Leemar Peninsula 280 Gallons Build Out Door Sump

[scuzy]

Neptune carried the prawn eggs that are good too.

 

[woodnaquanut]

So on somewhat sunny days it consumes no energy for heating or cooling which indicates that the system is a heat absorber which is little bit scary. Because it can become hard to keep in cool during the extreme hot days during summer.

That greenhouse will be an issue when the weather gets warm. It's possible to whitewash or shade cloth the house to reduce temp increases. Do you have any power ventilation on the GH? Shade for the sump might also help.

Do you have a chiller?

 

[maddhugan]

you are right on this

you are right on this

Yes, I bought the shade cloths for the roof where I can hang it from inside. I hope the heavy insulation of the sump prevents heat from entering inside the sump (wishful thinking). I'm ready with a 1 HP trade wind chiller if things get out of control. Just waiting for an extremely hot day to come by to see what happens.

 

[orientalexpress]

Yes, I bought the shade cloths for the roof where I can hang it from inside. I hope the heavy insulation of the sump prevents heat from entering inside the sump (wishful thinking). I'm ready with a 1 HP trade wind chiller if things get out of control. Just waiting for an extremely hot day to come by to see what happens.

That chiller is loud ,I have 220v one.but it save my livestocks so many time during the heat wave.it's only take 1 time to kill temperature sensitive livestocks.

 

[maddhugan]

haha

haha

well I just turned on one day to see how loud it is, but it wasn't that bad, and I didn't hear a thing inside my house as the chiller is outside the house. So that's really not a problem in my case.

 

[maddhugan]

hydra 52 anyone? how to place corals?

hydra 52 anyone? how to place corals?

The time has come for me to introduce the (already quarantined, but not treated) corals into my display. I would like to be careful not introducing coral related pests into the tank. I have a good control over fish related diseases so far, so I'm extremely pleased as far as fish is concerned but corals are aliens to me.

I have seen that the corals in my quarantine tank don't like blue light that much. They kind of shrink small, so I'm just keeping in white now. But then I have seen corals in blue lights looking great At LFS. so whats the trick? MY WATER I really don't have any experience with corals. So, good advice will be appreciated. The problem is I don't know how I will be able to separate out good advice from bad advice. lol

1. People who are using hydra 52 can help me. what is the color spectrum are you guys using for corals? please give some advice on this.
2. how do you guys place the corals on rock? use the methacrylate glue? what do you guys use. I just qurantined the acans for 2 months now but didn't treat it for anyhing. Any advice? should I peel the acans from the frag rock and glue the flesh to the rock or the whole frag? how do I know I have any coral pests or not. All advise will be appreciated

 

[maddhugan]

anyone?

anyone?

please read the above post? anyone with experience in coral keeping?

 

[woodnaquanut]

please read the above post? anyone with experience in coral keeping?

Have you been dipping the corals? In what? How often?

That is all part of removing all possible pests. Many folks don't keep the plug the coral came on. Remove it and mount to another plug or rock.

Careful inspection for pests is important along with the dips.

Once you decide on a final placement for a coral, I like to glue it on with a combination of super glue and epoxy. Give the landing zone a little scrub with a toothbrush, wad up a hunk of epoxy, put some SG on the frag, stick epoxy to the SG and then SG the frag to the rock.

SG sets up fast but is not a strong connection. Epoxy is a strong connection but takes a bit of time to set up. This way you get the best of both worlds.

I wouldn't peel any coral off rock/frag to mount. You can cut away lots of the rock with a band saw, hand saw (like a coping saw w/ diamond blade) or most commonly, use 'bone cutters'.

There are lots of YouTube vids of the process. The ones by Vivid Aquarium are good.

 

[DivingTheWorld]

As far as dipping, I use Bayer (Bayer Complete Insect Killer Dip). That seems to be the best current method. I'm FAR more worried about pests on corals than I am with pests on fish. The nice thing about corals is there are very effective dips like Bayer. If you do some searches, you'll find different recipes and dip times.

