My House Reef upgrade
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Bad day the week of MACNA. I come home today and my tank is down about 6 inches. OK, the return pump needs a re-boot. Nope, dead.....:furious:
For how long, who knows. Only fatality is some aptasia in my overflow.
Problem fixed, barely. An old Rio pump can pump enough to dribble the water out of the returns. Never mind the reactors for now. I'm either going all in with a speedy 3 150 watt, or something cheap from eBay for now. Not much can do 3500 GPH internally that is efficient. Hopefully Scott Lief can talk me into going all in this week at MACNA.
Then I look over at the quarantine tank. Its green. What the.....
The new auto-feeder I put on for the week has no food reservoir. Damn thing fell off into the tank, full of green flake food.
The skimmer is going nuts in both tanks now. like me, lots of crap to deal with....
For how long, who knows. Only fatality is some aptasia in my overflow.
Problem fixed, barely. An old Rio pump can pump enough to dribble the water out of the returns. Never mind the reactors for now. I'm either going all in with a speedy 3 150 watt, or something cheap from eBay for now. Not much can do 3500 GPH internally that is efficient. Hopefully Scott Lief can talk me into going all in this week at MACNA.
Then I look over at the quarantine tank. Its green. What the.....
The new auto-feeder I put on for the week has no food reservoir. Damn thing fell off into the tank, full of green flake food.The skimmer is going nuts in both tanks now. like me, lots of crap to deal with....
scubadan206
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Been a while. I've dealt with some stuff recently of course. I did pick up a Royal Exclusive for a return pump. It pumps more water at 110 watts than my old Speedwave at a full 160 watts. Nice.
A reminder to all those out there to calibrate your refractometer more often. I got a new salt that is a little more condensed. Instead of the usual 22 cups in the 44 gallon bucket, it takes 19 to reach 1.025. I was wondering why my zoanthids were not happy. My reef was at 1.028. Dummy me:twitch:.
I also decided to remove several large colonies of montipora and birdsnest. I didn't pay enough attention to my dosing and I spiked my alkalinity to 10 DKH. Dummy me:twitch:.
Well everything is back to growing. My sps were mad at me but will recover.
Some bad news around the house. My little rat terrier had two seizures I believe. She's around 14. She lays on the pillow now without much mobility or control. We need to decide in the next day or two whether to euthanize her. I know I'd want to live, but she hasn't eaten well for a while even before this. Dying slowly from starvation and dehydration would be much worse.
My local reef store was purchased by another, larger store. This basically means he has stuff to sell all the time now, but at higher prices.....:hmm3:
Still have store credit, and he still gives what I believe is fair value for trade-in. It also gives him time to be with his family more often. He was a one man show for years.
Daniel.:bigeyes:
A reminder to all those out there to calibrate your refractometer more often. I got a new salt that is a little more condensed. Instead of the usual 22 cups in the 44 gallon bucket, it takes 19 to reach 1.025. I was wondering why my zoanthids were not happy. My reef was at 1.028. Dummy me:twitch:.
I also decided to remove several large colonies of montipora and birdsnest. I didn't pay enough attention to my dosing and I spiked my alkalinity to 10 DKH. Dummy me:twitch:.
Well everything is back to growing. My sps were mad at me but will recover.
Some bad news around the house. My little rat terrier had two seizures I believe. She's around 14. She lays on the pillow now without much mobility or control. We need to decide in the next day or two whether to euthanize her. I know I'd want to live, but she hasn't eaten well for a while even before this. Dying slowly from starvation and dehydration would be much worse.
My local reef store was purchased by another, larger store. This basically means he has stuff to sell all the time now, but at higher prices.....:hmm3:
Still have store credit, and he still gives what I believe is fair value for trade-in. It also gives him time to be with his family more often. He was a one man show for years.
Daniel.:bigeyes:
