10' Pond Build

aquamanpc24 said:
Also could use hot water heater to heat pond, if temps swing that low and need hardcore heaters. Saw a guy so this with thermostats and circulation pumps to the drain of hot water. And then use titanium coils in sump fed with the hot water. Like the setup
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Heat has actually been staying spot on with the room temp at 73 degrees and 3 300W aquarium heaters in the sump. I do like the idea of having something like you just mentioned as a back up though. In the event that I lost power for an extended period of time during the winter, using gas/hot water for a heat source as back up would definitely be worth the effort/investment.
 
I was just wondering how your tank/pool was going. Its looking pretty awesome as always.

How are you liking the A360? What settings are you using for now?
 
This setup is fantastic, always glad to see an update on it. What's the maintenance like on a system this large, especially given the amount of sand. I would love to attempt something like this on the side of my regular build, but if it's heavy duty, hands on maintenance 24/7 I'd have to put the idea aside for a while.
 
mnkykng77 said:
I was just wondering how your tank/pool was going. Its looking pretty awesome as always.

How are you liking the A360? What settings are you using for now?
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So far so good :) A360 is great, although I'm still playing around with the controller settings. As for now, it's at 75% color, and 100% intensity. Just need to get the dusk/dawn settings sorted out.
 
SoloChromis said:
This setup is fantastic, always glad to see an update on it. What's the maintenance like on a system this large, especially given the amount of sand. I would love to attempt something like this on the side of my regular build, but if it's heavy duty, hands on maintenance 24/7 I'd have to put the idea aside for a while.
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This has actually been the lowest maintenance system I've ever kept. This may be due to the still relatively light fish stocking. Detritus accumulates in the bottom of the sump, which I vacuum out when I do a water change (about 200g monthly). I just added a half dozen fighting conchs and plan on a few other sand sifters down the road, so I don't think I'll have to do much more stirring. Other than the usual things like skimmer maintenance, there really isn't much to it. Not having to constantly clean aquarium glass has been very nice too!
 
Chromis are finally out of QT, and I now have a 75g and two 20g tanks freed up! Decided to QT them individually (partitioned QT tanks) so that they didn't have a chance to pick each other off before I could add them to the pool. Am hoping that they will play nice and not dwindle in number to one or two individuals given a much larger than average amount of space. I guess only time will tell.

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Here is a recent pic of my assasi trigger. Hasn't grown in length much, but he is starting to look like a little football.

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This is my first attempt at taking/posting a video. Camera (phone) didn't quite know how to handle the lighting so there is a lot of auto-adjusting during the video. Will try to sort that out in the future. Be sure to switch to 1080HD
 
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Debating on whether or not to add another half dozen or so chromis. Would be at least another 8 weeks to QT before I could add them to the pool. The twelve that I have stay together in a group for the most part, except for feeding time. Then it's every fish for it's self.
 
A public aquarium here in town has a 5500 gallon tank with 3300 gallon sump.
They put in 75 green chromis, a year later they are down to about 6.
All the other 300 or so fish are fine, just the chromis seem to slowly dwindle.
 
Mark9 said:
A public aquarium here in town has a 5500 gallon tank with 3300 gallon sump.
They put in 75 green chromis, a year later they are down to about 6.
All the other 300 or so fish are fine, just the chromis seem to slowly dwindle.
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Thanks for the info! This is unfortunate as they add a lot of color and movement. Their colors are especially vibrant under natural sunlight. Will stick with the original twelve, and hopefully more than just one or two will survive long term. I know these guys benefit from multiple feedings through out the day (similar to Anthias spp.). I have 2 auto feeders above the pool, each one dumping a small amount of NLS pellets 4X per day. Not sure if this will make any difference for the chromis survivability, but I figured it couldn't hurt. It's pretty cool how the fish have learned when the pellets are going to dump and will gather underneath the feeders a few minutes before they do so.
 
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Could you add a mixture of blue reef chromis and blue green chromis? I really like the blue reef and think they add a lot of deep blue color that you can't really get with any other smaller fish. They also add a lot of movement and stick together. Maybe they would leave each other alone and you could have a school of blue green and a school of blue reef. That way you could keep the higher numbers of the schooling fish they just wouldn't be the same type. Or would the blue green start to pick off the blue reef as well?
 
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