thetedinator
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Joe - thinking of you and hoping hurricane Joaquin misses you.
JBNY's 270 Ver2.0
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LARS is from MACNA this year on how Old Tank Syndrome can happen to a tank, mostly it is attributed to LARS (Lazy A$s Reefer Syndrome).
I have a system declining from this. Hoping to break it down this weekend. Though it could take a month or two. Stupid LARS...
sahin
Ultimate Reefer
The D7100 is probably the camera with better image quality compared to the Canon 70D that I'm going to pickup. They are sort of equivalent in the two companies camera line. The Canon has better video and video focus performance and it is for this reason I am getting the Canon; it will cover my needs for a decent camcorder and camera.
Dont know if the D7100 has a white balance grid, but if you are shooting JPEG then you can shift the white balance to slightly less green.
Look forward to more photos.
JB NY
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Probably a good choice going with the Canon then. I originally went with Nikon because a good friend of mine was pretty high up in the Marketing Dept and could get me deals and any repairs prioritized and done for free. Their headquarters is about 20 minutes from where I work so I could just drop something off if I needed to. He has since moved to Canon, but I have so many lenses at this point I will stick with Nikon.
The D7100 does have a white balance grid, but I shoot in RAW and adjust in lightroom, so really I have no excuse other than I am just fiddling with it too much.
The D7100 does have a white balance grid, but I shoot in RAW and adjust in lightroom, so really I have no excuse other than I am just fiddling with it too much.
JB NY
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So yesterday the fish were all out enjoying themselves and the yellow assessors were all bunched together, so I took a quick video of them. As time goes on they have been hanging out more as a group, which is what I wanted, there are 12 in the tank, I think there are 8-9 in this shot.
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
Oh those are awesome!!! I love fish that group together!!
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
Hey Matt, fish sex is family... Isn't it?? Mother Nature and all that?
They are all adult assessors, aren't they?
All I know is they're 'spensive Assesors. I still want some
JB NY
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A little update for the past few weeks.
More burnt tips
Had a bunch of corals get their tips burned the day after I posted the video. I had done a few things the night before, feed the corals, dosed amino acids, the things I normally do, the only thing that was different is I mixed up about 1/2 teaspoon of kalk and dumped it into the 90 gallon sump to raise the alk up a bit. pH only went up about 0.1 but the next day when I came home from work I noticed a few coral's tips burned, one or two pretty bad, a few others had lightened up a bit around the edges of the corallites. I have done the kalk straight in the sump in the past without problems. Looking at some records it looked like the last few times I had burnt tips was around the time I had dosed alk like this. The kalk that I had was years old, so I threw it away and will buy some new kalk, but for the time being I will not be dosing kalk to raise alk anymore.
Glass in pendant shattered
Then two days later I wake up and am getting ready to feed the tank before work and notice the glass on the left reflector is broken, it must have shattered either in the night or when the lights turned on. I have no idea what happened. Luckily it did not shatter into a million pieces, rather it was just a few large chunks. I was able to get the few pieces that fell into the tank out and put a piece of plywood under the fixture to catch any glass that came lose as I removed the remaining glass from the pendant. I called Giesemann and they told me it should be replaced with tempered glass, so I ordered that from a local glass shop and I should have it any day now.
Added battery backup to the gyres.
After another power loss last month and with hurricane season happening again, I added some battery backup for my main circulation pumps which are two maxspec gyres. I bought the icecap battery backup for the gyres, it is rated to provide power for the pumps for 36 hours so hopefully I am covered next time I have a power outage. They were incredibly easy to hookup, pretty much just plug them in and they keep the gyres going at 30% when the power goes out.
Raised the lights to be 9.5 inches off the water line.
So after I had the corals burn again, the fact that is was only happening at the top third of the tank made me think that maybe my lights are too low. I had them about 8 inches off the water, so I raised them to about 9.5 inches. Not sure if that was a cause of problems, but I noticed much better light spread with the lights a little higher. I think that over the years I might have lowered them one time when I was doing work in the tank and forgot and the lower height just became the new norm. As long as the coloration of the corals stays good I don't care how high the lights are.
Changed out the RODI unit.
For the past year I have been burning through DI and RO much faster than normal. So again after I burned a few acros I was measuring the TDS from my DI and it was reading 10! it was zero just the other week. So I changed out the DI resin and got it back to 0, but I had just replaced the RO membrane a few months ago so that should not be happening. I had one of those lamott InstaTest strip test kits that measures free and total chlorine, so I took a reading off the carbon block and found both in the test water. I thought maybe the water authority was using Chloramines, but a quick phone call confirmed they were not. So I swapped in a new carbon block but I was still testing chlorine. After a lot of fiddling with the unit I came to the conclusion that the filter canister was not sealing the carbon block properly and the water was bypassing the carbon block. At this point I have no idea how long this has been happening, I know that I changed out the O-Rings on both the canisters for the sediment and the carbon stage years ago. If the filters are not being sealed in the unit properly that would explain why my RO membrane and DI filter were being used up so quickly. So I bit the bullet and got a new 6 stage RODI unit, and just put that in last week. The dual stage carbon blocks tested zero chlorine getting through and TDS out of the RO membrane was 1. Water quality issues could have been a problem all along, the tank has been bouncing from doing great to having a setback for a while now, I wonder if one of the problems could have been a faulty rodi setup?
