Soulpatch's 150 SC build
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mav3rick478
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It's pretty, it's so pretty. I really need to finish getting everything for my build!
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soulpatch
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Might be less actually just some growth from a few have taken off recently.Quite a few more acro's then when I saw it in person.
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Amazing looking tank!
mav3rick478
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Lately I've given my Melanarus 3 peppermint shrimp before any of them had a chance to eat any of my Aiptasia. They each lasted less than 8 hours. A very costly set of meals I might add at $8 a pop [emoji2357]
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soulpatch
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No not yet. Not ready to do so as I stabilize my stuff and setup.
That said let's talk before reefapalooza and I'll bring you and homer a few things.
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soulpatch
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So as is the case with my tank it seems I am swapping some equipment.
Sold the GHL doser and KH director. I liked it and found it reliable BUT it did not give me trend lines since I did not have the Profilux. Seems trivial I am sure but for me it was critical to see trends over time as I adjusted various items. Looking now to upgrade my Apex headunit and likely delve into the Trident.
My new fish have come along great but run into a slight issue with the grow out tank. My copperband is amazing in the display with the aiptasia I have to the point I don't see them. They were in my sump and overflow which the copperband cannot get to and as such now in my grow out tank to a degree. Thinking of trying the berghia route again in the growout tank and see how they can do to keep that area under control. Added benefit is that there are no predators for them in that tank with the melanus and such in the display.
I missed the last frag swap as I was in Europe for business so as such have a large batch to be going to my LFS shortly for resale. A lot of decent looking cuts that have healed and allowed me to dial in my radion and get corals to not only heal but color up as my cuts are normally the outer bottom edges and as such dull to a degree.
I need to figure out my ATO for my upcoming vacation though. With the grow out tank being open top I am exhausting my ATO in a manner of a few days. I churn through a good 2+ gallons a day at this point. I am thinking a large 30 gallon tote but worry slightly about siphon and flooding the tank. I do however have the spectrapure ATO unit I was using for my calrx feed I can utilize which should mitigate that risk but still something I need to test. Else I will utilize my tried and true pump from tote into omy ATO res so as worst I only overfill that one and don't drift my salinity.
Sold the GHL doser and KH director. I liked it and found it reliable BUT it did not give me trend lines since I did not have the Profilux. Seems trivial I am sure but for me it was critical to see trends over time as I adjusted various items. Looking now to upgrade my Apex headunit and likely delve into the Trident.
My new fish have come along great but run into a slight issue with the grow out tank. My copperband is amazing in the display with the aiptasia I have to the point I don't see them. They were in my sump and overflow which the copperband cannot get to and as such now in my grow out tank to a degree. Thinking of trying the berghia route again in the growout tank and see how they can do to keep that area under control. Added benefit is that there are no predators for them in that tank with the melanus and such in the display.
I missed the last frag swap as I was in Europe for business so as such have a large batch to be going to my LFS shortly for resale. A lot of decent looking cuts that have healed and allowed me to dial in my radion and get corals to not only heal but color up as my cuts are normally the outer bottom edges and as such dull to a degree.
I need to figure out my ATO for my upcoming vacation though. With the grow out tank being open top I am exhausting my ATO in a manner of a few days. I churn through a good 2+ gallons a day at this point. I am thinking a large 30 gallon tote but worry slightly about siphon and flooding the tank. I do however have the spectrapure ATO unit I was using for my calrx feed I can utilize which should mitigate that risk but still something I need to test. Else I will utilize my tried and true pump from tote into omy ATO res so as worst I only overfill that one and don't drift my salinity.
That does look pretty spectacular!
I always wonder how people handle having pests in their system, not just display, longer term, when they take care of it with a local solution. I guess you'll just have to keep them at bay in both tanks. It would be neat to see if you can get berghia to survive, and maybe even spawn/thrive in the frag tank without predators.
For an ATO, I went with a 15g acrylic container from online, and I've been extremely happy. My troubles are more from user error while messing with the pump and programming, than with the container or even the stock ATO setup. I'm using the neptune ATK/pmup/FMM. So far so good, knock on wood.
I always wonder how people handle having pests in their system, not just display, longer term, when they take care of it with a local solution. I guess you'll just have to keep them at bay in both tanks. It would be neat to see if you can get berghia to survive, and maybe even spawn/thrive in the frag tank without predators.
For an ATO, I went with a 15g acrylic container from online, and I've been extremely happy. My troubles are more from user error while messing with the pump and programming, than with the container or even the stock ATO setup. I'm using the neptune ATK/pmup/FMM. So far so good, knock on wood.
Njdevils1220
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I have the SC 120 and wish I did the 150.
soulpatch
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Wishing I did a 300+ some days. Others however I wish I never set up. Haha. Story of our lives in this hobby.
So after RAP I discovered my t5 rails were rusting and leaching into my water when splashed. I think this caused some issues in my tank and was coupled with a CO2 tank that ran out for my calrx.
So needless to say I've been dealing with some water quality issues and as such lost some coral. I need to do a Triton test soon to ensure indent have something else I'm not seeing going on.
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Triton
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I had a similar issue from a frag rack magnet. Do a ICP test, pending your results will tell you how to fix it. The hardest part is the wait time to get the results. You can use GFO to remove certain things if you want to try and save some stuff in the mean time.
Triton
I had a similar issue from a frag rack magnet. Do a ICP test, pending your results will tell you how to fix it. The hardest part is the wait time to get the results. You can use GFO to remove certain things if you want to try and save some stuff in the mean time.
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