Cosmo's 75G Build Thread

[imcosmokramer]

thanks again guys. It's a little defeating, I'll admit that. I try to think about all the nice coral I WILL have instead of all the ones that died.

 

[Reefy.Dave]

Man i certainly feel for you. this is just devastating.

 

[Acronic]

im speechless... This happened overnight? Sorry about the loss.

 

[imcosmokramer]

Yes, I left at 8PM the night before. Came back at 10AM and I saw a beautiful white tank. Now I have two projects in mind, a long term and a short term one.

 

[jungliztkruger]

sorry for your loss. cant wait to see the new projects

 

[baldwinaquaman]

Can I have your coral skeletons? Haha

 

[imcosmokramer]

sure, come on down

 

[baldwinaquaman]

Haha, seriously though hard luck dude, just gotta keep on truckin with this hobby though. You know have you ever thought about getting a monitoring device that will send you alerts? Might be a good idea for you. How do you like the vortech pumps? i'm considering one, but don't know if just one mp40w will make a wave in my tank.....

 

[imcosmokramer]

what size is your tank.

I LOVE my vortechs. I have them on all my tanks, and couldn't be happier. As for the tank, I'm starting something new now http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1725836

 

[baldwinaquaman]

it's a 150, yeah is aw that thread, interested to see it, How did you learn your reefing skills?? Books, here, or other? I actually have family that lives in Cleveland.

 

[imcosmokramer]

let's see, here, books, making mistakes, lol

 

[baldwinaquaman]

Yeah, in my secluded location, i,ve learned everything I know from books, and mistakes.....on here there is some iffy advice a lot of times. Do you belong to a club?

 

[imcosmokramer]

well, you need to consider the source, so before you go and follow someone's advice. Look at their tank, setup, ask questions, and then do your best to make a good decision. Ultimately you'll have to make decisions yourself, but you'll have a lot more info.

Feel free to ask me any questions.

 

[baldwinaquaman]

I see in your signature you had a RK2 at the time of your last tank, why did'nt it warn you of the temp.?

 

[imcosmokramer]

temp was fine in the tank. All parameters were ok. Tank did not overheat, it either had stray current, or copper released from the pump.

 

[baldwinaquaman]

Ohhh ic, I do have a question for you. I have often wondered this. I have a fowlr tank. I believe there to be no disease or parasite of any kind present due to proper quaranting and medicating of the fish. I have often wondered how people keep ich and other parasites from getting into their tank after they introduce corals. It has always seemed to me that one coral from a petstore, with the smallest drop of water would most likely contain several ich cysts. This is the main reason I don't have a reef tank. The health of my fish, even if they get stressed they cannot get ich, because it is not present in tank.

 

[imcosmokramer]

sorry, have not checked this thread in a while, bc, well, you know.

You can quarantine any addition to your tank, if you fear ich. However, I have never heard of corals adding ich to a system. Naturally it's possible, I've just never heard of it.

I started two new threads:

My New Anemone Tank

My New SPS Tank

 

[imcosmokramer]

I've had some people ask me about this tank.

I lost all the corals. I had taken some time off, but now I've started a new sps tank (linked to above, but here it is again). Please continue any conversations on the new thread. Thanks.

Cosmo's SPS Dominated Acrylic Tank