freddyk

I can't believe I missed this. And this month had been going so well – Ha Ha

I have two of these and they are model citizens and all I have is small fish and one yellow tang. The only thing they attack is my arm. Sometimes it is really jarring. They are totally awesome otherwise. Love those little F***kers.

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Their coral section is minimal and over priced but I have had a lot of luck with the livestock and they often have a great selection.

On 11/13/2019 at 7:04 AM, Gil&Fin said:

Why yes, there are a frag or two of rastas!

Operation Rasta snag was a success - Thanks Holly!

Sweet! Any chance of some Rasta Zoas being in the mix?

I am not sure if he can help with raw acrylic but James at http://www.envisionacrylics.com/ built my aquarium and he must have crazy solid acrylic connections. I can't wait to see what you are building

I will go for the 5 head frag.

Cool location. Reminds me I need to support Seahorse. The only thing in my current tank that I held over from my 2008 tank was the hundreds of pounds of beautiful live rock that Woody sold me. Some really epic specimens for sure. Woody helped give me this addiction that has proven difficult to shake.

Can't say I would ever risk actual live rock ever again. On top of the ecological issues the darnedest things come along for the ride. Letting it sit in the sun for 8 years really does the trick though. None of the aiptasia survived.

@SuncrestReefThanks for the info. I might modify my plan. I will probably come to the meeting. I would like to hear the angels singing when you open the cabinet under your tank

@SuncrestReef Wow I am so busted. That is the return to the tank so that I can pump fresh water to the ATO reservoir or salt water to the tank. Problem is that the 1/4 inch tubing is WAY to small and it essentially does not work. I need to get some wider diameter tubing and the perfect adapter to make it work correctly. Somehow I find the time to carry buckets but I can't get around to a Home Depot run to do it right. Sigh... Once I get around to that I will be king of the world at least until I decide I need auto water changes with the Neptune DOS. 

I heart my mixing station. Two 50 gallon rectangular tanks actually fit in the only space I had available in my over stuffed and under sized house.  I don't have any automation yet but they have really helped me stay on top of maintenance. 

These 50 gallon rectangular tanks are what I went with. I got them from ruralking.com with free shipping that took 8 weeks. They don't have them in stock currently but I found them here:

https://www.plastic-mart.com/product/913/55-gallon-portable-utility-tanks-sp0055-mm

8 hours ago, SuncrestReef said:

Since I replaced the UPS with the same model, I'm keeping the old battery as a spare.  Not sure how long it will last on a shelf, but it was only used for less than a year so I'm hoping it will be useful if needed.

You can probably wire the spare up to the main system for more backup but as I say it would cost you a weekend and seeing how you have a robust home generator it is probably not necessary.  It reminds me that I need a better plan...

Bummer for real. I hate it when I do that kind of thing.

The water probably put some 12V where it did not belong and fried a super small 5V component. It could easily happen without leaving much of a trace and it would be super hard to troubleshoot. If the AC power made it where it did not belong now that would leave a mark.

I am sure you can re-purpose the battery for some weekend killing project though...

I use Acropower and my SPS and everything else are growing great. I use an automatic doser for it.

Sure... blame the economy when you just want a way to build a bigger and better tank. Good call because as they say you never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

A quick tour of my tank

@lewisriverfisherman Nice!

29 minutes ago, TaylorW said:

Wow those are some pretty large polyps! 

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I know right  I am afraid of palys because my first tank got overrun by them.

14 minutes ago, lewisriverfisherman said:

Those last zoanthid look like fire and ice. 

 

Good call. I googled that name and it is spot on. Thanks!

1 minute ago, Emerald525 said:

Looks awesome. Does the Monti have a blue base ?  I’m thinking possibly poker star 

Yea. That sounds right. Thanks.

50 minutes ago, Emerald525 said:

Looking good! Thanks for sharing ! I always love to see what good homes my corals have found! These zoas look like Sunny Ds.

Thanks! Sunny D's must be it. I seem to remember a couple verities being available for that buy. I am horrible at keeping track of coral names.

I have one confession regarding your coral. You sold me a green monti that I put next to a few zoanthids. I made this decision before I understood how fast zoas could grow. Soon the monti began to get surrounded. To her credit my wife would regularly remind me to rescue the monti and I would say that it is on my list and somehow never got around to it.  A few weeks ago the monti started to fight back. In this picture you can see it making a valiant attempt to breakout stage right. Maybe I should fire up the calvary and give it a hand.

Do you remember what that monti was called? I don't know what the zoas are but they are a rare mix of beautiful and fast growing.

48 minutes ago, albertareef said:

Tank is looking great freddyk!  Glad to see your re-entry being successful.  Seems like quite a few happy SPS in there which is impressive - how long has this iteration of the tank been up?

Thanks! I put my first coral in it when I participated in the group buy at the March 2018 meeting at Cuttlefish. In my first attempt 10 years ago coral growth was mostly just a dream. Now if I can keep it up coral growth could be problematic – a good problem to have.