TheKingInYellow goes bare black bottom - 50g SPS dominant!

[TheKingInYellow]

Tank is looking great so far! Aquascaping is gorgeous and glad to see it getting wet and cycling. Looking forward to seeing some livestock inside.

Thank you, and yeah sooner rather than later I hope Still I don't plan to rush anything. If the cycle takes another month so be it. I'll have the Foxface in QT for a month anyhow.

My wife has already named it. He's 'Mulder'.

 

[TheKingInYellow]

Huh, what a difference a single night can make. Nitrite and nitrate were basically indistinguishable from zero yesterday. This hasn't even had time to develop, it's about three minutes on the nitrite and maybe thirty seconds on the nitrate.

I guess my Dr Tim's was dead.

 

[Jon Fishman]

Still following. I love the way my Bare-bottom turned out!

 

[Blutspitze]

Thank you, and yeah sooner rather than later I hope Still I don't plan to rush anything. If the cycle takes another month so be it. I'll have the Foxface in QT for a month anyhow.

My wife has already named it. He's 'Mulder'.

Is there going to be a Scully?

 

[TheKingInYellow]

Is there going to be a Scully?

Knowing my wife? Yes. Very much so. Perhaps a coral, Scully the Scoly.

 

[TheKingInYellow]

QT is up and running, ready to bring home the Foxface tomorrow.

The AT-AT is there for fishy protection.

 

[Blutspitze]

QT is up and running, ready to bring home the Foxface tomorrow.

The AT-AT is there for fishy protection.

Just be careful; AT-ATs don't do well standing near cables

 

[TheKingInYellow]

Picking up the Foxface tonight. LFS keeps the tanks at 1.015 so I'll bring him up to 35PPT slowly over the next week or two.

 

[TheKingInYellow]

Okay lots of updates today.

The Foxface is in the QT along with a single Springerii Damsel (couldn't pass one up). No pics yet they are extremely skittish and I've got them lights off and alone downstairs. I'll turn the lights on tomorrow around noon and try feeding some Nori an hour or two later.

I've removed one of the baffles in my sump to make room for the Clarisea. I was hoping to avoid replacing the bulkheads but I can't see a way to make the plumbing work without coming straight down from the bulkhead so I'm planning to pull the bulkheads, plumb them with a union immediately, and then go straight to a barb fitting for silicone tubing.

I'm not sure the bean animal overflow will work anymore since I won't have a gate valve anymore, so I'm going to go with dual Durso plumbing instead, plus the emergency overflow. Should be safe, quiet and reliable.

I also installed the RAIN2 turf algae scrubber, it's running off another Sicce 1.5, but I had to stick that to the sump wall horizontally, lol. As it is I'm not sure how the hell I'll get the skimmer in there and I still need to add my carbon reactor!

If I could remove the other baffle on the left it might all fit but it's siliconed to the sides and bottom, I'm not sure how to get it out. The one I removed was only attached at the sides and I ended up shattering it trying to get it out. Time for cable management too.

Any hints on removing a baffle?

 

[Kid_Vegas]

I wish I had the room for the Clarisea in my sump, I am stuck with the klir roller instead.

 

[Blutspitze]

Loving the look of the Clarisea! Hope that it serves you well.

Will you be able to dry the sump when you try and remove the baffle? It doesn't seem like it, but it'd help. Regardless, your best best would probably be to take a utility knife between the baffle edges and bottom to slice the silicone sealant. There isn't much of anything that'll dissolve the sealant, but some things will soften it a bit (isopropanol comes to mind). The problem there is you can't use it wet, and a knife would rust pretty quickly in the salt water.

 

[TheKingInYellow]

Yeah I was using an Xacto blade to remove the first baffle and then a dental scraper and it still ended up with me cracking the glass.

If I can get the skimmer to fit I'll just leave that first section alone, not a huge deal it's only 2" lost. I had to move the Marinepure balls to the return section already though, it's really tight in there now :/

 

[TheKingInYellow]

Both fish in QT look good today, more active, less timid and eating. The algae sheet was nicely grazed on as well.

Hard to get pics at this point but here are Mulder and Scully.

 

[Blutspitze]

Yeah I was using an Xacto blade to remove the first baffle and then a dental scraper and it still ended up with me cracking the glass.

If I can get the skimmer to fit I'll just leave that first section alone, not a huge deal it's only 2" lost. I had to move the Marinepure balls to the return section already though, it's really tight in there now :/

It's probably best to leave it alone, then. I had a similar issue trying to find equipment that fit my setup since I have a long tank; basically all sumps are made for a much larger bottom section. You'll probably be able to find something that'll work, but it may be a bit underpowered vs. what you'd like.

 

[TheKingInYellow]

I think I have an idea, I've been focused on using the pole mount for the RAIN2 but I can use the remaining baffle as part of a stand.

I have to redo my drains to make this all work though so I'm going to replan and redo it all when my wife is back from a trip she's on.

In the meantime the skimmer is in and running and I've pulled the Clarisea. I'm not feeding yet so mechanical filtration isn't particularly critical.

 

[Blutspitze]

Frustrating to have to re-do plumbing, but hope you can get it done well. Skimmer is definitely better at the moment so you can get that chemical filtration.

 

[TheKingInYellow]

It's not the worst thing in the world. New setup will have the unions immediately below the bulkhead and I think I'll use silicone tubing and barbs so I can run them directly to the Clarisea.

Also with this setup I'll have to ditch the bean animal overflow and go dual Durso with an emergency drain.

 

[TheKingInYellow]

Bacterial bloom is clearing up, I imagine the skimmer is helping here. Looks like I'm close to the end of the cycle.

Curious about my QT procedures, my LFS keys their display tanks at 1.015 and medicated with copper. I'm debating if I still need the full 30 day QT or not?

 

[TheKingInYellow]

Project "move everything in the sump and redo the plumbing" is almost complete, but I'd like to find the guy or girl who designed the Clarisea with a 32mm input pipe for the North American market and slap the fool.

I've spent more time on trying to sort out a plumbing solution for this than the rest of the project combined. So frustrating!

 

[TheKingInYellow]

Hey so D-D sucks at customer support.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/d-d-and-clarisea-support.645044/