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    Neo Therm heater with Red light

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    Hello everyone.

     

    I have recently (about 2 months ago) upgraded my c-vue 40 to an IM SR-80. I moved all of my equipment over and everything has been going great with the exception of my temp being around 79.8. Everything was going fine, but today i decided to drop my temp by a few degrees. My heater is a neo therm from cobalt and to change the temp setting you push the button at the top to the desired temp. Well, all was going well as i pushed the button, but when it hit 94 it stopped and turned red. I then unplugged the heater for about 30 min and cleaned it. When i plugged it back in it was the same. The temp will not change when i push the button and seems stuck. The heater is less than a year old... any clue on what needs to be done? Is the heater dead?3c5994c67c87a84a6a3ecd82a219a866.jpg

     

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    Duetto ato

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    I have a tuenz i will let go for cheap..

    after all that going wrong, maybe you could get a refund

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    Im thinking about it. Its a joke anymore...

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    Duetto ato

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    Anyone have any experience with these? I got one for Christmas and it worked amazing... for two weeks... then the controller burned out and melted. I sent it back to xp aqua for warranty and got a new controller/sensor. When i plugged the new one in nothing happened. So I warrantied the pump this time. Now with a completely new system, I set it up today and waited for evaporation. Nothing... the alarm sounded letting me know the water level was low, but the pump didnt fill my tank. Anyone have any advise?

     

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    Skebor's C-Vue 40 gallon

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    Coming along nicely,  how is that icecap skimmer working for you? Is it the nano?  Im thinking about picking 1 of these up.
    It works pretty good. Took a little to get it tuned in though, and the top of the bubble chamber separated from the bottom when you would adjust the skim. After a little acrylic glue it works great. Collection cup is small so i would make surebto have tubing and a larger container.

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    Skebor's C-Vue 40 gallon

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    So it seems I have forgotten about my build thread. A lot has changed with my tank.

    Livestock as follows:
    1 prawn goby
    1 carpenters wrasse
    1 firefish
    3 flame cardinals (christmas present that is turning out to be trouble)
    1 coral banded shrimp
    3 emerald crabs

    Corals:
    Hammer coral
    Trumpet coral
    Galaxia
    Orange mushroom
    Pink floyd chalice
    Cali-tort
    Silly string
    Palys that i dont remeber the name
    Bali green slimmer
    Neon green monti
    Bi-colored monti
    And a red acro that my fish guy told me the name but i forgot (its like red martian or something).

    Most of the corals and fish were Christmas presents from family. It was a lot more adds a lot faster than i wanted, but everything is doing great. I bought the 3d printed filter sock caps for holding filter floss from 3dreef.com. I got a Icecap K2-50 skimmer in the left chamber and have 2 good sized bags of marine pure in the chamber with the pumps and heater. The right chamber is getting a media basket that I made and will use as a refugium. I am running a duetto ato with a 5 gallon bucket that I fill with 1 gallon of kalkwasser and 4 gallons of rodi. For flow i have the Jebao sw2 turned to 4. The return pumps provide a lot more flow than i expected.

    Right now i have a pretty bad algae problem. Im hoping chaeto will help remove whatever nutrients is growing the algae. My water parameters are 77.5°f, 8.0 pH, no ammonia, nitrites, nitrates, or phosphates. Salinity is 1.027, alk is 10dkh, calcium floats between 380 and 420 depending on the week. Im dosing Seachem reef trace once a week. I feed once a day at dinner time, and only enough to be consumed within a minute.

    Anyone have any advise on combating the algae?e742254751790968aab33d0b084238ce.jpgb71d6d3bf7621fe9455c4198f5b4c362.jpgb75c7e9de8768357e566502cfe90be2c.jpgd27714f8110de8b0e6b4bcd6cf53471a.jpg79d956c4d1b670b2468a9ebb763431a6.jpgf3737174fadf81284e1db69fba5d65cc.jpgdff28f4ba659bc8efa895d0b95a44a00.jpg3a4360c2cf0e82aa84472cf37b50dfc8.jpg

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    Skebor's C-Vue 40 gallon

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    So I have a good update. I have had my tank running now for a week. I am doing a fishless cycle. I got 40lbs of live rock and about 30lbs of live sand. I ran it for a week with a bottle of bio spira while dosing Tims ammonia chloride to 2ppm. I basically had a non-exsistant cycle as I would dose and test ammonia one night and the next morning it would test to 0ppm. The only "cycle" I saw was nitrites spiked to 5.0ppm. But after a large water change to remove my 40ppm nitrates, I currently have 0 ammonia, 0 nitrites, and 0 nitrates. I decided to stop the ammonia additions and I got 10 hermit crabs to combat future algae outbreaks. I will be feeding the tank a small amount of food every other day and will be monitoring everything for another couple days for changes before adding fish and possible corals. My equipment so far is:
    AI Prime HD
    Marine pure balls
    Jabeo SW2
    Koralia nano 240
    Cobalt 200w neotherm heater
    Filter socks went back in with noise reducers from 3dpreefs.com
    Later this week i will receive my icecap k2-50 skimmer as well.d32556aef0f2f21a7a647b648c2f8478.jpg5c168367005bd44595db0d4de90f57d6.jpgbd37d5ae2c69803c9610950266bff271.jpg

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    My least favorite part of a build

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    That's pretty cool! The epoxy and cement seems to be pretty solid to hold that cantilever out there like that. Does the hydraulic cement or marco cement work on wet live rock?


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    Yes it does. Hydraulic cement is used to patch concrete pipes that are in use. It might take longer to cure though.

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    Skebor's C-Vue 40 gallon

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    Today when i get home from work, i will begin the stand planning/construction. The stand isnt going to be anything special as there will be a built-in office desk in the future that will have a section to house my tank. I also get to have the dreaded re-addressing with the boss... i mean my wife, as to where in our house i can place the tank. Hoping to have the stand done and begin placing components this weekend.

     

    Also, I have been tossing up the idea of a seeded cheato reactor with one of my pumps running to it, and then back to my tank. Would the flow in the reactor be too much for pods to live? I want some sort of refugium to mature for pod provision for a future mandarin. I have always felt that pods that go from refugium through a pump and into display get killed in the process. So a way to pump water into the refugium/pod home and then flows into the display seems better. Any ideas or feedback would be greatly appreciated!

     

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