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Got a pretty interesting day coming up for the tank on Monday.
As you may or may not know, I struggled for a while with some weird STN issues on some of my SPS. Never really figured out an exact cause. It has for the most part completely subsided, and I attribute a little of that to having increased flow significantly to the areas of my tank dominated by SPS.
I'm still having some slight issues with occasional LPS (acans for the most part but a challice or two as well) not doing super well though overall the tank is healthy and every test I throw at it tells me my parameters are spot on. Having spent months thinking and talking to everyone in the world about it, I still don't really have any idea what the story is. So, doing a bit of a reboot on the tank. I'll dose some chemi clean Saturday morning just to give it a mild clean out before the big day.
Then... We're going to pull all the livestock out of my tank, remove the sand, drill a couple of holes in it, and put a closed loop in.
We will then put in a new SSB with a slightly larger grain of sand. Scrub all the rock while it's out of the tank, and do a 300 gallon water change before new rockscaping and all the corals going back in.
Should be a pretty crazy day.
Skip's the mastermind behind the plumbing per usual and will be performing the hard work of drilling stuff and putting the closed loop together.I'll say that the guys at Reef Culture have all be instrumental in getting it to this point where we are ready to go and formulating a plan. We've been discussing it on and off for a month or two now tinkering with a plan and are finally at the point where it's time to get it done. My personal thanks to the whole staff for their contributions to "the plan" with a special shout out to Nick for being so supportive. Those guys care about my tank as much as I do.
Going to use a reeflo dart gold for the loop which will have four returns each with a flow accelerator. Don't know yet whether this means I'll be able to pull the tunze's or not, hope so, but either way, should be adding a TON of flow.
Wish us luck!
As you may or may not know, I struggled for a while with some weird STN issues on some of my SPS. Never really figured out an exact cause. It has for the most part completely subsided, and I attribute a little of that to having increased flow significantly to the areas of my tank dominated by SPS.
I'm still having some slight issues with occasional LPS (acans for the most part but a challice or two as well) not doing super well though overall the tank is healthy and every test I throw at it tells me my parameters are spot on. Having spent months thinking and talking to everyone in the world about it, I still don't really have any idea what the story is. So, doing a bit of a reboot on the tank. I'll dose some chemi clean Saturday morning just to give it a mild clean out before the big day.
Then... We're going to pull all the livestock out of my tank, remove the sand, drill a couple of holes in it, and put a closed loop in.
We will then put in a new SSB with a slightly larger grain of sand. Scrub all the rock while it's out of the tank, and do a 300 gallon water change before new rockscaping and all the corals going back in.
Should be a pretty crazy day.
Skip's the mastermind behind the plumbing per usual and will be performing the hard work of drilling stuff and putting the closed loop together.I'll say that the guys at Reef Culture have all be instrumental in getting it to this point where we are ready to go and formulating a plan. We've been discussing it on and off for a month or two now tinkering with a plan and are finally at the point where it's time to get it done. My personal thanks to the whole staff for their contributions to "the plan" with a special shout out to Nick for being so supportive. Those guys care about my tank as much as I do.
Going to use a reeflo dart gold for the loop which will have four returns each with a flow accelerator. Don't know yet whether this means I'll be able to pull the tunze's or not, hope so, but either way, should be adding a TON of flow.
Wish us luck!
