750 gallon glass tank

[rygar]

1000 gallons and your DI resin wasn't used up?? You're lucky. My resin was wearing out at 150 gallons. Then I added salt to the water softner. Now I'm getting closer to 250-300 which is much more doable.

We also have an iron curtain before the softner. So that probably helps the other cartridges. I've only had to change the prefilter and carbon once so far. The membranes are still good. TDS reads 1 or 2 right before the DI resin and 0 coming out. As soon as the resin changes color, the TDS reads 1 coming out so I change it and it's back to 0 again. When the TDS right before the resin reads 5, I change the carbon and prefilter. Like I said, only once so far.
From what I've read, a lot of people have CO2 in their wells and that's what exhausts the DI resin.

A buddy came over yesterday and thinks that miniscule particulates of iron may be getting to the RO unit creating a reaction with the DI resin causing it to exhaust quicker.
I'll have to look into that.

Oh...and in case you were wondering, I have the 150 gpd unit from BRS along with the pump.
Without the pump, I was at 40 psi. Now its around 80. Not sure why membranes last longer at 80 psi, but that's what they say.

 

[rygar]

I decided to keep going on this thread. Stupid idea to start another one. Here's my current list of fish that are all doing well in the tank.

Naso
Blue tang
Coral Beauty
Pair clowns
3 chromis
Adult mono in the 300 gallon tub
2 more chromis in the 50 gallon tub

Here's what I'm thinking for the future. It's about a one year plan. Each separated by 2 or 3 months for the quarantine process
3 Royal grammas added at the same time.
5 Heniochus Butterflies added at the same time
7 Small yellow tangs added at the same time
Blennys and mandarins any time mixed in
Queen, Emperor, and French angels. All juveniles added at the same time.

Might not do a full reef anymore, but focus more on photosynthetic gorgonians and basic easy corals that aren't prone to being devoured by large angels.

 

[rygar]

Thoughts? Anybody here with experience with gorgonians and large angels?

 

[McPuff]

Thoughts? Anybody here with experience with gorgonians and large angels?

The French may eat those gorgonians but who knows... they all could in fact. :0) Buy them as small juveniles and let them grow up in the system. Hopefully the gorgonians will be large and some occasional nips will not affect them much.

I would avoid putting that mono into your tank. They are super active and can become highly aggressive toward any and all tank mates. And then it would be extremely difficult to catch and remove it. In my opinion, best to keep it in the tub.

 

[rygar]

The French may eat those gorgonians but who knows... they all could in fact. :0) Buy them as small juveniles and let them grow up in the system. Hopefully the gorgonians will be large and some occasional nips will not affect them much.

I would avoid putting that mono into your tank. They are super active and can become highly aggressive toward any and all tank mates. And then it would be extremely difficult to catch and remove it. In my opinion, best to keep it in the tub.

I agree with not putting the mono in the tank. He's an absolute beast. I compare him to the tazmanian devil when I throw pellets in the bin. Definitely not putting him in the display. He is fun though so might keep him around.

So ya think gorgonians might be out?? I've read they are noxious tasting to angels. There's really not much info on putting them together. I guess if it ends up being they can't remain in the display, would still be cool to keep them in the big tub.

 

[anbosu]

There are tons of photosynthetic gorgonians in the Keys, and lots of French and Queen angels as well. I would imagine they eat them some in the wild, but you never know. Luckily gorgonians are pretty hardy and relatively inexpensive, so if they chow down on them at least you won't be out a ton of money.

 

[rygar]

There are tons of photosynthetic gorgonians in the Keys, and lots of French and Queen angels as well. I would imagine they eat them some in the wild, but you never know. Luckily gorgonians are pretty hardy and relatively inexpensive, so if they chow down on them at least you won't be out a ton of money.

I know it...One of the plugs of a gorg I have became full of hydroids. Luckily none made it to the live rock.
Soon as I saw that, I pulled it and cut the plug off along with the bottom half inch of the gorgonian. Then crammed it in a hole in one of the rocks. Literally smashed it in to get it to stay with all the flow in the tank.
It did NOTHING to it. Polyps came back out within minutes right where I was squeezing the heck out of it.

Never handled corals like that. So did the same thing with a stony. Cut it with some snips and crammed it in the rocks the same way. Again, all good.

This is going to make life way easier. Coral can handle more than you think.