Build Thread: TKERacer619's 600gal SPS Tank

[tkeracer619]

I'm currently dosing my big display with CP, and it took a week or so for a noticeable amount of algae to die off.

That is about when I saw it starting to die off as well, however my system didn't have any nuisance algae it was just the corraline that went down hill. Some is still there, hoping to start removing the CP in the next few days and save some.

5 hours later... I have made it to the end of the thread. At last!!!! wow man. This was awesome to read. The craftsmanship and planning was bar none amazing. Can’t wait to see the rest of the build to unfold! Cheers it’s beer time

/\/\/\/\ cheers to that, been a spectacular read.

Thanks guys!! I appreciate that, hopefully the next few months don't disappoint :beer:. Work is always ongoing, even if I am not posting daily updates, I am trying to do at least one thing each day. Getting married in 2 months so it's getting really crazy around here.

I'll try to get some updates soon but the BTA tanks have BTAs in them, I've come up with a more creative and challenging placement for the sunburst farm, have my reefangel online, and upgraded my home thermostat which made all the difference in the world in the fishroom.

 

[LittleBigReef]

That is about when I saw it starting to die off as well, however my system didn't have any nuisance algae it was just the corraline that went down hill. Some is still there, hoping to start removing the CP in the next few days and save some.



Thanks! I appreciate that, hopefully the next few months don't disappoint :beer:. Work is always ongoing even if I am not posting daily updates I am trying to do at least one thing each day. Getting married in a 2 months so it's getting really crazy around here.

Congratulations, I'm getting hitched in October myself. Im starting to go thru the same thing but can only imagine the hectic few months before the wedding. Yikes! Well don't work too hard and burn yourself out. Looking forward to the next update.


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[anbosu]

Yeah my corraline went first. It made it easy to clean to front panel, which was nice.

That is about when I saw it starting to die off as well, however my system didn't have any nuisance algae it was just the corraline that went down hill. Some is still there, hoping to start removing the CP in the next few days and save some.

 

[LeslieS88]

Amazing thread to follow! Great work, and stunning amount of patience! Lol

 

[tkeracer619]

Congrats to you too LittleBigReef! It gets fun just get stuff done first, early, and on the first inquiry to ward off bridezilla :lol:

Thanks Leslie, patience is something you have to have for this sort of thing... well patience or a ton of cash

 

[tkeracer619]

Cleaning Up a Bit...

Cleaning Up a Bit...

Things are starting to fall back in place and something I need to focus more on as I do some of the final touches to everything is usability and organization. My goal tonight was to clean up the two shelves above the shop sink.

Top shelf is for testing and medication. Bottom shelf is for media, fragging supplies, dosing stuff, and misc things I'll be using daily.

Both

Top Shelf

The top shelf contains...
Salifert dKH, Ca, Mg, Ph, NO2, and NO3 test kits.
API Ammonia test kit.
Seachem Copper test kit.
Hanna 736ulr Phosphorus Checker /w (3) 25packs of reagents.
Hanna 761ulr Total Chlorine Checker /w (2) 25packs of reagents.
Spectrapure CO2 test Kit.
Jungle Buddies Ammonia test strips.
2x Refractometers w/ Calibration Solution.
Spare Floaty Thermometer.
Spare PH Probe w/ Calibration Reference Solutions.
Digital mg Scale.
Various extra syringes, measuring devices, and a pipette.

Formalin
PraziPro
Powdered Praziquantel
Chloroquine Phosphate
Methyelne Blue
Malachite green
Fluconazole
Ciprofloxacin
Maracyn Two
KanaPlex
MetroPlex
Focus
Cupramine
Prime

The bottom shelf contains...
Kalwasser
Phosguard
GFO
Lanthinum Chloride
Baking Soda
Vinegar
Potassium Nitrate
Ammonia
Some flake food
and a spare MP40wes wet side.

I'll be adding more stuff as I need it. A lot of my additives are in bulk 5gal buckets such as mag chloride, mag sulfate, calcium chloride, carbon, ARM CaRx Media, and boxes of salt. This stuff is mostly kept across the hall in the mechanical room.

One goal for this weekend is to get the additional circuits wired to the breaker panel. The original 15amp circuit for this room tripped tonight. I knew I was getting close to maxing the circuit out but thought I was still in the safe zone. That breaker was pretty hot. I offloaded about 500watts to another circuit in the meantime.

