WVNeds's Tanks

[Schnizzle]

Sorry to hear about Lilly. The tanks are looking good. I was afraid to leave my Ulva in place during treatment so I put it in a bucket with an air stone. It stank up the garage pretty good but it all survived.

 

[WVNed]

I have been away for a few days. Dr neurologist started me on a medicine for Parkinson disease. I have been sitting quietly getting used to it. Powerful stuff. I have also been cooking and vacuum sealing/freezing food for the future.
If I am not having good mornings it is best to be quiet and not pretend I am.

My system gas decided to dump 20 gallons of water every other day on the floor and this morning was the 3rd time. I would make a post about that but I doubt anyone here is running a system similar enough to mine to provide any useful insight.
I am draining my skimmer to a bucket and have been for months. The skimmer started geysering at night, fills the 5 gallon bucket until it overflows and this continues until the 23 gallon trashcan of ATO water is empty and the ATO pump sucks air which is how I found it this morning.

By planning ahead I built it so 20 gallons on the floor hurts nothing. I just suck it up with a carpet cleaner and let the dehumidifier dry it up the rest of the way.
Then I add salt to the sump to correct the salinity.
The system seems oblivious that this is going on. I am not adding anything new to the tank. I did use the fluconazole a while ago and did a 60 gallon water change to start getting it out 2 days ago after the last water event. I opted to not remove the skimmer drain thinking that would stop it. My fault I guess.

The little CBB is getting thicker. He is finding enough to eat and the mimic is doing fine with the 2 spot.
They look like this today. No cleaning or photoshop, LOL.

I hope everybody is doing fine. Jill's dad is going a bit crazy because his routine is gone and he can't go see Jean in the nursing home.

I did upgrade the ozone generator from a Poseidon 200 to an Ultrazone 360. That increases my ozone dose and that may be ultimately what is causing the overflowing. I hope it stops. Wet feet early in the morning is icky.

 

[crusso1993]

I have been away for a few days. Dr neurologist started me on a medicine for Parkinson disease. I have been sitting quietly getting used to it. Powerful stuff. I have also been cooking and vacuum sealing/freezing food for the future.
If I am not having good mornings it is best to be quiet and not pretend I am.

My system gas decided to dump 20 gallons of water every other day on the floor and this morning was the 3rd time. I would make a post about that but I doubt anyone here is running a system similar enough to mine to provide any useful insight.
I am draining my skimmer to a bucket and have been for months. The skimmer started geysering at night, fills the 5 gallon bucket until it overflows and this continues until the 23 gallon trashcan of ATO water is empty and the ATO pump sucks air which is how I found it this morning.

By planning ahead I built it so 20 gallons on the floor hurts nothing. I just suck it up with a carpet cleaner and let the dehumidifier dry it up the rest of the way.
Then I add salt to the sump to correct the salinity.
The system seems oblivious that this is going on. I am not adding anything new to the tank. I did use the fluconazole a while ago and did a 60 gallon water change to start getting it out 2 days ago after the last water event. I opted to not remove the skimmer drain thinking that would stop it. My fault I guess.

The little CBB is getting thicker. He is finding enough to eat and the mimic is doing fine with the 2 spot.
They look like this today. No cleaning or photoshop, LOL.

I hope everybody is doing fine. Jill's dad is going a bit crazy because his routine is gone and he can't go see Jean in the nursing home.

I did upgrade the ozone generator from a Poseidon 200 to an Ultrazone 360. That increases my ozone dose and that may be ultimately what is causing the overflowing. I hope it stops. Wet feet early in the morning is icky.

Hope you're feeling better with each passing day.

Odd that your skinmer would start overflowing like that so suddenly but, as you said, with the only change being the ozone, that may be the culprit.

 

[WVNed]

Good morning.

My eyes have uncrossed a bit.

 

[crusso1993]

Good morning.

My eyes have uncrossed a bit.

Happy to hear it, Ned!

You figure out the culprit in your runaway skimmer scheme?

 

[WVNed]

I suspect it was superglue. I glued a large coral down to a rock after if fell off its plug. My system is going through some gyrations from the fluconazole too. It is very dirty and brown in places. There is a lot more algae in a healthy system than you see. I kind of regret doing it now. It does not seem to be nearly as target specific as Chemiclean is for cyano. It did strongly affect the Ulva and chaeto. They disintegrated into little bits. The ulva has started growing again. I still have a lump of chaeto the size of a softball but it isn't nice and green yet.

