Eric,
I only have a longfin fairy wrasse and the Labouti. The Labouti is very colorful although shy at times.
Frank
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Eric,
I only have a longfin fairy wrasse and the Labouti. The Labouti is very colorful although shy at times.
Frank
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Tank looks great Frank. Have you considered pairing or creating harems for the wrasse's. Makes for some great courtship displays.
Haven't thought about that.....especially considering the price on the Labouti.
Mike,
not sure how long I've been dosing now but after a couple of weeks the PH is now over 8.1 during the day and stays around 8 at night....so I'm happy with that. I'm now having a battle with diatoms on the sand bed.....running gfo but I have to set up my dual BRS reactor that I picked up a couple of weeks ago and start running carbon. Also, I have yet to set up my 40 gal refugium and 20 gal frag tank. I want to set them up (not because I have extra frags....that's all I have in the DT) because I want the extra water volume and I want my macro algae to start flourishing and help out on the phosphates. I have 5 mangroves and various macro in my sump right now.
Frank
You have incredible patience. I could never wait as long as you did to put this whole thing together. It obviously paid off!! Your tank is the proof.I love the fact you loaded it with so many fish. Alot of guys do the opposite and load it with coral and very little fish.
I haven't heard anything about dosing vinegar? Is that the latest and greatest idea in keeping the PH stable?
I haven't heard anything about dosing vinegar? Is that the latest and greatest idea in keeping the PH stable?
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Just become friends with Mr Ramen Noodle and you can buy a few more of them :lol:
This is a work in progress.....I still have alot more to do. PLUS I am very slow (LOL). Eventually I plan on the corals growing in...so hopefully I end up with a nice REEF TANK not just FOWLR.
Regarding the vinegar dosing....it is similar to vodka dosing and I believe it has more to do with keeping the phosphates down. During the winter months many of us have shared the problem of lower ph values and I was just sharing my current values....I dose the vinegar with kalkwasser mixed in RODI.
Update
Update
It's been awhile since I updated this thread but during the interim I have added an algae turf scrubber to my system, (over my 40 gal refugium), added 2 pairs of 80 watt T5's to broaden the color spectrum to my existing 3 x 180 watt LED fixtures and added a 2nd chamber to my Knop calcium reactor. I also increased the flow about a year ago...from 2 x 6105 tunze units to adding 2 x jebao wp40's. The wp40's both crapped out about a month ago, (they both died within 2 weeks of each other after approximately 13 months of useage). I've replaced 1 with a jebao RW15 and may purchase a second, (I am currently using a Koralia 1200 as the other replacement).
Update
It's been awhile since I updated this thread but during the interim I have added an algae turf scrubber to my system, (over my 40 gal refugium), added 2 pairs of 80 watt T5's to broaden the color spectrum to my existing 3 x 180 watt LED fixtures and added a 2nd chamber to my Knop calcium reactor. I also increased the flow about a year ago...from 2 x 6105 tunze units to adding 2 x jebao wp40's. The wp40's both crapped out about a month ago, (they both died within 2 weeks of each other after approximately 13 months of useage). I've replaced 1 with a jebao RW15 and may purchase a second, (I am currently using a Koralia 1200 as the other replacement).
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Thanks Mike.....finally starting to resemble a reef tank.
mguili1947
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That tank is sick Frank.Really nice
Matt
Matt
Thanks Matt......
reelredfish
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Looks great fish room is just a little bigger than mine. I have a humidity fan in Ceiling that goes out the roof.
I dont have any real form of incoming air to the room and have always wondered if its an issue. I built mine in 2014 so not far off.
I dont have any real form of incoming air to the room and have always wondered if its an issue. I built mine in 2014 so not far off.
My fish room is in the garage....I can always open the door for fresh air but then again it's still the garage, (and that doesn't help in the dog days of the summer). I did install a hose that runs out of the fish room, through the wall to the outside of the house, (fresh air). This hose is connected to my protein skimmer to pull in fresh air. I did this because the ph was dropping too low at night. It does help. I have my exhaust fan running 24/7...this exhausts into the garage but pulls the air out of the fish room. There is a noticeable difference if that exhaust fan were to be turned off. It has 2 settings and whenever there is a power surge the fan automatically shifts to the lower setting (I have it set to the higher setting). Whenever this happens I can tell the difference in the room as soon as I walk in. The room gets pretty hot in the summer with all that equipment in there....that's why I have a chiller. I had originally installed 3 feet of "high efficiency baseboard heating in the room with it's own shutoff valve. I've never used it. In the winter the coldest it gets in that room is low 70's.
