What did you do to your tank today?
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Cursed quietly under my breath at my dino infestation so my toddler wouldn't learn any new words
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Scraped the glass
Got “busy fingers” as my dad used to say - moved a coral that shifted my rockscape and pinned a blue tang between 2 rocks. Didn’t notice for a few hours, until I realized I hadn’t seen him flashing around. Looked around in the tank and saw him pinned - reached in and un- pinned him, scaring one of my Clowns in the process, who proceeded to jump into my overflow. Took an hour fishing him out of the overflow... If you give a mouse a cookie... Ugh.
Got “busy fingers” as my dad used to say - moved a coral that shifted my rockscape and pinned a blue tang between 2 rocks. Didn’t notice for a few hours, until I realized I hadn’t seen him flashing around. Looked around in the tank and saw him pinned - reached in and un- pinned him, scaring one of my Clowns in the process, who proceeded to jump into my overflow. Took an hour fishing him out of the overflow... If you give a mouse a cookie... Ugh.
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That is a daily event for us. We have a bulldozer hermit that is a klutz but tries to help keep the HA in check.
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Trying to fine tune water top off dosing pump
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I made some adjustments to my new filter media holder. I constructed it in such a way that I could a sock if I wanted to, but I don't. I am using 1" filter floss topped with a layer of felt. Very cheap. I can get over 40 pads for $15 worth of material. no more washing socks!
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Got about 40% of my plumbing done in the middle of putting my 225gal my 125 gallon and my 90 gallon all on to one big system to make working on it all a little easier
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Never ending battle. Find 1 then 5 more
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Drooled at what my tank will look like when I finish and install my t5/led hybrid using 2 Ecotech xr15 g4 pros, a work in progress, lol!!!
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Got a little more done today another day or so and it will be up and runningGot about 40% of my plumbing done in the middle of putting my 225gal my 125 gallon and my 90 gallon all on to one big system to make working on it all a little easier
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I carpet bombed them with Aptaisia X and picked off a few stragglers this morning. Things are finally looking decent!
No drooling and more working! Finish it up so we can all drool at it !!;Drool;Drool;Drool
Retro Reefer
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Started my 120g build with installing my new RO/DI unit. Reading 0 TDS. Will be picking up my tank this weekend.
I have the same system, the DI canisters work much better mounted vertically
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A couple days ago for another thread I drained my twelve yr sps and Lps pico down to the sand and didn't refill it for half an hour.
The system was purposefully neglected for months so cyano could fill up
Then we modeled the fix, the no chemical, no param jacking, no hesitation skip cycle blast clean fix of removing detritus stores.
The reason for the drain delay was to show that most all our corals except for truly rare ones can do that...mine aren't specially adapted and neither is the live rock. You can deep clean, it doesn't destabilize. I pushed my system far harder than likely any water change ever documented in the history of this site to show plenty of room to clean any noncompliant reef... Not delicate clean, worrisome moves, but decidedly clean in one pass like it's brand new. It'll go 45 min next round. The system is mighty hungry for feed for months now, I'll be chiseling out corals overgrowing what space is left.
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The system was purposefully neglected for months so cyano could fill up
Then we modeled the fix, the no chemical, no param jacking, no hesitation skip cycle blast clean fix of removing detritus stores.
The reason for the drain delay was to show that most all our corals except for truly rare ones can do that...mine aren't specially adapted and neither is the live rock. You can deep clean, it doesn't destabilize. I pushed my system far harder than likely any water change ever documented in the history of this site to show plenty of room to clean any noncompliant reef... Not delicate clean, worrisome moves, but decidedly clean in one pass like it's brand new. It'll go 45 min next round. The system is mighty hungry for feed for months now, I'll be chiseling out corals overgrowing what space is left.
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Thanks for the tip I’ll make sure to change that
Retro Reefer
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I repurposed the white clips and DIY’ed mounts.. your resin will deplete more evenly so you can just refill one canister at a time, feed first canister from bottom exit from top then to bottom of second canister. Mine also came from the factory with very loose DI resin which didn’t help with longevity as they should be tightly packed.
