Lunchbucket's New 58gal RR inprogress - LOTS OF PICS

Status
Not open for further replies.
Awesome! Nice upgrade Lunch..

Lunch when you get chance can you go over your auto shutoff for your RO/DI?

I really need to set this up on my system. I currently play Russian Roulette. I keep the water running into my 50 gal drums. I know the day will come where I forget to turn the water off.
 
melev said:
PSA:

Just 37 more pages until the next split.

END PSA.
Click to expand...
Oooohhhhh, I gotta get to work if I'm going to catch up to you. :)

Don't worry, that'll NEVER happen, unless you get banned for a good 40 years and I keep up my same rate. :lol:
 
well where the heck where you when i needed you to post the link for me :D yeah quite old it is

ok i'm loving 1ppm tds water out of my RO membrane. that 30+ crap on my old shot membrane was just crap.

i have diatoms in my tank now...i'm thinking due to the RO/DI water being crappy.

hope this new system (1ppm after ro, 0ppm after di) will get my tank back in check ASAP. i'm gonna do a 15gal water change this weekend to help out also

Lunchbucket
 
oh forgot to post that at 0.20L/min at 6.5pH i have lost some alkalinity and am now at about 9.0 or so i think...can't remember right now and too tire to look

i have lowered the pH and the final resting place will be 6.4 or so. i will then up the effluent about 0.1L/min until i stay stable. nice to have the effluent meter..makes upping it a little bit a breeze

Lunchbucket
 
UPDATE:

got the RO/DI unit on thurday and started using that water ASAP. by about Saturday ALL my diatoms were gone :D YIPPIE!! must have been like i thought...the RO/DI water i was using (due to the shot membrane) was causing the problems

Today - i broke down and got a Yellow Eye Kole Tang again :dance: this was my fav fish but he started nipping my clams right before i moved to my new apt (July??) so i took him out at that time. i have heard that this was VERY uncommon so i planned to get another yellow eye after i found a good on at the LFS. my wife has sort of had a HUGE part is this. she hates all the fish i have in there now (2 clowns, royal gramma, bangaii) and she loved out old "Mr. Tang" as we call him :D so i called the LFS and asked if htey still had the yellow eye that has been there for 4wks or so. they did so we made the drive 60miles to the LFS and picked him up. he ate well and looked good. after acclimating i left the lights off for about 2-3hrs and then turned the halides on. well...he looked..ok. tail was bit up from "Ms Bizitch" (my female clown). she is terribly aggressive lately. but he has been standing his ground and she is not doing anything to him anymore. i guess Mr. Tang is the boss of the tank now. his skin looks a little funky but i think that is from being chased around in the LFS for about 5min and being netting twice in about 3 hrs. no signs of ICH and any other disseases...skin just looks different.

good news he is swimming around the tank and has started picking at the back glass and a little on the rock. i have a little hair algae and i hope he demolishes it.

i hope i haven't made a mistake and added too much bioload to my tank. i know i had a tang before w/ great results but i just get paranoid that i will get phosphates like i had before. nevermind i think that was from my oceanic salt and not siphoning the sand. i have switched to RC and siphone the sand every other week...so i should be ok :D

Lunchbucket
 
ok now i'm seriously excited. my cleaner shrimp just decided to start sanitizing Mr. Tang. that is good news to me!!

Lunchbucket
 
oh i forgot to post that the corals i got 2wks ago are all doing great!!! only problem is that my PM decided to bleach and receed on me. i know have a 5 polyp PM :D the flesh looks deep purple and there are 5 green polyps. i'm sure it will make a great recovery but it will be a slow process :(

Lunchbucket
 
lol. I usually give up on my threads when they do that. I find it funny how my cleaner shrimp nail every fish when I add them and then rarely ever again. I have a blood shrimp who likes to clean my copperband. It's odd because the whole is so small and somehow the fish squeezes in there and somehow gets out the backside.
 
Lunchbucket said:
oh i forgot to post that the corals i got 2wks ago are all doing great!!! only problem is that my PM decided to bleach and receed on me. i know have a 5 polyp PM :D the flesh looks deep purple and there are 5 green polyps. i'm sure it will make a great recovery but it will be a slow process :(

Lunchbucket
Click to expand...
Glad to hear they're all doing well! That's a good sign that the pm has a few polyps out on it. Keep giving it some TLC and you'll have a mini colony in no time. :)
 
Lunch, don't worry, I don't think you have too much of a bio-load in there. I would say you are "just right" with the bio-load you have right now.
 
Great, I hope the Kole does well. Very nice fish. I was thinking of adding a Pearlscale Butterfly for some aiptasia. BTW, here's a pic of my Kole Tang. He is not around any longer though.

IMG_3066.jpg
 
jay24k - my cleaner shrimp always cleaned my old tang...that is the only fish i ever see him clean.

otolith - yeah 5 polyps is good..but 15 would be better. i thought these corals grow slow? so 1yr i'll have 15 polyps :D oh well for a cool coral i'll wait. it has nice colors on the flesh and polyps that are on there

Travis - thanks for the vote of confidence. i just didn't want to overload it :D

MyMonkey - i liked my old Kole...just too bad he liked my clams :( what did you think of yours? they are plain but very cool looking IMO. how did yours die?

Lunchbucket
 
arconom said:
I really need to set this up on my system. I currently play Russian Roulette. I keep the water running into my 50 gal drums. I know the day will come where I forget to turn the water off.
Click to expand...

Not to steal anything away Lunch... but I figured I would share my experience(s) with this. I was making 30g of fresh RODI water Saturday started around 2PM in the afternoon. Well I forgot, we went out to eat and for some drinks, got home at 2AM and needless to say it was a little wet. I filled up the wetvac 8 TIMES getting up all the water. Atleast it was in my basement and its all tile...

Auto shutoffs are a great idea! :)
 
elephen - i flooded my apt one time w/ only 1/2-1gal..then i got a shut off selenoid and the auto shut of on my ro unit. problem solved

Lunchbucket
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

sauceyreefOG
New (but old) Member - Hello!
Replies
12
Views
546
Reefing102
Reefing102
AZBigJohn
New Build... I'm back
2
Replies
25
Views
1K
Dustin07
D
Paul B
How Fish are Different from most of us
Replies
1
Views
259
Paul B
Paul B
AquaticReefTV
DIY Cable management time lapse
Replies
1
Views
673
S|\/|S
S
J Crew
New Reef Build - equipment list
Replies
10
Views
1K
griss
griss
Back
Top