600 Gallon Hawaiian Reef Addiction

[thedropoffreef]

Hi All,

I took a few months off due to the frustrating times this hobby sometimes brings. I am sorry to say I have lost all SPS, a few LPS, and about 50% of all my inverts. Some how, some way, copper got into my system. The only major changes that happened were, I moved the chiller outside and had to use a bag of Oceanic Salt for a water change instead of Tropic Marin. Anyways, copper has been removed via Seachem metal removing media, poly-filters and 3 major water changes. I added peppermint, cleaner, and fire shrimp and so far no losses. I am still going to wait a few more months to start adding new coral to the system. Other notes: I switched out the sand in the living room SPS tank and turned one of the frag tanks into a shallow reef.
Thought I would be short and sweet today. Attached are pictures along with the water test result sheet. I hope all is well with you and your underwater friends.

Water Test 8/1

90 Gallon

120 Gallon

White Tail Tang

Refugium

Seahorse

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

AMAZING system!!! I know dealing with the copper had to be tough to bounce back from, but looks like you're doing a fantastic job! Did you actually lose any pieces from that? (I assume so, but didn't see you mention it)

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[reefer antax]

Really nice system. I'm so stunt about it the way you started from nothing to everything

 

[thedropoffreef]

AMAZING system!!! I know dealing with the copper had to be tough to bounce back from, but looks like you're doing a fantastic job! Did you actually lose any pieces from that? (I assume so, but didn't see you mention it)

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Thanks! Im still getting the last bit out. I lost all SPS in about 4 hours, all shrimp died over night, and lost 5 LPS. Things are slowly getting back on track!

 

[thedropoffreef]

Really nice system. I'm so stunt about it the way you started from nothing to everything

Thanks!

 

[thedropoffreef]

Today is finally the day!

 

[thedropoffreef]

Finally! After 12 years in this hobby, I have finally purchased my favorite fish the tinkers butterfly. I am ecstatic to finally have the privilege to own theses fish. It will be interesting to see the differences in behavior in an aquarium rather then in the wild. Sizes 1.5" & 2". They are both eating out of my hand only 2 hours after being introduced into the aquarium.

1.5"

Pair

 

[TJ's Reef]

That is so very COOL, being that I primarily have Hawaiian Livestock to my system would love to find and add a healthy Tinkers B-fly as well. Glad to see your Reeftank on the mend always a pleasure to drop in and see what's going on in there.

Cheers/Mahalo, Todd

 

[nelson.jdautobody]

Nice tanks- wow

 

[thedropoffreef]

That is so very COOL, being that I primarily have Hawaiian Livestock to my system would love to find and add a healthy Tinkers B-fly as well. Glad to see your Reeftank on the mend always a pleasure to drop in and see what's going on in there.

Cheers/Mahalo, Todd

Thanks! My system is still in rebuild mode but its getting close to where it was a few months back.

 

[thedropoffreef]

Nice tanks- wow

Thank You!

 

[thedropoffreef]

Happy Friday!

I installed an Eshopps dosing master pump and slave unit on my system yesterday. Does anyone have suggestions on what to dose? I am planning, Calcium, Magnesium, and Alkalinity Buffer. I have two pumps still available? Suggestions?

Have a great weekend.

Dosing System

Tinkers!

 

[fishroomlady]

love the new butterflies. So sorry about your losses but glad to see that didn't deter you from staying in and rebuilding

 

[stunreefer Verified Sponsor]

*Cough* Update *cough*. Let's see those fat tinkers

 

[YHSublime]

Agreed on an update and seeing those fat tinkers!

 

[maroun.c]

Amazing Setup.
Sorry to hear about the copper incident but looks lilke you recovered fine.
Looking forward to some updated pictures of the system.
Can you please elaborate on the inline water heater you mentioned early in the thread?

 

[Singlefin]

How are the Tinkers doing?

 

[Aleks]

Impressive work! It is a pity that there is a loss, but without this hobby does not happen.
Whence came in copper?

 

[Krull]

I like your style, man! Nicely done!