JapanReef - 450 gallon In-Wall system
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alot of anemones have been dry shipped lately and some say better survival rates. take and empty plastic bag and put in the anemone straight from the water and then lots of oxygen. they are full of water when just removed and there seems to be plenty after just a few minutes. I freaked out when I first saw it myself.
I thought you were going to say that you purchased it from aqua planning down here in Oki. I was there yesterday, and they had some of the most god awful anenomes I have ever seen. I was going to tell you you had gotten the better one out of the bunch from what I saw yesterday.
If your looking for another Anenome, Aqua Culture Okinawa has some beautiful ones right now. -a few different species. They are absoutly beautiful. Better than anything ive seen snorkeling here.
jnarowe - without a doubt. 
grallster - if I had the space I'd certainly setup the remote DSB.
robthorn/vest0830 - the anenome is dead. It looked terrible yesterday but I thought I'd give it another day. Today I checked it's just a rotting mass. I placed a jug next to it and tried to scoop it in there. I got most of it but it did break up so I had to get teh net and chopsticks and remove as much as possible.
I thought the stench of curing Live Rock was the worst thing I had ever come across but we have a new winner. I have set the skimmer to skim ultra wet and I also vacuumed the spot where the carpet was. I think I now have to bleach everything used. Even now typing this I can smell it on my left hand and I've washed my hands in washing-up liquid twice - quite revolting.
grallster - if I had the space I'd certainly setup the remote DSB.
robthorn/vest0830 - the anenome is dead. It looked terrible yesterday but I thought I'd give it another day. Today I checked it's just a rotting mass. I placed a jug next to it and tried to scoop it in there. I got most of it but it did break up so I had to get teh net and chopsticks and remove as much as possible.
I thought the stench of curing Live Rock was the worst thing I had ever come across but we have a new winner. I have set the skimmer to skim ultra wet and I also vacuumed the spot where the carpet was. I think I now have to bleach everything used. Even now typing this I can smell it on my left hand and I've washed my hands in washing-up liquid twice - quite revolting.
melev
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From Google:
How to Remove Garlic Smell from Hands
Garlic has a very potent smell about it. After chopping garlic, you may notice that you still have the odor of it on your hands - up to hours after. As delicious as garlic is, walking around smelling like it is another story.
To remove the garlic smell from your hands, simply rub your hands with a stainless steel spoon or other stainless steel utensil.
Don't have stainless steel utensils on hand? A little salt or baking soda rubbed on the hands should do the trick, also.
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You might try that before bleach. Bleach feels slimy later, and is hard to rinse off. And odds are as soon as you are done, you'll have to reach in the tank for something that just fell over, and you don't want to add bleach residue to your tank.
How to Remove Garlic Smell from Hands
Garlic has a very potent smell about it. After chopping garlic, you may notice that you still have the odor of it on your hands - up to hours after. As delicious as garlic is, walking around smelling like it is another story.
To remove the garlic smell from your hands, simply rub your hands with a stainless steel spoon or other stainless steel utensil.
Don't have stainless steel utensils on hand? A little salt or baking soda rubbed on the hands should do the trick, also.
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You might try that before bleach. Bleach feels slimy later, and is hard to rinse off. And odds are as soon as you are done, you'll have to reach in the tank for something that just fell over, and you don't want to add bleach residue to your tank.
melev
Well-known member
And another snippet from Google:
By the way, to remove the smell from your hands, wash your hands with common white toothpaste (not gel). Works good after cleaning fish too.
Here's that product I was referring to earlier:
http://www.zorbx.com/sections/animal/fish.asp
By the way, to remove the smell from your hands, wash your hands with common white toothpaste (not gel). Works good after cleaning fish too.
Here's that product I was referring to earlier:
http://www.zorbx.com/sections/animal/fish.asp
sorry about the loss I guess I have been lucky enough to not have an anemone die this way. I did have one starve and go white and eat itself so when it finally died there wasn't much left to foul the tank. been years since I have killed one though.
hopefully the next one you get will be in better health when you get it.
hopefully the next one you get will be in better health when you get it.
