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07/25/2015, 09:29 PM
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Looks like a new page. Several pictures in the previous page for my tanks 6th year birthday.
Some of my other angels behaving like little angels    
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07/25/2015, 09:33 PM
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My yellow belly actually got in a couple pictures. Usually they look way worse as he's either blurred out from constantly moving or saturated in blue
  One of the four RBTAs moved down the rock entrance of the big cave. 
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07/26/2015, 06:48 PM
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Some more pics as I was called out for not having a 6 year old FTS birthday picture.
Hoping one of these pictures come out. Just going to take pictures right into the post.         
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07/26/2015, 08:48 PM
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Scarlet cleaner shrimp looking full of eggs
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07/26/2015, 10:32 PM
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Yep, I think that the LED lights on the ATS were off for quite a while previously.
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07/26/2015, 10:45 PM
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Great looking growth now with the LEDs on. Imagine that.
Front  Back  Front  Back  
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07/27/2015, 07:32 AM
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Soda lime about 90% exhausted. Not bad for 7 days.
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07/27/2015, 10:01 PM
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About 1 more day left maybe. Will watch the pH. It's been maintaining above 8.2
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07/28/2015, 09:37 PM
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Just a sliver left of unchanged soda lime. I'll keep watching the pH to see when it trends back down. Probably will have to change it out tomorrow night.
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07/28/2015, 09:40 PM
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Something released a bunch of eggs.
Little greenish balls  Now you see them and now you don't  These were quickly taken care of by the coral beauty. 
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07/29/2015, 01:06 AM
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Awesome tank. Especially like the rock work.
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07/29/2015, 06:15 AM
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Thanks. I tried to create open space yet still allow for caves, swim through areas, and hiding places. There's about 120-150lbs of rock in the display. Maybe another 20-30 lbs in the sump.
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07/29/2015, 03:20 PM
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pH still hanging at just over 8.2... will keep watching. Pretty much all the soda lime that I could see this morning had changed color.
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07/29/2015, 07:55 PM
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Just broke under 8.2.
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07/29/2015, 10:45 PM
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And back to hanging around 8.2. I'm going to hold off on changing it one more day. Tomorrow will be day 10. I suspect there's a bit left even after the color change much like DI except I don't care about a small bit extra of CO2 getting through like I would TDS and DI wanting it to be 0.
I got a PM2 module in with a conductivity probe. But looks like I have to get a temp probe for the PM2 module. It can't do the temperature compensation from the temp probe connected to the base unit. I will be looking out for a temp probe now. I did get a replacement ORP probe from BRS replacing their defective one. It's been reading about normal since I plugged it in about an hour ago. Reading 400's right now.
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07/31/2015, 05:55 PM
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Well the Apex base unit "the brain" seems to be bricked. It's not even powering up now. Apex support had me try a few things but it got worse. So now they want to do a remote session which isn't going to happen until I can find the time to do that next week.
For now I've switched everything back to the reefkeeper. On a positive note I got to test out the fallback functions of all the outlets and they all went to the states I expected and wanted them too. Which means the ATS got more light today then normal but I think I would rather that then not getting enough light. Already experienced that. It's back on that outlet that's kind of going out. I'll have to make sure to check its on before bed and in the morning. The pH scrubber is still going a little bit. The basement pH is now reading 8.34 so assuming that's 8.14ish at the display. I'll change out the media tonight. I took it out to see from the top and I could see a few small bits of white remaining. I think it's about as stretched out as its going to go with out drifting down pH back below 8.0 
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08/03/2015, 11:46 PM
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I think it's been hair over a week since I scrubbed the algae turf scrubber. I'll be getting in a new apex base unit tomorrow and I'll be playing around with that and I know I won't be able to do anything Wednesday night so I decided to pull out the screen tonight and do a quick scrape and scrub like last time.
It was definitely thicker this time and held a lot more water. I did notice the far side from the water input was much lighter in growth. I went ahead and bumped up the flow very slightly but it's still not fully opened up. Just pulled front  Back  Lights are on 12 hours over night. Blues are still diffused with scotch tape. I also haven't changed anything else filtering wise. Skimmer still producing like a champ, 1% water change a day, vinegar dosing around 90ml/day. Etc. I guess the one change I do was the CO2 scrubber a couple weeks ago. Brought display tank pH from around 7.8-7.9 to a solid 8.2+.
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08/04/2015, 08:14 AM
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You can probably extend the light cycle at this point if you need to, or even increase the intensity. You have a nice mature screen.
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08/05/2015, 11:08 PM
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Last night I got around to getting the Apex hooked back up and was able to get everything reprogrammed based on having it already documented here. I did have a .bin backup of the config... somewhere. It was just easier to copy paste out of my journal back into the apex web interface.
