK and 5 litres of CA and the same of MG all at once into the tank. My tank sitter let me know right away but by the time we got home, I had massive coral losses of about 90%. I pulled it all out and saved what I could. The death lead to algae and it took me over a year to fight that off.
I've been slowly getting things back to normal...if I even know what that is anymore and we are only recently reintroducing new corals to the tank. I will try to get a pic up shortly. I still love this hobby and without some of the valleys, I might not have appreciated the peaks.
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02/16/2020, 04:37 PM | #100 |
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Thought I would throw a few pics of the tank in its current recovery state.
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