Fishroom Reality Check

[Fishy_mcfish]

Green- that’s my incoming water from the overflow. It’s a settling tank that collects detritus, and overflows into the skimmer section at exactly 26 gallons capacity

This arrangement lets me dump 26 gallons down the drain via this white pipe running down the back of the sump and into my ejector pump

This guy is plumbed via hose to my salt water mixing barrel, for refills.

26 gallon water change and detritus removal in 8 minutes... [emoji51][emoji51][emoji51]


Blue— yep... 40 gallon fuge that was supposed to take chaeto (having issues with my algabarn orders...still). Manifold off return line to run at 350 gph.

This last blacked out tank is a 29g fully cryptic fuge for sponges- but it needs to be brought online. It was also supposed to be off manifold, but it appears I’m going to need a bit more flow than I thought, so will need it’s own pump

Looks good! What area of Atlanta are you In? We are going to be moving to Georgia in a couple years and I plan on having a basement fishroom myself. We have been looking into the Snellville Lawrenceville area currently.

 

[User]

Looks good! What area of Atlanta are you In? We are going to be moving to Georgia in a couple years and I plan on having a basement fishroom myself. We have been looking into the Snellville Lawrenceville area currently.

Lawrenceville suwanee

Hit me up when you move and I’ll give you a tour

 

[Victoria M]

Where’s mine?! [emoji51]

PM me your address

 

[Fishy_mcfish]

Lawrenceville suwanee

Hit me up when you move and I’ll give you a tour

Dang we spent almost a whole day driving around Lawrenceville and Snellville last week!

 

[User]

Dang we spent almost a whole day driving around Lawrenceville and Snellville last week!

What neighborhoods? Any idea? I’m over in Collins hill. We have a bunch of houses for sale here

 

[User]

Gah!!! You are really making me miss my garage fish room.

Ironic, because yours was one of the builds that inspired me.

 

[Fishy_mcfish]

What neighborhoods? Any idea? I’m over in Collins hill. We have a bunch of houses for sale here

I’m not familiar with the area, I know we started at the 85 kind of near where the trampoline park is and worked out way down to Snellville. We were back and forth between Lawrenceville and Snellville because my navigator, aka wife, isn’t the best with directions haha we are hoping to go back out this summer. If we do I’ll hit you up and see about that tour lol

 

[User]

I’m not familiar with the area, I know we started at the 85 kind of near where the trampoline park is and worked out way down to Snellville. We were back and forth between Lawrenceville and Snellville because my navigator, aka wife, isn’t the best with directions haha we are hoping to go back out this summer. If we do I’ll hit you up and see about that tour lol

Lol@navigatorWife. Mines the same way. Except she confused lilburn and lawrenceville the first trip out. We were an hour late for a viewing

Tours only apply to local residents. So I can guilt you into giving me frags... [emoji14]

 

[User]

Graduation day out of QT for the CUC tomorrow.

The hermits are in a floating acclimation box. Easy enough to transfer.

The snails- thinking I’ll pick all the visible ones into a container, then keep the tank active and pick the stragglers out as I see them. Maybe starve them out for a few days and put a pint ice cream container with some food in there to entice them in.

Or I could take a cup of the sand to seed later, sift the small snails out of the bulk of the sand, then wash it and set up the tank again with the ‘seed sand ‘ to get my biofilter going. Then use this tank for my pistol shrimp coming in a few weeks.

So- “pick and watch” or “sift and seed”?

I doubt it makes any difference, but I’m a planner, lol

 

[User]

I suspected the bucket might be the chaeto. Have you thrown some fish flakes in with it? Dirty water? I would be happy to send you some. QT it if you want. I won’t be offended. I even have a little insulated box from a shipment I could use.

Yeah- I’ve been adding some plant food (F2 that’s recommended for phyto-culture) but it still fragments over time. My NO3 and PO4 in the bucket are 55 and 0.4 respectively, so there should be enough in there.

I’m kinda confused as to why it’s failing. Algaebarn have offered me some sea lettuce instead, but I’ll admit I haven’t looked at that as an alternative to chaeto. I’m wondering if this is the excuse I need to go full on display fuge with a bunch of different things.

 

[Victoria M]

Yeah- I’ve been adding some plant food (F2 that’s recommended for phyto-culture) but it still fragments over time. My NO3 and PO4 in the bucket are 55 and 0.4 respectively, so there should be enough in there.

I’m kinda confused as to why it’s failing. Algaebarn have offered me some sea lettuce instead, but I’ll admit I haven’t looked at that as an alternative to chaeto. I’m wondering if this is the excuse I need to go full on display fuge with a bunch of different things.

My red light is growing chaeto like CRAZY. I really think you need dirty water.

 

[User]

My red light is growing chaeto like CRAZY. I really think you need dirty water.

Possibly, but I’ve QTd chaeto before with the same F2 dose and it did fine. Was using a different light though, so maybe the combo is off. I’m getting a UFO grow light fur Christmas, so maybe that’ll do better.

 

[User]

Since I’m giving up the 20l with the mangroves and sexy shrimp (wall mounted above fuge- turns out electrical etc would be too complicated to route) maybe a display type fuge is in the cards instead.

Need to look into that.

I’m planning to put a few mangroves in the overflow/settling 29g tank, but it won’t be anything like the lagoony sexy shrimp rock flower anemone tank I envisioned

 

[Victoria M]

Since I’m giving up the 20l with the mangroves and sexy shrimp (wall mounted above fuge- turns out electrical etc would be too complicated to route) maybe a display type fuge is in the cards instead.

Need to look into that.

I’m planning to put a few mangroves in the overflow/settling 29g tank, but it won’t be anything like the lagoony sexy shrimp rock flower anemone tank I envisioned

lol. The horror. Dang electrical.

 

[User]

lol. The horror. Dang electrical.

I know- first world problems, right?


To be honest- i *could* get away with it, but in the interests of keeping things looking good, I have a self imposed restriction on electrical conduit running alongside plumbing. I even added extra studs in that particular section of the wall for support. Once I put the ATO controller up, I just envisioned it being way too crowded.

We’ll see how I feel once the electrical is actually up. I might change my mind back

I was going to model it on this tank-

https://www.nano-reef.com/featured/2016/brad908-r114/

But no macro-algae, and with a small group of sexy shrimp, a couple RFAs and a tube anemone.

 

[Victoria M]

That is such a pretty tank, isn’t it?

 

[User]

Any rules against just droning on like a filibuster to get this thread up to 400 by the end of the night?

The skunk cleaner I put in last Wednesday (after molting in QT) finally came out of his little cave and is exploring around the tank. Guess he’s hardened up and starting to feel comfortable

Crappy cell phone pic

 

[User]

That is such a pretty tank, isn’t it?

One of my favorites to look at and read about over and over. Definitely up there in the beautiful category

 

[Victoria M]

One of my favorites to look at and read about over and over. Definitely up there in the beautiful category

Me too.

 

[Victoria M]

400! Mine I got it!