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Bob E · Jun 15, 2023

I picked up one of these drop in refugium's. it also comes with a small pump when I placed it in the sump about a quarter of fuge is out of the water and when the pump runs to close to surface. doesn't circulate good enough and would be a salt creep mess

so here I decided to drill another hole lower down for the pump

I'm thinking this should help me tumble the cheato nicely without the pump splashing making a salt creep mess

FYI
I have the Gen 1 redsea sump that I modified to fit redsea roller mat. the divider for the fuge is lost when you remove the filter socks

Bob E · Oct 15, 2023

A time lapse update of tank

Bob E · Oct 29, 2023

Updated picture of sump with new light. Kissel H80. I had the Tunze light on before but was just too long to fit in the small space I had left

Bob E · Nov 4, 2023

I few pictures of some of the corals I have in the tank

Bob E · Nov 4, 2023

The PH in my tank rarely spent much time above 8.0 so I'm trying a CO scrubber to see how much of a change it will make

Bob E · Nov 6, 2023

Saturday Nov-4 my Reefmat drive motor quit working. used the app to sent massage mainly just to see what they will tell me. I know these motors have issues and already placed and order to get one this week

Bob E · Nov 8, 2023

Have few new corals

Bob E · Nov 10, 2023

I found a young trochus snail in the sump. currently on the yellow
one baby

here is has been moved to the display

Bob E · Nov 11, 2023

Needed to replace the drive motor for my roller mat. motor failed on Saturday and ordered new part Monday it arrived Friday. Toke me about 15 minutes total time to replace motor and install sub-assembly back onto base. No need to reprogram unit just motor change and then go to app and hit resume.
While I was waiting on motor every time I passed the tank I would hand turn the wheel a little to keep filter working

Bob E · Nov 14, 2023

Mr chili is the most popular addition.

Bob E · Nov 22, 2023

I finally got sum Chaeto for my little refugium along with some pods to seed the the chaeto

Bob E · Nov 22, 2023

another time laps of the tank

Bob E · Feb 19, 2024

An update from December 21 and not a good one.

Ok, at about 4am my wife woke me up and told me she smelled smoke, after making lap around the house and no fire. we found the strongest smell in the room with the tank. when I open the cabinet doors the DOS doser for the auto water change started running and then the breaker popped. After further investigating I found the inlet (new water) water line for the auto water change had come off and every time the doser started the new water was just dropped down and low and behold the power brick for the light was getting a little spray every time it ran. I unplugged from the wall and disconnected opposite end and checked the AC end and power brick were damaged beyond use. Next reset breaker and everything was back up and running and back to bed.

After waking up in the morning I reattached the line that had come of and plugged the Doser back in. I checked the rest of the connections. all were good.
I sent a ticket to Neptune requesting replacements parts. The next day I called and if I remember right they were closed for the holidays. called again the 27th the individual updated ticket and needed to check inventory to see if they have any. After more calls and on January 2nd I was able to pay for parts. Also during this time I was going to be driving a couple of horses to Florida for the winter show season. Left on Friday the 5th and at that time parts have not arrived. Drove to Florida and ran around to help get everything setup for them to ride and take care of the horse. On one of these days the Apec jr sent a message that temp was high. Contacted house sitter to take a look but was going to be a bit before she would get to the house as the temp was continuing to rise. just had heater unplugged. Arrived back home on the 15th and went straight to work, when arrived home I replaced the inkbird controller. The heaters them self were still ok. The 16th called Neptune and for what ever reason parts were never shipped and they said they would find out what was going on and call me back. nuptune called back and said they contacted BRS and they would ship the parts out for the light.

After all of this I lost a Torch and a small single head hammer with another octo not looking very good. all three of these I added to tank one week before the light failure. The rest of the corals have been in the tank for some time and recovered just fine. The new additions couldn't handle the issues.

Bob E · Mar 18, 2024

A hitch hiker from last year must have laid some eggs. this is the first time I seen one of them since I first caught the adult april last year
a baby sea slug or bubble snail
I guess this means I likely have many roaming the tank