My 90 gallon tank journey

[justingraham]

I guess I can do an update of words

O I also re added cdx to my co2 scrubber and drilled a hole in my wall to suck in the outside air I'm shooting for a consistant 8.4ish.

O I test ran the cdx and enjoyed the results as some of my corals exploded with growth so I think I'm a do it forever now and just buy stock in co2 media so I don't loose tons of money we shall see tho.

When I ran just the scrubber I topped out at 8.39 and last week is when I drilled the hole thru the house and my ph was around 8.24 so hopefully with them combined it will be a ph of 8.4 and acro city in my tank. (Fooled ya there's photos)

I finally figured out what I was doing wrong with my doser huge thanks to loagan at reefbreeders for helping me out the whole time and answering all my calls and emails I are the man

Yea I rock a kessil A350w as a fuge light so what. It was a hydra 26 and when that gets fixed the kessil will be going in between my halides

Right in between those two hooks



My carbian blue tang agent on a mean steak attacking everyone yesterday. Today I saw the salfin tail slap him and the foxface flex his poisonous muscles at him. It might have been to late tho as I witnessed the c tang destroy my smallest anthias. Since then the anthias has been hiding and very skittish i witnessed it eating yesterday and today so hopefully all will be good.

Also three days in a row I have seen my yashashir goby after hardly ever seeing it since addition no idea how it's alive but man it's a pretty fish.

It's always so beautiful to look over in the night

Since all you guys care about is the cat this is her watching her papa work on the tank

See the blue glow???

The wife(who was used as click bait in my video in my signature) and I will be at the reefapoloza in New Jersey (yes it is in the dirty jersey not New York) at the njreefers booth on Sunday hope to meet some of ya there


Goodnight y'all

Justin+Kelley (and we're better then that American idol movie named the same thing)

 

[locito277]

That movie was a classic..Lol tanks looking awesome! Waiting to get back from my trip and I can start SPS from scratch lol.

 

[justingraham]

That movie was a classic..Lol tanks looking awesome! Waiting to get back from my trip and I can start SPS from scratch lol.

I have faith in ya get back to the basics and watch those corals grow

 

[locito277]

I have faith in ya get back to the basics and watch those corals grow

Let me get back from the vacation first lol

 

[justingraham]

Let me get back from the vacation first lol

Ur always on vacation

Just another update I hit 8.4 in less then 24 hrs

Yipeee

 

[will424]

Nice tank!

 

[justingraham]

Nice tank!

Thank you sir

 

[justingraham]

Well I thought I was being greedy cause I honestly wanted to hit a ph of 8.5 without doseing anything so that was my tru goal but if u put that people hate on ya and it can't be done.

Well I did it

And for all the haters out there that claim that can't happen and my probe needs to be calibrated well I checked it with a recently calibrated pin point handheld as well.

So the plan is to see if I get better growth with this higher ph and if I do well I might have to justify running a co2 scrubber

I'm truly excited to have my ph this high just ask @locito277

Hopefully tomorrow brings more of the same

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there


Justin

 

[locito277]

Well I thought I was being greedy cause I honestly wanted to hit a ph of 8.5 without doseing anything so that was my tru goal but if u put that people hate on ya and it can't be done.

Well I did it

And for all the haters out there that claim that can't happen and my probe needs to be calibrated well I checked it with a recently calibrated pin point handheld as well.

So the plan is to see if I get better growth with this higher ph and if I do well I might have to justify running a co2 scrubber

I'm truly excited to have my ph this high just ask @locito277

Hopefully tomorrow brings more of the same

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there


Justin

Congrats!

 

[SJ-reefer]

Lot or work in this system, keep it up. Don't forget to update the pics! Hit you up with some TSM pics tomorrow!

 

[justingraham]

Lot or work in this system, keep it up. Don't forget to update the pics! Hit you up with some TSM pics tomorrow!

I will and since getting my ph to 8.53 my corals are consuming tons of alk I'm now up to 16ml a day and I'm still under the 8dkh set point of triton.