Personally my recipe is 10ml per 1/2 cup tank water for 15 minutes. Then two more dips of clean tank water, 15 minutes each to rinse. Then into the tank they go. You have some nice quarantine setups, so if I were you I'd receive, dip, then into quarantine to monitor.

I used to use commercial dips like Revive and CoralRX, but I had adverse reactions from corals and I've read that they're not as effective against pests.

 

[maddhugan]

love this awesome advice

love this awesome advice

I truly appreciate such an awesome ideas. I will buy a bone cutter. Thank you so much. If you have any more cool ideas/advice then throw them in. Will post more photos after I mount my corals this week.

I love this:

Have you been dipping the corals? In what? How often?

That is all part of removing all possible pests. Many folks don't keep the plug the coral came on. Remove it and mount to another plug or rock.

Careful inspection for pests is important along with the dips.

Once you decide on a final placement for a coral, I like to glue it on with a combination of super glue and epoxy. Give the landing zone a little scrub with a toothbrush, wad up a hunk of epoxy, put some SG on the frag, stick epoxy to the SG and then SG the frag to the rock.

SG sets up fast but is not a strong connection. Epoxy is a strong connection but takes a bit of time to set up. This way you get the best of both worlds.

I wouldn't peel any coral off rock/frag to mount. You can cut away lots of the rock with a band saw, hand saw (like a coping saw w/ diamond blade) or most commonly, use 'bone cutters'.

There are lots of YouTube vids of the process. The ones by Vivid Aquarium are good.

 

[maddhugan]

never heard of Bayer

never heard of Bayer

Never heard of Bayer. Where do they sell them? I'm going to do a lot of googling on Bayer now. Thanks for this valuable info on a timely manner.
Cheers
BTW I will look out for the weed you had, the bryopsis. The problem is I never seen bryopsis in person I really don't know how it looks like. will/should do a google image search on that too.

BTW I never seen a coral pest in my life. Don't even know how they look like. Won't be a bad idea to do a image search on that as well.
Thanks again for all the valuable info. If you have more advice for me then please post it here. The time has come for me to put corals in but I don't want to regret later about missing something I could have done if I had known beforehand.

As far as dipping, I use Bayer (Bayer Complete Insect Killer Dip). That seems to be the best current method. I'm FAR more worried about pests on corals than I am with pests on fish. The nice thing about corals is there are very effective dips like Bayer. If you do some searches, you'll find different recipes and dip times.

Personally my recipe is 10ml per 1/2 cup tank water for 15 minutes. Then two more dips of clean tank water, 15 minutes each to rinse. Then into the tank they go. You have some nice quarantine setups, so if I were you I'd receive, dip, then into quarantine to monitor.

I used to use commercial dips like Revive and CoralRX, but I had adverse reactions from corals and I've read that they're not as effective against pests.

 

[maddhugan]

already bought coralx dip

already bought coralx dip

As far as dipping, I use Bayer (Bayer Complete Insect Killer Dip). That seems to be the best current method. I'm FAR more worried about pests on corals than I am with pests on fish. The nice thing about corals is there are very effective dips like Bayer. If you do some searches, you'll find different recipes and dip times.

Personally my recipe is 10ml per 1/2 cup tank water for 15 minutes. Then two more dips of clean tank water, 15 minutes each to rinse. Then into the tank they go. You have some nice quarantine setups, so if I were you I'd receive, dip, then into quarantine to monitor.

I used to use commercial dips like Revive and CoralRX, but I had adverse reactions from corals and I've read that they're not as effective against pests.

Huh already bought coralx dip from Bulkreefsupply.com, what a waste.
anyone interested in buying a brand new bottle for 50% price? let me know.lol
no I'm serious here

 

[EnderTurtle]

please read the above post? anyone with experience in coral keeping?

You would get more input/replies at bareefers.org which is a free forum for the bay areas local reef club.

