Fishroom Reality Check

[User]

Me too! I have a weird thing for fish rooms. I love a neat and tidy fishroom, and I LOVE the frankensteins monster fishrooms such as @ca1ore fishroom.

THat fishroom gives me legit panic attacks. I can’t look at pics of it without hyperventilating, lol

 

[Victoria M]

6 random 4 second power cuts on the apex today, so my return stopped, pulled a siphon for 2 seconds then restarted. Two yesterday.

Annoying thing is, I have the alerts to send me a text every time the return is turned off. I don’t get an alarm, but I do get an alarm off notification when it restarts.

It also means I’m starting to feel like I can’t trust this thing. Not a good feeling after investing about $1k into it

This is absolutely gut wrenching. Is a poor wireless internet connection? I just don’t understand. I see these complaints quite a bit.

 

[User]

This is absolutely gut wrenching. Is a poor wireless internet connection? I just don’t understand. I see these complaints quite a bit.

No. I hardwired it. I ran 75 feet of premium cat6 specifically to avoid bs like this

I don’t know what the issue is. When/if I ge time for a support session, I’m putting in a ticket

 

[Victoria M]

THat fishroom gives me legit panic attacks. I can’t look at pics of it without hyperventilating, lol

I am sure I would feel that way in it. I just luv the juxtaposition of his tank, his success and how his fishroom looks. I think it works ( nearly) flawlessly though. I figure I better add that “nearly” for karmas sake.

 

[Victoria M]

No. I hardwired it. I ran 75 feet of premium cat6 specifically to avoid crap like this

I don’t know what the issue is. When/if I ge time for a support session, I’m putting in a ticket

Man, that is terrible. Just terrible.

 

[User]

Profanity filter is a little messed up. It autocorrects B S to crap

 

[Victoria M]

Do you remeber in the beginning of this thread you posted diagrams or cad renderings of what the space would be? How close has it ended up being? What would it be like now? Or is that just too much work?

 

[User]

Other than not putting up the 20long floating mangrove garden, of the observation 40b in the fishroom, that space is almost exactly as planned. I measured and remeasured down to inches to get everything in optimally so no real ability to change it.

The auxiliary room is a definite change. Expanded the footprint. But only by about 20sqft. I intended on 4x 10g tanks. 2 TTM, a cuc qt and a coral QT. But I’ve ended up with 3x 10g TTM abd peroxide tanks, a 20ling observation tank, a 10g cuc/worm tank, a 10g anemone specific tank, a 10g coral qt but have space (I tend to fill) for another 20long, and 2 10g tanks.

But I’m done. No more space. I start encroaching into storage and storm shelter areas if I want more. That’s a hard no.

 

[User]

For reference tomorrow... good idea @Victoria M

 

[User]

 

[NY_Caveman]

All looks great. I miss being in a house, LOL!

 

[Brew12]

I have fish room envy. I only have room for 1 permanent tank and it isn't even in a prominent part of the house.

 

[DS204]

THat fishroom gives me legit panic attacks. I can’t look at pics of it without hyperventilating, lol

Is there a link to it, please?

 

[User]

Day 2 of the reorganisation

AS I wait for the new anemone recuperation abd QT tank to come up to temp, I made something

I’m buying an RBTA in Monday and wanted to find a nice decent rock I can attach him to then move with him to the display. But I’m out of rocks. But I have rubble, and shells...

You know those kinda ridiculous glass anemone cups that are out there?

How does my rustic, all natural organic free range version look?

Plan is to put this in QT and have the RBTA settle in the shell, then after 16 days, move the whole thing to DT. I have a small shelf low down and out of flow that he might like.

Of course, 4 minutes later, he’s going to poo off and go walking but at least I have some level of control during this pre-purchase phase.

Stupid, right?

 

[DS204]

Love it. It looks nice, actually. I might "borrow" this idea.
Does the cup help them in some way? We want a BTA before we get clownfish so I'd like to maximize my chance for success.

 

[User]

Also- I just read that encrusting montipora will literally bulldoze everything in their path.

I planned to get some Superman and mystic sunset montipora and let them spread over the legs of the arch. But now I’m reading people suggest isolating them like you would Xenia or gsp

Green circles around montipora legs and yellow arrow is RBTA shelf

 

[User]

Love it. It looks nice, actually. I might "borrow" this idea.
Does the cup help them in some way? We want a BTA before we get clownfish so I'd like to maximize my chance for success.

I think the glass cups let them settle in protected from flow and the idea is that they ‘blossom’ out like a flower. I’ve seen them with suction cups to stick to the tank walls

The idea fir the shell is that it’ll support the foot and be smooth enough that I can peel him off . If I put it in a decent spot hopefully it won’t go walking.

Honestly- I didn’t give it much more thought than ‘that shell looks smooth like those stupid glass cups’

 

[User]

Done prepping the coral invert bench. Need to rerun a couple outlets, plus OSB overcthat wall, but everything is running.

Left to right-

Tiger nassarius/cuc/feather duster abd a coco worm

Coral QT: 2 fungus graduate nov 11, mint tip purple torch. It’s actually about to split I think

Anemone rehab/16 day QT: plan is to room the LTA (poor dude, having a hard time of it ) abd The soon to be bought RBTA for 16 days (to get some zooxanthelae in the water, hopefully some will populate the LTA), move the RBTA to display for the perculas, then aggressively treat the lay with super tight parameters, cipro, abd target feeding with scallops from Publix. I’ve read a few threads on the Anemone specific forum but will be asking a bunch of questions over the next week.

I want this guy to get better. Then I can decide if I keep him, or trade. May end up in my macro fuge.

The other side of the room has the 20long Observation tank, and once I get to petco, I’ll have another 10g to add to the one image cleaning now.!

I found all the fish I want in my first list at blue zoo aquatics- once I confirm they will all play nice in TTM, I’ll be moving forward. Hoping that’ll be the middle of next week!

Midas blenny
Mccoskers flasher wrasse
Starry blenny
Maybe a Pygmy hawkfish if I can confirm my feather duster will be safe. Probably not.

 

[DS204]

Looking forward to seeing your new fish next week, sir.

 

[User]

In between meltdowns, there’s some sweetness...