Thanks! I may get one 40 gallon and the other slightly larger just to be safe. Going to get them from rural king since every other site wants to charge $100+ in freight!
When are the fish coming in?
My fish come in on Saturday. I need to be home for them and couldn't stay home from work. Though my wife is sick and at home right now she wouldn't know how to take in the fish so with the money involved it is much better that I am home to ensure it all goes well.
Damn! It takes me about a month to go through 4 gallons on my BC29! I guess that hood is good for something. Then again, the cooling fans haven't had to be on since it's been cooler, but now I have to replace those fans with something and evap will go up... but even when the fans were on I don't think I went through more than 4 gallons every two weeks or so.
Being in my basement it is drier then typical especially with my air handler in the next room. I run a heat pump and as such I think my house runs drier then most. I should hook my humidifier back up to the HVAC that I never knew I had until recently but I am not sure I trust it after it has sat for 8 years. Plus I dont know how to do it. LOL.
That said with the biocube I was going through a minimum of 1/4-1/2 gallon a day. That was fully open top though whereas this is a larger tank so the evap is not too bad. I am not sure if going AWC will help anything on that regard but honestly RODI is cheap so no worries on my end. I have a minimum of 25 gallons made at all time as I keep my RODI unit on constantly and allow the float to handle on/off for me.
I'm surprised in the BC your not going through more evap then that.
My topless 80 is going through nearly identical amount of evap as my biocube, roughly 5g a week. I've even decided I can continue to use the Tunze nano ATO seeing as its nearly identical and the nano keeps up just fine.
The pump is exactly the same. It is just a different controller and I believe the switch in the base of the pump toggled to the higher speed setting. Otherwise identical.
As for the tank updates I dont have much at this point. It is a waiting game for the new equipment to come in. I should have the sump sometime in May. The new 75 gallon drum should be about the same time. I still need to order in a DOS unit but no rush at this point and after spending over 1K on the tank in the last week I want to rebound some before the wife starts to notice. I still have to pay for my clown fish pair so that is another 110 spent on those after my credit taking back my current black ice clown.
The new clowns are already bonded and look great though. They are ice mocha which is kind of like my black ice but with a richer black and a slightly more vibrant orange I guess. Just more contrast. They have been at the store for some time but not in QT so I will bring them home Saturday and they can go through everything with my other fish.
I will be grabbing some tanks tonight from petco. I wil be sending a 6.5" tusk, small bristletooth tang, powder blue tang, and those 2 clowns through TTM and QT together. I will split for the actual QT so that I dont have so many fish in one tank. Either way I will probably pick up a 40 gallon and 2 20 gal tonight at Petco. I will use the 20s for TTM then put the larger fish in the 40 for QT. The smaller guys can go in the biocube. I need to clean it out this weekend and give it a good vinegar bath but it will be ready to go.
My poor water station is going to be going nuts the next few weeks to keep up. I shoudl order in some more salt as I will easily be going through 70 gallons of SW a week for a while...and durig the 12 days of TTM I will be closer to 110 gallons a week....
