75 Gallons of Persistence

Well done man! Good to see your tank is coming along. I'm sure the colors in your corals will come back. Remember how my one SPS frag was brown, after being under the TEK light for a couple weeks the tips have turned completely blue but I have my lights on legs and at the lowest position.
 
I really like your LED sump lights and was thinking of doing something similar. Where did you get your lights from?
 
hamiltonguy said:
Well done man! Good to see your tank is coming along. I'm sure the colors in your corals will come back. Remember how my one SPS frag was brown, after being under the TEK light for a couple weeks the tips have turned completely blue but I have my lights on legs and at the lowest position.
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Thank you! I sure hope the colors come back - I am considering lowering my lights 1" again in a week or two. I'm still working on stabilizing the alk (and soon calcium) and am debating kalkwasser in the topoff.

M88A2 said:
I really like your LED sump lights and was thinking of doing something similar. Where did you get your lights from?
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I got them from Marine Depot. They are the Ecoxotic PAR 38s. I turned one off, though. They are pretty high over the water, and I still think they have fried the coralline and soft corals. I'll likely replace them at some point - possibly with weaker LEDs that have broader coverage, like the Ecoxotic Panorama 12w modules.
 
Saw this little critter crawling around in my DT today. Looks like a cross between a bumble bee snail, a stomatella, and a nassarius snail or whelk. It has two little antennae, and a long probing snout.

Lousy pics, but can anyone ID it?

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Hey there, I just bought the bubble mag doser for the balling method and I have to say this is a great doser. I bought it from a company for a really good price.
 
anthony27 said:
Hey there, I just bought the bubble mag doser for the balling method and I have to say this is a great doser. I bought it from a company for a really good price.
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Sounds good! Maybe when I'm ready to make a buy I'll send you a PM to get some more info! Let me know how the dialing in process goes, btw! :)

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My skimmer cup overflowed a bit tonight, and I have no idea why. (I haven't fed the tank anything in a day or two.) It had been skimming slow for days now, and last I looked the cup had only been half full. I only happened to glance at the skimmer in passing (fortunately), and was able to cut it off before any damage was done. Cleaned the cup, and skimming once again.
 
My skimmer cup overflowed a bit tonight, and I have no idea why. (I haven't fed the tank anything in a day or two.) It had been skimming slow for days now, and last I looked the cup had only been half full. I only happened to glance at the skimmer in passing (fortunately), and was able to cut it off before any damage was done. Cleaned the cup, and skimming once again.
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Yeah it can happen. Whenever I have free time, I always empty it just for this reason. Sorry can't help you with the snail, but get some fish in there will ya! Hows the blooms going? All done?

cheers :beer:
 
shaggss said:
Yeah it can happen. Whenever I have free time, I always empty it just for this reason. Sorry can't help you with the snail, but get some fish in there will ya! Hows the blooms going? All done?

cheers :beer:
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It makes me worry a little about going on trips. I guess I'll just set the water level considerably lower until I can afford a controller.

Got it ID'd as a peppermint snail. Pretty cool to watch! :)

The blooms are gone! The water has cleared up nicely. Once I know I'll be here uninterrupted long enough, a fish will go into QT. I have the biowheel floating in the sump.

Any pics of your tank coming? Sand gone?

SjadeD said:
Tank has come a long way in a year.
Happy Birthday 75 Gallons of Persistence!
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Wow, I had no idea it has been a year since I started the thread! Thanks for pointing that out! :)
 
iwishtofish you have a very nice and clean setup! I wish mine was that clean... How do you like your LED lights over your fuge?? Is everything growing well with them? I have kind of started looking for lights to go over my fuge area to make use of it finally and those caught my eye.
 
gabew said:
Lol happy (thread) birthday! :bdaysmile:
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hamiltonguy said:
Haha wow I just noticed the one year mark too. Congrats man! You really are persistent :P.
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Thanks to both of you! Feel like I don't have much to show for a whole year, but I expect that to change over the next few months! :)

Chris2223 said:
iwishtofish you have a very nice and clean setup! I wish mine was that clean... How do you like your LED lights over your fuge?? Is everything growing well with them? I have kind of started looking for lights to go over my fuge area to make use of it finally and those caught my eye.
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Thank you for the compliments!

I feel that the PAR 38 "bulbs" I got have a concentrated beam that is too powerful for my application. In fact, I have turned one of them off. The coralline algae in the highest par areas has bleached white, and the soft corals were highly stressed.

The lights would probably be fine if I could raise them higher, and they are already pretty high. In the future, I may try weaker LEDs that have broader coverage, like the Ecoxotic Panorama 12w modules.
 
hamiltonguy said:
That's not necessarily a bad thing, if everyone took time to do things properly we wouldn't have travesties like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7ZVeMLuqec&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
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A little cramped in there, maybe? I think my tank is at the opposite end of the spectrum...

Incidentally, my alk is holding steady somewhere between 7 and 8 dKH while I dose 1/3 teaspoon baking soda each day. I am not going to raise it higher until I get a dosing pump, since my daily dosing might get interrupted if I go away. I'd rather the alk not be subject to such a precipitous drop. Calcium is being used up much more slowly, and I'm finding no need to dose that just yet.

I am going to modify my JBJ ATO controller to time out at 14 minutes instead of the 3-1/2 or so with the current setting. I am going to add a second AquaLifter on the same controller, as a backup for when I go away. I figure that even two pumps running at 14 minutes won't come close to flooding my sump, although the salinity would probably drop a good bit. Better than the pump drying up and starting a fire!

Soon I will be 6 months into my T5 use. I plan to replace around 8 months, and will change things to a slightly bluer spectrum. I hear there are some new bulbs out there, so some good research is needed!
 
iwishtofish said:
Thanks to both of you! Feel like I don't have much to show for a whole year, but I expect that to change over the next few months! :)
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IMO, you're set up so that when things take off, it'll REALLY go. :)


iwishtofish said:
I feel that the PAR 38 "bulbs" I got have a concentrated beam that is too powerful for my application. In fact, I have turned one of them off. The coralline algae in the highest par areas has bleached white, and the soft corals were highly stressed.

The lights would probably be fine if I could raise them higher, and they are already pretty high. In the future, I may try weaker LEDs that have broader coverage, like the Ecoxotic Panorama 12w modules.
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I have a 60w chinese led array that I replaced from my DT and moved it to the fuge. The way I figure, all I want growing there is chaeto. I don't mind the coralline bleaching. And I don't need coral down there. My chaeto loves the LED.
 
I was relieved to see minimal streaks of saltwater flowing down the outside of my tank today. Most of the water loss came out of my refugium, since the baffle is so high. Wasn't much, fortunately. Didn't even get a rockslide.

Pleased to know, at least, that my tank can handle being in relatively close proximity to 5.9 quakes (not likely to see one ever again, here). Now, if this hurricane can just go out to sea... :)

My corals are beginning to barely encrust at the base. I'll try to get some pictures that show this.
 
Found this when I came downstairs after the earthquake. There was also a faint shadow of water in the carpet all around the edge of the stand. Oh well - couldn't have avoided that one!

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I couldn't get a good picture showing the new coral encrusting the superglue. Just this:

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The coral doesn't look great, but at least it is growing now. Unfortunately, the alk is going to drop when I go away for a while. I hope the worst that can happen is that the corals stop growing.
 
cant believe that quake either...thought that would be the last thing i'd have to worry about on the east coast! That coral doesnt look bad. It seems like the tips are a bluish color so maybe the main body will follow suit.
 
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