I've also got in another break out box (BoB) for the basement so I was able to move the rest of all the basement/sump equipment over to it. Skimmer, ATO, AWC, ATS, return, ozone, vinegar, heaters etc. Have all the equipment split up on different circuits as well. Display GFCI circuit 1 AC/DC Adapter to Apex Base Unit to detect power outage or circuit/breaker trip A UPS with the following plugged into it: Wireless network adapter 1 EB8 and plugged into it is -Blue LEDs (set to shutoff on power/circuit outage) -Gyre (set to keep running on power/circuit outage) -Apex base unit via Aquabus (set to email on DC adapter having no power along with all the EB8's and several other alerts setup as well) Display GFCI circuit 2 1EB8 and plugged into it is -White LEDs -Auto Feeder - Moon lights - Display Basement GFCI circuit 3 (this circuit trips I want all on it shutdown anyway) 1 EB8 and plugged into it is -return pump - ranco controller and two heaters - skimmer - carbon/vinegar dosing pump - Ozone Basement GFCI circuit 4 1 EB8 and plugged into it is ATS Pump ATS LED ATO pump AWC pump I also have an Apex PM1 module in the basement with a pH probe near the Reefkeeper pH probe. The sump is definitely higher pH then the Display tank. The Apex is still reading slightly lower then the Reefkeeper. Right now: Apex Display pH shows 8.24 Apex Sump pH shows 8.36 Reefkeeper Sump pH shows 8.39 To determine if it's the skimmer increasing the pH down there over the display tank I could just not run the skimmer for a few hours. I would expect that both areas would drop but I would be curious if they would equalize closer to each other. I wouldn't expect them to be exactly the same but with in .1 possibly with in .05.
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08/06/2015, 03:30 PM
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Since this helped out already going to log all the programming here:
Pulled from reeftronics http://www.reeftronics.net/Ja/jason2459/apex-status Apex Name: apex Firmware: 4.34_4F15 Listing generated: 08/06/2015 16:15:06 PROGRAM Switches DT_Sw1 (normally closed and checks for DT overflowing. Sitting in the back overflow) SmpL_1 (Sump Low Water Switch: normally closed and set in the return section.) SmpH_2 (Sump High Water Switch: normally closed and set in the skimmer section.) Probes DTTemp (Display Tank Temp probe set in the back overflow) DT_pH (Display Tank pH probe set in the back overflow) DT_ORP (Display Tank Orp probe set in the back overflow) BMTemp (Basement Sump Temp probe set in the drain/skimmer section) BM_pH (Basement Sump pH probe set in the drain/skimmer section) Tmpx9 (Basement Sump Temp probe set in the drain/skimmer section used for conductivity auto temp compensation) Condx9 (Basement Sump Conductivity probe set in the drain/skimmer section) Virtual Outlets [ vATOFail_A5 ] ( Cntl_A5 ) Program Type: Advanced Display Icon: Hourglass Logging: Enabled Program: Set OFF If Outlet vSumpLow_A6 = ON Then ON Defer 180:00 Then ON [ vSumpLow_A6 ] ( Cntl_A6 ) Program Type: Advanced Display Icon: Up/Down Arrows Logging: Enabled Program: Set OFF If SmpL_1 OPEN Then OFF If SmpL_1 CLOSED Then ON Defer 000:15 Then ON [ vSumpHigh_A7 ] ( Cntl_A7 ) Program Type: Advanced Display Icon: Up/Down Arrows Logging: Enabled Program: Set OFF If SmpH_2 OPEN Then ON If SmpH_2 CLOSED Then OFF Defer 000:01 Then ON [ vfeed_A8 ] ( Cntl_A8 ) Program Type: Advanced Display Icon: Bell Logging: Enabled Program: Set OFF Fallback OFF If Time 12:00 to 12:01 Then ON If Time 15:00 to 15:01 Then ON If Time 18:00 to 18:01 Then ON If Time 21:00 to 21:01 Then ON If FeedA 000 Then ON Alerts [ EmailAlm_I5 ] ( base_email ) Program Type: Advanced Display Icon: Email Logging: Enabled Program: Set OFF If Outlet vATOFail_A5 = ON Then ON If DTTemp > 84.0 Then ON If DTTemp < 73.0 Then ON If BMTemp > 84.0 Then ON If BMTemp < 73.0 Then ON If Tmpx9 > 84.0 Then ON If Tmpx9 < 73.0 Then ON If DT_pH > 8.50 Then ON If DT_pH < 7.90 Then ON If BM_pH > 8.50 Then ON If BM_pH < 7.90 Then ON If Condx9 < 32.0 Then ON If Condx9 > 36.0 Then ON If DT_ORP < 200 Then ON If DT_ORP > 400 