Today is the day

mike_dani · May 15, 2010

Well, friends of North Alabama today is the day....... I will be adding all of my water, rock, corals and fish to the new 300 display. Wish me luck and keep "MURPHY" away today as we have had it with him:cry:

sprinklerdudes · May 15, 2010

good luck, are you doing this all on the same day?

CHALICEKEEPER · May 15, 2010

Good luck

H@rry · May 15, 2010

Good Luck Mike, I know you've had an uphill battle with your new tank. Take plenty of pictures before, during, and after. Waitin' to see 'um!

mike_dani · May 15, 2010

Whoa Betsy, I am done......Tank is aquascaped, stocked with coral, fish and whatever else we found. We (me and Jason thanks man) found many surprises one being I am missing four fish Purple Tang Blonde Naso Tang, Blue Mandarin and a Clown Tang. Well looks like my Sebae nem ate them because there was not bone piles or anything of the sort......

I will work on Pictures tonight or tomorrow as my feet hurt, nut the good news is I got a Lopezi Tang and a Juvi Orange Shoulder Tang today. Everyone ate and all of the corals are open and almost done slimming over. So far so good and a big thanks to the club for all of the help keeping MURPHY away today.

jason.tammy · May 16, 2010

Had alot of fun helping,I think you will really like the Lopezie.It has been a great fish since we got it in,and it is also pretty.LOL
Jason

gflat65 · May 16, 2010

This thread is worthless without pictures

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mike_dani · May 16, 2010

I agree sure wish the OP would get off their tuff and take some....... Oh wait thats me and I have been having fun with the Reef Keeper Elite with NET.... Anyone know how to do all this network crap, free frags for the one who can get it to work. Pics tomorrow I promise

Ok here is one cheater pic for you all

H@rry · May 17, 2010

I've never even seen a Reef Keeper Elite but I do .NET web programming. If it's anything like that I may be able to help you. I doubt if its the same though.

mike_dani · May 17, 2010

Well 48 hours into the tank swap and all parameters are PERFECT...... We will see

Yerboy · May 17, 2010

looking good. It's good to have my skimmer back, 24 hours in and i have 2" of nasty nog.

mike_dani · May 18, 2010

You saved the reef by letting me borrow that nice skimmer....... I sure am appreciative for it, Thanks

john90009 · May 18, 2010

you sand that you put in was it fresh bags of dry or wet/live sand when you put it in your tank. I kinda did the same kinda swap out as you and am having a feeling that if your rocks are clean and doing work then the sand will come to life slowly and filter easy.

mike_dani · May 18, 2010

280 pounds of it is Marco dry never cycled sand that was washed for weeks in FW. I also added 20 pounds of live top sand so the top 1/8th of an inch live sand was added to the top of the new sand.

john90009 · May 18, 2010

ok, should be fine iv seen fish stores and some people do it this way, good luck im praying for no cycles for both of us

would be impossibly to get the fish out and my rock work aint moving i love it how mine looks.

john90009 · May 18, 2010

p.s you alittle slow on the other pics budd

H@rry · May 18, 2010

Mike - Which one of the Marco rocks did you buy? Was it the Key Largo? What kind of cycle did you have and how long did it take to cycle?

mike_dani · May 18, 2010

Harry I have recieved just over 250 pounds of dry key largo rock from Marc and all I can say is it is great. The first order was just before I had the meeting at my house and after the chip in the tank I added it all to the Lagoon. I saw no cycle at all. I would rinse in RO/Waste Salt Water first then add to the tank. I don't think there is any organics in the rock but there is a white dust. I presume it is from the quarry and is just calcium dust ECT. The second was 150 pounds and this was just before I set up this time, I added all the dry Marco as base and then layered my old live rock around it. So far I have not seen any evidence of a cycle...... I have also watched as Yerboy set up his system and he has used all Marco dry base, as of now I dont believe he has had a cycle from the rock.

Yerboy do you have a comment?

Yerboy · May 18, 2010

well im at i think 8 weeks in and yet to see ammonia. There was some time here and there that i was out of town and unable to test so i may have missed it. I'm also running the neozeo method, not sure if that has anything to do with it or not. With your system your moving an established system into a tank with dead rock sand, even if there are some organics remaining on your rock im sure your current bacteria load could support it.

gflat65 · May 18, 2010

Looks good, Mike.

I had a nice long post on setting up Ethernet, but since Microsoft is the most unstable software available, I lost it... I'll recap.

On home computer, go to Command prompt (Start-->Accessories-->Command Prompt or Start-->Run-->cmd). Type in ipconfig/all and hit enter.

Write down the IP, subnet, gateway, and DNS info.

Plug that info into the controller's Net setup. Everything should match between the two devices except the IP. The controller needs a unique address. If the main system is 192.168.1.50 and no other system on the home network has 192.168.1.60, you could use that (or anything similar, etc.). Once all of the info is there, and the connections are made (Ethernet (I'm assuming?) from controller to router/hub/switch at home network), you should be able to access the controller via the IP. Open a browser and type in the IP and it should take you to the site.

You can ping the controller to see if it responds. That'll let you know if you have a connection. From command prompt, type in ping {IP address-whatever you decide to go with for the controller) and hit enter. It'll send four messages and look for a a reply.