arctictwist
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Ahh nice. Good idea! I think I have one of those around somewhere.... now if I could just get a tank going again.
785 Gallon Glass Reef Build in CT
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cleanmyaquarium
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All corals have been doing well and sps appears to be growing nicely with pretty minimal lighting for an 800 gallon tank, but I did lose the recently added Flame Angel, Muliceps Tang & Unicorn Tang (all from the same LFS) :hmm3:
cleanmyaquarium
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I should state that I am to blame for not quarantining the fish and I do plan to set up a quarantine tank because it gave me quite a scare that I might have introduced velvet into my system.
cleanmyaquarium
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It has been over a week since I lost a fish though and everyone else is doing well so it appears disaster averted.
ezerasurfr
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Very nice build. I just have a question. How are you planning to combat winter weather chilling the garage once the cold hits? Did you insulate your garage?
cleanmyaquarium
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I have an R6 insulated curtain on order from Akon. the curtain will wrap 2 sides of the tank. it is blue so it will make a nice backdrop behind the tank. the garage is already insulated but one bay will have a car parked in the winter with the door opening and closing so the curtain will hold in the heat. the curtain can maintain about a 20 degree temp differential so as long as the garage stays above 50 I will be fine. I also installed the register fans that will circulate the air inside the curtain with the air in the house. it is all an experiment so I will have to wait for winter to see how well it works. worst case scenario I have to run heaters and burn electricity until I work it out
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McPuff
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You may also have to sacrifice parking a car in the garage for the winter. I imagine you'll need to seal the edges of the garage door for a couple of months. I don't know about CT but in SE Michigan my garage will get below freezing for weeks at a time. I will be interested to see how that goes this winter.
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quick update...I lost an anthias, a few clowns and a royal gramma but the rest of the fish seem healthy and I think enough time has past that I won't be losing any more fish. the corals all seem to be doing very well and no issues with the filtration. I have still not changed any water or done any maintenance except scraping algae, dosing and emptying the skimmer collection containers. no issues with keeping the front glass clean without an access panel. the magnet with metal blade works perfectly.
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cleanmyaquarium
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installed the insulated curtain today. I hope it works as good as it looks.
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more pics with blue curtain background
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It does go floor to ceiling. The ceiling is 9'5" high. The curtain has a floor sweep on the bottom which is pretty air tight and attaches to the ceiling with a rail with rollers. Because the rollers are used to make it retractable, there is a small gap allowing some air through at the top.
The temperature hit 97 degrees in CT yesterday and the garage felt like 90's. The air inside the curtain is circulated with the air in the house and house AC was on all day. The tank was running at 77 degrees when I got home at 5:30. It is ~800 gallons with only a 1/4 hp chiller so I would say for hot weather it is working perfectly. I will have to wait 6 months to see how effective it is in cold weather.
Also as an update I still have not done any maintenance on the tank beyond scraping algae, dosing & emptying the skimmer cup. I plan to do my first water change of 5% next week. I added a few gorgonians and these fish a week ago:
Powder Blue Tang
Scopas Tang
Vlamingi Tang
Orange Shoulder Tang
Mimic Tang
McPuff
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I'm a huge fan on the mimic/chocolate tang... I'm not sure why more people don't have these. I'm setting up a 300 gal in the next few weeks and this is one fish I plan to have.
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finally got a new ballast and ushio 14k bulb for my other 400 watt halide.
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also added another gyre
and did my first water change. changed about 50 gallons, replaced carbon and polyfilter. I used the dirty water from the h2o change to set up my quarantine tank.
kitty likes it
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and did my first water change. changed about 50 gallons, replaced carbon and polyfilter. I used the dirty water from the h2o change to set up my quarantine tank.
kitty likes it
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cleanmyaquarium
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yes the gyre is great. tank is 10 ft long and 4 ft wide and 2 x gyre is all I have for circulation and there is plenty of flow
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