OK! Enough chat...Starting a 1000g+ Reef

[jnarowe]

How about a little late evening action?!?!?

Well, with all my safeguards, I just flooded my tank room again. So here is how it happened:

I have been battling alk issues and use baing soda/RO water to make an alk upper. I had just put some baking soda in a 1 gal. jug and was filling it with RO from my 96g holding container. I use a small spigot with 1/4" tubing to make the fill so it takes a while and (enter stroke) I actually forgot I was filling it.

Later on I got an email from the ACIII Pro for an out-of-ordinary condition, but I have been having trouble with a conductivity probe that keeps going whacky on me. I ASSUMED that the alarm was because of that and did not go check the tank room....

So I went down around 10 pm to grab a beer from the tank room fridge, and found one of my worst floods yet. I figure at least 80+ gal. was on the floor! Good thing I had just bought a more powerful vacuum...and on my final trip to the sink to empty it, I dropped it and about 10 gal. went all over the floor again. I actually had to re-vacuum the entire room. :mad2:

I guess I deserve the beer now!

 

[BrianPlankis]

DOH!!! Sorry to hear about the floor Jonathan, if I can share in your misery.....

I run my RO waste water into our clothes washing machine, so whenever I make water I have to make sure it doesn't overflow the washing machine (which it has done several times).

Well, one night I realized I forgot to turn off the RO/DI unit and ran downstairs to what I assumed was a flood. I get there and the water is ALMOST overflowing the unit (only 1/4" from the rim), but it was all still in the washing machine. So I decided that was enough excitement for one night, turned off the RO/DI unit and went to bed thinking I had proudly remembered just in time.

I wake up the next morning and my wife is complaining I flooded the laundry room again, I go in prepared to denounce the charge and sure enough the floor was flooded. Apparently our washing machine has an automatic overflow (of low volume) that will lower the water in the machine to a certain level!!! DOH!

Brian

 

[bskiba]

Nice jonathan. how long do you figure it took to get to 80 gallons? Saturday I am going to be at mario's until about 1pm

 

[jnarowe]

about 3 hours. Hope to see you at Mario's. I have a busy day and my son is at Aikido until noon, but I'll try to pop up after that.

 

[Reefing102]

very nice tank

 

[Enderrea]

Speaking of wood work..............

 

[jnarowe]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7952090#post7952090 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Enderrea
Speaking of wood work..............

Hey now! :lol: I am waiting for a tree to come in to Edensaw in PT...takes a while to grow these things you know.

reefing102: Thank you for the compliment. I have a long way to go before I give myself any reef keeping credit but I am happy with my progress so far.

 

[jnarowe]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7948935#post7948935 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by CirolanidHunter
I run my RO waste water into our clothes washing machine, so whenever I make water I have to make sure it doesn't overflow the washing machine (which it has done several times).

OK, and may I ask why you run it to the washing machine? Are you not able to tie it into the washing machine drain line? Those are usually open right?

 

[melev]

He's just avoiding the waste of water. It can be used for laudry, for example.

 

[jnarowe]

Oh really? I guess that seems OK...I water my vegetables with mine...all those nitrates and phosphates make some nice foods.

 

[BrianPlankis]

He's just avoiding the waste of water. It can be used for laudry, for example.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7955630#post7955630 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jnarowe
Oh really? I guess that seems OK...I water my vegetables with mine...all those nitrates and phosphates make some nice foods.

Yep, I'm trying to use the waste water to grow vegtables on my clothes!

I just hate wasting the water, so we wash clothes with it. Next house I'll have it run outside to water a flowerbed or something, but it is just too far from an outside wall to do anything in this house.

Brian

 

[olemos]

The washing machine is a good Idea till your wife yells at you "there is water all over the floor coming from the washing machine"
Yep... the RO only works fast when your not looking

 

[bskiba]

that is actually a great idea. I was thinking about plumbing my RO next to my washing machine.


Johnathan. you know some pics are in order. the possum is out and cruising now after an hour of hiding. the regal was cruising in the bag still and he went to the cave to hang out when he was let free. The lights were still off at home so I didn't watch him much. the possum is sure an ugly but cool fish. they hover over the rock like a mix between a sixline wrasse and a mandarin.

 

[jnarowe]

My acclimations are doing well so far.

Brown Acropora--not so good...quite bleached!
Gold Naso Tang (Red Sea) Md...good shape, lively
Mysteri Wrasse ...excellent shape, eating brine
Hawkfish Longnose Sm...OK shape, eating brine
Electric Blue Hermit...4 in good shape, one just a shell.
Peppermint Shrimp Md...Good shape, placed 5 in main and 1 in fuge
Cucumber Col...Good shape
Featherduster Md...crappy looking
Golden Teardrop Maxima Clam 4"...in display, good shape
Sea Hare Nudibranch...ugly as sin
Crocea Clam Super Grade 3"...both in excellent shape, very good color
Cucumber Yellow...still alive!
Elegence Coral (Indo) Md...opened up in QT nicely, some bare skeleton
Fox Coral (Indo) Md...bnot sure which one this is yet
Acropora Cultured Col...large piece, violet color?
Lobophyllia Col ...crappy shape, may not survive
Fungia Color Sm/Md ...ugly orange color, good shape
Montipora Color...orange, nice form
Yellow Cup Coral Md ...quite a large piece, polyps have already extended
X'mas Rock (Indo) weird...blue, red, white, green worms...very active

I'll post pics maybe on Sunday...too much to do. Call me...I have a PSAS tidbit.

 

[prostaff]

Hey Jonathan
Can you use any kind of baking soda? and I hear you should bake it in oven at 350 for an hour and then you are all set to go. Am I reading that right?

 

[mrcrab]

Yes you are reading right.

Baking it forces the carbon dioxide out. If you don't bake the CO2 will actually lower your ph, opposite of what you are trying to accomplish.

 

[jnarowe]

Yeah, baked Baking soda makes the pH go up, regular baking soda makes it go down. Both boost alk. If I dose in the am, I used baked, and pm I use regular...

 

[jnarowe]

I am a bit shocked that no one cared enough to give me a hard time about that stocking list. I figured posting that would be good for at least some minor lambasting! :lol:

 

[bskiba]

I liked your stocklist and the orange fungia is a cool color.

 

[melev]

I read it, but didn't realize it required lambasting you.

I was wondering how you can call a Sea Hare a Nudibranch though.