600 Gallon Upgrade Build

[MathiasM.]

Happy birthday (sorry for beeing late to congratulate)

Looks better and bettet every time I check in here!
I didn't realise how bloody giant your naso tangs are, until
I saw your last full tank shot
Amazing, stunning, beautiful!

Best wishes
Mat

P.S. Just 3 weeks to go until I can collect my new tank from
the factory

 

[Newbie Aquarist]

Happy birthday (sorry for beeing late to congratulate)

Looks better and bettet every time I check in here!
I didn't realise how bloody giant your naso tangs are, until
I saw your last full tank shot
Amazing, stunning, beautiful!

Best wishes
Mat

P.S. Just 3 weeks to go until I can collect my new tank from
the factory

Thanks for the birthday wish Mat. I love my tangs even though I have a bad obsession for them. I have to go to tang counseling pretty soon.

 

[MathiasM.]

Maybe we can find more people on here and launch a support group
Saves the money for the psychologist, which then can be spend for...
tangs ^^

 

[Newbie Aquarist]

Maybe we can find more people on here and launch a support group
Saves the money for the psychologist, which then can be spend for...
tangs ^^

So true. Might have to higher you as my psychologist.

 

[Newbie Aquarist]

UPDATE!!!!! Every time I come to my build thread it's never good.

So I'm going to play a game with everyone and if you can solve the puzzle then I know you're a true reefer. Ok. Here's the situation.

Tested my water this weekend.
Calcium - 400 ppm
Magnesium - 1200 ppm
Alkalinity - 5.8 dKh
Nitrate - .25
Phosphate - .11 ppm

Here's the kicker. I've went from 10 Dispar Anthias and Lyretails Anthias to one Dispar and 3 Lyretails. Can you guess why this happened?

 

[dave.m]

It's September. They've gone back to "school".

Carpet diving? Stray voltage (is the system grounded?) Fraternal bullying? Bullying by something else? No corpses to diagnose?

Dave.M

 

[Newbie Aquarist]

It's September. They've gone back to "school".

Dave.M

Close but no cigar.

 

[dave.m]

Gone over the overflow? Have you checked your sump?

Is your cat putting on weight?

Dave.M

 

[Brother D]

Some part of your system pushed a lot of ro water into the tank? Wait...no that makes no sense. Alk is low but doesn't account for fish loss directly. Ph? Salinity? Amonia due to fish loss? Grasping at straws now.

 

[Sonicboom]

Tank overheat?

 

[SPotter]

Marine velvet. You posted the parameters to throw us off!

 

[Newbie Aquarist]

Don't have a cat. The hint is alkalinity.

 

[Newbie Aquarist]

Some part of your system pushed a lot of ro water into the tank? Wait...no that makes no sense. Alk is low but doesn't account for fish loss directly. Ph? Salinity? Amonia due to fish loss? Grasping at straws now.

Salinity is 1.024. And alk played a little part of fish death and acros.

 

[Newbie Aquarist]

Tank overheat?

Tanks DT 80 degrees.

 

[Newbie Aquarist]

Marine velvet. You posted the parameters to throw us off!

Not marine velvet. Hint is alkalinity. Remember I have an calcium reactor on my system.

 

[SPotter]

ok what is the ph in your tank?

 

[Newbie Aquarist]

ok what is the ph in your tank?

8.1

 

[SPotter]

uncle i give up

 

[Newbie Aquarist]

Ok. Here's what happened. First of all it's sorta my fault. I don't have a ph meter in my calcium reactor. The alk is low due to adding to much co2 to my reactor. But I had it on it's lowest setting. The calc reactor clogged up and co2 was being added to the tank thus depletion the o2 in the tank.

 

[dave.m]

If you push CO2 it should drop the pH as it converts to carbonic acid. You indicated pH is stable.

Dave.M