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strittmatter
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how about using siliconing a bracket type thing to the overflow then srewing the egg create into that?
I had thought about that, but at this point if I am going to be siliconing anything I would rather do something that I know will work out long term. I have heard stories of some of hte negatives to using egg crate for the overflows, just that they need to be cleaned alot more than regular teeth and are algae traps. I don't see it myelf, but either way I have 4 of the removable combs that Johnathan posted on order and hopefully on their way to us shortly 
jnarowe
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Tom, in the long run you will be a lot happier with the removable combs. They let a lot of water pass through and just keep the fish out of the overflow. When you can yank one out, take it to the sink, and clean it, it's just a better experience. The egg crate would be VERY difficult to keep clean. When they get covered with coraline, then you can soak them overnight in vinegar.
strittmatter
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Why does egg create get dirtier faster?
Well, salt arrived earlier today, so I added a second Vortec and put them both on a wavemaker (with a 15 minute cycle so as to try to avoid the code corruption issue with them) and dumped 2 buckets of salt into the tank. I also added a 400w heater to bring the temp up a bit, there was a 300W in there that did a decent job, mostly because I put a piece of 1" foam over top of the tank to keep the heat in . I have it filled to about 2" or so to the bottome of the overflow teeth (the ones we have left ). I only filled it this much for a couple of reasons, the main one being that I will need the level lower when the new overflow combs arrive and I go to glue them on and another reason being that once I add all of the rock next week it will raise the water level somewhat.
About the overflow combs... I made the payment yesterday morning and it is now afternoon the next day and no shipping notification nor have they returned my Email. So far the Ebay seller AquaCave is not living up to his Ebay ranking
. Do these combs get glued to the outside or inside of the overflows ?
Once the salt is all mixed and what not I will add some seed sand and LR form our main tank to seed the new one, along with suspending some chaeto from our fuge in there as well. Hopefully that will allow the microfauna population to really take hold.
Work is progressing on the new skimmer, I may end up having to move our sump and replumb our return pump and some other pieces of equipment to make it fit where I need it to, time will tell how that will work out. I am stoked about the skimmer, and although I have not really talked about it much here, I have spent a significant amount of time measuring and diagraming our fish room area for where the skimmer will go for Spazz, so that he can design and build it to suit our space needs. I can't wait for it to be finished so we can put our Deltec 902 up for sale and recoup some of that money.
Once the water clears some I will do what I can to take a few more pictures, but for now it is still just a big empty fish bowl
the track for the lighting should arrive tomorrow, although with work I am unsure if I will get to it before this weekend. Then again the pods and what not could care less about the light, so I am not in a huge rush at this point. Look for more pictures by the end of this weekend at the latest !!!
. I have it filled to about 2" or so to the bottome of the overflow teeth (the ones we have left ). I only filled it this much for a couple of reasons, the main one being that I will need the level lower when the new overflow combs arrive and I go to glue them on and another reason being that once I add all of the rock next week it will raise the water level somewhat.About the overflow combs... I made the payment yesterday morning and it is now afternoon the next day and no shipping notification nor have they returned my Email. So far the Ebay seller AquaCave is not living up to his Ebay ranking
. Do these combs get glued to the outside or inside of the overflows ? Once the salt is all mixed and what not I will add some seed sand and LR form our main tank to seed the new one, along with suspending some chaeto from our fuge in there as well. Hopefully that will allow the microfauna population to really take hold.
Work is progressing on the new skimmer, I may end up having to move our sump and replumb our return pump and some other pieces of equipment to make it fit where I need it to, time will tell how that will work out. I am stoked about the skimmer, and although I have not really talked about it much here, I have spent a significant amount of time measuring and diagraming our fish room area for where the skimmer will go for Spazz, so that he can design and build it to suit our space needs. I can't wait for it to be finished so we can put our Deltec 902 up for sale and recoup some of that money
.Once the water clears some I will do what I can to take a few more pictures, but for now it is still just a big empty fish bowl
the track for the lighting should arrive tomorrow, although with work I am unsure if I will get to it before this weekend. Then again the pods and what not could care less about the light, so I am not in a huge rush at this point. Look for more pictures by the end of this weekend at the latest !!!
jnarowe
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I glued mine to the outside of the overflow slot. It's much easier to remove the combs that way and you can keep your hands out of the tank. I have bought from AquaCave before and had good service. Unfortunately the holidays messes with business and makes things a little less consistent.
very nice Johnathan.. unfortunately our overflows are the typical corner ones, made worse by being enclosed over top by the euro bracing, so I don't think I will be able to install the combs inside of the overflows as you did, but I may still, I won't know until they arrive, and since they haven't even shipped yet, I can't say when that will be .
I was able to get the salinty relatively stable around 1.022. I am sure that it will creep up a bit overnight. I went ahead and put the hundred pounds or so of LR we had cooking in our sump along with a ball of chaeto from our fuge. I also threw a canister filter onto it, and the water had started to clear (until I started dropping a bunch of rocks into it, stirring up the sand bed again). Hopefully by tomorrow it will be relatively clear. Once it clears I am going to purposefully stir the sandbed, so that the canister filter can get out as much of the "dust" as possible. Might as well do it now versus after any livestock gets added. Once it clears I will take some picts to share.
