Soulpatch's 150 SC build
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mav3rick478
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That's sucks, hope everything stabilizes and returns to normal. How heavy is the fixture, I wonder if you could have some rails 3d printed to not have any issues in the future?
You could try spray coating another set of rails but eventually the same thing would happen because as you pull them out the coating gets rubbed away from the friction.
You could try ceramic coating, like what they use for cars but I don't know if it's marine safe.
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You could try spray coating another set of rails but eventually the same thing would happen because as you pull them out the coating gets rubbed away from the friction.
You could try ceramic coating, like what they use for cars but I don't know if it's marine safe.
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soulpatch
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So another thing happened right before I went away on vacation. I was woken at 1 am to a fire alarm.
I had water splash onto my gyre controller I had knocked free from the velcro while cleaning. I had cleaned the water lines and tank as well as the pump BUT failed to ensure drain line was not getting clogged from extra debris I stirred up in frag tank. To be short water level rose to my emergency drains and the gyre pushed water out front of tank dripping onto controller.
Thankfully it was caught early and controller still works. I assume there is internal safety to a degree and the short likely happened where the plug connects causing brief puff of smoke that my overly sensitive detector picked up.
Backup jabeo was used for vacation and now that I am home and gyre fully dried it is up and running again.
Always something though
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I had water splash onto my gyre controller I had knocked free from the velcro while cleaning. I had cleaned the water lines and tank as well as the pump BUT failed to ensure drain line was not getting clogged from extra debris I stirred up in frag tank. To be short water level rose to my emergency drains and the gyre pushed water out front of tank dripping onto controller.
Thankfully it was caught early and controller still works. I assume there is internal safety to a degree and the short likely happened where the plug connects causing brief puff of smoke that my overly sensitive detector picked up.
Backup jabeo was used for vacation and now that I am home and gyre fully dried it is up and running again.
Always something though
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soulpatch
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so been away for a while but it was an eventful last few months. In Mid August I had a tank crash. My tank was already a bit on the rails with some of the other mishaps. I was in summer mode and as such was a bit lazy in countering items which I shouldn't have been after spending a few grand in coral over the summer.
I had my calrx CO2 go out on me and I did not notice so my PH and Alk levels had swung in a bad direction almost over the course of a few days. I noticed a bit of bleaching and tested to see my alk wasnt too bad and added some kalk to my ATO to stabilize till I had more time to mess with the calrx. I did not know, however, that the calrx was not running.
This caused a massive PH swing and alk increase as I evap quite a bit of water and honestly put too much kalk in for what was needed. I had gone to an amusement park for the day after dosing and came back roughly 6 hours later. I opened the door and could smell the tank so knew I was walking into serious issues.
My bluethroat trigger was dead and my other fish were struggling. My corals were all sliming like crazy and everything was closed up. I did a massive water change but with fresh IO the alk is 10 and I did not have buffer so while this saved my fish and some LPS this nuked some of my sensitive SPS.
In the end I lost roughly 90% of my SPS coral. For LPS I lost some acans and my one aussie torch which was a solid 25 heads is now down to 5. All fish save for my trigger survived.
In the months since I have been working to get stable and am now so. My phosphates are still super high as old coral skeletons and such I cannot get to decay a bit. I am running phosgard and such intermittently to drop it some but not to shock the tank. I have about another 1-2K in coral purchases I have slowly added again to the tank for growout with some local guys giving me deals and such as well.
All in all this has been a VERY expensive past few months. In a way kicking myself for not snagging a mindstream when I could have so as to have testing ongoing. I will certainly be looking to purchase one when available again as I cant bring myself to trust the trident with all the issues I read about with the regents and calibration.
I had my calrx CO2 go out on me and I did not notice so my PH and Alk levels had swung in a bad direction almost over the course of a few days. I noticed a bit of bleaching and tested to see my alk wasnt too bad and added some kalk to my ATO to stabilize till I had more time to mess with the calrx. I did not know, however, that the calrx was not running.
This caused a massive PH swing and alk increase as I evap quite a bit of water and honestly put too much kalk in for what was needed. I had gone to an amusement park for the day after dosing and came back roughly 6 hours later. I opened the door and could smell the tank so knew I was walking into serious issues.
