RogueGrown
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Why can't you keep the water level just above the rock and away from the new seal. Throw an airstone and some powerheads in it and keep the water moving?
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anbosu
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I'm sure for the adhesive to work correctly this time he needs to have no pressure pushing out on the sides of the aquarium, so no water.
Yes, I am glad he was able to fix it on the spot. I did not want to remove all the wet sand and rocks from the display. 3-4 weeks is a long time but I am sure it will fly by. My days are very busy so a week goes by really quick for me. It was a pain getting the rocks into the display so I do not really want to remove it. I'll just wait it out.
That was my initial plan since the builder say to only partially drain the tank. I lowered the two Tunze 6255 to provide flow but the water was getting really nasty. When the builder came to fix the eurobrace, he said the excess moisture might cause the adhesive to take longer to cure also so I just drained it. Also better not to add any pressure to the panes while the adhesive cures.
Pretty much and getting rid of a large moisture source will help the adhesive cure faster.
The tank has been in limbo since the eurobracing fiasco. Builder came by Friday to clean up the silicone. He suggested I wait until 7/14 to fill the tank back up so it will be two more weeks. I've kept my sump running with some rocks in it to cure since I drained the tank about 4 weeks ago. I did get some things done while waiting, didn't bother to update since it is just some minor things.
I bought a Bubble Magus doser bracket to mount my GHL Doser.
I had to cut out a notch so the GHL doser would fit.
Mounted behind the Apex panel.
I hung the two ATI PM Hybrid lights. They're heavy!!
I installed another netpune PMUP to the SW mixing container and ran a line to the sump. This will replace any tank water I remove to acclimate fish or corals. There is a solenoid on this line to shut off flow should the PMUP ever get stuck on. Also a float valve just in case they both fail. There is also a float switch in the SW container to turn off the PMUP , DOS and Panworld mixing pump when water gets low.
Got the Dos hooked up and ran a couple lines into the house and a line to the drain outside. I plan to do 1 gallon a day automatic water changes.
Here is the tank cleaned up again. Hopefully, no more eurobracing failure. Made two screen tops to keep fish from jumping out.
I have 150 gallons of RODI water in the shed ready to go. I will add salt and mix it up as the fill date gets closer.
A couple things on my want list. I'm looking at getting a ARID C30 to deal with nutrients. I've read plenty of post about pukani rock constantly leaching po4 for months to a year. I've got plenty of GFO in a 5g bucket but rather not constantly have to change out GFO. GFO is also harsh on the corals so the ARID is a toy I'm planning on picking up soon.
I've been doing a lot of research on calcium reactors and I'm thinking I might pull the trigger on a Dastaco A-3 when demand gets high. I've read nothing but good things about this reactor and it's ease of adjustment and maintenance. Turn a knob to set your alk, doesn't get any easier then that.
Question for you people who store SW on hand for weeks/months. How often do you run your mixing pump and for what duration? I use to simply leave a small powerhead in the container running 24/7 but I rather use the Panworld pump to mix instead.
I'm getting ready to fill my tank again. I've made about 600 gallons with my new 6 stage water save rodi unit from BRS. I noticed the sediment filter is now really brown and one of the two di canisters is already exhausted.
How many gallons do you guys get out of your filters and di resin?
How many gallons do you guys get out of your filters and di resin?
ycnibrc
STAG HORN DOMINATE REEF
The tank has been in limbo since the eurobracing fiasco. Builder came by Friday to clean up the silicone. He suggested I wait until 7/14 to fill the tank back up so it will be two more weeks. I've kept my sump running with some rocks in it to cure since I drained the tank about 4 weeks ago. I did get some things done while waiting, didn't bother to update since it is just some minor things.
I bought a Bubble Magus doser bracket to mount my GHL Doser.
I had to cut out a notch so the GHL doser would fit.
Mounted behind the Apex panel.
I hung the two ATI PM Hybrid lights. They're heavy!!
I installed another netpune PMUP to the SW mixing container and ran a line to the sump. This will replace any tank water I remove to acclimate fish or corals. There is a solenoid on this line to shut off flow should the PMUP ever get stuck on. Also a float valve just in case they both fail. There is also a float switch in the SW container to turn off the PMUP , DOS and Panworld mixing pump when water gets low.
Got the Dos hooked up and ran a couple lines into the house and a line to the drain outside. I plan to do 1 gallon a day automatic water changes.
Here is the tank cleaned up again. Hopefully, no more eurobracing failure. Made two screen tops to keep fish from jumping out.
I have 150 gallons of RODI water in the shed ready to go. I will add salt and mix it up as the fill date gets closer.
A couple things on my want list. I'm looking at getting a ARID C30 to deal with nutrients. I've read plenty of post about pukani rock constantly leaching po4 for months to a year. I've got plenty of GFO in a 5g bucket but rather not constantly have to change out GFO. GFO is also harsh on the corals so the ARID is a toy I'm planning on picking up soon.
I've been doing a lot of research on calcium reactors and I'm thinking I might pull the trigger on a Dastaco A-3 when demand gets high. I've read nothing but good things about this reactor and it's ease of adjustment and maintenance. Turn a knob to set your alk, doesn't get any easier then that.
Question for you people who store SW on hand for weeks/months. How often do you run your mixing pump and for what duration? I use to simply leave a small powerhead in the container running 24/7 but I rather use the Panworld pump to mix instead.
For a big system like yours the arid is not big enough. If u have room add a separate refugium then u can grow cheato and caulerpa. Since I add a refugium to my system with cheato and caulerpa my phosphate is steady .02 to .05. No more GFO I still run some carbon to keep the water clear
solitude127
Proud user of IO Salt!
