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Ordered the dry rock today from BRS...40 pounds of reef saver and 20 pounds of branch. My plan is to put the reef saver on top of the branch to allow for water flow. I told them what I wanted to do and took their recommendations. I will post some photos of what they sent me...
The Rock Has Arrived
The Rock Has Arrived
I received my order from BRS... 20 pounds of branch and 40 pounds of Reefsaver. I will post some pics when I get it all layed out and washed...
I will be stacking the reefsaver on top of the branch to allow for water flow. A quick 5 minute set up on my kitchen floor looked pretty good. But if I was ordering it all over again, I would recommend a 50/50 ratio as 40 pounds of reefsaver is huge and will be hard to stack on top of the branch. I will likely be putting some in the fuge as I have enough to almost fill the tank to touch all the sides...
The Rock Has Arrived
I received my order from BRS... 20 pounds of branch and 40 pounds of Reefsaver. I will post some pics when I get it all layed out and washed...
I will be stacking the reefsaver on top of the branch to allow for water flow. A quick 5 minute set up on my kitchen floor looked pretty good. But if I was ordering it all over again, I would recommend a 50/50 ratio as 40 pounds of reefsaver is huge and will be hard to stack on top of the branch. I will likely be putting some in the fuge as I have enough to almost fill the tank to touch all the sides...
Aquascaping
Aquascaping
Well, I got the aquascaping done. 20 pounds of branch rock, 30 pounds of aragonite and about 35 pounds of Reefsaver rock. gave them a cave with a few small back doors. a few small shelves. I have a empty area in the back bottom, I am going to point a circulation pump at it... With the rock lifted up by the branch rock, I am hoping for some good flow...
4 tubes of JB water weld...
Aquascaping
Well, I got the aquascaping done. 20 pounds of branch rock, 30 pounds of aragonite and about 35 pounds of Reefsaver rock. gave them a cave with a few small back doors. a few small shelves. I have a empty area in the back bottom, I am going to point a circulation pump at it... With the rock lifted up by the branch rock, I am hoping for some good flow...
4 tubes of JB water weld...
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Well, I got am MP10 powerhead yesterday to place on the side of the tank blowing through the hole on the rocks or through the branch ruck undernieth. I need to see how bad of a sand storm I get for final placement... I am not sure how close I can get to the sand with it blowing into the rock. I see most videos showing the send blowing away after it hits the far glass and blows down...
Well I am truing to finish up the ATO and electrical today. The electronics tray pulls out and lays down with no disconnections...
I got my RO/DI relay installed and all leak tested...
two little fishes kalk reactor is in as well. I dont like the little rubber elbows it comes with... Gonna need to replace those sooner or later.
I got my RO/DI relay installed and all leak tested...
two little fishes kalk reactor is in as well. I dont like the little rubber elbows it comes with... Gonna need to replace those sooner or later.
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Here is a pic with the electronics tray removed for maintenance. I am going to add a second DC8 but I am having second thoughts with putting it on the tray. the bundle of cable right now is hige. most of the power cords ebd up being about 2-3 feet too short. I wish everything for your tank would just come with a 10 or 12 foot cord that you can just shorten to length...Why anyone makes a largepump or a large heater with a 6' cord is beyond me. large tanks use these large items and if it is too short on my small 60g, I can imagine how short it will be on a 120...
almost hald way into the DT of water after 8 .5 hours... By the time I wake up, my DT should be filled and the sump should be on its way...
There is also a shot of the underside of the electronics tray. I covered the screw tweminals for the light fixture with some textured plexi...
almost hald way into the DT of water after 8 .5 hours... By the time I wake up, my DT should be filled and the sump should be on its way...
There is also a shot of the underside of the electronics tray. I covered the screw tweminals for the light fixture with some textured plexi...
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Well, up and running for about 5 days now.. no leaks... Amonia is even starting to come up (a piece of blue fish from my last fishing trip took care of that)
Not crystal clear yet. I was going to run some carbon in my reactor to see if that clears it up...