Here is the Denitrifier sitting next to the Deltec 902:
There are various methods to set this up but I decided to feed it from an AquaLifter pump as I had one spare. The pump is under the skimmer overflow bucket and the tube that was provided with the Detrifier was very short and only reached the top of the water level in the sump so I had to rig something up. Anyhow, the AquaLifter should have some form of pre-filter anway so what I did was place some filtyer sponge inside a 2" male adapter and screwed a 2" threaded cap on it. A 1"x1.5" bushing sits inside the adapter and keeps the sponge in and a 1" pipe sits inside that. I did another bushing to 2" pipe to the bottom of the sump with cutouts so the water can flow in. Sounds complicated but works well. Now have a prefilter sponge and the inlet tube enters the cap just below the water line so no air can get in.
The manual said that the water coming out of the Denitrifier is totally devoid of Oxygen and needs to be oxygenated before entering the tank. For those with skimmers sitting in the sump this would be simple as you just drip the outlet water into that section of the sump. Anyhow, for some reason, when I hooked up the skimmer to the overflows I put in a Tee with a ball valve just after the second overflow goes into the line and just before the pipe hits the skimmer.
Great, I thought, I can drip the Detrifier output into there. However, if you just open the ball valve the water will of course spurt out. So I put on a 1"x2" bushing then a 2" coupling and some 2" pipe. I found I needed about 8" of pipe and then I could open the ball valve fully and the water would come up to a certain level but not overflow. So I drilled teh hole for the tube so it would sit in there tight and drilled a few tiny holes in there so pressure wouldn't buildup in the space between tube and water and voila.
I have zero DIY skills but all this seems to work well.
There are various methods to set this up but I decided to feed it from an AquaLifter pump as I had one spare. The pump is under the skimmer overflow bucket and the tube that was provided with the Detrifier was very short and only reached the top of the water level in the sump so I had to rig something up. Anyhow, the AquaLifter should have some form of pre-filter anway so what I did was place some filtyer sponge inside a 2" male adapter and screwed a 2" threaded cap on it. A 1"x1.5" bushing sits inside the adapter and keeps the sponge in and a 1" pipe sits inside that. I did another bushing to 2" pipe to the bottom of the sump with cutouts so the water can flow in. Sounds complicated but works well. Now have a prefilter sponge and the inlet tube enters the cap just below the water line so no air can get in.
The manual said that the water coming out of the Denitrifier is totally devoid of Oxygen and needs to be oxygenated before entering the tank. For those with skimmers sitting in the sump this would be simple as you just drip the outlet water into that section of the sump. Anyhow, for some reason, when I hooked up the skimmer to the overflows I put in a Tee with a ball valve just after the second overflow goes into the line and just before the pipe hits the skimmer.
Great, I thought, I can drip the Detrifier output into there. However, if you just open the ball valve the water will of course spurt out. So I put on a 1"x2" bushing then a 2" coupling and some 2" pipe. I found I needed about 8" of pipe and then I could open the ball valve fully and the water would come up to a certain level but not overflow. So I drilled teh hole for the tube so it would sit in there tight and drilled a few tiny holes in there so pressure wouldn't buildup in the space between tube and water and voila.
I have zero DIY skills but all this seems to work well.
Marc, took some pictures here but thought would be better to post here. My return plumbing is incredibly simple.<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7959989#post7959989 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by melev
If you want to go crazy and take pictures of everything section by section and email them my way, maybe I'll see something that looks like a red flag. You'd be taking 40 macro shots of plumbing probably, but if it helps...
Pipe exits the back of the sump....
Pipe does a left hand 90 degree turn and enters the PanWorld pump.....
Pipe exits the PanWorld pump.....
It goes along the floor and then up against the stand center brace......
Whe it reaches the bottom of the tank I split it into a Tee. Right side does exactly what the left side does so I just took pics of left side.....
Runs along bottom of tank and then elbows up.....
From the bottom looking up. Elbows up all the way to the top.....
Finally it does a 180 angle. The 1" pipe has to be converted into a 1.5" thread in the bulkhead so Elbow > Bushing > Elbow > Adapter.....
