Initial planning stages for tank and fish room
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Besides, I waited a few months for this LOL
trueblackpercula
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simply outstanding I would not change a thing wow a real stunner. Now as for the frag tank, Its going to be insane looking, I would put either t5s of a single mitras lx 6200 hv and crank up the blues.
woodnaquanut
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That's a beautiful frag tank, stand and location. A whole new type of tank - Display frag!
Bilk
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Thanks. The stand is a bit of my handiwork and I didn't want to relegate it to storage or sale. I'm going to try to make it a "decorative" frag tank
Maybe use some porcelain tiles on top of the frag racks to dress it up. Possibly add a mangrove too.
Aqua Chemist
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How did you make the black frag racks?
Bilk
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I didn't make the tank or the racks. Just the cabinet/stand it's on. However, the racks are pretty simply constructed. They're pieces of 1/4" plexi cut concentrically from a single piece and drilled for the plugs. Each level stands on it's own feet which are also made from plexi. I guess the builder used scraps from thicker plexi for the feet. They look to be 1/2" and 3/4".
Bilk
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:worried: ? He picked it clean. They didn't go into the rock. They went into his mouth LOL
woodnaquanut
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Yep. It looked like the second run was a slowmo loop of the first. Now you see them and poof, they are gone. Great video!
Bilk
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Thanks
The second one he went back to I think because he either left part of it behind or there was a little daughter polyp under/next to the big one. He doesn't miss LOL
Bilk
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I put down rubber tile in the fish room. Much easier on the knees when performing maintenance below the tank Easier on the feet too, with a much cleaner look. Inexpensive and from Amazon, if anyone is interested.
Now to the nitty gitty with the tank. I'm really starting to hate the fine substrate. I cannot manage to keep enough flow and not have the sand shifting and blowing all over the place. Others seem to be able to manage this somehow, but this just isn't working for me. It's becoming an issue as the fine sand blows and then accumulates around the base of corals. So I will be removing it.
Now the issues I have in doing so are the structure and how much this will disrupt the biology of the system. The structure is basically large, independent rocks which I'm not entirely happy with at this point. Any suggestions on how to approach this? I may be able to have someone hold all of my livestock if that's determined to be necessary. However if anyone has gone thru this, I'd like to hear about it and anything they encountered that they feel is worth mentioning.
Another item to mention is PO4 has basically dropped off of the charts. Is this due to the aragonite substrate coupled with the use of kalkwasser? NO3 has remained a rock solid 4ppm. Really no rise or fall in that number.
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Easier on the feet too, with a much cleaner look. Inexpensive and from Amazon, if anyone is interested.
Now to the nitty gitty with the tank. I'm really starting to hate the fine substrate. I cannot manage to keep enough flow and not have the sand shifting and blowing all over the place. Others seem to be able to manage this somehow, but this just isn't working for me. It's becoming an issue as the fine sand blows and then accumulates around the base of corals. So I will be removing it.
Now the issues I have in doing so are the structure and how much this will disrupt the biology of the system. The structure is basically large, independent rocks which I'm not entirely happy with at this point. Any suggestions on how to approach this? I may be able to have someone hold all of my livestock if that's determined to be necessary. However if anyone has gone thru this, I'd like to hear about it and anything they encountered that they feel is worth mentioning.
Another item to mention is PO4 has basically dropped off of the charts. Is this due to the aragonite substrate coupled with the use of kalkwasser? NO3 has remained a rock solid 4ppm. Really no rise or fall in that number.
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+1 on what Dave.M has shared.
Upon reviewing your pic from 01/16, post #350, to the video posted on 01/28; it looks like your power heads have changed from Tunzes to Gyre and Vortec.
Pic from post #350 - Your Tunzes are pointed down. It may help a bit if you point them upward.
Video - With the Gyre and Vortec, your sand looks fine.
Perhaps a recent FTS showing your current power heads, others will be able to assist so you don't have to remove the sand.
trueblackpercula
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I have a question about this advice, wouldn't that suffocate that area causing and affect on the denitrification process that makes a DSB work?
