Fsurocks99's 40 Breeder

[Acronic]

sharty buzz, I lost three anthias while away for no reason last week aswell

 

[sahin]

Yeah it sucks. I hope your remaining fish do well. I had bad luck reef keeping the past 2.5 years. Take a look at my signature for the specs off my current tank. This is the most amount of money I've so far put into a tank yet; AEFW's, Dinos (twice) and other general life's crap made me restart my tank yet again. Previously reefkeepqing was a breeze for me.

So you just got to ride out the difficult time and hopefully your tank will look awesome in around six months time.

 

[Fsurocks99]

sharty buzz, I lost three anthias while away for no reason last week aswell

Yeah it sucks. I hope your remaining fish do well. I had bad luck reef keeping the past 2.5 years. Take a look at my signature for the specs off my current tank. This is the most amount of money I've so far put into a tank yet; AEFW's, Dinos (twice) and other general life's crap made me restart my tank yet again. Previously reefkeepqing was a breeze for me.

So you just got to ride out the difficult time and hopefully your tank will look awesome in around six months time.

That's a shame on the anthias Acronic...I hate how things happen with no apparent reason.

I hear ya sahin. When my tank crashed, I thought about taking a break, but just couldn't do it. I've definitely been more diligent this time around with everything. I feel that taking out the sand and redo'n the sump to make room for a large refugium will make it better in the long run.

I do miss my 14 gal though. 2 gal water change a week did everything...

 

[coraltastic]

Tank looks awsome, love the new fish.

 

[Fsurocks99]

Tank looks awsome, love the new fish.

Thanks coraltastic, I like em too.

Well, all the other fish are doing fine. Definitely weird what happened. I'm going to wait a while for any new additions....unless something really nice comes in

The only coral I'm having trouble with is the rainbow monti. I kept its color for awhile, but about 2.5 weeks ago, the base bleached, but the polyps kept their color. I think my lights had something to do with it. It was originally about halfway up, right in the middle of the tank with med-high flow and high light. When it bleached, I moved it to the bottom under the overhang at the front of the tank. Now it's getting low-med flow and low-med light. Hopefully it bounces back!

 

[Fsurocks99]

Here's a quick update:

I came home to this last night!!!


It's about time!

 

[REEF SMAC]

Nice job with the re-boot. You're gonna be back to where you were and better in no time.

The clowns seem pretty happy with the new scape as well.

 

[Fsurocks99]

Some pics:

Watermelon Palys (Magician Palys back left)

Rainbow Mille

Green with purple tips Digi

A. tenius

Kryptonite Vermi

Red Planet

Rainbow monti

 

[Fsurocks99]

Some more:

Sunset monti

Superman monti

Emerald Stag (turned blue stag) and Fiery Digi

New Pieces, from Left to Right:
Cali Tort, Reef Ready Grape Juice, Purple Tipped Deepwater, and Hawkins

 

[Fsurocks99]

Thanks REEF SMAC. I'm very happy with how the tank is turning out!

 

[kaserpick]

Looking great, Jack!

I'm hoping to join you with good coral colors and growth...one day.

Keep it up!

 

[sahin]

Locking very good! :celeb2: glad that your tank is doing well. Your sps are colouring up so nicely as well.

 

[fobeboy]

Man love the tank bro.... looks good.... by the way how many fish u got in the tank?...

 

[Chin273]

nice job!

 

[Fsurocks99]

Looking great, Jack!

I'm hoping to join you with good coral colors and growth...one day.

Keep it up!

Thanks man! I'm positive that you'll be there in no time :thumbsup:

Locking very good! :celeb2: glad that your tank is doing well. Your sps are colouring up so nicely as well.

Thanks sahin! I'm glad things are turning for the better too!

Man love the tank bro.... looks good.... by the way how many fish u got in the tank?...

Thanks fobeboy! The most I had was 2 chalk basses, 1 starry blenny, 2 clownfish, and 6 blue eye cardinals. But, now I'm at 8 with 1 starry blenny, 2 clowns, and 5 cardinals after a freak incident where the 2 chalk basses and 1 cardinal died within four hours of each other. Very weird.

nice job!

Thanks Chin! I'm not sure what you posted after nice job though. Looks like some pictures maybe?

 

[Fsurocks99]

Well with my new Graduate Research Assistant job, I will be finding myself leaving the country numerous times next year...I know...it sucks, but someone has to do it, right? :lmao: These trips will only be ten days at the most. However, I have been chosen to spend the summer out of the country as well (100 days)...with this, I was very close to breaking down the tank.

But, I got to thinking how much work I had put into the tank. So, I knew I needed to make the tank as automated as possible. This meant auto top-off, dosing pumps, and controller. After reading about the best reef controllers, I chose Apex. I finally mustered up the courage to click checkout. And then, after this swift kick (more like jump kick) to the pants, I clicked checkout for a tunze osmolator....what a freaking expensive day! But, I can't wait to play with some new toys!

The controller will pay for itself in no time. I had a heater die on me two weeks ago and my back up couldn't keep up and my tank dropped to 70 degrees. Luckily, nothing died. But a week later, after replacing the heater that died, my backup decided it wanted to remain on and heated the tank to 83 degrees. I lost my hawkins, dustins deepwater, superman monti, and yellow tortusa, which is probably half of what I just paid for the controller...if only I had bought it sooner!

