A Great Way to ruin a perfect wall; My 400 Gallon Project

[jnarowe]

I take it you don't want to go down the road of treating the tank. Could you have introduced a predator?

 

[erics3000]

Sweet tank.. Love the trim with opening..

 

[erics3000]

I reread your post and planning om using your idea for the molding shelf. I love it. I hope your fw's are gone by now.

 

[extinguishfire]

What about pics of the Lumenarc lighting redo? Where ya been on this thread? 5 Months with no upate. I just read through the whole thread again to pick up some points on doing my tank.

 

[SERVO]

Well, the flat worm thing sucked. I think that I am in good shape now, but I am still somewhat reluctant to jump the gun and say that they are gone. Here are some pictures that I took last month. The tank is looking really good.

All of the Acro's pictures have been treated. No new additions have occured since the infection.

 

[jnarowe]

Looking great Servo!

 

[SERVO]

Well sad day today. I got a phone call from my wife telling me that our beloved Vlamingi has died. Not sure why. Yesterday he was tearing thru the tank just as always. I make my own food and I am wondering if the new batch of food is possibly contaminated? Not sure. The seafood was purchased frozen and I have used it before without problems. My other fish look fine and they all seem to tear up the small squares of food.

I was going to post an update, but I'm too sad to.

 

[jnarowe]

oh my. what a bummer. so many things it could be, but I doubt the food if the other fish are all OK.

 

[washingtond]

Sorry about you lose.

 

[Chrisrush]

Man Ryan, that sucks. He looked so good last month. Sorry to hear about that.

 

[melev]

:sad1: I know how much you loved that fish. Sorry that happened.

 

[SERVO]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10931113#post10931113 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Chrisrush
Man Ryan, that sucks. He looked so good last month. Sorry to hear about that.

He looked no different yesterday?

Thanks to everyone for their condolences. Losing a fish that big is close to losing a dog.

 

[asnatlas]

I am sorry to hear man

 

[ReeferMonkey]

Dude, that sucks

 

[TCU Reefer]

Man Ryan, that really blows. Sorry about losing your vlamingi. It was a beautiful fish.

 

[erics3000]

it hurt loosing the little guys..and the big ones

 

[SERVO]

Well, I figured that I'd post some updated pictures. I recently replaced my bulbs, and I've nuked my corals a bit. I use Reeflux 10K's with Luminarcs and I haven't changed my bulbs since switching to the reflectors. I think that the reeflux only maintain a strong output for about 5-7 months. I borrowed a quatum meter and the readings at the surface of the water was only 350-400! After switching out the readings on the surface is 900-1000! Big change. Too bad it will be a while until my colors start to pop again.
I was impressed at the difference; compare before and after with my Milli. It looks pretty faded and has lost it's deep maroon tones.

More to come.

 

[SERVO]

Here is an experiment that I started with some Montipora's Compare the growth

This is nice

 

[SERVO]

Here is a nice Acropora Anthocercis that I've grown from a small frag

As you see, I've nuked the color a bit

 

[SERVO]