My bluethroat trigger was dead and my other fish were struggling. My corals were all sliming like crazy and everything was closed up. I did a massive water change but with fresh IO the alk is 10 and I did not have buffer so while this saved my fish and some LPS this nuked some of my sensitive SPS.
In the end I lost roughly 90% of my SPS coral. For LPS I lost some acans and my one aussie torch which was a solid 25 heads is now down to 5. All fish save for my trigger survived.
In the months since I have been working to get stable and am now so. My phosphates are still super high as old coral skeletons and such I cannot get to decay a bit. I am running phosgard and such intermittently to drop it some but not to shock the tank. I have about another 1-2K in coral purchases I have slowly added again to the tank for growout with some local guys giving me deals and such as well.
All in all this has been a VERY expensive past few months. In a way kicking myself for not snagging a mindstream when I could have so as to have testing ongoing. I will certainly be looking to purchase one when available again as I cant bring myself to trust the trident with all the issues I read about with the regents and calibration.
soulpatch
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The thought did cross my mind of selling off. The thousands I had just spent and the colonies I had to throw out was devastating. If it wasnt for some of the surging corals and fish that I liked I might have gone that route. I also know this happens to most which made it easier and unlike many I knew what happened that crashed things and it was my fault.
Now if only I could get automatic testing again I'd be in a better position
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mav3rick478
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Damn, that sucks. Glad you're toughing it out and bringing it back up. You made me look at the Mindstream and it's interesting and a serious consideration if I can ever get my 75 started. Which I really need to before the end of the year. I'm guessing in the long run its cheaper than testing yourself because you also have to consider your time.
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soulpatch
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I'm lazy when it comes to testing and know I'm bad at it. If I can buy something to do it for me then I am all about it. I wanted the trident but so many issues and cant find the darn thing. Plus I'd need to upgrade my apex to run it and I do NOT plan to dose based on values so connection to my controller doesnt matter to me.
Mindstream has the worry that they are slow to meet demand and stopped taking orders while they catch up. That said they seem to be most complete and 30 a month for calibrated disks that I just swap in and out seems worth it to me. No calibration solutions or drifting PH probes...
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Mindstream has the worry that they are slow to meet demand and stopped taking orders while they catch up. That said they seem to be most complete and 30 a month for calibrated disks that I just swap in and out seems worth it to me. No calibration solutions or drifting PH probes...
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mav3rick478
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Did you get an email from Mindstream this morning, they just closed their doors because of lack of funding. It's a shame, I was looking forward to possibly getting one. It says they will try to find buyers for products or parents but we'll have to wait and see, bummer.
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mav3rick478
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I thought people who were waiting for products were able to get refunds? Yes sucks for the people who got products and now don't have a supplier for replacement disks but there is hope if another company buying everything and hopefully reissuing the product without overpricing it.
Growing pains are hard for start ups, you always hope for the best but usually end up with the worst scenarios. Let's hope this product can get resurrected with major backing.
BTW, Merry Christmas to everyone if this thread goes silent next week for obvious reasons.
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mav3rick478
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Hey fellas, how are things? How's the tank doing Soul?
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strat1960s
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Last summer I went through a situation where I wasn't sure if I'd stay in the hobby or not. We moved from San Antonio to a small town a couple hours south of Dallas. The 50g SCA, 210g Aqueon, and all my gear survived the do it ourselves move. But it took me almost two months to get water in the 50g. My plan was/is to use the 50g as my quarantine tank for fish and corals. In San Antonio, the 210g was set up as a peninsula. The stand was built specifically for this. At the new house, there wasn't anywhere to set it up that way that my wife and I could agree to. I knew what I wanted to do, but it took a couple of weeks to plan it all out. I sold the 72x24x29 210g and all the gear for it in January. I placed an order with Planet Aquariums for a 48x48x24 (240g) tank. I really like to 24x24x24 SCA cube and that is what motivated me to go this route. I brought the tank home in late January and got busy setting it up.
I was considering stepping away from the hobby, but once I got to thinking about it, well I think I'll keep these tanks until I am not longer able to keep them.
I was considering stepping away from the hobby, but once I got to thinking about it, well I think I'll keep these tanks until I am not longer able to keep them.
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