"OverKill" Reef - My Project
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Jcohen9999
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6633310#post6633310 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by melev
Jeff, thanks for updating this thread again. The tank is indeed quite full, and I'm impressed how your corals seem to put up with one another. I had one frag lean against another larger frag and 48 hours later I had a white stick.
Oh....I have plenty of white sections. I just got lucky that nothing of significance has totally been wiped out...at least nothing I want to talk about :rolleye1:
Jeff
Jcohen9999
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Thanks.
As far as I can tell, there is no significant heat transferred from the lights to the tank. Those guys at Aquactinics really designed their MH hoods well - the hood always feels room temperature and the splash shield only gets a little warm. As a matter of fact I sort of have the opposite problem in that my heaters are on all year.
Jeff
Jcohen9999
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Shhhhhh..you'll wake the Tang Police 
It's in there...just camera shy these days. However, I did lose my pygmy angel. I think the green bristle star got it because one day it was just gone.
Jeff
It's in there...just camera shy these days. However, I did lose my pygmy angel. I think the green bristle star got it because one day it was just gone.
Jeff
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You still haven't ever figured out what happened with the clam? I am amazed at how crowded the corals are also...seems like you'd be having all sorts of issues..chemical warfare...sweeper tenticles..etc. etc.
Jcohen9999
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Oy Vey! Don't put the kayn aynhoreh on me.
I was just my decision to allow for a more natural tank instead of the widely dispersed corals that I sometimes see. I really find it interesting when two difference SPSs grow into each other and even wrap around each other.
As was sort of planned, the extra water volume of the sump/fuge and the flow in the tank seem to take care of the issues with the proximty of the corals.
@LekicINC: The fish count is small (as are the fish themselves): Hippo Tang, Yellow Tang, Orchid Dottyback, 2 Ocellaris Clowns (I think), a Six Line Wrasse, Bicolor Blenny. However, I would like to add back the pygmy angel at some point.
Jeff
Jcohen9999
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I can't find that picture right now but what I am pretty sure you are looking at is the float switch for the RO/DI water that I use to autofill my saltwater mixing reservoir and kalswater reservoir. The water from the kalswater reservoir is then pumped into the sump at a steady 300 ml/h to replace evaporation loss.
While the pump situation needs to be adjusted in the spring and fall to compensate for the change in humidty around here, it more than makes up for the piece of mind knowing that there is absolutely no way for a ton of kalswater to be dumped into my tank as is the risk with any auto-top off system (IMHO).
Jeff
Jcohen9999
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When I last posted (seeminngly a million years ago) my tank was doing well and all parameters were basically stable (I think I was still dosing baking sporatically but a calcium reactor fixed that).
Now, here we are down the road and my tank has basically been on autopilot for the last 6 months due to my work load so it has gotten a little overgrown (actually it was my intention to allow it to grown naturally):
However, with a few minutes work (and a chisel/hammer combo) you can start over:
The funny thing is that 80% of the overgrowth was on that top rock. Of course now I have tons of frags.
My next project is to replace the plumbing as it is all encrusted on the inside with calcification from when I was dosing baking soda and it is killing my flow. At least I think that's the problem.
Jeff
(it feels good to be back)
I'm Back!
When I last posted (seeminngly a million years ago) my tank was doing well and all parameters were basically stable (I think I was still dosing baking sporatically but a calcium reactor fixed that).
Now, here we are down the road and my tank has basically been on autopilot for the last 6 months due to my work load so it has gotten a little overgrown (actually it was my intention to allow it to grown naturally):
However, with a few minutes work (and a chisel/hammer combo) you can start over:
The funny thing is that 80% of the overgrowth was on that top rock. Of course now I have tons of frags.
My next project is to replace the plumbing as it is all encrusted on the inside with calcification from when I was dosing baking soda and it is killing my flow. At least I think that's the problem.
Jeff
(it feels good to be back)
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Jcohen9999
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11707545#post11707545 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bax
Nice to see ya around Jeff.
The re-worked look is great.
You still have the largest sump to display ratio I've ever seen here on RC
Bax! Nice to hear from you. Your tank is looking great. And I like your idea for taking pictures inside the tank but I don't know if they make a glass bottomed tank small enough to fit inside my tank
BTW, that sump size has saved my butt a few times (for example when I left the RO/DI running into the tank too long) and keeps the tank really stable.
I still have a few pieces sitting in my fuge/frag area to replace but I am in no rush as I am kind of enjoying the openess of the tank.
Jeff
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Thanks Jeff, I've come a long way since my simple 26 bow started. I still have it, use it as my QT, and may set it up very soon as a clown anem tank.
Having a larger water volume is always a saving grace in this hobby, that's for sure! My 120 has about 145 g of filtration behind it and just survived a 10 g RODI water blast form a ATO dump recently without a hiccup!
Having a larger water volume is always a saving grace in this hobby, that's for sure! My 120 has about 145 g of filtration behind it and just survived a 10 g RODI water blast form a ATO dump recently without a hiccup!
Jcohen9999
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11708208#post11708208 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by melev
It is nice to see an update on this tank.
Did you ever have any problems since so many cleaning products are used in a bathroom?
It was nice to be able to make an update...with the lack of attentioned paid to this tank over the last year it could have easily gone the other way. I can't tell you how many times the top off ran dry and I wouldnt notice for a week.
As for the cleaning products....Not that I know of. I guess I wouldn't really know if it had a negative impact either unless it went really south. But as far as I can tell , other than a misplaced rubber ducky :eek2:, no bathroom related foreign objects entered the tank.
Jeff
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melev
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I'm really glad to hear that Jeff. I guess if something had happened tue to bleach or windex, you would have told us how it affected the tank, skimmer, and livestock. That's pretty much what I meant.
Are you going to give it a good cleaning and post new pictures so we can see in it better?
Are you going to give it a good cleaning and post new pictures so we can see in it better?
Jcohen9999
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11708708#post11708708 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by melev
I'm really glad to hear that Jeff. I guess if something had happened tue to bleach or windex, you would have told us how it affected the tank, skimmer, and livestock. That's pretty much what I meant.
Are you going to give it a good cleaning and post new pictures so we can see in it better?
The mirror is mostly cleaned with water only. Occassionally I will spray some newspaper with windex (outside in the hallway) and give it a once over but no chemicals (except those that escape the human body during the normal use of the room!) are allowed to be sprayed into the air. So to this day I have no adverse situations due to chemicals.
BTW, I think you missed the last picture...that's the after picture once I trimmed everything and cleaned the glass. I basically started over (except nowI have a basement fulll of frags).
Jeff
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