My ac was a pound or two less of Freon then it should have so the temp in my house was 77 degrees when it was over 90 outside(which has been almost everyday the last two weeks) so I got that fixed tonight so hopefully my tank temp gets more stable. Fingers crossed I'll get some pics up of corals tomorow and we can do a weekly growth side by side.

My littlest anthias is still not looking well he's eating tho so hopefully he pulls thru

See ya tomorow
Justin

 

[USMC 4 LIFE]

Nice tank man! I also have a 90 DT with a 30 sump. What fish do you have in there?

Lol stainface and the cat. Very thorough and entertaining read!

 

[justingraham]

Nice tank man! I also have a 90 DT with a 30 sump. What fish do you have in there?

Lol stainface and the cat. Very thorough and entertaining read!

I have a 40 breeder sump almost same thing.

Right now fish wise
Salfin tang
Magnificent foxface
Carribian blue tang(real a hole) I think it's cause he is a teenager
Three Bartlet anthias
Two yasashir gobys and two pistol shrimp I never see but are alive
And last (almost a year old) the assasin clown fish he has killed every clownfish partner that has been with him.
I will prolly add a wrasse and then a mandarin and call it quits on fish I have a lot of beautiful movement in the tank right now and don't wanna mess it up.

And thank you for the compliment it really is better in person it doesn't photo well esp in selfies hasn't mastered the duck face.

I honestly enjoy everything about my tank first time I can say that I spent a lot of money to get the equiptment I wanted and am so happy I did.

You have a build thread I enjoy reading the way other people set up there tanks

Justin

 

[Lninwa]

You guys are a cute couple. I'm talking you and your wife. Okay and and ghetto cat are also a cute couple. You are indeed lucky your wife is good with your reefing hobby. I'm she will be if you ever get it set up. Yeah, I was just kidding. Remember happy wife happy life. I think you already know and adhere to this saying. I pity you if you have a human daughter in your future. She will play you, haha.

 

[Lninwa]

Oh, besides forgetting to proofread my post I also forgot to say sorry for the loss of you grandfather. From that pic I can tell you love each other very much. 1 other thing you are a funny and clever writer

 

[justingraham]

Oh, besides forgetting to proofread my post I also forgot to say sorry for the loss of you grandfather. From that pic I can tell you love each other very much. 1 other thing you are a funny and clever writer

Yea that was a sad day and miss him a lot and u are correct I am very lucky to have Kelley and my cat in my life as they both put up with my antics and for some reason still come back to me day after day even tho I think the cat just comes back for the food.

Thanks for all the compliments and thanks for reading

Justin

 

[DidAc]

sweet set up!!

 

[DidAc]

also really fun tank thread !!

 

[justingraham]

also really fun tank thread !!

Thanks man appreciate it I have off today so o was thinking of doing some progression shots

 

[justingraham]

Well how about a couple growth shots first pic is may third second pic was yesterday or today

This last one fell and had to be reglued that's why I believe the frag plug isn't covered yet

Couple updates for me to remember cleaned all pumps last week then my left sea swirl stopped holding the nozzle made a ghetto fix to hold me over till after vacation
Up to 22 ml a day being doses of triton
After seeing Joe capella or whatever his name at at Rap I just started doseing 3ml of acropower a day yesterday.
Bought a apex Afs and made a feed thingy

In doing so I messed up my nicely done top I made do with the pieces I have will fix when I get back from vacation

Got ghost shrimp today it was interesting to see my fish eat them

Sad news yesterday I saw my tang attacking my yashsashir goby I have literally seen twice since putting it in I tried to save him he is now in the fish yard sushi for dinner tomorow. Found hydroids and an apt Asia I'm really mad I took my friends live rock dosed them with some aptasia x and some putty hopefully this will be the last time I see them. Some cyno also is in my tank only on the dead tissue of a coral that shipped bad blew it off per @saltyfilmfolks hopefully I'll never see that again either

Other then that just making sure the system is in auto pilot mode for my two week vacation in six days. Kinda scared o yea added a apple time capsule for my fish tank stuff to be on exclusively that was fun setting up not.

Thanks for reading I got that blue glow

Ahh the cat well she is all grown up now sitting up like a big girl cat