5.56 225 Peninsula reboot
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five.five-six
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Sisterlimonpot
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Making progress!! Looking good. Agree, the smell is temporary, the system trying to stabilize to the new bioload. What sort of livestock was in that salt pond that the rock was cooking in?
five.five-six
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Just copepods and snails hermit crabs I think a Fisher to not much but I did keep all the rock from previous system it's in the refugium and the sump right now crammed with rock.
I'm glad to hear it's temporary because I'll tolerate it but my wife will not. I don't want to keep adding carbon, GAC that is. It just rips all the trace elements
laverda
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It had fully cured live rock in it with cheeto pod and brittle stars before we added Mark's rock to it. No fish for a good while. I do throw a little food and pods from my filter socks in it occasionally.
BeanMachine
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Bumping one of the only other build or sharing threads I could find in the so cal section. I'm off to find Tony's and that should do it.
five.five-six
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TY
Good/bad news today.... same thing really, it's that I'm starting to get purple corraline algae on the rocks and glass.... at least I don't have to scrape it off the rocks LOL
I'm going to have to start the cacl2 reactor up sooner rather than later, corals are growing and encrusting and I'm consuming alk and calcium faster than I can replenish with saturated limewater.
Quality problems, the corals which survived the last tank are coloring up amazingly!
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five.five-six
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My dad’s 80th bday party was saturday and I get home late in the evening to find that apperantly a snail has decided to take a tour of my plumbing system. No problem I think, that’s what the emergency overflow is for and it’s workign fin for now. Then about 4:00AM a tremendous thought occurred to me: “what if another snail decides to tour the emergency overflow? By 6:00 AM I had him out. He had gotten stuck at the bulkhead.
I took enough water out that I decided to just falllow up with a 30 gal WC. Tank is looking great and I have started playing with FRP and magnets and building a skin for the stand.
I took enough water out that I decided to just falllow up with a 30 gal WC. Tank is looking great and I have started playing with FRP and magnets and building a skin for the stand.
five.five-six
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pga7602
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Steve was kind enough to let me (and he actually did most of the work) come over to his house, dip the rock I got from mikes junk sale in acid, then pressure wash it and then cure it in his 300gal saltwater pond.
This is "snake tray" it's getting powder coated red today and will be mounted up under the stand for cable and hose management. it's not as pretty as finger groove with a snap cover but it's about 1000X easier to service cables and hoses laying in it. Form fallows function.
I got my glass for the internal overflow installed (black silicone fingers today) I used suction cups to hold it in place after I squared it and I pulled the pencils out after I laid the bottom silicone bead. I centered the side gap by stuffing 5 business cards in each side between the tank and the baffle. It was a bit of a task to get silicone all the way under the glass junction.
If I siliconed it last night, how long until I can fill it with water?
I'm gonna try this on my next build.... Where did you get the black silicone Mark?
five.five-six
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It is the stuff from BRS and it holds really good. I got some on some of eh utinciles I was using to apply it and it was almost impossible to scrape off.
Sisterlimonpot
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Maybe once or twice a month I get a snail trapped in the full siphon pipe, they usually get hung up at the gate valve and I have to spin it open to get him to fall through.
The only way I know that this happens is that the emergency pipe gurggles enough that I notice it.
Unfortunately, I can't stop this without redesigning the ghost weir, and I've decided that I will just live with the occasional opening of the gate valve.
five.five-six
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I ordered a strainer from BRS... not wantidn to do this again
I got out the D300 and tried to take a FTS with the 105 but this is all I get from 20' away LOL
five.five-six
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My new custom 3D printed probe holder from 123eustratios on eBay. makes all sorts of reefing goodies and is really a top notch dude. He original shipped me 2 pieces in black, mostly due to my poor communications skills and ended up making and shipping this one to my specs and wouldn't even let me pay for any of it. We agreed that I would donate the black holders to the raffle at the next SCMAS meeting. Mine holds apex temp, pH, space for ORP if I get it, and float switch spaced away from the magnets.
Here's some photos with my walkaround lens @2K iso
The FRP skin is still a work in progress. i'm waiting for more magnets so I can cinch it up closer. It was a bit of a rush job because we are dog-sitting or the in-laws starting tomorrow and I didn't want their little bundle of hair and slobber getting into my sump LOL
You can see the refugium light through the FRP at night but I really don't care.
Here's some photos with my walkaround lens @2K iso
The FRP skin is still a work in progress. i'm waiting for more magnets so I can cinch it up closer. It was a bit of a rush job because we are dog-sitting or the in-laws starting tomorrow and I didn't want their little bundle of hair and slobber getting into my sump LOL
You can see the refugium light through the FRP at night but I really don't care.
five.five-six
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Switched to 800 iso and mostly the 104 lens
last photo is my rain in Spain from Anthony. Still needs to color up.
last photo is my rain in Spain from Anthony. Still needs to color up.
five.five-six
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And, I spread it back out every week LOL
Totally worth it to me, I love the look and my wife would have my chestnuts if I got rid of her diamondback goby.
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