Um... thank you for this? You may have just helped me catch a small leak in my tank before it turned catastrophic. I'm still watching the area, but the moist salt creep coming up from the bottom edge of the tank 4 days after a water change is probably not a good sign (I don't have a sump, so nothing under the tank would be causing salt creep).
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Um... thank you for this? You may have just helped me catch a small leak in my tank before it turned catastrophic. I'm still watching the area, but the moist salt creep coming up from the bottom edge of the tank 4 days after a water change is probably not a good sign (I don't have a sump, so nothing under the tank would be causing salt creep).
Right now I'm putting the source of the problem on loc line. At least I'm hoping that's the source of the problem. I'll put Jeremy on task to get some new returns put in that aren't loc line to see if it helps.
Our overflow seems to be a magnet for new tank inhabitants. Two green clown gobies went thru the overflow today. One made it to the sump, and the other in the overflow box. Luckily got them out before getting sucked into the pumps. I've put a sponge (that's supposed to be in the sump) behind the teeth of the overflow, will keep one there for the week being these guys need to get used to the flow.
I'm done trying yellow head jawfish. Out of 7, 2 have made it. 3 in the first batch and they were simply just too small, shouldn't have put them in the tank, rookie mistake. 3 made it into the overflow and eventually through the pumps. What a miserable way to go out.
This batch, 4 ordered. One died in QT after prazipro treatment and 3 finished 7 weeks of QT. 2 are living happily in the very front and center of the tank. It's awesome watching them, they close their dens at night by putting rocks overtop and in the morning open it back up.
I wanted a group of them, but looks like 2 will have to do. 2 are better than none, I'm done killing these poor guys. With this average I'll have sacrificed way too many to get the 4-5 I wanted. 2 it is.
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Our overflow seems to be a magnet for new tank inhabitants. Two green clown gobies went thru the overflow today. One made it to the sump, and the other in the overflow box. Luckily got them out before getting sucked into the pumps. I've put a sponge (that's supposed to be in the sump) behind the teeth of the overflow, will keep one there for the week being these guys need to get used to the flow.
I'm done trying yellow head jawfish. Out of 7, 2 have made it. 3 in the first batch and they were simply just too small, shouldn't have put them in the tank, rookie mistake. 3 made it into the overflow and eventually through the pumps. What a miserable way to go out.
This batch, 4 ordered. One died in QT after prazipro treatment and 3 finished 7 weeks of QT. 2 are living happily in the very front and center of the tank. It's awesome watching them, they close their dens at night by putting rocks overtop and in the morning open it back up.
I wanted a group of them, but looks like 2 will have to do. 2 are better than none, I'm done killing these poor guys. With this average I'll have sacrificed way too many to get the 4-5 I wanted. 2 it is.
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sfsuphysics
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Loc lines are fine if they're all below water, so simply have your glued PVC go under the water line, then have a screw adapter in the end and you can use the loc line to point wherever you want to go.
Pulled the sponge out of the overflow because my husband had a good point that we need debris going down, not stuck in the sponge. Well, overnight the blue clown goby went for another ride to the sump. I'm thankful he's going down the sump and not the cryptic fuge. If he makes it into there with 300+ lbs of live rock, there's no getting him out.
Netted him out of the sump and back into DT. Let's see if he makes a habit of this. #2 blue clown goby MIA after digging him out of the overflow yesterday. They're not jumping over, they're going thru the teeth.
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Netted him out of the sump and back into DT. Let's see if he makes a habit of this. #2 blue clown goby MIA after digging him out of the overflow yesterday. They're not jumping over, they're going thru the teeth.
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Great idea! This is number 7 or 8 that's went thru. Only lost one guy to the pumps, but still they don't need the darn stress!
Add plastic gutter guards to the shopping list - check!!
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tanksfishtank
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Great build. I love how you built it into the corner. Tons of work by the looks of it. Anything you would have changed, now that you are almost done?
Ok so I "The husband" realized that I drilled 2 anti siphon in each of the returns, and one is right at the water level. I'm thinking and hoping that's where our micro bubbles are coming from. Well off to the LFS to get some new line-loc prices.
Thanks for all the help and compliments from everyone. We still have lot of loose ends to tie up but it is all coming together with time.
Tanksfishtank- I'm was from Iowa till about a year ago. Go Hawks
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Thanks for all the help and compliments from everyone. We still have lot of loose ends to tie up but it is all coming together with time.
Tanksfishtank- I'm was from Iowa till about a year ago. Go Hawks
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tanksfishtank
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Go Hawks! Any new pics or updates?
houston220
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Tagging along before I start my new tank.
Boy oh boy. Can't believe it's been so long since we have posted. A lot has happened. Moved a majority of SPS to the DT. All but one are doing amazingly and showing crazy growth already. My fav fish in the tank are my yellow head jaw fish. We had two of them. One bailed out of him home, scattered his rocks that were protecting it and haven't seen him since. So we're down to one. Sad.
Other than that, fish are all doing really good. I want to get auto water change up and running by end of year, we'll see if it happens. We have everything for it. Same goes for the kalk stirrer.
Here's a recent pic with the outside finally getting finished.
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Other than that, fish are all doing really good. I want to get auto water change up and running by end of year, we'll see if it happens. We have everything for it. Same goes for the kalk stirrer.
Here's a recent pic with the outside finally getting finished.
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Thanks! We are finishing up the remodel, once that's finished up or at least close to it I have some spare time to post some pictures and progress of the Corals and different angles of the tank.
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Just got home from the road to find.... drum roll. Clown laying eggs. They won't flourish as we are not setup for breeding, but how cool. You can see the eggs on the wall of the tank. Unfortunately these eggs have already blown off. They seem to like the "blocks" on the outside of the tank.
https://vimeo.com/194591348
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