Merediths 75g upgrade

drstratton · Jan 6, 2016

The Magnificent is pretty awesome, but will get to big for my tank. Maybe the next tank!

cameronh · Jan 11, 2016

Anything new?

melypr1985 · Jan 11, 2016

cameronh said:
Anything new?

Not yet. I'm waiting for a my new MP40 to come in. I'm pretty excited about it. I'll probably geek out all over the store when it does! lol

cameronh · Jan 11, 2016

melypr1985 said:
Not yet. I'm waiting for a my new MP40 to come in. I'm pretty excited about it. I'll probably geek out all over the store when it does! lol

Haha!

ReefConcept · Jan 14, 2016

I haven't been around much. Looks like you have been putting in some work. Tank is coming along great!

melypr1985 · Jan 14, 2016

ReefConcept said:
I haven't been around much. Looks like you have been putting in some work. Tank is coming along great!

Thanks! Unfortunately though I have to report that I lost my leopard wrasse in QT. I hadn't even tried the copper yet. I went to add it to the QT and she was just laying there all sad and not needing treatment for anything ever again.

Its a sad day

drstratton · Jan 14, 2016

Sorry to hear that! QT can be as stressful for us as it is for the fish! Sad day.

melypr1985 · Jan 14, 2016

drstratton said:
Sorry to hear that! QT can be as stressful for us as it is for the fish! Sad day.

Yes it can be very stressful. I was hopeful because she had made it 3 full weeks in there! But, if I get one that makes it through the full QT then I know it will be robust enough to manage being in my display with the aggressive eaters. Next time though I'll do TTM with prazi and keep the QT time pretty short. I gotta get set up for that, but I think I can do it pretty easy right now.

drstratton · Jan 14, 2016

I just started TTM on my 2 new additions! I'm hoping to have them in the DT in a month. I had my Firefish in QT to long IMO and it was hard on them. So TTM & Prazi to start is what I'm also doing!

ReefConcept · Jan 14, 2016

melypr1985 said:
Thanks! Unfortunately though I have to report that I lost my leopard wrasse in QT. I hadn't even tried the copper yet. I went to add it to the QT and she was just laying there all sad and not needing treatment for anything ever again. Its a sad day

Ouch, that's never good news. Idk if this is the right timing for this type of joke but...hey, there's plenty of fish in the sea?

melypr1985 · Jan 14, 2016

ReefConcept said:
Ouch, that's never good news. Idk if this is the right timing for this type of joke but...hey, there's plenty of fish in the sea?

lol. That's very true! I hope I won't go through too many of them to get a leopard wrasse in my tank though.

ReefConcept · Jan 14, 2016

melypr1985 said:
lol. That's very true! I hope I won't go through too many of them to get a leopard wrasse in my tank though.

So far my tank has been doing ok. Have you been keeping up? Just added some vids and a photo trying to catch up.

Yeah, lets not go through too many Leopard Wrasses lol. My buddy recently had marine velvet and lost EVERYTHING so at least you are QTing.

melypr1985 · Jan 14, 2016

ReefConcept said:
So far my tank has been doing ok. Have you been keeping up? Just added some vids and a photo trying to catch up.

Yeah, lets not go through too many Leopard Wrasses lol. My buddy recently had marine velvet and lost EVERYTHING so at least you are QTing.

I've been keeping up off and on. Every time I log on at the end of the day I have like 60+ alerts! It's hard to catch all of them. I haven't seen the videos yet! I'll make sure to pop over and see what awesomeness you have going on now!

melypr1985 · Jan 14, 2016

a couple threads I participated in today and yesterday spurred me to go shopping today. I hit up the $1/gallon sale and got 2 10 gallon tanks. Then we went to homedepot and got a brute trash can for mixing and storing saltwater. I've got some work to do tonight

Hopefully I'll actually get around to it.

jwarren220 · Jan 14, 2016

melypr1985 said:
a couple threads I participated in today and yesterday spurred me to go shopping today. I hit up the $1/gallon sale and got 2 10 gallon tanks. Then we went to homedepot and got a brute trash can for mixing and storing saltwater. I've got some work to do tonight Hopefully I'll actually get around to it.

You will get in the zone and bang it out! Check out my build and see what Im up against in the next two days before I install the tank. Late nights with no sleep ahead but I can see the light haha no pun.

dbl · Jan 14, 2016

melypr1985 said:
Thanks! Unfortunately though I have to report that I lost my leopard wrasse in QT. I hadn't even tried the copper yet. I went to add it to the QT and she was just laying there all sad and not needing treatment for anything ever again. Its a sad day

Sorry about the loss Meredith. A sad day indeed.

melypr1985 · Jan 14, 2016

jwarren220 said:
You will get in the zone and bang it out! Check out my build and see what Im up against in the next two days before I install the tank. Late nights with no sleep ahead but I can see the light haha no pun.

I'll definitely check it out!

ReefConcept · Jan 14, 2016

Back to the grind, nice lol.

melypr1985 · Jan 14, 2016

ReefConcept said:
Back to the grind, nice lol.

Yes indeed! It's time to get my tank whipped into shape. I'll post a picture of it, but I have even neglected the salt creep in my sump area. The LED light I have down there was so crusted with creep that I'm surprised it even still worked! I have a little more equipment to get for my TTM set up, but I have most of it, including a digital thermometer. I plan to get 2 more, one for the display and one for the other transfer tank.
I got the brute can set up and mixing water. Now I just have to get my husband to set up the float valve for the RODI shut off thing. Not really sure how to do that, but that's what a loving husband is for right? lol