Night Howler Frag Tank Build

Dumb question.... did you leak test it before you put all that work in cleaning it up?
Yep as soon as i got it cleaned out scraped....i had it sit in the garage full for 2 days drained and started to try everything to get the haze out....and also when i got there to check it out the guy said it was leaking showed me tightened a bulk head and it stopped. So was full of water and only leaking from that one point. He was not the one taking care of the tank a tank maintenance company was. So he had no idea what to do and the tank maintenance was just trying to get more money out of him with a new tank so he said f that just going to sell it.
 
Yep as soon as i got it cleaned out scraped....i had it sit in the garage full for 2 days drained and started to try everything to get the haze out....and also when i got there to check it out the guy said it was leaking showed me tightened a bulk head and it stopped. So was full of water and only leaking from that one point. He was not the one taking care of the tank a tank maintenance company was. So he had no idea what to do and the tank maintenance was just trying to get more money out of him with a new tank so he said f that just going to sell it.
I thought so but I couldn't remember. Good.
 
Well super excited about this being gone now i can get back to using the garage for this 210g. They were very greatful it was a grab and go and that i everything set aside ready to go... when i went to get it i wish it would have been this way but hey you get what you get.....now that i have some cash time to go to lfs and see whats up lol....Whats everyone up to today.
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Torches loving life today super stoked for this...
alk dialed in at 8.6
mag sitting at 1430
Nitrate at 23ppm
Phos at .07
Cal 440
Ph 8.2
Now if i can just keep this trend going
Dont do what I just did. Lol
 
What happened?
Top bin kalkwasser mixing for top offs.

Bottom salt bin. Was just using semi kalkwasser water for salt mixing. Zapping calcium out of mix.

Bottom bin read 20+ alk, 210 calcium

No wonder my calcium has been going down slowly.

Rinse bin only use ro for water change. Might get another ATO to keep that bin filled . Or just move one on top bin to bottom when I need it topped off

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Top bin kalkwasser mixing for top offs.

Bottom salt bin. Was just using semi kalkwasser water for salt mixing. Zapping calcium out of mix.

Bottom bin read 20+ alk, 210 calcium

No wonder my calcium has been going down slowly.

Rinse bin only use ro for water change. Might get another ATO to keep that bin filled . Or just move one on top bin to bottom when I need it topped off

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I have a 55g drum and a 50g salt mixing container for when the 210g gets up and rolling but i havent done kalk regularly now that alk has been stable so far holding in the 55 with all for reef but do have to clean dosing lines once a week....only dosing 9ml a day of afr bring cal up weekly with randys cal mix and mag up with randys mag mix weekly as well......today was first day bringing mag up above 1420 and so far the lps love it. Lost a lot of acros to the alk spike and phos jump but ill rebuild system is finally getting in a rhythm so im hoping it stays close to its rhythm its found...
 
Nitrate 32
Phos .08
Cal 450
Mag 1470
Ph 8.2
Alk 8.4
Nitrate spike due to the rubble box cleaning i would imagine but im sure the macro will love it....things looking good gfo change out next week to keep it below .1. 3/4 cup of it reactor on blast and it does very well keeping it stable things are looking good
 
Nitrate 32
Phos .08
Cal 450
Mag 1470
Ph 8.2
Alk 8.4
Nitrate spike due to the rubble box cleaning i would imagine but im sure the macro will love it....things looking good gfo change out next week to keep it below .1. 3/4 cup of it reactor on blast and it does very well keeping it stable things are looking good
Things are looking good bro
 
Update on the Lycanthrope 210g build
My son and I decided to do some rock work today to get an idea on the inner layout decided to use the dry out time on the rock that absolutely had to be rinsed to come up with a game plan. All in all i think it looks pretty darn good. Also fell in love with a fish that is going to absolutely be in this tank (lieutenant tang)....things might change slightly but I really like the levels of height and the sand space available. Structure on the left will be revised for a torch tree but my son was having fun with it... for the she hulk scroll coralit will have its spot mid level. Lots of arches and pass throughs and caves and voids for all fish.....constructive guidance will be appreciated still have one structure i wanna build out for the torchs with some @F i s h y scape plans in mind but still was fun building something with my little man....pictures from right side of tank to left. Video to showcase the whole thing.....
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Frag tank updates acros doing awesome so far parameters in check as well but i have a tip breaker kole tang....he has busted 3 tips on 3 diff acros....everything else looking great as well have my carpet mushroom expanding huge and after the split causing some shadowing on the smaller guy but going to be moving him soon should be ok....happy with the way things are going and how things are looking....all fish are happy and have a special surprise i grab in 2 wks let the countdown begin....photo reel attached from today at peak hours.....
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