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First 5.0 gallon FSW container was switched out today. Water change went pretty seamlessly. There are bubbles in the tubing from the FSW that doesn't seem to impact the flow to the tank. Just odd.
Tucson reef tank
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On quarantine tank, I change out 5 gallons with fresh Catalina saltwater. Yesterday changed out 10 gallons from quarantine using 10 gallons from display tank. Considering having dual pump setup to make quarantine setup same as dt.n later will dump and fill from dt for consistent parameters. Added 10 montiporas today along with scopas tang to keep the 6 line ompany.
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Spoke to apex . They said you can change system clock and see what the controller is doing. Too bad you don't have option to check state of each programmed register.
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Doing 10 acros tomorrow. I'll post pics. 3x water to acclimate corals with refill from Dt.
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Monti's and encrusting visiting the acclimation tank for a while. Going to pick up acropora's today.
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Getting ready to acclimate corals. Temperature acclimated already. Now drip. DT water to frag tank to acclimation coral to dump bucket. Took a few hours to drip acclimate.
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Fish love the nori. Getting healthy. Corals will be entering in around 3 weeks to a month. Depending on quarantine.
Most acros and encrusting monti's in frag tank. Waiting till next Tuesday for millipora's.
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Tried to implement the code for the float switches and Sunday, Monday water change schedule. The code written above does not work. I had to come up with something slightly different to make work. Having a register based software feature makes you have a different mentality of thinking. Interesting!
For NSW:
Fallback OFF
If SW_1 OPEN Then OFF
If SW_2 OPEN Then OFF
IF Outlet SUNDAY NSW = OFF THEN OFF
IF Outlet MONDAY NSW = OFF THEN OFF
VIRTUAL OUTLET SUNDAY NSW
Set ON
If DoW S------ Then OFF
If Time 00:00 to 6:00 Then ON
VIRTUAL OUTLET MONDAY NSW
Set ON
If Dow -M----- Then OFF
If Time 18:00 to 23:59 Then ON
For OSW:
Fallback OFF
If SW_1 OPEN Then OFF
If SW_2 OPEN Then OFF
IF Outlet SUNDAY OSW = OFF THEN OFF
IF Outlet MONDAY OSW = OFF THEN OFF
VIRTUAL OUTLET SUNDAY OSW
Set ON
If DoW S------ Then OFF
If Time 00:00 to 6:10 Then ON
VIRTUAL OUTLET MONDAY OSW
Set ON
If Dow -M----- Then OFF
If Time 18:10 to 23:59 Then ON
For NSW:
Fallback OFF
If SW_1 OPEN Then OFF
If SW_2 OPEN Then OFF
IF Outlet SUNDAY NSW = OFF THEN OFF
IF Outlet MONDAY NSW = OFF THEN OFF
VIRTUAL OUTLET SUNDAY NSW
Set ON
If DoW S------ Then OFF
If Time 00:00 to 6:00 Then ON
VIRTUAL OUTLET MONDAY NSW
Set ON
If Dow -M----- Then OFF
If Time 18:00 to 23:59 Then ON
For OSW:
Fallback OFF
If SW_1 OPEN Then OFF
If SW_2 OPEN Then OFF
IF Outlet SUNDAY OSW = OFF THEN OFF
IF Outlet MONDAY OSW = OFF THEN OFF
VIRTUAL OUTLET SUNDAY OSW
Set ON
If DoW S------ Then OFF
If Time 00:00 to 6:10 Then ON
VIRTUAL OUTLET MONDAY OSW
Set ON
If Dow -M----- Then OFF
If Time 18:10 to 23:59 Then ON
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It's the desjardini tang. Angels don't get a ticket to this ride. I'm trying my hand at sps this time around.
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stay strong!..its so easy to fall for the " well,this one could be reef safe"...and then spend the next 2 months trying to trap it.I love angels too,but not for my tank .
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Getting ready to acclimate corals. Temperature acclimated already. Now drip. DT water to frag tank to acclimation coral to dump bucket. Took a few hours to drip acclimate.
You have a lot more patience than me. Wild, aqua or maricultured colonies, frags... I just dip with melafix or Bayer and into the tank (I do observe the wild and maricultured stuff for a day or so in a separate "qt") but I've never drip acclimated my acros-haven't lost one yet
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I'm a novice with sps. I had a mixed lps tank for years and had relatively good success. I wasn't to careful and purchased difficult to keep corals: like tubastria sun coral and flower pot corals. This time around I'm trying to read more on Rc and be a lot more careful in the process.
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More coral acclimation on the 4th. Everything looks good in the quarantine tank. Letting the coral sit for a few months before moving to the DT. Took advantage of the BRS 10% sale and acquired another Apex dosing pump. Going to change around 30 gallons of water from my 20 gallon acclimation tank to the DT sump. Want to have parameters the same on both tanks. During quarantine, if anything get's bugs, I will turn off the dosing pumps so that the DT doesn't get medicated in any way.
I plan on drawing water after the filter socks and returning into the QT tank so inadvertent bugs don't get into the DT.
Also, purchased a dehumidifier. The QT tank has a small evaporation fan over the water for cooling. Cools great but, there's a lot of humidity in the office where the tanks reside.
I'm also looking into the Genovac backup generator. We get monsoons here in Arizona. Power goes out periodically.
Here's some pictures of my SPS frags.
I plan on drawing water after the filter socks and returning into the QT tank so inadvertent bugs don't get into the DT.
Also, purchased a dehumidifier. The QT tank has a small evaporation fan over the water for cooling. Cools great but, there's a lot of humidity in the office where the tanks reside.
I'm also looking into the Genovac backup generator. We get monsoons here in Arizona. Power goes out periodically.
Here's some pictures of my SPS frags.
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I just have an Apex JR. I use the breakout box with an PM 1 add on box. Auto water changes and dosing. And, now water mixing between DT and Acclimation tank. I'm will not be medicating fish. That's what our lfs does. I don't purchase fish unless already medicated and eating. Programming takes a bit to get used to. Sequence of events is important and reverse logic thinking has to be employed due to the operation is dependent on last state of register being controlled. Lots of examples in the comprehensive manual and Neptune technical support is good.
I use a JBJ chiller in my non-a/c storeroom. It works great and I don't feel the extra heat. The cooling fan over the Acclimation tank makes the room super humid. Getting a dehumidifier. Once water is cycled with the DT, maybe I can ditch the fan.
I use a JBJ chiller in my non-a/c storeroom. It works great and I don't feel the extra heat. The cooling fan over the Acclimation tank makes the room super humid. Getting a dehumidifier. Once water is cycled with the DT, maybe I can ditch the fan.
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I have a weird one. The lines going to new saltwater is cloudy inside the tube all the way from the new saltwater canister, through the DOS and all the way to the DT.
Since there's bubbles in the lines, maybe there's a slight air seepage issue. Thus, there's probably some level of evaporation going on causing the cloudiness. Probably, salt precipitation.
Has anyone seen this?
Since there's bubbles in the lines, maybe there's a slight air seepage issue. Thus, there's probably some level of evaporation going on causing the cloudiness. Probably, salt precipitation.
Has anyone seen this?
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Went out of town to Sedona with the family. Left my acclimation tank with 6 dkh. Dosed for 1kh increase in 4 days to 10. Got back and perhaps the dosing wasn't added at the specific point in the tank that I labeled. One acro is stressed. Decided to do a 30 gallon per day water change between my dt and acclimation tank using the dos system. I hooked up, calibrated, ran hosing and started the water cycling between tanks. Will make transfer much easier.
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Sending pic of trifecta in the morning.
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30 gal water change in 20 gal acclimation tank
