My Big Beautiful Budget Breeder Build

Retro Reefer · Mar 3, 2019

Katrina71 said:
No. Just talking about everything in my other. It's easier for me to keep up.

Need to stop in, that thread is so daunting it always scares me away

Just need to set aside a week or so to read through it

Katrina71 · Mar 3, 2019

Retro Reefer said:
Need to stop in, that thread is so daunting it always scares me away Just need to set aside a week or so to read through it

Nah. No need to read it all. I'll tag you for highlights.

Katrina71 · Mar 3, 2019

It won't be getting good with the new tank for a couple of weeks.

Katrina71 · Mar 3, 2019

Your tank is amazing! The yellow Tang is so cute I'd never give him back.

Retro Reefer · Mar 3, 2019

Katrina71 said:
Your tank is amazing! The yellow Tang is so cute I'd never give him back.

Thank you, I’ll enjoy him while I can.. maybe he will be incentive to set up a bigger tank!

Retro Reefer · Mar 3, 2019

Think he and my clown are new BFF’s, my damsels have been little azzez darting at him but the clown has been chasing them off.. they are about the same size

Crabby48 · Mar 3, 2019

Looks good. Glad to hear the new addition is getting along

RichtheReefer21 · Mar 3, 2019

Retro Reefer said:
Think he and my clown are new BFF’s, my damsels have been little azzez darting at him but the clown has been chasing them off.. they are about the same size

Nothing makes a tank pop like a beautiful yellow tang. Looks awwwwful nice in their

NY_Caveman · Mar 3, 2019

Retro Reefer said:

Beautiful! His fins are not as bad as I expected.

Retro Reefer · Mar 3, 2019

NY_Caveman said:
Beautiful! His fins are not as bad as I expected.

Thank you.. Hard to see from pictures but he has several little bites taken out of his tail and dorsal fin, looked a lot worse at first the poor thing was really pale when he bought him over. He got him Yesterday and it wasn’t in his tank long before a wrasse started after him then others piled on.. he also has a eel so if it became injured it wouldn’t probably last very long.

RichtheReefer21 · Mar 3, 2019

Retro Reefer said:
Thank you.. Hard to see from pictures but he has several little bites taken out of his tail and dorsal fin, looked a lot worse at first the poor thing was really pale when he bought him over. He got him Yesterday and it wasn’t in his tank long before a wrasse started after him then others piled on.. he also has a eel so if it became injured it wouldn’t probably last very long.

My zebra nipped my yellows' fins the first 2 days, in 2 weeks they recovered 100%.

I would consider keeping some antibacterial dip treatment in case it doesnt heal clean. Metroplex or kanoplex? I cant remember the one humble recommends.

Retro Reefer · Mar 6, 2019

My plate must have been extra hungry this morning. I have never seen the mouth open like this ;Wideyed Normally it just directs food towards the mouth opening with tentacles and I don’t actually see the mouth opening that much.. picture taken with flashlight early this morning lights still off in tank.

Victoria M · Mar 6, 2019

That is interesting. Man I do love reef tanks.

mshonk · Mar 6, 2019

Retro Reefer said:
Picked up a used RKL for a great price yesterday I will use this to control heating and cooling, some lights, my Kalk pump, a float switch to prevent my satellite fuge from overflowing and also to monitor Temp, PH and maybe ORP & Salinity.

Oooooo nice! Were you handling all of this manually!!!???

Retro Reefer · Mar 6, 2019

mshonk said:
Oooooo nice! Were you handling all of this manually!!!???

Thanks for stopping by my build thread

I had been using a inkbird temp controller until it recently failed and most of my lights are on timers so I mostly wanted it to control heating and cooling and to get rid of some of the timers. at some point I’ll incorporate float switch’s for some fail safes and maybe PH & salinity probes..

mshonk · Mar 6, 2019

Retro Reefer said:
Thanks for stopping by my build thread I had been using a inkbird temp controller until it recently failed and most of my lights are on timers so I mostly wanted it to control heating and cooling and to get rid of some of the timers. at some point I’ll incorporate float switch’s for some fail safes and maybe PH & salinity probes..

Float switches scare me. I like using an extra dosing pump to maintain that.

Retro Reefer · Mar 6, 2019

mshonk said:
Float switches scare me. I like using an extra dosing pump to maintain that.

Float switch’s would just be for fail safe redundancy, one will go on my satellite tank so if the overflow fails and the tank fills to top it will hopefully shut off pump before it overflows. The other I’m thinking about using in my sump to protect my pump if it ever runs dry.

mshonk · Mar 6, 2019

Retro Reefer said:
Float switch’s would just be for fail safe redundancy, one will go on my satellite tank so if the overflow fails and the tank fills to top it will hopefully shut off pump before it overflows. The other I’m thinking about using in my sump to protect my pump if it ever runs dry.

I gotcha. I have had top off overflow issues in the past.