More burnt tips
Had a bunch of corals get their tips burned the day after I posted the video. I had done a few things the night before, feed the corals, dosed amino acids, the things I normally do, the only thing that was different is I mixed up about 1/2 teaspoon of kalk and dumped it into the 90 gallon sump to raise the alk up a bit. pH only went up about 0.1 but the next day when I came home from work I noticed a few coral's tips burned, one or two pretty bad, a few others had lightened up a bit around the edges of the corallites. I have done the kalk straight in the sump in the past without problems. Looking at some records it looked like the last few times I had burnt tips was around the time I had dosed alk like this. The kalk that I had was years old, so I threw it away and will buy some new kalk, but for the time being I will not be dosing kalk to raise alk anymore.
Glass in pendant shattered
Then two days later I wake up and am getting ready to feed the tank before work and notice the glass on the left reflector is broken, it must have shattered either in the night or when the lights turned on. I have no idea what happened. Luckily it did not shatter into a million pieces, rather it was just a few large chunks. I was able to get the few pieces that fell into the tank out and put a piece of plywood under the fixture to catch any glass that came lose as I removed the remaining glass from the pendant. I called Giesemann and they told me it should be replaced with tempered glass, so I ordered that from a local glass shop and I should have it any day now.
Added battery backup to the gyres.
After another power loss last month and with hurricane season happening again, I added some battery backup for my main circulation pumps which are two maxspec gyres. I bought the icecap battery backup for the gyres, it is rated to provide power for the pumps for 36 hours so hopefully I am covered next time I have a power outage. They were incredibly easy to hookup, pretty much just plug them in and they keep the gyres going at 30% when the power goes out.
Raised the lights to be 9.5 inches off the water line.
So after I had the corals burn again, the fact that is was only happening at the top third of the tank made me think that maybe my lights are too low. I had them about 8 inches off the water, so I raised them to about 9.5 inches. Not sure if that was a cause of problems, but I noticed much better light spread with the lights a little higher. I think that over the years I might have lowered them one time when I was doing work in the tank and forgot and the lower height just became the new norm. As long as the coloration of the corals stays good I don't care how high the lights are.
Changed out the RODI unit.
For the past year I have been burning through DI and RO much faster than normal. So again after I burned a few acros I was measuring the TDS from my DI and it was reading 10! it was zero just the other week. So I changed out the DI resin and got it back to 0, but I had just replaced the RO membrane a few months ago so that should not be happening. I had one of those lamott InstaTest strip test kits that measures free and total chlorine, so I took a reading off the carbon block and found both in the test water. I thought maybe the water authority was using Chloramines, but a quick phone call confirmed they were not. So I swapped in a new carbon block but I was still testing chlorine. After a lot of fiddling with the unit I came to the conclusion that the filter canister was not sealing the carbon block properly and the water was bypassing the carbon block. At this point I have no idea how long this has been happening, I know that I changed out the O-Rings on both the canisters for the sediment and the carbon stage years ago. If the filters are not being sealed in the unit properly that would explain why my RO membrane and DI filter were being used up so quickly. So I bit the bullet and got a new 6 stage RODI unit, and just put that in last week. The dual stage carbon blocks tested zero chlorine getting through and TDS out of the RO membrane was 1. Water quality issues could have been a problem all along, the tank has been bouncing from doing great to having a setback for a while now, I wonder if one of the problems could have been a faulty rodi setup?
JB NY
Active member
Many thanks Robie, hope all is well with you!
afernandez
Never Quit!!
The struggles of a reefer !
I still think this set up is one of the best thoughout I've seen.
Glad to see that your working threw all the challenges!
I still think this set up is one of the best thoughout I've seen.
Glad to see that your working threw all the challenges!
JB NY
Active member
lol struggles indeed, it seems to never end. I swear the longer you are in the hobby the more the fates through at you to see how you come out.
two months ago I put an apex water sensor on an area under the calcium reactor, I had been meaning to for a few months. That night an old push connector fitting on the reactor decided to just start leaking and the apex went off, I got up and found just a little puddle of water. So I just changed out the connector, wiped up the water with a paper towel, and went back to bed. But I remember thinking, jeez what is the chance of that happening, tonight when I just put the sensor down 6 hours earlier?
Never give up, Never surrender!
two months ago I put an apex water sensor on an area under the calcium reactor, I had been meaning to for a few months. That night an old push connector fitting on the reactor decided to just start leaking and the apex went off, I got up and found just a little puddle of water. So I just changed out the connector, wiped up the water with a paper towel, and went back to bed. But I remember thinking, jeez what is the chance of that happening, tonight when I just put the sensor down 6 hours earlier?
Never give up, Never surrender!
afernandez
Never Quit!!
i would say "incredible" but no... not at all :lolspin::lolspin:
reefmutt
Active member
Here here!