Testing my kalk reactor now. Just in case i screw it up, there is no live stock to kill. It runs off my ato at one minute every two hours for the afternoon. Anything more than a minute and the kalk in the reactor clouds up to the top... It does bring my PH from about 7.90 to 8.10...
Not crystal clear yet. I was going to run some carbon in my reactor to see if that clears it up...
Testing my kalk reactor now. Just in case i screw it up, there is no live stock to kill. It runs off my ato at one minute every two hours for the afternoon. Anything more than a minute and the kalk in the reactor clouds up to the top... It does bring my PH from about 7.90 to 8.10...
Well, my ammonia went up to 1.0 and is holding...
My testing with the kalk reactor went well but as I have no live stick or anything to lower my PH it is not going through the roof the past couple of days... Up to 9.5 today It is like my tank is too clean. My skimmer is not foaming either...I am bypassing my kalk reactor for a few days or until I get some like stock in there...
I did a chemical PH test and it was a tad lower but not much.
I think I need a heavier ghost feeding schedule...
My testing with the kalk reactor went well but as I have no live stick or anything to lower my PH it is not going through the roof the past couple of days... Up to 9.5 today It is like my tank is too clean. My skimmer is not foaming either...I am bypassing my kalk reactor for a few days or until I get some like stock in there...
I did a chemical PH test and it was a tad lower but not much.
I think I need a heavier ghost feeding schedule...
Well I removed the filter sock. I hadit in place to catch all the dust from the rock and gravel. Imediately after removing it the tank was overcome by microbubbles. Also my skimmer stopped foaming...
I made several attempts to fix the microbubbles. I adjusted down the drain and they go away but the level in the DT goes all the way up and trickles down the emergency overflow. Thats not gonna work...
Si I added a sump grenade to force all the bubbles up. the problem is the water shoots out the top and comes crashing down into the sump and does nothing. I cant put it any deeper into the sump because I just do not have the room in sump because the skimmer pump is in the way...
I added some rubble between the baffles and that reduced them. I am hoping that once I add some cheato that they will be gone enough...
So the skimmer stopped foaming... strange... so I placed the sock back in and it startes to foam again.... I am thinking the sock is holding on to all the junk. thus dirtying up the water and giving me foam. So I turned off the skimmer to keep that junk (fish flakes from ghost feeding) in the system to get the ammonia to spike. Oddly enough my ammonia is starting to go down. after only 12 days, that sounds a bit fast...
speaking of ammonia, I have one of those ammo alerts with the suction cup. It has been at .050 ppm when my test kit shows me spiking at 1.0ppm. Not sure why the big difference... Now my test kit is coming down to about .75ppm and the ammo alert is down to .025ppm. I think I need to bunp up the ghost feeding. This sounds way to fast for my ammonia to come down...
I made several attempts to fix the microbubbles. I adjusted down the drain and they go away but the level in the DT goes all the way up and trickles down the emergency overflow. Thats not gonna work...
Si I added a sump grenade to force all the bubbles up. the problem is the water shoots out the top and comes crashing down into the sump and does nothing. I cant put it any deeper into the sump because I just do not have the room in sump because the skimmer pump is in the way...
I added some rubble between the baffles and that reduced them. I am hoping that once I add some cheato that they will be gone enough...
So the skimmer stopped foaming... strange... so I placed the sock back in and it startes to foam again.... I am thinking the sock is holding on to all the junk. thus dirtying up the water and giving me foam. So I turned off the skimmer to keep that junk (fish flakes from ghost feeding) in the system to get the ammonia to spike. Oddly enough my ammonia is starting to go down. after only 12 days, that sounds a bit fast...
speaking of ammonia, I have one of those ammo alerts with the suction cup. It has been at .050 ppm when my test kit shows me spiking at 1.0ppm. Not sure why the big difference... Now my test kit is coming down to about .75ppm and the ammo alert is down to .025ppm. I think I need to bunp up the ghost feeding. This sounds way to fast for my ammonia to come down...
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