What have you done with your tank lately?

[VSpeck]

Don't know if anyone is interested but how about a thread for what have you done with your tank. You could post changes you have made or growth shots or anything interesting you've seen. We are always messing with our tanks here's a place to show off what you have done or grown.

 

[Nanook]

Nothing to show off, but here are a few things I've done lately:

Cleaned all Tunze pumps with muriatic acid, cleaned cube tank glass with razor blade for the like-new look. Took the Iwaki 100 RLT apart this evening on the skimmer and cleaned it brand new, cleaned the vinyl tubing on the inside that feeds the skimmer. The skimmer is rocking now it is so clean. Hooked up my Hammerhead Gold for the main pump, nice having more flow compared to the Barracuda. I have to reseal the Barracuda and take my skimmer pump off and reseal that as well, good thing I have an extra. I also added 5 gallons of new GFO to my two 8" reactors, so my PO4 should be zeroish

 

[Nanook]

Nothing to show off, but here are a few things I've done lately:

Cleaned all Tunze pumps with muriatic acid, cleaned cube tank glass with razor blade for the like-new look. Took the Iwaki 100 RLT apart this evening on the skimmer and cleaned it brand new, cleaned the vinyl tubing on the inside that feeds the skimmer. The skimmer is rocking now it is so clean. Hooked up my Hammerhead Gold for the main pump, nice having more flow compared to the Barracuda. I have to reseal the Barracuda and take my skimmer pump off and reseal that as well, good thing I have an extra. I also added 5 gallons of new GFO to my two 8" reactors, so my PO4 should be zeroish

 

[Tigé21v]

Dave,
Do you use regular or high capacity GFO? Do you regenerate it? 5 gallons at a time, that's quite a chunk of change.

 

[Lawenforcer]

Upgraded to LEDs...

 

[Blacksscamaro]

Had a powerhead fall over and blow sand all over my rocks

 

[VSpeck]

Nothing to show off, but here are a few things I've done lately:

Cleaned all Tunze pumps with muriatic acid, cleaned cube tank glass with razor blade for the like-new look. Took the Iwaki 100 RLT apart this evening on the skimmer and cleaned it brand new, cleaned the vinyl tubing on the inside that feeds the skimmer. The skimmer is rocking now it is so clean. Hooked up my Hammerhead Gold for the main pump, nice having more flow compared to the Barracuda. I have to reseal the Barracuda and take my skimmer pump off and reseal that as well, good thing I have an extra. I also added 5 gallons of new GFO to my two 8" reactors, so my PO4 should be zeroish

Sounds good now me and Alex need to get out to see it while it's clean maybe a sspn?

 

[VSpeck]

Dave,
Do you use regular or high capacity GFO? Do you regenerate it? 5 gallons at a time, that's quite a chunk of change.

Every thing is nook sized around his house. 5 gals is nothing for him... He eats 5 gallons of cereal for breakfast every day! :lol:

 

[VSpeck]

Upgraded to LEDs...

Pics?

 

[zephryn100]

For me I just ordered 2 new power heads and a protein skimmer and a reactor for my coral tank. Now the only other thing I would like to get for it is a different light. right now I have the jbj 28 cf quad light on top of the tank it is rigged to be on there as the tank is only a 20 gal. I want to get either a led or t-5 light for it.

 

[mkart]

I added another mp40....new mp40 failed and now I am waiting on a replacement. Plumbed a new frag tank and picked up a big ole chiller. The most exciting news is that I have my first noticeable growth on SPS since my temp issues! Other than that its been 2 months of hoping and praying after tossing 90% of my Acropora. My green bubble tip slit 5 ways which is a pain since they now want to move.

 

[Mascis]

Just finished my fallow period. Hopefully ich eradicated. Fish look happy to be back in the big tank. Dinos also very much on the decline.

 

[Schplitter]

I added another mp40....new mp40 failed and now I am waiting on a replacement. Plumbed a new frag tank and picked up a big ole chiller. The most exciting news is that I have my first noticeable growth on SPS since my temp issues! Other than that its been 2 months of hoping and praying after tossing 90% of my Acropora. My green bubble tip slit 5 ways which is a pain since they now want to move.

I'll buy one off of you if you can hold on to it for me for a couple of months while I get the tank ready.

 

[Mr D smack]

I've been doing a lot of things :spin1:

Bigger skimmer now running of the return pump. Changed out the 2 Maxi jets moded with 2 Tunze 6045s. And playing with lighting. Here are a few shots of different lights over the last year.

6-T5 bulbs all ATI. 3-blue+, 2-blue special, 1-purple plus

2-250wSE MH Hamilton 14k and 2-140wVHO Super Antic

2-150wDE MH Phoenix 14K, 4-T5's 2-Blue plus 2-purple plus

 

[Hubla75]

just polished out most of the scratches on an old 60 gallon acrylic tank to get it ready to sell and installed a light inside the stand of my 135

 

[smoothdog]

Switched out my phosban 550 reactor with a 150 yesterday. GFO is much easier to dial in the flow rate when the reactor is at least 2/3 full.

 

[smoothdog]

Tank looks great Dsmack!

 

[VSpeck]

I've been doing a lot of things :spin1:

Bigger skimmer now running of the return pump. Changed out the 2 Maxi jets moded with 2 Tunze 6045s. And playing with lighting. Here are a few shots of different lights over the last year.

6-T5 bulbs all ATI. 3-blue+, 2-blue special, 1-purple plus

2-250wSE MH Hamilton 14k and 2-140wVHO Super Antic

2-150wDE MH Phoenix 14K, 4-T5's 2-Blue plus 2-purple plus

Looks good now repost in the fts thread and lets get that going too.

 

[Mr D smack]

Tank looks great Dsmack!

Thanks. I think Im going to be putting the T5s back on. The corals seem to grow better with that set up.

 

[Reeferhead]

What have I done with the tanks lately? Brutally ignoring them unfortunately. Hopefully I'll find some time soon for a little TLC. The jawfish tank particularly really needs some much overdue maintenance.