My 90 gallon tank journey

justingraham · Jul 16, 2017

prsnlty said:
Wow, I'm glad it's clearing up Justin! I think as long as you can't see any black or grey in a sock it should be fine now. And hopefully the fish will be also. Fish ingesting carbon dust is equivalent to a human breathing in soot and smoke from a fire... bad news, but you acted fast and that could make all the difference Good luck and enjoy your vacation!

Halfway to Texas going to take a nap and thanks for the compliment

justingraham · Jul 25, 2017

Cont divide pic

GoVols · Jul 25, 2017

justingraham said:
Cont divide pic

Great Shot!!!!!!!!!

679x · Jul 25, 2017

This build thread is the most entertaining one I've come across so far. Part of it has to do with the cat, and I don't even like cats. Time to watch this thread!

justingraham · Jul 26, 2017

679x said:
This build thread is the most entertaining one I've come across so far. Part of it has to do with the cat, and I don't even like cats. Time to watch this thread!

She wants to know why u don't like cats

KJoFan · Jul 30, 2017

Curious how you're liking the RO 170INT skimmer? I was considering picking one of these up for my 66g sps tank, but not sure it's big enough?

justingraham · Jul 30, 2017

KJoFan said:
Curious how you're liking the RO 170INT skimmer? I was considering picking one of these up for my 66g sps tank, but not sure it's big enough?

If you can get one I recomend it I think they stopped making them tho

justingraham · Jul 30, 2017

KJoFan said:
Curious how you're liking the RO 170INT skimmer? I was considering picking one of these up for my 66g sps tank, but not sure it's big enough?

That was after it's first day

And whooo 66 gallon tank??? That will be way over kill I think. I have it on the third pump setting with roughly 100 gallons

KJoFan · Jul 30, 2017

justingraham said:
If you can get one I recomend it I think they stopped making them tho

Yeah, they're discontinued, but there is a used one locally available I was eyeing.

justingraham said:
That was after it's first day

And whooo 66 gallon tank??? That will be way over kill I think. I have it on the third pump setting with roughly 100 gallons

Yeah, 66g tank probably 75 total volume with sump. sps dominant. Go big or go home, right? My thought was as the tank becomes fully mature with colonies, go heavy on fish load and heavy on feeding. Seems to be a good strategy for keeping sps happy. In that case, I need a solid workhorse skimmer.

justingraham · Jul 30, 2017

KJoFan said:
Yeah, they're discontinued, but there is a used one locally available I was eyeing.

Yeah, 66g tank probably 75 total volume with sump. sps dominant. Go big or go home, right? My thought was as the tank becomes fully mature with colonies, go heavy on fish load and heavy on feeding. Seems to be a good strategy for keeping sps happy. In that case, I need a solid workhorse skimmer.

Yea there is also to much of a good thing.

I do recomend it and with it being a D.C. Pump that will help out start on the first setting

I clean the kneck every two weeks and that's it.

KJoFan · Jul 30, 2017

Agreed. I'm still undecided. I need to measure my sump to see if it'd even fit. That's probably the first step. I appreciate the feedback.

KJoFan · Jul 30, 2017

justingraham said:
Yea there is also to much of a good thing.

I do recomend it and with it being a D.C. Pump that will help out start on the first setting

I clean the kneck every two weeks and that's it.

One more question, how quiet is it? I'm sure it depends on the pump setting, but overall?

GoVols · Jul 30, 2017

Justin,
Are you guys still on holiday?

justingraham · Jul 30, 2017

KJoFan said:
One more question, how quiet is it? I'm sure it depends on the pump setting, but overall?

Can't hear it at all

justingraham · Jul 30, 2017

Nope just got back from a 28 hour drive

Things are looking good
all alive corals have grown
There is some kind of red algea going on
But I'm to tired to care right now about it.

Tomorrow I'll go thru my system to double check everything and go from there

The cat isn't talking to us she's mad we left her

justingraham · Jul 30, 2017

KJoFan said:
One more question, how quiet is it? I'm sure it depends on the pump setting, but overall?

Also with those three pumps the only sound I hear is the water flowing

justingraham · Aug 3, 2017

Couple growth pics?
Sure why not.
First pics are around may 11th second pics are yesterday or the day before
Oregon tort

Something I forgot the name of

Bc secale

Grape juice??

Pc rainbow's

Sunset monti??

And a few more I don't feel like looking up the names of from Adam and Tim

And a fts for all y'all out there

Everything seems to be doing ok I plan on testing everything tomorow till then cheers mate

The cats still mad at us so I can't show that photo

justingraham · Aug 3, 2017

hybridazn · Aug 3, 2017

Great update justin! Glad to see everything is fine after the little hiccup

justingraham · Aug 3, 2017

hybridazn said:
Great update justin! Glad to see everything is fine after the little hiccup

Yea me to but because of the hiccup and being on vacation for so long I kinda shut the tank out of my brain because one I couldn't do anything about it and two if I forgot about it nothing bad could happen to it right??

So it's been a couple days of just slowly getting back into the motions.

My corals look a lil brown to me so I will have to figure that one out but other then that I'm happy with my tank.