After taking the hits for the controller and top-off, I'll wait on the 2 dosing pumps from BRS....

 

[sahin]

Well with my new Graduate Research Assistant job, I will be finding myself leaving the country numerous times next year...I know...it sucks, but someone has to do it, right? :lmao: These trips will only be ten days at the most. However, I have been chosen to spend the summer out of the country as well (100 days)...with this, I was very close to breaking down the tank.

But, I got to thinking how much work I had put into the tank. So, I knew I needed to make the tank as automated as possible. This meant auto top-off, dosing pumps, and controller. After reading about the best reef controllers, I chose Apex. I finally mustered up the courage to click checkout. And then, after this swift kick (more like jump kick) to the pants, I clicked checkout for a tunze osmolator....what a freaking expensive day! But, I can't wait to play with some new toys!

The controller will pay for itself in no time. I had a heater die on me two weeks ago and my back up couldn't keep up and my tank dropped to 70 degrees. Luckily, nothing died. But a week later, after replacing the heater that died, my backup decided it wanted to remain on and heated the tank to 83 degrees. I lost my hawkins, dustins deepwater, superman monti, and yellow tortusa, which is probably half of what I just paid for the controller...if only I had bought it sooner!

After taking the hits for the controller and top-off, I'll wait on the 2 dosing pumps from BRS....

Well done on the purchases.

I went to Turkey for holiday a couple of weeks back. I was away for 8 days.

My GHL Profilux, Tunze Osmolator and Fauna Marin Triple Doser (for Alk, Ca and Mg); kept my tank going smoothly. My top off container holds about 30litres. This lasts me about 10 days.

I would love the Apex, but they dont make one to use with UK voltage.

Sorry about the livestock losses. I actually dont use a heater. I live in a modern flat and the room temp NEVER drops below 24'C.

I have a fan cooler hooked up to my GHL for cooling.

Other than feeding fishes, everything else on my tank is automated.

In future if I leave for holidays, I will setup the webcam on my laptop facing the tank; have my bro hook it up to the internet and so I will be able to see whats happening with the tank whenever I like; from anywhere in the world. That way, should something happen, I can call a family member to come and check things out.

Even though everything was automated, I still worried about the tank. Having a camera view would be very useful for me in the future.

Its too difficult to leave the hobby. :headwally:

 

[Fsurocks99]

Well done on the purchases.

I went to Turkey for holiday a couple of weeks back. I was away for 8 days.

My GHL Profilux, Tunze Osmolator and Fauna Marin Triple Doser (for Alk, Ca and Mg); kept my tank going smoothly. My top off container holds about 30litres. This lasts me about 10 days.

I would love the Apex, but they dont make one to use with UK voltage.

Sorry about the livestock losses. I actually dont use a heater. I live in a modern flat and the room temp NEVER drops below 24'C.

I have a fan cooler hooked up to my GHL for cooling.

Other than feeding fishes, everything else on my tank is automated.

In future if I leave for holidays, I will setup the webcam on my laptop facing the tank; have my bro hook it up to the internet and so I will be able to see whats happening with the tank whenever I like; from anywhere in the world. That way, should something happen, I can call a family member to come and check things out.

Even though everything was automated, I still worried about the tank. Having a camera view would be very useful for me in the future.

Its too difficult to leave the hobby. :headwally:

Yeah, I hear ya sahin. I saw in Reef_Noob's thread, Building a Dream SPS Dom. thread that he bought a camera. A nice one too (had night vision). I figured being able to control my tank anywhere in the world (with wifi or 3G) would be enough for me. Also, if anything goes wrong, I'll receive a text or email, which is awesome. And my parents will be watching it while I'm gone and they can easily skype with me if anything goes wrong. I'll still be paranoid that something will go wrong, but if I had a camera, I'd probably be looking at the tank all the time and not enjoy the area I'm in...as much.

I figured if I broke down the tank, I'd be back in the hobby after 2 months of being back. Then, I'd have to re-cure the liverock and everything. Nah, that's too much time and money...

Once I get the 2 BRS 1.1 ml pumps and the mp20 to mp40w es upgrade (when my college student budget allows me to), my tank will be pretty much automated. I'm looking forward to that.

 

[Fsurocks99]

Here's the update:

Not the best quality pics (iPhone 5), but here's what I worked on this past weekend while I watched the Ravens win!

I started with this:

Making some progress:

Getting there....

Finished!

:beer:Not bad, I did what I could...still not completely happy with it. I may have to build something to cover it all up on the wall...still waiting to get some automatic dosers. Oh and I found a very good excuse to upgrade the mp20 to a mp40. Because its an older driver, the led display doesn't dim, so at night it's very annoying when it's 'breathing' in night mode. Sure I could cover it, but where's the fun in that! :lmao:

 

[sahin]

Here's the update:
:beer:Not bad, I did what I could...still not completely happy with it. I may have to build something to cover it all up on the wall...still waiting to get some automatic dosers. Oh and I found a very good excuse to upgrade the mp20 to a mp40. Because its an older driver, the led display doesn't dim, so at night it's very annoying when it's 'breathing' in night mode. Sure I could cover it, but where's the fun in that! :lmao:

Haha, well done with tidying up the wires. :thumbsup:

A water pump upgrade is always worth - particularly for an SPS tank.