Mitchell

I'm in. I only have a couple things to order, so I could just piggy back on someone else's order.

Much better scape! How do your two yellow tangs get along?

Zebra eels are one of the most reef safe eels out there. I know a couple people that have them in their reefs and have had good success. I'm planning on getting a golden dwarf moray once I get my new tank set up.

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Squid or whale, maybe?

I'm going with kraken.

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Before I buy this stuff online and off of Reefcentral I thought I'd check to see if anyone has some of this locally.

I am looking for:

A reef controller that preferably comes with net access, ph probe, temp probe and eight controllable outlets or is cheap enough for me to buy those extras.

90 lbs of Tropic Eden Reeflakes Aragonite

TDS meter, in-line or handheld

Two 55 gallon drums

10” Catalytic Carbon filter for RO/DI unit

Auto top off setup

Still unsure what type of jellies I'm going to go with.

How about box jellyfish (laugh)

Funny commercial, never seen it before! It bugs me how they show a flame scallop when they say brackish, that's not brackish (enforcer)

I hate that fish lol!

 

I bought this guy a year ago in my old tank and he brought Ich in that killed all my other fish except for my clowns and himself!

 

He gets bit by my clowns all the time when he chases them out of their "corner" apartment!

 

And he sure does nip at my corals, but only new ones when he's trying to figure out what they are.

 

I also see him eat his own pooh all the time... lol it makes me laugh... and cringe! (nutty)

Hah! This kind of validates my fears. At least yours just "tastes" the coral. I don't think I've ever had a fish that didn't eat its own pooh, over the past eight years I've just become desensitized to it.

(sick)

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so how to get it lower? raise the co2 .. increase the bubbles?

Yes, the more CO2 the lower the pH.

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Aragonite media is normally run at 6.5-6.7 and should not drop bellow 6.5. If it were to drop bellow 6.5 there is a good chance of the media turning into mud.

Now if you are using calcite media this requires a lower pH and could be as low as 6.3.

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How has the flame angel been with your coral? I've always wanted one in a reef tank, but have been too nervous to add one.

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(worthless)

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I've glued underwater multiple times. Just remember to turn your power heads off before gluing, I speak from personal experience on that one DOH!

Ime the "epoxy sandwich" is the best way to glue frags.

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Very nice setup, you've put a lot of thought into it and that will pay off in the end! I'm quite the lurker both on here and RC and I've actually been following your build on there. I'm digging the loc-line return and the "custom" mount for your RKE. Keep up the good work (rock2)

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Those orange speckled ones are awesome! Too bad I don't have a tank to put them in.

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How long have you had it? Check your iodine levels. Iodine is a key component for Xenia health. Also I would move it to a mid to high flow area. When I was growing Xenia I had multiple frags that got away from me when I was pruning it. The AWOL frags that grew and flourished were the ones in the higher flow areas of the tank and the frags that didn't do so well were in the low flow areas.

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anyone else have any other options dont get the wrong idea mohaynow im going to talk to the wifey about yours just wondering about other options since i was hoping to have both be above 700gph since i already have two 550 wanting some crazy flow thanks

A Koralia 3 puts out 850 gph and a koralia 4 puts out 1200 gph. If I remember correctly the magnum line doesn't start until 5, so 1-4 are just regular koralias.

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The dual aa12 video is crazy haha

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What size of pipe are they for?

You can just talk to wannareef and he can build you a custom sump to fit perfect under your stand.

+1 Charles is making my custom 80 gallon sump and my custom 250 gallon tank

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Taps Plastics has a scrap bin, I've bought multiple pieces from it.

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Harold brought up a good point.

The standard 75 gallon is 21" tall and you say the stand will be 29" tall. Now that 29" is the external height of the stand, your internal height could be a few inches less than that depending on how the supports are. So now let's say you are down to 24" of internal height; that leaves you just 3" of clearance between the top of the 75 gallon and the inside of your stand. There is no way you could reach into your sump with just 3" of clearance, let alone place and remove equipment.

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Looks good! There's nothing quite like a clean new tank.

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Thanks Thomas.

 

I did get them to eat tonight with some mysid soaked in Kent garlic x. One is actually doing better. I don't think this is ich or Brook, maybe some kind of infection. I have the hospital tank set up and ready to go. I tried to catch them but I was just stressing them out so I left them in the tank.

If they have Brooklynella the only thing I've seen that helps is formalin.

Luckily it doesn't sound like they have it and are getting better on their own. If they worsen, I'd dip them in a malachite green and formalin solution, but that is worst case.

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