700 gallon tank, or how i spent my daughters inheritance
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Hey Carl
saw what happened with the param swings, its wierd but several people including myself have gone through one of these swings and lost a buch of stuff, i lost several 3 year old pieces that i grew into small colonies, thing is also that your monti caps suffered the same fate mine did,they look really sad right now.
also Carl were can you purchase the lanthanum, looked over the thred but i must have missed it, anyway hope everything pulls through for us, ...any luck with the maroons?
saw what happened with the param swings, its wierd but several people including myself have gone through one of these swings and lost a buch of stuff, i lost several 3 year old pieces that i grew into small colonies, thing is also that your monti caps suffered the same fate mine did,they look really sad right now.
also Carl were can you purchase the lanthanum, looked over the thred but i must have missed it, anyway hope everything pulls through for us, ...any luck with the maroons?
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i hadn't done a water change for about two months before you were here. i went the next weekend and got water. so the timing of this incident would probably have coincided with just after the water change. i did the water change at the same time i removed the sand. i haven't done another one since. right now i still have about 800 gallons and am running it through a gallon of carbon in preparation to do another water change tomorrow.
i have also not been able to keep most acros from dying mostly from the tips down. this has been ever since i set the tank up.
the free NSW was definitely a positive factor in deciding i could afford the size tank i did.
if i changed away to ASW do you have a recommendation to a couple you like?
i just recharged my DI unit and was getting 5ppm TDS, however when i tested it for PO4 i got 0.20ppm
i don't know what i am doing wrong with the recharge procedure.
i also thought maybe it was my carbon leaching PO4 but when i soaked it for two days in the 0.20 ppm DI water it came back lower in PO4 after two days of soaking. not much but 0.18ppm, which i think is within the statistical variation of the Hanna C200
do you think that was a good way to test the carbon for PO4 leaching?
here is an Acro tate didn't make it. it died over a week or so about a week ago so a couple weeks after the incident. it had been looking good for several weeks.
this one was also doing well until the time of the sand and water changes.
and yet another acro is finally starting to grow after being stagnant for probably almost a year. it is in a deeper part of the tank when it has rocks on both sides so only gets direct light for less time than most.
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Carl,
Just finished reading all 40 pages and let me be another one to congratulate you: Amazing build, really nice house and beautiful family.
One thing that got me curious was your picture below showing the "skimmer for the skimmer". I never seen something like this nor am familiar with the concept, so, would you mind elaborating a little more on this? It seems you are using this to collect surface water for the skimmer, however, I wonder if the goal here is to add or avoid air to come with the collected water. If it is the later, please give me the details of how this product works as this could be a perfect solution for my sump. I am getting a lot of dust in the surface there and need a solution for the return pumps to collect surface water without pulling any air in.
Just finished reading all 40 pages and let me be another one to congratulate you: Amazing build, really nice house and beautiful family.
One thing that got me curious was your picture below showing the "skimmer for the skimmer". I never seen something like this nor am familiar with the concept, so, would you mind elaborating a little more on this? It seems you are using this to collect surface water for the skimmer, however, I wonder if the goal here is to add or avoid air to come with the collected water. If it is the later, please give me the details of how this product works as this could be a perfect solution for my sump. I am getting a lot of dust in the surface there and need a solution for the return pumps to collect surface water without pulling any air in.
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the skimmer for the skimmer.
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thank you very much.
the skimmer for the skimmer is called a no niche skimmer and is commonly used on koi ponds. it has a floating intake that goes up and down about 2"-3" depending on the water height in the pond or in our case the sump, maybe a little more. i have had to take the floaty part out because if the level dropped only a half inch or so the skimmer got no water. but it still takes surface water to the skimmer, just not quite so much totally from the surface.
sounds like it could really help your situation. i would say the whole thing is about 8" wide.
mine is all on 2" plumbing with sweeps so it is high in the water from top to bottom. i think if you used smaller plumbing it could fit in a sump. the height is the limiting factor for most i think.
as the pump sucks in the water it pulls down the floating ring and draws in surface water.
Carl
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Thanks for the feedback Carl! This is exactly what I am looking for and since I never had experience with ponds before didn't even knew such thing existed.
