Tank is up & running! 150g Reef

[wiszmaster]

well... i just finished setting up the sump/fuge ... been working on it since ~ 4pm ... flooded my garage once ... damn near lost the return pump ... ran out of parts 10 minutes till 8pm - made it to lowes 5 minutes after closing time ... :-/ ... tomorrow i will have to re plumb the line going to the skimmer


but NO leaks! ::knocking on wood/acrylic::



tomorrow the rest of my lights will be here .... not sure if i'll get a chance to install them yet ... maybe one ballast till its done ( 3/3/2) - would be easier on the livestock?


we picked up a purple serpent star, 11 more pyramid snails, 5 red hermit crabs, 10 scarlett crabs & a blood shrimp ... sometime in the next week or so we will probably start with a fish.

i just noticed i have some aiptasia growing ...

 

[Concrete]

Nice Tank

Nice Tank

Hey Wizmaster, Nice Tank!! I have a Queen Angel lookin for a nice home if your interested...


I noticed your WWW. goes to StormReadyBuilders. You Need a Concrete Contractor??? :smokin:
It's been kind of slow over here in the Cape...


Where did you get your LR?? Looks nice.


Here is my Angel:

 

[Concrete]

yes, the rock came from an existing system - pmike25 (sp?) from new port richey tore down his 180g .... i picked up all of his rock, and most of his sand & water ...

Should have read all of the Post's before opening my mouth...

 

[wiszmaster]

What's the deal with the queen angel?
Why do you want him gone?
Trade him for a blue damsel?! Lol

Tonight we added a blue tang, a copperband butterfly, and 3 peppermint shrimp.

Protein skimmer is plumbed as well ... Need to 'tune' it though

 

[coralfarmer84]

sounds like its coming along nicely...

 

[wiszmaster]

since late last night the tank has been cloudy .. :-( ... maybe the protein skimmer ... not sure. i don't think they are micro bubbles ... even put a sock over the drain going into the sump.

did some water tests this AM ...

Salinity = 1.025
PH = 8.46 (on AquaController w/ lab grade probe)
PH = ~7.7 - 8.0 (on Tetratest PH)
Amonia (NH3/NH4+) = 0/IDEAL (Jungle Lab Corp - Quick Dip test)
Amonia
Nitrite = <0.3mg/l (Tetratest NO2)


does anybody have the Tetra Test kit w/ NH3 ? i borrowed this one from 'lisaFL' - & the color chart for NH3 is missing .. my test read the color just a tad bit lighter than the N)2 yellow (,0.3 mg/l) ... what does that read on the color chart?


Thank,

marco

 

[lisaFL]

Hahaha Marco! I'm not getting rid of my blue damsel.
Unless............. i get a bigger tank. Mom would never approve.

 

[lisaFL]

Oops.... sorry i had that one laying next to my tank.
I just used it last week. I'll give it to mom to give to you.

 

[wiszmaster]

i have all 6 of the 80w t5's installed ... and extended the wireing harness ... PITA.
the tank is cloudy ... realllllly cloudy. has a greenish cloudy look ... not sure whats going on ... yesterday morning most of the parameters i tested for were good .... so i think.

one of the 54w 4ft bulbs came with a defect, the other 54w i busted by dropping the canopy on it :-/ ... already re-ordered ... doubt they will make it here this week.


defective ATI bulb.

 

[wiszmaster]

i got the 6 x 80w done, hacked up the wireing harness, and popped the canopy back up on the tank tonight ... here is what it looks like now ..... did i mention it was cloudy? :-(

i'm guessing that the extra ... 70-90gallons i added on sunday didn't do the tank so good?!
when the lights are off, the water looks green/yellowish ..... any ideas?

 

[lisaFL]

aw man, hope it gets fixed.
Hope the coral and fish are fine.
<3,
Lisa

 

[wiszmaster]

and this AM the tank is NOT cloudy anymore ... lol.
i ran my reverse plumbed protein skimmer, and the red sea berlin as well ... both pulled out a decent amount of nasties ... even though none was really brown ... more like funny milky looking water ...

 

[wiszmaster]

reverse plumbed protein skimmer:

 

[coralfarmer84]

looks like you got it all figured out. thats the first skimmer I've seen that runs from top to bottom thou.

 

[wiszmaster]

ist all replumbed now ... it seems to run a little more stable ... none of the yo-yo effect with the water level going up & down ... and its making some clear/milky looking skimate - none of this brown stuff everybody else has ... weird ... i hooked a light to the fuge ... i saw a fe things moving around ... just couldn't catch what that was ... must have come in the bags of livesand.

yesterday i added 60lbs of livesand to the fuge, and a small bit of chaeto macro algae ... if this stuff grows like crazy i'll be trimming it .. if someone needs some for their fuge?

 

[Concrete]

Hey Wiz, I'll take some of that Cheato. I'll be in south Ft. Myers (The Forest) pouring a slab. Give me a call and I'll pick some up (Sent phone# in PM)

 

[wiszmaster]

jeff,

so far it hasn't grown any yet .... but if it will, i will post it up for 'frag' ... until then ... talk to rich @ boardroom - he said he has a bunch of it @ home.

where in the forest? we are building 3 houses in the forest right now (timberlakes, panther paw & forest oaks)