quiksilver
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11685574#post11685574 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by melev
I wish you would update this thread.
LOL don't make me come over there :uzi:
Quiksilver's Ultimate 29g Tank Thread
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LOL don't make me come over there :uzi:
The krylon fusion dried to a non tacky touch on the spa flex in about a half an hour or so for me. I noticed a HUGE difference between the fusion and the regular stuff as I tried some on some pieces not going near the tank and it didn't seem to dry as nice. I haven't moved the spaflex lately so I can't say whether or not the paint would hold up when moving it around a lot but who needs to after it's set.
quiksilver
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We did use the kind of fusion I posted and it didn't work. Apparently bmwaaron knows of the specific kind of fusion that you must use when painting spa flex. He's gone on vacation but I'm sure he will post it here after he returns. Cause in my experience the Krylon Fusion for Plastic didn't even kind of dry after a day. But there are like 4 other kinds of Krylon Fusion so no doubt that one would work.
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I spent the last 24 hours with Melev building a sweet DIY project. I'll update this with all the pictures of it and explanations when Marc sends me the pictures of everything 
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quiksilver
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Aight, since Marc is being lazy and won't send the DIY pictures yet (LOL), let's talk about the grape caulerpa bloom I had in my display and the resolution from a few weeks back.
Fast forward 7 months from the last pictures you saw. Here's the tank...
You are probably doing the same thing I did right about now, which was @#$%)*&@)#($*% )*!!! The outbreak occurred slowly at first as just a few pieces of caulerpa went from my refugium in the sump through the Mag 7 into the display and seeded the tank. I kept pulling it out and then it would grow back (caulerpa is a pain, you have to get rid of the roots for it to stop growing). Apparently if you want to grow caulerpa really quickly use a 10k reflux 250w MH bulb.... Anyways, I thought I had some control over it until I left for Christmas break for 3 weeks. Then all this occurred while I was gone.
That's my clam under all that if you can see it. Poor thing.
This is either my montipora or candy cane. It's too thick, I can't even tell.
And even my amazing prop tank felt the affects of me being gone and not able to clean it.
Don't get too upset. I'm about to show you how it got all better.
Fast forward 7 months from the last pictures you saw. Here's the tank...
You are probably doing the same thing I did right about now, which was @#$%)*&@)#($*% )*!!! The outbreak occurred slowly at first as just a few pieces of caulerpa went from my refugium in the sump through the Mag 7 into the display and seeded the tank. I kept pulling it out and then it would grow back (caulerpa is a pain, you have to get rid of the roots for it to stop growing). Apparently if you want to grow caulerpa really quickly use a 10k reflux 250w MH bulb....
Anyways, I thought I had some control over it until I left for Christmas break for 3 weeks. Then all this occurred while I was gone.That's my clam under all that if you can see it. Poor thing.
This is either my montipora or candy cane. It's too thick, I can't even tell.
And even my amazing prop tank felt the affects of me being gone and not able to clean it.
Don't get too upset. I'm about to show you how it got all better.
quiksilver
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All this was about 2 weeks ago at this point. I called Marc for some backup as I knew I was in for a long process of hand picking all that macro algae off each rock. He brought some goodies to help and I mixed about 35 gallons of fresh saltwater with Ocean Pure salt while he was driving.
The first thing I did was turn the Mag7 return off and used a maxi jet 1200 to keep water rotating through the sump as seen here. The Vortech in the display would stay on for flow up there. You can also see here that once I got flow in the sump Marc began handing me rocks down and I would place all my rock in my refugium and sump. This would allow me room to pull all caulerpa roots out of the sand in the main display.
The prop tank would be cleaned out and all the corals that I could fit would stay in there for protection for the time being.
Here is a picture of me netting out the last of the roots that were floating around the display after tearing all the caulerpa out of the sand.
Each and every single live rock from the display was taken individually and worked on for 10-30 mins. Giant forceps were used to pluck any piece of caulerpa I could find and as I would get done we would carefully place it back in the display.
The whole process took hours, but was the only option for me. I could have "cooked" the rock for a few months in darkness but I would have had to go buy more rock to take its place in the meantime.