Ive been watching this reefcentral subforum for a while. It has become the craigslist of reef forums. Most people here are looking to buy or sell stuff.

You also seem to be very interested in equipment tinkering. We have mad scientists like your self on our forum too. Guys creating auto matic water change systems, dark fuges, apex optimization. Heck even the Fishbit guys are on there.

Just wanted to share.

At one point this subforum belonged to BAR but we abandoned it quickly since everyone's sales ads kept bumping discussions down. Now its been assigned to the general public and BAR.

 

[maddhugan]

didn't know bareefers.org

didn't know bareefers.org

You would get more input/replies at bareefers.org which is a free forum for the bay areas local reef club.

Ive been watching this reefcentral subforum for a while. It has become the craigslist of reef forums. Most people here are looking to buy or sell stuff.

You also seem to be very interested in equipment tinkering. We have mad scientists like your self on our forum too. Guys creating auto matic water change systems, dark fuges, apex optimization. Heck even the Fishbit guys are on there.

Just wanted to share.

At one point this subforum belonged to BAR but we abandoned it quickly since everyone's sales ads kept bumping discussions down. Now its been assigned to the general public and BAR.

will enroll today in bareefers.org,
thanks for letting me know, and it helps to categorize different forums for different purposes/uses.

Thanks EnderTurtle

 

[vhuang168]

You will have to setup a seperate coral qt if you want to maintain your ttm'd fishes ich free status.

You HAVE to run that tank fallow for 72 days every time something new is introduced into it.

If you add a coral and start the clock, the clock gets reset if you add another coral anytime before you hit the 72 day period and before you remove the qt'd coral.

 

[DivingTheWorld]

Never heard of Bayer. Where do they sell them?.

Supposedly anywhere like Home Depot or Lowes. I just bought mine off Amazon.

 

[maddhugan]

yeah i knew that

yeah i knew that

You will have to setup a seperate coral qt if you want to maintain your ttm'd fishes ich free status.

You HAVE to run that tank fallow for 72 days every time something new is introduced into it.

If you add a coral and start the clock, the clock gets reset if you add another coral anytime before you hit the 72 day period and before you remove the qt'd coral.

Yes and that's the whole reason I'm introducing the corals now after a long time. I bought these corals 80 days ago.
btw if you buy a new coral you don't need to reset the clock, won't agree with that. You just need to wait 72 days for that coral alone independently while taking the other corals that has already completed 72 days into display. (assuming that there is no fish in your tank).

Let me know what you think of this theory.

Because if the cyst hatches, the theronts will be released and they just keep swimming to find a fish for some 18 hrs without attaching to any substrate. So why would you reset the clock for the other corals if you bring a new coral?

cheers

 

[maddhugan]

i see what you imply

i see what you imply

are you considering the risk of carrying the theronts though the water? The chances seem super slim though. But possible, but willing to take such a slim probability as it is no were near Russian roullette . haha

 

[maddhugan]

hmmm home depot?

hmmm home depot?

Supposedly anywhere like Home Depot or Lowes. I just bought mine off Amazon.

Does that mean this stuff is for regular plants? interesting. so it is like a home depot pesticide. I usually do the googling during my late night TV. Let me do that now.

 

[maddhugan]

let's forget ich for now

let's forget ich for now

You will have to setup a seperate coral qt if you want to maintain your ttm'd fishes ich free status.

You HAVE to run that tank fallow for 72 days every time something new is introduced into it.

If you add a coral and start the clock, the clock gets reset if you add another coral anytime before you hit the 72 day period and before you remove the qt'd coral.

So let's forget ich for now. Let's just consider the coral pests alone now and I'm curious to learn about them.

so how do you do coral treatment. Is it same like fish, i.e., you first do a dip treatment and then quarantine it for a period of time to see whether your treatment has worked? Or you just dip these corals and put it in the display?
I Would appreciate your thoughts on that?
Thanks
maddhugan