Sam's Oceanic 120

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1/10/23
Now that I have the room in my sump for the reactor trio I put a cutting-board top of it for a table and am using my old CO2 scrubber hoses - perfect length!

 

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1/10/23
New product!

7" Filter Sock Cup - Filter Sock Replacement System

Filter Sock cup for 7" Filter Sock holders. Getting tired of dealing with those huge filter socks? Look no-further... There are two ways to get the perfect filtering replacement for felt or mesh filter socks: Complete: Use some filter floss. Use included template and cutout as many disks of...

parlaquatics.com

 

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1/13/23
Major headway on the frag tank these past few days. Below are some of the tasks I accomplished:
Added extra drains to the corner tank.

Cut down the overflow reservoir because it was too big:

Added Black PCV Ceiling tile tank underlay and White PVC ceiling treatment:

Routed another GFCI circuit to the tanks and attached an EB8 to it:

Split the supply so it can service both satellite tanks. (Improvised for lack of a 3/4 mip to 1/2 barb.)

Added the drain lines and routed all the wires and water supply line:

 

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1/14/23
Scrubbed all the frags before moving them in...
PhotoDump!

 

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1/14/23

 

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1/16/23
Finally got some PAR measurements!

 

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1/6/23
For the longest time I lamented loosing all the space in my tank to the two giant weirs in the back corners of my tank until I thought of the little trick of putting air stones at the bottom. Now they're both serious air-exchange locations. I should put the air-pump in the attic to get fresher air.
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The Phyto I setup before I went on vacation all grew out and now I have a ton! 3 more gallons in-process.

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Redid my fuge light with another cheapo Amazon fixture... This is a better setup then my prior one.
Thanks again to extruded PVC ceiling tiles, craft knife, and CA glue...
Feel like @MarlingBaits 'CrazyGlueAndBakingSoda'
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I have the same Amazon fuge light

 

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Awesome new updates. Now, we just need to catch up two years.

 

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1/17/2023
Before:

After:

 

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1/17/23

Started second type of Copepod:

I thought these two were totally dead:

Thumbnail Dump:

 

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1/17/2023
Phyto situation:

growing well.

 

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Dude I'm a little jelly, it looks like you have a sweet reef laboratory going on there!

Thanks! It was a nasty old sump room before. It had a random electrical conduit running across it.
It took some elbow grease and a lot of scrap shelving (I did get 2 melamine shelves and their brackets).
My wife is a little salty that I just commandeered more space for myself.
I told her she wasn't doing anything with it before and now it looks nice if I accidentally leave the door open or want to sell the place.
It still stores all the House's paints, stains, hardcore cleaners, and battery backup for the sump pump.
I do all this stuff when she travels for work so I keep telling her to stop travelling and she wont have any more surprises.
That's why I put in the Frag tank in installments.
She has seen it coming; have to be blind to not see it; I think its a little game of cops and robbers we play.
But, like a cop; she waits till my hands are on the Jewels before she comes in with siren's flashing.

 

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1/18/23
omg! I never was in a position of creating products for folks but I've found its very rewarding. Super cool seeing things you've been a part of make it out to the world:

!!!YOU MAY NOW HAVE ALSO NOTICED............

So, a while back I made a fuss about using these little cups to ship sps. you can read all about it here. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/you-may-have-noticed.899879/ Well, after I posted that thread I was inundated with info on options for other ways to protect frags in bags while shipping...

www.reef2reef.com

 

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1/19/23
This is my algae dealing method: (I said rip-clean because it was easier but I do most of it in the tank.)

 

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1/20/23

 

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@projectsWithSam I was wondering if you'd come back with more updates. Thanks for posting.

 

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1/22/23
I was having so many bad prints from poor adhesion I fianlly made a decent enclosure for the enders.

Rock for the 15Gallon is cooking! I drilled many frag-plug holes in the rock because they'll make it much harder for the dragon wrasse to dislodge my corals.
He'll still pile gravel on them though...

This feels really nice to see. I could never get these numbers without CO2 scrubbing. My Top-of-Skimmer scrubber has been effortless to maintain.

 

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Finally animated a gif of the ParlAStir in action!

 

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1/25/22
photo dump! not very good shots... things are turning around I think. *knocks on wood*
I think Timmy is transitioning

 

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1/28/23
Bummed I came home last night and found my Yellow Coris Wrasse and learnt to fly...

he had gotten big in the tank. He was still wet so I tried to resuscitate him in the tank but he was already gone... I bet If I had been 1/2 hour earlier I could have saved him.