300 gallon peninsula

Emac909 · Apr 8, 2016

Mike sokol said:
Was curious what you are running your radions at. Love the look of the color of the corals, maybe the pvc hanger had something to do with it ?

12 hours a day with one hour ramp up to 100% and one hour ramp down back to 0. So 10 hours of every channel at 100%

Aceone said:
Curious on your light schedule. What is the setting? 20K and what intensity are you running?

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See above

laverda said:
Very nice tank. I like the look of your doors a lot. how are you attaching them? I am working on setting up a 300 myself at the moment. Why is it that no manufacturer can build a trully sealed magnete? I have bad one from 6 different companies, very frustrating!

I used pop magnet clips.

deerhunter06 · Apr 8, 2016

which tang is the boss? Sohal or clown?

TUSI · Apr 8, 2016

deerhunter06 said:
which tang is the boss? Sohal or clown?

I would think sohal tang

Emac909 · Apr 8, 2016

The sohal is for most part but they both can do some damage. Lately they have kinda packed up like a team to drive the other 4 tangs nuts.

Justin D · Jun 10, 2016

Do you still have the sohal and clown tang together?

Emac909 · Jun 14, 2016

No. A few months back the tank started to die. I found a magnet leeching in the tank. Fish started getting sick and corals rtn'ed. The clown was the only tang that didn't make it [emoji24]. I did break down this tank and started over from scratch.

Triggreef · Jun 14, 2016

Emac909 said:
Well had a bit of a leaking magnet so had to cut a few corals back
01/03/2016

How did you determine it was a leaking magnet? And how did you find it? My tank is 100g smaller and I must have 20 or 30 magnets in it I would guess.

erk · Jun 14, 2016

Triggreef said:
How did you determine it was a leaking magnet? And how did you find it? My tank is 100g smaller and I must have 20 or 30 magnets in it I would guess.

I personally found the cleaning magnet I left in that tank had corroded and was releasing toxins into the tank. I got rid of it and within a couple weeks things started to improve. Things are still going well, but I tore down the tank to move and set everything up in a large plastic tub. So if those magnets you have in the tank are cleaning magnets, I'd get them out.

Just to clarify, I was using a cleaning magnet as a support for a frag rack. That is why it was always in the tank.

shoelaceike · Jun 14, 2016

Very impressed with the growth. Do you dose anything?

Justin D · Jun 14, 2016

Emac909 said:
No. A few months back the tank started to die. I found a magnet leeching in the tank. Fish started getting sick and corals rtn'ed. The clown was the only tang that didn't make it [emoji24]. I did break down this tank and started over from scratch.

That's sucks sorry to hear that

Emac909 · Jun 14, 2016

shoelaceike said:
Very impressed with the growth. Do you dose anything?

Never did. Just cal reactor and fish poop. I try to keep it simple.
The more stuff u add can give more room for error.

Emac909 · Jun 14, 2016

Triggreef said:
How did you determine it was a leaking magnet? And how did you find it? My tank is 100g smaller and I must have 20 or 30 magnets in it I would guess.

The tank kept looking worse and worse over a few months. I keep checking everything in parameters and everything was perfect. But still sps was stn'ing. The tissue wasn't pealing fast tho. It's was slowly reseeding. I had been thinking it was a magnet for a while but I had checked them for defects or swelling and they all looked fine. One day I got a bug up my but and started opening them up. Sure enough I found a pump mounting magnet that had a tiny leak but there was a lot of rusty water in the casing. I took it out but things really never started to recover. So I just decided to start over.