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

[jnarowe]

bummer about the cardinals. I fried another Jalli controller...at least it won't turn the element on.

I lived in West LA, mostly in Beverly Hills, but there was greasy grime on the window sills all the time.

 

[Sparkss]

Ugghhh, I had no idea the air quality was that bad down there

 

[dhnguyen]

Well J. I just recalibrated my refractometer with RO/DI and tested my water It's currently at 1.028 sg or 38 PPT :eek1:

You think this could be why I suddenly experienced RTNing on some of my SPS?

I am slowly bringing the SG down by replacing a gallon of tank water with RO every hour or so.

 

[jnarowe]

whoa...what the heck happened? Mine never goes out of calibration.

 

[jnarowe]

Well, I just fed a chromis to one of the GBTAs. It was on its way out, stuck up by the overflow, and hadn't looked too good for a few days. Rather than let it die in QT, I decided to make a meal out of it. The GBTA was stoked!

 

[dhnguyen]

Not sure what happened but I think I'm gonna use RO/DI on the refracto first everytime I test my water just to be sure nothing gets out of whack.

Damn well at least I think this could be causing the SPS RTNing or at least I hope that's all that it is.

 

[jnarowe]

1.028 really isn't that bad IMO, but it could trigger problems in corals. Or maybe it's a phantom cycle!

 

[melev]

1.028 sg is all it takes for my zoanthids to close up. Glad you found out it was off. Mine was off earlier this year in the opposite direction. Instead of being 1.026, it was 1.021 sg.

 

[jnarowe]

zoanthids do make a good "canary in the coal" mine for that since they can survive just about anything by closing up. I have had mine in 100% RO/DI water for hours and they lived fine.

 

[kmacartney]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11148802#post11148802 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dhnguyen
That's really too bad J. My case was the opposite though and I am happy to say that my sinuses aren't bothering me as much as they did in the SF Bay. I can actually breathe like a normal human being now :lol:

Oh yeah for the record

Cruise to Mexico - $750
Red hat - $15
Discovering that your son is a natural born gold miner - priceless

D, your kid is not that bad. I have several 6th graders who commonly do the "dig and gulp" in class. Also, my son used to shove his finger up his nose when he would meet new people.

 

[dhnguyen]

That's true, at least he does try to eat it :lol: he uses my shirt as his personal handwipe instead

And for some odd reason my wife thinks it's funny and encourages this behaviour.

 

[mrcrab]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11152505#post11152505 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dhnguyen
And for some odd reason my wife thinks it's funny and encourages this behaviour.

Maybe you should bribe him to use her shirt...I'm sure it would stop pretty quick then!

 

[kmacartney]

LOL!!

 

[jnarowe]

You DON'T want to cross Dahn's wife let me tell you. One look from her and your toenails would jump ship.

So I put in 4 cleaner shrimp today. I got some large size so they won't immediately become a snack. Two came with heavy egg loads so i put one of them in the fuge and one in the QT tank. I don't know anything about their reproductive cycles, but it would be cool to get some babies. My guess is that they have a planktonic stage that will get skimmed out or eaten.

 

[anothermineral]

jnarowe,

Whenever you get a free moment, I'd be interested in any "lessons learned" from using only the hammerhead in your system. I'm setting up a multi tank system (4 tanks, ~440G total volume) and would like to use my HH for the return to all.

Specifically, I'm interested in any comments about feeding the HH from two 1" bulkheads out of my sump.

Thanks in advance.

 

[sherm71tank]

Sure is a small world! Hey Jonathan I think I'm free from about noon on so we should get together and do something even if it's wrong! BTW, Jack says the new 460 cal. handgun is the shiznit. Shoots flat out to 300 yards or so. WHOA!!!! Can you say duck and cover at the firing range!!!!

 

[dhnguyen]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11153242#post11153242 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sherm71tank
...we should get together and do something even if it's wrong! ...

:lol: :lol: :lol: Oh nevermind....

 

[sherm71tank]

OHHH, now you have jokes huh? :jester: Noted. . . .

 

[jnarowe]

definite get together after Dojo. Also, UFC 78 is the same day as the frag swap...no time issue, but thought I would mention it.

anothermineral: I am very pleased with the Hammerhead and Sequence pumps in generaL. I went with teh single because I am not a fan of high flow through the sump, and just want enough to process water and some extra for expansion.

First things first, you cannot feed a Hammerhead through dual 1" lines. That would be a big mistake IMO. I certainly wouldn't attempt it without discussing it thoroughly with a Sequence technician. Really, going up to two inch is a much better idea, or at least staying with the 1.5".

I run my entire system off this pump and it is a real trooper. Not much opportunity for failure, and I got a raised eyebrow from Steve Weast because it creates a single point of failure, but as I explained to him, I have a spare, so a quick swap and I am good. Also, the majority of in tank flow is provided by Vortechs, so there is plenty of flow, even in a power outage.

So build yourself a nice manifold, and get on with it!

 

[Micki]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11148625#post11148625 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jnarowe
You know D, I left Kalifornia to get to a better environment to raise my son and keep myself healthy, yet I never really got sick there. Once I moved here, I have been having such horible sinus problems that I ended up on medication that gave me a stroke. Hard to believe, but I actually endangered my health by moving to a healthier environment.

What medication was that?