Then ON If Power Apex OFF 000 Then ON If Power UPSEB8_3 OFF 000 Then ON If Power BMEB8_6 OFF 000 Then ON If Power SumpEB8_7 OFF 000 Then ON If Power DTEB8_8 OFF 000 Then ON Physical Outlets [ Gyre_3_1 ] ( 3_1 ) Program Type: Advanced Display Icon: Left/Right Arrows Logging: Enabled Program: Fallback ON Set ON [ LEDB_3_5 ] ( 3_5 ) Program Type: Advanced Display Icon: Light A Logging: Enabled Program: Fallback ON Set OFF If Sun 180/240 Then ON If DTTemp > 85.0 Then OFF If Power Apex OFF 001 Then OFF [ Lunar_5_1 ] ( 5_1 ) Program Type: Advanced Display Icon: Moon Logging: Enabled Program: Set OFF If Moon 180/240 Then ON If Power Apex OFF 001 Then OFF [ ATSPump_6_1 ] ( 6_1 ) Program Type: Advanced Display Icon: Spigot Logging: Enabled Program: Fallback ON Set ON [ ATSLED_6_2 ] ( 6_2 ) Program Type: Advanced Display Icon: Sun Logging: Enabled Program: Fallback ON Set ON If Time 11:30 to 23:30 Then OFF [ ATO_6_4 ] ( 6_4 ) Program Type: Advanced Display Icon: Up/Down Arrows Logging: Enabled Program: Fallback OFF Set OFF OSC 020:00/020:00/000:00 Then ON If Outlet vSumpLow_A6 = ON Then ON If Outlet vSumpLow_A6 = OFF Then OFF If Outlet vSumpHigh_A7 = ON Then OFF If Condx9 < 32.0 Then OFF If DT_pH > 8.40 Then OFF If BM_pH > 8.50 Then OFF [ AWC_6_8 ] ( 6_8 ) Program Type: Advanced Display Icon: Hourglass Logging: Enabled Program: Fallback ON Set ON If Outlet vSumpHigh_A7 = ON Then OFF If Outlet vSumpLow_A6 = ON Then OFF If Condx9 < 31.0 Then OFF Defer 021:00 Then OFF [ return_7_1 ] ( 7_1 ) Program Type: Advanced Display Icon: Spigot Logging: Enabled Program: Fallback ON Set ON If DT_Sw1 OPEN Then OFF If Outlet vfeed_A8 = ON Then OFF If Outlet vATOFail_A5 = ON Then OFF Defer 030:00 Then ON [ Ranco_7_2 ] ( 7_2 ) Program Type: Advanced Display Icon: Thermometer Logging: Enabled Program: Fallback OFF Set OFF If DTTemp < RT+0.0 Then ON If Tmpx9 > 83.0 Then OFF If BMTemp > 83.0 Then OFF If DTTemp > 83.0 Then OFF [ Vinegar_7_4 ] ( 7_4 ) Program Type: Advanced Display Icon: Spigot Logging: Enabled Program: Fallback OFF Set OFF OSC 051:41/008:19/000:00 Then ON If Time 21:00 to 11:00 Then OFF If DT_pH < 7.80 Then OFF If BM_pH < 7.80 Then OFF [ skimmer_7_5 ] ( 7_5 ) Program Type: Advanced Display Icon: Thumbs Logging: Enabled Program: Fallback ON Set ON If Outlet vSumpHigh_A7 = ON Then OFF If Outlet return_7_1 = OFF Then OFF Defer 002:00 Then ON [ Ozone_7_8 ] ( 7_8 ) Program Type: Advanced Display Icon: Bars Logging: Enabled Program: Fallback OFF Set ON If DT_ORP > 375 Then OFF If Outlet skimmer_7_5 = OFF Then OFF [ LEDW_8_5 ] ( 8_5 ) Program Type: Advanced Display Icon: Light B Logging: Enabled Program: Fallback OFF Set OFF If Sun 240/180 Then ON If DTTemp > 84.5 Then OFF [ Feeder_10_1 ] ( 10_1 ) Program Type: Advanced Display Icon: Bars Logging: Enabled Program: Set OFF Fallback OFF If Outlet vfeed_A8 = ON Then ON Defer 001:30 Then ON
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Watchman goby seems to have paired up with some of the peppermint shrimp. I always see them hanging around together and just like the pistol shrimp the peppermints keep in contact with the goby. Didn't think any anything but a pistol shrimp would pair up like that.
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08/09/2015, 05:17 AM
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08/10/2015, 10:48 PM
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Been about another week and got time tonight to pull and scrub the screen. It seemed heavier and wish I would have been weighing it now. I'm just happy its producing and growing well bow. Even the false bottom was growing and covered in algae.
Front  Back  The bottom  I did bump up the light intensity on the front half and left the back at the lower power setting for this week. I hope I did it right. There's a little diagram as well showing the proper jumper positions. I didn't touch the middle one for the blues and the scotch tape is still there for diffusion. Just the four others. 
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Nice growth!! Jumpers done right
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