Krux

52 hours and counting…

Hour 26 with no power and no time estimate. Two colonies have started to STN, hopefully PGE decides to send a truck today.

The house got down to 50 degrees after about 8 hours of power outage and the heaters started to struggle, tanks dropped to 72. Phoned a friend who helped me wire up our furnace directly to our generator and now the house is back up to 62, tanks back up to 74. Siphoned gas out of the truck to keep the generator running another 6 hours. Fingers crossed they get the tree off the line soon as we have already eclipsed 12 hours of outage with no updates. on the plus side, wife has agreed to letting me finally get that generac installed that I have been wanting.

Glad I picked up that big generator a couple months back, it is pulling double duty circulating and keeping two tanks heated. Best of luck to everyone in Snowpocalypse 2024!

I will be in later for 160% off?

I enjoyed watching this shop tour of a new place in Australia. I was curious what corals that didn’t need to get shipped to the US might look like and what pricing was for them. There are a few things that would break your wallet if they made it this far. At any rate, if reefing in a coral exporting country is of any interest, give it a watch maybe.

I have a really green m spongodes that I can easily frag into at least 100 pieces and force upon everyone if that helps? 😛

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Excellent!

By the way, I am looking for an electrician to come and install another breaker into my panel and install a couple new outlets so I can actually do proper wire management on this tank and get away from the snake nests of my older systems. If anyone has a lead on one please let me know.

Milestone for the day, got skimmer impeller swapped out for a new one (there was a humming noise that upon investigation was a snail that had taken off a few teeth) and cleaned it up good as new, and now have it running. I am super pleased with the skimmer acquisition after dreaming of owning a BK skimmer for years. Thanks to my secret friend that let me twist their arm into selling it to me! I really liked my old Nyos but after two tanks it just wasn’t big enough any more. If anyone has the budget to look at a Bubble King, the reviews applauding the quality are not overstating how nice this thing is… it reminded me of getting my first piece of Deltec equipment and the fit and finish difference from my existing Precision Marine Beckett skimmer. I also got the Clarisea filter roller removed from the old tank and cleaned up but am missing the right diameter pipe to get it connected tonight to the new system. Project for another day.

Not any more ;)

Do you still have the battery? I accidentally went to Miami for a while and forgot to meet up with you. If there is no snow I will have some time Friday afternoon/evening to meet up.

Rock does not appear to be on your site, already sold? If not I will take it.

your lady is a saint. Amazing what you have been able to assemble there!

Buy this man’s goods!

I have a bit of that as well and nothing in my tank seems to eat it so I pull it whenever I can. Probably an urchin or something would enjoy it, but my snails, crabs, tang, lawnmower, and parrotfish all cruise right by.

Was shooting some macro shots today inspecting polyp extension and color development after running some oxo. Our newest community member decided cameras are totally interesting and wouldn’t stop with the photo bombing. I am pretty sure he wore out the autofocus… hello Geoffrey, I see you! Hoping to complete the tank transfer in the next week or so, just waiting on a couple more parts to arrive. This might be the last update from the 75 gallon display until everything is moved to the 135. Thanks for looking!

Yeah, most action cameras will work as long as they are waterproof. I just found some Gopro series 7 cameras for about 75 bucks shipped on ebay but if you ask around someone probably has one in their closet they aren't using. We upgrade ours every couple years and I give the old ones to family. Look at other brands, just make sure they have inherent water resistance or you will need to get a bundle with a housing. On the GP end, I think anything series 5 or newer is good for one atmosphere (33 feet) without one. https://gopro.com/help/articles/question_answer/how-deep-can-you-dive-with-gopro-cameras?per_page=39?option=com_content&view=category&id=1&layout=blog&Itemid=50 If you watch @steveweast tank video, anything that is obviously not on a tripod I believe he shot on his Gopro as an example of what results you can get but I don't know which model he has. Works for video and still shots, though you can rip single frames out of a video using the GP software. I have a housing for mine, but I was diving deep wrecks at 50m in Cozumel this summer and needed the additional depth rating

The investment isn't couch change to be sure, but it can be replicated for way less I believe. The quantity he went through was for a scape that had very significant overhangs which used multiple tubes per rock - if one didn't go quite that crazy on the gravity defiance it wouldn't be as big a deal. IO Holdfast is about 10 bucks a tube, I would be surprised if more than 10 was needed for a moderate sized aquarium based on past rockwork I have done. I think cement/mortar will work fine, it is just messy and you don't get the chance to really shape it where you need it and then imprint rock texture on it to make it disappear. I think @Gumby did a great job on that rock with mortar and superglue! I imagine that doing the rock for my WB 190 would be around $1500 to make it perfect, but I am not prepared to make that investment either 😛

Do you have a Gopro? They give surprisingly good results as you can shoot inside the tank and avoid reflections and wave action, and older models are very cheap. I have color filters for mine for when I am diving, but you can color correct in Lightroom or some other application pretty easily.

Here is the HNSA build video if you want to give it a watch... quite long but he talks through the thought and process. I like this build as it takes time to think about creating appropriate habitat for tank inhabitants. If I had the time I would convert to this methodology and build out a complete structure set like he did. In particular making sure there are appropriate sized hiding spaces and swim through parts, building it in sections that can be removed completely, and taking into account how flow will move through the structure.

Their newer video swaps the concrete for two part epoxy, might watch that one

Let’s just lock in Rainbow Loser as the new name right now. Will increase the value by heaps. Happy New Year!

This is fantastic work!