I designed the room such that the display, the frag tanks,and the QT/BTA tank systems would have independent 20a circuits as well access to the original 15a circuit for redundancy. I have been kicking the can down the road on this for too long. Thankfully it's going to snow on Saturday so that should make perfect weather for tampering with the breaker box... :spin2:

The other goal is to do a 400gal water change on the display and get carbon/gfo started to pull the remaining Chloroquine Phosphate out of the display. I'm hoping by mid next week the water quality will be such that the Triggers and Queen can get out of jail. I adjusted the skimmer back up to skimming wet and am getting about 3 gallons a day of gross.

 

[sirreal63]

Your supplies are running low.

Everything is looking great!

 

[tkeracer619]

Your supplies are running low.

Everything is looking great!

Yeah, I need to get some more "stuff".

Thanks!

 

[tkeracer619]

Did a 400gal water change today and brought my carbon reactor back online. I added about 250ml of phosguard to the reactor as well. I'll check it out in the morning and refresh it if neccesary. After the water change phosphate was down to 1ppm from 3.6.

I'm going to skim wet,run GFO, and keep the Carbon fresh for the next few days. Will be interesting to see how it levels out.

 

[tkeracer619]

The two Crosshatch Triggerfish and Queen Angel are back in the display .

Picked up 8 boxes of salt this week, cleaned out the QT they were in (it needed it), and purchased a few new fish to add to QT.

Things are going well but have a bunch of phosphate left over to deal with. Doing some cleaning this weekend and organizing. Going to try and bring my LaCl reactor online, build a few shelves, and do a few water changes.

Fiancee is out of town so... I'm finally able to wash my filter socks :lol:

 

[tkeracer619]

Bump... Things are still progressing. The wedding is fast approaching so time is at a standstill but I am still making moves when I can.

Decided the all in one QT tanks are a pain in the butt to clean so I purchased two new 75gal tanks to replace them after this batch of fish make it to the display. Frag tank is plumbed. Phosphates are at a reasonable level. Good update with pics coming soon

 

[BigBlueTang]

Bump... Things are still progressing. The wedding is fast approaching so time is at a standstill but I am still making moves when I can.

Decided the all in one QT tanks are a pain in the butt to clean so I purchased two new 75gal tanks to replace them after this batch of fish make it to the display. Frag tank is plumbed. Phosphates are at a reasonable level. Good update with pics coming soon

Soon was two days ago

Where are the pictures?!

 

[tkeracer619]

Too much to do, too little time. My guess is sometime next week. I have some hard schedules at work that I must complete on time. No time to sleep...

 

[tkeracer619]

Testing the live stream.

It will be intermittent as I improve my encoding capabilities.

Camera is a Axis P1365.



<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/live_stream?channel=UCKnlzTNy1WD74pIlN7h2Ldw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

 

[whyamisofly]

Glad to see this progressing Mark!

 

[halmus]

I curious to see how that camera works out for you. Did you have to write any code to make it "œstreamable" to YouTube? Any security concerns exposing your local network? I'm not an IT guy, but I'm facing some of those issues myself trying to stream a local server on them "œwebs". I can get the job done but I'm unsure whether I'll have some creep watching me do water changes in my undies because I thought the camera was disabled.

 

[tkeracer619]

Glad to see this progressing Mark!

Thanks! I've been super busy but have been making progress. Thread really needs a good update.

I curious to see how that camera works out for you. Did you have to write any code to make it “streamable” to YouTube? Any security concerns exposing your local network? I’m not an IT guy, but I’m facing some of those issues myself trying to stream a local server on them “webs”. I can get the job done but I’m unsure whether I’ll have some creep watching me do water changes in my undies because I thought the camera was disabled.

Camera is great, really clear jitter free picture. Most of the Axis cameras have a really good auto white balance. This one has an auto iris as well.

I've upgraded my network hardware to fully managed Ubiquiti hardware. It gives me a lot of control over the stream. I won't be cutting the stream off when I do water changes in my underwear, I'll just switch to a pay by the minute model

Supposedly there is software I can load on this camera that will let it stream direct to youtube, it does output in the format they want without any fuss, it's just an issue of how to get them the feed. Right now I was trying to use an 8 year old budget laptop to do the task and it didn't go well. I'll play around with it this weekend but may end up buying that software...

Here is a screenshot of a stream I tried last night. Water is cloudy due to prazipro in the water and this is with only about 80w of blue+ t5. Image was also compressed. On my side it looks much better.

 

[tkeracer619]

OK, live stream up and running. Much better!

I edited the first post to include the link to the live stream so that it can be easily found.

 

[whyamisofly]

OK, live stream up and running. Much better!

I edited the first post to include the link to the live stream so that it can be easily found.

Says it's offline

 

[tkeracer619]

Says it's offline

It's active from 10:30am to 1:00am MST.