It did not overflow this morning.
My ORP is under 150 again. I have mesh sock in the catch the macro bits and am siphoning the piles of them out of the refugium.

and I see my language skills haven't returned yet. Fixed that a bit
and I posted good morning in the wrong thread.

soon
perhaps

 

[crusso1993]

I suspect it was superglue. I glued a large coral down to a rock after if fell off its plug. My system is going through some gyrations from the fluconazole too. It is very dirty and brown in places. There is a lot more algae in a healthy system than you see. I kind of regret doing it now. It does not seen to be nearly target specific as Chemical is for cyano. It did strongly affect the Ulva and chaeto. They disintegrated into little bits. The ulva has started growing agin. I still have a lump of cheato the size of a softball but it isn't nice and green yet.

It did not overflow this morning.
My ORP is under 150 again. I have mesh sock in the catch the macro bits and am siphoning the piles of them out of the refugium.

That is pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing.

 

[WVNed]

The tank goes on. My skimmer is still wonky and I am just riding herd on it. I lowered the water level and opened it way up. It still randomly fills the cup. I did away with the bucket. I got tired of sucking up water off the floor. I went and got some guppies to try and feed the lion. I am not sure what else to do. I have salt for 400 gallons on the way from Premium Aquatics.
Petco at first refused to sell me fish because EMERGENCY but I talked them into it.

Yesterday both the eels came out to eat at the same time. No violence. It was very nice to see.
The Ulva didn't die from the fluconazole and is growing again. It is now growing in the 75 on the pumps. The chaeto still looks sickly.

These guys are still there

The feeder tank now with guppies

There are a few shrimp left in the feeder tank and refugium. I decided not to give them to the lion and see what happens.

 

[cmaxwell39]

Thanks for continuing to share your ups and downs with us. Hopefully the skimmer calms down and behaves sometime soon.

I still admire how you just go after what you like with your system. It seems to bring a lot of joy to you (at least when you are not having to suck water up off the floor) and that is what this hobby is all about. Please continue to share.

 

[WVNed]

In other news.
Paige is extra cute and FaceTimes us frequently. I think it is to distract her while Dad is trying to get her to eat something she doesn't like. She is crawling now.

It was very nice today so Louie was outside a lot and is napping now after dinner.

Jeanna's boyfriend Kadin painted this in the twins nursery at Kirk's house. He is very talented.

 

[WVNed]

I went into the fishroom this morning. No flood. ORP says it's 500. The ozone generator is stone cold and hasn't been running. The controller is set to cut it at 350.
This week I have seen my ORP go from 88 to 500. I wish I knew what the heck that meant. While the skimmer was overflowing it was very low. Now the skimmate has gone black and it is very high.

I found something in the right side MP60 that I thought was a dead fish. They are all still in the tank so it must have been a large piece of food I didnt notice go in.

Xenia have gone from a smear to plague.

Time to do the water tests.

 

[WVNed]

Fish doing fish stuff

 

[WVNed]

The night shift came out

I wonder where they go in the daytime. There are about 163,000 of them

 

[WVNed]

Happy Easter.

I have had 2 fish disappear. The chocolate tang in the 75 and an anthias in the 240.

 

[WVNed]

Things were looking poopy so I started doing a 6 gallon(1.5%) water change daily. Today was the third time.
I changed the trace element dose from 30ml/day to 10, stopped the iron and iodine and left the other stuff alone.

Things already look better. Now to automate it.

A looming issue is my bioload is too big for the SRO-5000 skimmer. Not sure what I am going to do about that yet.

 

[cmaxwell39]

Sorry to hear about your recent fish losses.

 

[crusso1993]

Happy Easter.

I have had 2 fish disappear. The chocolate tang in the 75 and an anthias in the 240.

Hopefully those fish were hiding somewhere out of sight and reappear for you.

Things were looking poopy so I started doing a 6 gallon(1.5%) water change daily. Today was the third time.
I changed the trace element dose from 30ml/day to 10, stopped the iron and iodine and left the other stuff alone.

Things already look better. Now to automate it.

A looming issue is my bioload is too big for the SRO-5000 skimmer. Not sure what I am going to do about that yet.

Happy to hear the alterations are working for you!

A bioload too big for a SRO5000 is one of those things that many reefers would love to have. Bad part is the cost of a new skimmer to handle a load that big starts getting high. Maybe you can find something used.

 

[WVNed]

Happy Birthday Jasper and Abigail. We have 2 new grandchildren.

Everyone is doing great.
So amazing

Louie is very happy.

 

[Fudsey]

Congrats Ned ! ! !

 

[WVNed]

Congrats Ned ! ! !

Thanks

zero to triple grandpa in a few short months.