.I was able to get the salinty relatively stable around 1.022. I am sure that it will creep up a bit overnight. I went ahead and put the hundred pounds or so of LR we had cooking in our sump along with a ball of chaeto from our fuge. I also threw a canister filter onto it, and the water had started to clear (until I started dropping a bunch of rocks into it, stirring up the sand bed again). Hopefully by tomorrow it will be relatively clear. Once it clears I am going to purposefully stir the sandbed, so that the canister filter can get out as much of the "dust" as possible. Might as well do it now versus after any livestock gets added. Once it clears I will take some picts to share
.Thanks Johnathan.... I won't make the final determination on the combs until they get here and I can see how they will fit and work out.
We normally run our tanks at 1.024 - 1.025, I just got the new tank up to 1.022 to start, knowing that likely some more salt will dissolve throughout the night, and will bring up the salinty slowly, as/if needed. Getting it to 1.022 was enough for me to feel comfortable in transferring the live rock over from the sump. Hope that explains that bit of it.
The tank was alot clearer this morning, but was still a bit cloudy.. so no pictures yet.. maybe later today. I had not checked the salinity yet, will do that later on today (had some early morning meetings this morning that took priority).
We normally run our tanks at 1.024 - 1.025, I just got the new tank up to 1.022 to start, knowing that likely some more salt will dissolve throughout the night, and will bring up the salinty slowly, as/if needed. Getting it to 1.022 was enough for me to feel comfortable in transferring the live rock over from the sump. Hope that explains that bit of it
.The tank was alot clearer this morning, but was still a bit cloudy.. so no pictures yet.. maybe later today. I had not checked the salinity yet, will do that later on today (had some early morning meetings this morning that took priority
).update time :
overflow combs shipped. They appear to be coming Priority USPS, so they should be here by the first of next week, if not sooner. That will relatively coincide with when the rock arrives, so that is good, it means that we may be able to cut over and join the tank to the existing sump by this time next week.
The box track for the lighting arrived. All I can say is that I am very very pleased with what of it I have seen so far, which is just to unbox it and check out the pieces parts. It is aluminum track (I was unsure if they would send aluminum or galvanized, like some track I have seen). They are rated for 125 lbs each track, which is more than enough for our plans
And I really like the runners that came with the track. There is a disconnect that will make things much easier in the long (and short) run. All pocket door box trak may come with this, I don't know, thinking about it they would all need something at least modestly similar, but I really like how this one was designed. Again, my lack of experience with this hardware makes it seem "special" to me, but they all may be like this. Either way, here is what I like about it.
The runners and locking bracket are relatively low profile, and are easy enough to connect and latch.
As I mentioned, when put together little head room is sacrificed
I will be installing these sometime between now and this weekend, as time permits.
I got them here : http://www.hardwareandtools.com/invt/6109649
Odd thing was I originally wanted 4 of them, but they gave a discount for an order of 5 or more, and the discount was better than the additional shipping fee, so I ended up just geting 5. As it turns out I may end up using all 5, to leverage a single light mover for the rack versus one for each light. Either way it shipped quickly and arrived in good time.
:overflow combs shipped. They appear to be coming Priority USPS, so they should be here by the first of next week, if not sooner. That will relatively coincide with when the rock arrives, so that is good, it means that we may be able to cut over and join the tank to the existing sump by this time next week.
The box track for the lighting arrived. All I can say is that I am very very pleased with what of it I have seen so far, which is just to unbox it and check out the pieces parts. It is aluminum track (I was unsure if they would send aluminum or galvanized, like some track I have seen). They are rated for 125 lbs each track, which is more than enough for our plans
And I really like the runners that came with the track. There is a disconnect that will make things much easier in the long (and short) run. All pocket door box trak may come with this, I don't know, thinking about it they would all need something at least modestly similar, but I really like how this one was designed. Again, my lack of experience with this hardware makes it seem "special" to me, but they all may be like this. Either way, here is what I like about it.
The runners and locking bracket are relatively low profile, and are easy enough to connect and latch.
As I mentioned, when put together little head room is sacrificed
I will be installing these sometime between now and this weekend, as time permits.
I got them here : http://www.hardwareandtools.com/invt/6109649
Odd thing was I originally wanted 4 of them, but they gave a discount for an order of 5 or more, and the discount was better than the additional shipping fee, so I ended up just geting 5. As it turns out I may end up using all 5, to leverage a single light mover for the rack versus one for each light. Either way it shipped quickly and arrived in good time.
Here is a poor picture of the tank. This was taken earlier today, and it has cleared a little bit more since then and the dust and debris from the couple of cups of live sand from our main tank has settled also.
You can see the foam I cut out to block in the top portion. I need to start calling carpenters to assist with this, as the ones that had expressed interest have neglected to call back, so time to shop around a bit.
Later on tonight I will turn the flourescent shop light on over the tank and remove the piece of foam covering the tank to let the light in and try to take a better picture. But you can still see that we put a bunch of LR from our sump in to seed everything. The biggest improvement will be when we finally get it conencted up to our current sump. That will really help age the water and speed along any cycle. I want to get that done before any major cycling takes hold.. but then again along those lines I should have held off on the LR and LS
, but it now just motivates me to push the timeline along as best I can, even more so
You can see the foam I cut out to block in the top portion. I need to start calling carpenters to assist with this, as the ones that had expressed interest have neglected to call back, so time to shop around a bit.
Later on tonight I will turn the flourescent shop light on over the tank and remove the piece of foam covering the tank to let the light in and try to take a better picture. But you can still see that we put a bunch of LR from our sump in to seed everything. The biggest improvement will be when we finally get it conencted up to our current sump. That will really help age the water and speed along any cycle. I want to get that done before any major cycling takes hold.. but then again along those lines I should have held off on the LR and LS
, but it now just motivates me to push the timeline along as best I can, even more so - Status