After the rockscaping, each coral would be put back into the diplay and checked for caulerpa. You can see how murky the water got from the entire process.
The first thing I did was turn the Mag7 return off and used a maxi jet 1200 to keep water rotating through the sump as seen here. The Vortech in the display would stay on for flow up there. You can also see here that once I got flow in the sump Marc began handing me rocks down and I would place all my rock in my refugium and sump. This would allow me room to pull all caulerpa roots out of the sand in the main display.
The prop tank would be cleaned out and all the corals that I could fit would stay in there for protection for the time being.
Here is a picture of me netting out the last of the roots that were floating around the display after tearing all the caulerpa out of the sand.
Each and every single live rock from the display was taken individually and worked on for 10-30 mins. Giant forceps were used to pluck any piece of caulerpa I could find and as I would get done we would carefully place it back in the display.
The whole process took hours, but was the only option for me. I could have "cooked" the rock for a few months in darkness but I would have had to go buy more rock to take its place in the meantime.
After the rockscaping, each coral would be put back into the diplay and checked for caulerpa. You can see how murky the water got from the entire process.
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I really feed my tank very little as many of you know and because of the cleaning process the water was now full of nutrients. Look how happy everything looked all polyped out trying to catch food.
My cucumber could not have been more excited about the floating debris! He was moved into the prop tank for a while but I'm thinking of putting him back in the reef now.
The hydnaphora as well as other frags would be placed in the prop tank to recover from being agitated by caulerpa.
The Euroreef RS-80 skimmer absolutely went nuts that night as expected.
My cucumber could not have been more excited about the floating debris! He was moved into the prop tank for a while but I'm thinking of putting him back in the reef now.
The hydnaphora as well as other frags would be placed in the prop tank to recover from being agitated by caulerpa.
The Euroreef RS-80 skimmer absolutely went nuts that night as expected.
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Man, that makes me want to take all the caulerpa out of my refugium.
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I would empty and clean the skimmer a couple times that night and once more in the morning. By the next day the water looked amazingly clear with no signs of caulerpa in the display at all. I sat in front of my tank with astonishment at the transformation that had occurred in Marc and my's 12 hour or so job.
So worth the time I think. I installed a new bulb (AB 12,000k I believe) that I had gotten from a vendor at MACNA 2006 (Aqualine Canada I think?). I hated it at first but as it has burned into spectrum, I love it more and more. I had used the Reflux 10,000K for a year and loved that but missed the touch of blue.
That day I got rid of my leather that Marc thought was a singularia as this was supposed to become an SPS tank and singularia will kill SPS.
I then bought some new SPS from Fish Gallery in Dallas. I'll post pictures soon.
So worth the time I think. I installed a new bulb (AB 12,000k I believe) that I had gotten from a vendor at MACNA 2006 (Aqualine Canada I think?). I hated it at first but as it has burned into spectrum, I love it more and more. I had used the Reflux 10,000K for a year and loved that but missed the touch of blue.
That day I got rid of my leather that Marc thought was a singularia as this was supposed to become an SPS tank and singularia will kill SPS.
I then bought some new SPS from Fish Gallery in Dallas. I'll post pictures soon.
quiksilver
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Yeah, my 250w MH Reflux 10k bulb was over a year old and I'm sure way more yellow than it should have been. Since replacing it, it has been a ton better.
But my phosphates and nitrates have always read 0 with Salifert tests because I never feed. That's why Marc thinks all that caulerpa looked all starved and clearish without much pigment.
Yeah speaking of... last night I got pi$$ed from removing little pieces of caulerpa every day since then. I got my bucket and removed all of the caulerpa I could take out. Now I just have chaetomorpha and some red dragon's breath from Marc. Here's a picture but the stupid thing is focused on a piece of grape caulerpa left over.... UGH... That crap even affects me when I take pictures.
But yeah, TAKE IT ALL OUT. It's evil and I will never use it or recommend it to anyone ever again. In my old setup I had a tiny baby hippo tang that absolutely devoured it. Maybe I should get another one.
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That dragons breath is really nice looking.
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