Sediment, I change out 3 months no matter what and then Carbon block, every 6 months and DI resin once my TDS gets to 1 but I'm only making an average of 30g/week. The Sediment and Carbon block do very little to reduce TDS, they're there to protect the membrane.
What the TDS coming out of the membrane and what is the TDS out of the tap?
The Arid C30 is rated for 250-500 gallons. I'm holding off until I see where my nutrient levels are at.
I may have to adopt your filter change schedule. TDS coming in is 247, after membrane is 7, after first DI canister which I thought was already exhausted is 2 and then 0 after the last Di canister.
Water is in the tank! Euro brace seams are holding. So glad to finally have water in the tank again but at the same time nervous after what happened the first go around. Tank has 348 gallons of water including sump, rocks and sand. This time I kept track of exactly how many gallons was going in the tank.
Trying to tune the skimmer.
When I drained the tank, I kept the sump going and added rocks into the sump. I got a good ammonia reading from the sump. Tested a week later and there was zero ammonia and nitrites. There was a lot of nitrates. I'll be testing the tank again for ammonia in a few days.
Trying to tune the skimmer.
When I drained the tank, I kept the sump going and added rocks into the sump. I got a good ammonia reading from the sump. Tested a week later and there was zero ammonia and nitrites. There was a lot of nitrates. I'll be testing the tank again for ammonia in a few days.
solitude127
Proud user of IO Salt!
The membrane probably still needs to break in. I changed mine out and initially, my TDS out of the membrane was 11 and then after a couple of months use, it's now down to 4. Give it a bit, I'm sure it'll come down but 7 isn't too bad
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When I filled the tank, I dumped in five bottles of Bio-Spira. Next day, I went and purchased three pajama cardinals and a bristletooth tomini tang. All pretty small. Tested for ammonia and nitrites for the next several days and never got a reading. A couple days later I placed an order for seven green/blue chromis and a pair of frost bite clowns (for the wife). When I added the last chromis, it nose dived for the rocks and I haven't seen it since. Been a couple days, I've only seen six chromis at a time unless they're switching place and only six comes out at a time. I'll give it a few more days. I've been testing for ammonia and nitrites and never got a reading, not even the slightest hint of any of the two. I have to say bio-spira works great!!
I used fritz RPM salt and I have to admit, I'm kind of disappointed in the salt. My alk tested at 6.2 via hanna and salifert test kits. I had to dose 210ml of ESV over the course of a several days to bring up the alk to 8.
Calcium tested at 445
No test for magnesium yet.
No3 tested at 10
Po4 was .23ppm so I threw in some GFO a couple days ago. Tonight, tested at .08ppm with hanna ULR. Will keep an eye on po4. I thought the pukani rocks would be leaching a lot more phosphate or maybe that is a lot??
Tonight I seeded the tank with tisbe pods from algaebarn, I'd like to build a good population before adding some wrasse.
I relocated the doser to the wall. I didn't like the tubing go across from the dosing containers to the doser which was located behind the apex panel then going back across to the sump. I think this looks much better.
Had to install a fan, it's been a little warm and tank was getting up to 81 degrees. Now the tank is running at 79.5-80 with the fan.
Can anyone recommend me some gel filters to remove the blue when taking pics with an iphone?
I used fritz RPM salt and I have to admit, I'm kind of disappointed in the salt. My alk tested at 6.2 via hanna and salifert test kits. I had to dose 210ml of ESV over the course of a several days to bring up the alk to 8.
Calcium tested at 445
No test for magnesium yet.
No3 tested at 10
Po4 was .23ppm so I threw in some GFO a couple days ago. Tonight, tested at .08ppm with hanna ULR. Will keep an eye on po4. I thought the pukani rocks would be leaching a lot more phosphate or maybe that is a lot??
Tonight I seeded the tank with tisbe pods from algaebarn, I'd like to build a good population before adding some wrasse.
I relocated the doser to the wall. I didn't like the tubing go across from the dosing containers to the doser which was located behind the apex panel then going back across to the sump. I think this looks much better.
Had to install a fan, it's been a little warm and tank was getting up to 81 degrees. Now the tank is running at 79.5-80 with the fan.
Can anyone recommend me some gel filters to remove the blue when taking pics with an iphone?
solitude127
Proud user of IO Salt!
Yeah.. Fish... 
Congrats.
I don't think there's a need for alk dosing just yet. The fish don't really care about Alk, CA, Mg.
Congrats.I don't think there's a need for alk dosing just yet. The fish don't really care about Alk, CA, Mg.
ReefKeeper64
Wanna be a reefkeeper
Everything is pulling together nicely!
Thanks for the recommendation and appreciate the compliment!
Yeah.. Fish...
I don't think there's a need for alk dosing just yet. The fish don't really care about Alk, CA, Mg.
Thanks! Yeah I know they don't care but figured I'd bring it up anyways incase we stop by a LFS and see something we just had to have. My wife is more impatient than I am. I'm lucky to have her be as interested in this hobby as I am. It's easy to make new purchases lol.
Thanks buddy, it's been a long wait but everything is going smoothly now.
solitude127
Proud user of IO Salt!
scubadan206
Member
I would recommend a few more bacterial starters. It's always good to have more diversity in that area. How do you like the royal exclusive pump? I'm thinking of getting the medium sized one when I can afford it.
I also added zeovit's zeobac which I forgot to mention. I'll be adding it until the bottle is done. The red dragon pumps are great. Move a ton of water and they're silent. I would recommend them if budget permits.
