albertareef

This sounds like an interesting project.  Will this include choices on types of equipment, mechanisms for nutrient export, water parameter control, lighting options and how those may affect the various types of fish and coral species that can be maintained?  I could see a lot of work going into something that would have predictive value regarding livestock compatibility.  Good luck!

Glad to hear there looks to be some progress!  BTW - I still have that Duncan frag I got from you just before the "troubles" set in so you are welcome to have that back if you lost yours.

New sump with the roller mat looks sweet!  Will be curious to hear how that works out for you.  Definitely like the concept - especially if you have been fighting nitrate levels.  How are you going to house things during the reboot?  Sounds like you have a second tank setup somewhere.

Really like the look of that Razzmatazz - do you have a pic of the mother colony?  I (surprisingly) didn't find much online for this one.

On 12/10/2020 at 10:59 PM, pdxmonkeyboy said:

Fwiw.. i have a pair of really tall jack posts if someone wants them.  The go from like 4 feet to about 7 feet. 

Hey Brian - do you still have these?  They can come in really handy in a 1909 bungalow 😀

1 hour ago, Sharklover said:

Alive just not online very often. Sorry that I missed this post. 🤷🏻‍♂️

1 minute ago, albertareef said:

Hey Chris!  Good to "see" you man.  This post made me think of you 😀  Going to shoot you a PM about an unrelated issue so keep an eye out.

Actually, looks like you can't receive messages so maybe your inbox is full?

1 hour ago, Sharklover said:

Alive just not online very often. Sorry that I missed this post. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Hey Chris!  Good to "see" you man.  This post made me think of you 😀  Going to shoot you a PM about an unrelated issue so keep an eye out.

Really interesting Manny.  Not sure if you happened to look at the SuncrestReef thread where he described his recent issues but sounds like it could be something similar happening on his (and mine).  Makes me very curious...

13 hours ago, SuncrestReef said:

I have a weather station on my roof.

Why does this not surprise me 😀

11 hours ago, danlu_gt said:

Power was out for 14hrs.  Lesson learned... tankless hot water is great till there's a power outage.  Haha

Brrrr.  Hadn't thought about that - hate cold showers!  Hope the tank did OK.

2 hours ago, pdxmonkeyboy said:

Here is a picture of my 85,000,000 watt generator.   

Guess they will let you do anything up in WA eh?  No wonder you moved 😀

Well, I did pick up a battery backup for my gyres... baby steps 😀

Hi Jamie - you still have some of the burning banana?  That is one of the pieces I lost last time around and wouldn't mind a replacement.

On 1/10/2021 at 3:38 PM, Emerald525 said:

I didn’t mean this tank I just meant previous set ups you have spent hours setting up then sell a week later ..😂

Yeah - Ryan and Randall should have a "sell off" sometime - who can build it and then sell it the quickest!

Hey Happy B-day Jim!  Glad I ran into you last weekend and got to catch up a bit.  Hope you do something fun for yourself today!

46 minutes ago, Matteo said:

I had an orange wall hammer... it died within a week. Good luck if you can find Branching variety 

I think Daniel @danlu_gt has some nice orange ones but not sure if any are fragable and might be walls anyway.

58 minutes ago, xmas_one said:

Still the best lighting IMO. Radiums flanked with blue plus.

That is exactly what I used to run (well, VHO actinics back then but you get the idea 😀)

Nice setup for someone who doesn't mind running the halides... those radiums provided awesome light on my old tank.

1 hour ago, H20cooled said:

Tank and stand are sold!

Figured that would go fast!

Hi all,

One of our members is clearing out for a move and contacted us about donating some items - probably mostly supplements etc. - so I was wondering if anyone knew if any of our TFT tanks was still up and running anywhere.  Obviously we could hold onto them until a later time but some items might be time sensitive.  I will have a list later this week but just wanted to get the conversation going.  Thanks!

@Higher Thinking @Emerald525 @Gil&Fin @SuncrestReef @CuttleFishandCoral @Gumby @Flashy Fins

3 hours ago, pdxmonkeyboy said:

I will attest that the big fish will suck the air out of a tank pretty quickly.  

This, unfortunately, sounds like the voice of experience... 

4 hours ago, SuncrestReef said:

But I still don’t know for sure what the root cause could be.

Super frustrating John - I know the feeling.  After just leaving mine alone for a few months, I have started to see my encrusting corals making a comeback by coloring up and spreading fairly well.  The lone acro starting encrusting and growing again and a few things I thought were completely gone have shown signs of coming back.  I did recently add a bag of live sand and some miracle mud per some other suggestions and that at least hasn't hurt anything.  I would be curious to run another ICP and aquabiomics analysis but I think I will wait a bit longer to see if the comeback is sustained.  I added some additional test frags of various types over the weekend to see how things go.

Hope your's  turns around soon.  I didn't see the spike in nutrients (but my phosphate has been high for a while) still suspicious that this might be a side effect rather than causal to the problem (e.g. reduced intake due to die off) but obviously, it doesn't hurt to be confident in your mechanical filtration regardless.

Good luck!

17 hours ago, bboileau92 said:

The citric acid clean did the trick on both fronts. The microbubbles have subsided and the skimmer is no longer overflowing. 

 

Thank you! 

Glad to hear that worked out!

I would suspect it just needs to break in or you have something in your tank water as Blue Z was trying to get at above.  I have run a couple of different AquaMaxx models (currently a Q3) and haven't had an issue with the over-foaming or microbubbles once they were conditioned so hopefully this clears up for you soon.  Word of caution however - if it is something like prime in the water, it might take a while if you are cycling the skimmate back into the sump.

Good luck!

If only I had room for this... 😀

Nice tank Daniel - hope it finds a good home!

Glad you found him and got him out!  I had a gorilla crab in my prior tank that managed to escape notice for a long time - likewise had disappearing fish.