ADA 120-P + Elos Mini dual NPS tank journal

I was thinking something along these lines for a JG fitting.
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What is interesting is that some fish are just resilient; can jump out of the tank, flip around on the floor in the dust, throw them back in, and they are perfectly fine. Now you take the same exact species, put it in a different stressful situation, and they die. Got to love mother nature.

Mike
 
Tell me about it. I mean, I got a significant discount on the tank because it was on clearance. But still, if I buy an Audi on year end clearance does that mean its expected to break down on me prematurely? If it has the ADA name on it this should never be a concern regardless of what price I paid for it.
 
Good news and bad news.

Good news is the fish are all in their new respective homes. The OSFF is in my seagrass tank, the cardinals are in my ADA tank.

Bad news is the potter's angel that was supposed to go in my ADA tank died quickly after I caught him. He freaked out as soon as I caught him with a net, and then he got stuck in the net, and when I put him in the acclimation container he was in shock and soon stopped breathing altogether. Needless to say I didn't use a net to catch any of my other fish.

More good news is the refrigerated doser is working wonderfully. I use a 1000 mL flask filled with cyclopeeze, nutramar ova, FM foods and Spectrum Micro Reef food on a magnetic stirrer that turns on everytime the dosing pump turns on (once every hour). The entire 1000 mL is dosed into the tank over the course of about 12 hours. During this time, there is food in the water column at all times. This is so great not just for corals but for fishes that feed on small plankton. I also have 1 pump that feeds Shellfish Diet every hour, and two more pumps coming in today - 1 for Oyster Feast and 1 for Roti-Feast or whatever other cool products Reef Nutrition comes up with. Since everything is refrigerated I may even try live Phyto Feast for the micro-plankton content, I will just have to add an air pump to keep it stirred.

REALLY bad news is my ADA tank has developed bubbles in the seams. I have had a lengthy discussion with a distributor about this, who has discussed this with one of the bigger heads at ADA in Japan (2nd only to Amano himself). Apparently this is very common with all the German built 120 tanks. ADA has since changed production to a Chinese facility using thicker glass and different silicone. The Chinese tanks are actually a level above the German ones. Ironically the German manufacturer is the one that builds Green Leaf tanks, ADA's main competitor. When I have time I'm going to send an email to ADA in Japan and let them know about my disappointment. I will also let them know that thousands of people see my tank and read through my posts on various forums and it does their company no good to have me say these things about them. Will they do something about it? Who knows. Their response so far is that this is normal for the German tanks and the tank will hold up fine for years (well at least until the warranty expires right?). Lets say its not a structural problem its still an aesthetic problem, something which should be never be associated with the name ADA. At this time I'm considering putting corner bracing on the tank to prevent the problem from getting worse, especially while I am out of town it will be one less thing to worry about. I will definitely deal with this in more depth when I get back.


ARG NOOOOOO I have a ADA tank I m putting up now. When did they switch plants, maybe I am in the clear...
 
I got mine at the end of last year and I was told it was the last of the german shipments. There are still a few odd shaped ones coming from that plant but most of the new stuff is coming from China.
 
Got a pair of Serranocirrhitus latus Sunburst Anthias today, they are so freakin cute. As of now they are already staring at me waiting for more food. Gotta love DD!
 
I got mine at the end of last year and I was told it was the last of the german shipments. There are still a few odd shaped ones coming from that plant but most of the new stuff is coming from China.

Hmm I wonder how long mine may have sat at the distributor? I got it like 4 months ago :) Guess I can ask since I know them :D
 
I have been staying in Boston (at MIT) doing some pretty cool research work dealing with things like neuroscience, brain mapping and the latest in genetic modification/embryo transfer technology. Still, my brain was hungry for more! So, this past weekend I had the chance to visit the NE Aquarium. Overall I was impressed with the quality of their displays, the health of their animals, the amount of conservation education they had interlaced into everything and how friendly the volunteers were with answering question after question. I know there are better aquariums out there, but there are also much, much worse ones.

Anyway, here are some pics. I have a ton more, as well as videos, but I won't be able to post everything tonight. Also I didn't have a chance to do any color and brightness correction so sorry in advance.

The first thing that caught my attention was the vet clinic with windows so everyone can see the medical side of things:
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A Queen Trigger healing from a wound.
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I could see myself working here (doubt it would actually happen though).
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Couple of downdraft skimmers and lots of UV for the hospital tanks.
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On to some of the animals I saw...

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And finally the coolest tank they had there. My camera does this tank no justice. It rivals the most colorful SPS tanks out there:
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It's very intense, but for sure I'm having fun too... except my dorm room sucks. I try to spend as little time in the room as possible :eek1:

All depends on what you are doing...my recommended dorm recipe is... Sildenafil Citrate & Red bull :thumbsup:


Mike
 
Did you have a chance to take any pictures of your new plumbing set-up between the 3 tanks? Interested in how it turned out, plus the venturi in the refrigerator. Placing an order few items this week and most likely to add the venturi into the mix.
 
I did shoot a short vid I'll upload tonight. I'll have time to detail my whole setup when I get back. The venturi works great. I can disconnect the peri pump if I want and all it does is suck in air exactly as planned.
 
I combined 2 vids into 1. This is when I was still testing everything. In the first part you can see what would happen if the tube ruptured or disconnected right at the venturi. Normally water would spill out like crazy since there is a lot of flow going through 1/2" pipes (I learned this the hard way) but because of the suction of the venturi water never makes it out. Now extend this tubing all the way to where the pumps are and the chance of water spilling out is almost nil.

The second part shows one of the pumps dosing SD. Again you can see it doesn't mix with any tank water until it gets into the 1/2" pipe, which means no pressure on the tubing. I actually have 4 pumps now to dose a wide variety of foods.

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I'm super stoked on the venturi method in conjunction with the flow through. It solves numerous problems I was loosing sleep over :lol:
 
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