I have actually built a ghetto version of that, except for the floating part, and that was exactly my concern: water getting too low and pump sucking nothing but air. Since it will probably be hard to find these around here to buy, I am thinking about a good material to DIY the floating part as I type!:rollface:
Thanks again and keep up the good work!
I have actually built a ghetto version of that, except for the floating part, and that was exactly my concern: water getting too low and pump sucking nothing but air. Since it will probably be hard to find these around here to buy, I am thinking about a good material to DIY the floating part as I type!:rollface:
Thanks again and keep up the good work!
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Thank you Marc. I thought of that and am thinking of a way to make it work while I can also insert some sort of filtering material replacing the basket to avoid getting the junk back to the display.
Carl, they really aren't expensive at all, but, by the time they get to Brazil, with freight and specially the outrageous import taxes we pay here, believe it or not, it would cost me about 3-4 times as much... :eek2:
Well, sorry for sidetracking your thread and now back to some nice pictures of yours shall we?
Carl, they really aren't expensive at all, but, by the time they get to Brazil, with freight and specially the outrageous import taxes we pay here, believe it or not, it would cost me about 3-4 times as much... :eek2:
Well, sorry for sidetracking your thread and now back to some nice pictures of yours shall we?
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right now we are in the June Gloom weather pattern. overcast skies from the marine influence. the sun usually comes out by noon. the forcast for the next week calls for AM clouds and possible drizzle.
our temps nearer to the beach are usually 5-10 degrees cooler than the forcast which is for a bit more inland areas.
i will run the two 400 watt tank lights for the morning hours. PAR levels are about 100-150 without the lights supplementing. i have new 10,000K bulbs coming. the 14K bulb has not been changed since we startied the remodel over two years ago, yow. it is only putting out about 150 PAR 12" in the water. for comparison, it's mate is 10K and putting out >600 PAR at the same depth.
our temps nearer to the beach are usually 5-10 degrees cooler than the forcast which is for a bit more inland areas.
i will run the two 400 watt tank lights for the morning hours. PAR levels are about 100-150 without the lights supplementing. i have new 10,000K bulbs coming. the 14K bulb has not been changed since we startied the remodel over two years ago, yow. it is only putting out about 150 PAR 12" in the water. for comparison, it's mate is 10K and putting out >600 PAR at the same depth.
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a few recent photos
the Kohl tang will pick up each gravel sized piece and clean it of the hair algae.
the cyano is all gone from the new gravel and it is getting covered with coralline with some hair algae that the tang is working on.
there are a lot of patches of this short red algae that the tangs graze on all day long.
the Kohl tang will pick up each gravel sized piece and clean it of the hair algae.
the cyano is all gone from the new gravel and it is getting covered with coralline with some hair algae that the tang is working on.
there are a lot of patches of this short red algae that the tangs graze on all day long.
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I found this crab clinging to a filter sock in the sump this morning. the 5 micron filter sock was being used to drip Lanthanum Chloride into the system.
it is amazing all the hidden things that must be in our systems. i have not added any rock in a couple of years.
my wife says that she won't put her hands in the tank to work because one of "those things" could run out and attack her. she isn't all wrong is she?
should i put him back in the sump. there is a few hundred pounds of live rock there. will he decimate the populations of critters i would like to grow to feed the fish and corals in the display tank?
it is >2.5" wide.
it is amazing all the hidden things that must be in our systems. i have not added any rock in a couple of years.
my wife says that she won't put her hands in the tank to work because one of "those things" could run out and attack her. she isn't all wrong is she?
should i put him back in the sump. there is a few hundred pounds of live rock there. will he decimate the populations of critters i would like to grow to feed the fish and corals in the display tank?
it is >2.5" wide.
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15119376#post15119376 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Reefski's
I found this crab clinging to a filter sock in the sump this morning. the 5 micron filter sock was being used to drip Lanthanum Chloride into the system.
it is amazing all the hidden things that must be in our systems. i have not added any rock in a couple of years.
my wife says that she won't put her hands in the tank to work because one of "those things" could run out and attack her. she isn't all wrong is she?
should i put him back in the sump. there is a few hundred pounds of live rock there. will he decimate the populations of critters i would like to grow to feed the fish and corals in the display tank?
it is >2.5" wide.
I have a crab like that. It is bad Mojo.
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