Lazyreefer

7 hours ago, ocboat said:

I'm not sure how long of a pipe this would work with but I'm using 24" pipe with 12" diameter to hang my hybrid.

 

Nice I like how that looks! Definitely what I’m trying to go for but with 1 bar in the middle of those two loops mines just the 24” one with 2 ai primes 

18 hours ago, markv said:

I am going to try the same thing using an Aquatic Life cantilever wall mount.  Two vertical metal brackets attach to the wall. The screw on the hybrid fixture closest to the wall attaches to a short arm connected to the vertical bracket. The farther screw uses a cable that attaches to the same vertical bracket.

Nice I will have to look into this more👍🏻 

18 hours ago, Bicyclebill said:

Mine is a little different, but my idea would work the same for your scenario. Three-quarter inch schedule 40 steel pipe. Threaded elbow with maybe 20” vertical down and clamp the vertical to the wall studs or a painted piece of wood attached to studs 

I really like the look of that! There’s nothing supporting the bar other then the connection to the wall is there? 

I am trying to hang this led hybrid fixture horizontally from the wall using some sort of a mount issue is where it will hang from at the farthest point that second loop of wire is about 32 inches away from the wall so the mount has to go out pretty far to allow the light to hang over the middle of the tank.... Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for your time 🙏🏻

I bought a flipper Max from marine depot but just now realized it is bigger then I am wanting it looks like an extremely nice magnetic cleaner and it will float. I didn’t use it at all still in original packaging I am just out of my return date I waited too long to return. Asking the 85$ I bought it for thanks. Can meet in Portland or Beaverton. 

Yesterday I filled the lagoon up! I used two 32 gallon brute trash cans filled them up fully with saltwater and expected to fill 1 of them when it was done emptying and the other one was filling the tank up. I ended up needing pretty much 4 of the brute cans filled which actually makes sense but for some reason felt like it would be fine with the 3 filled up and sand and rock! 
I got the tank all filled up and turned on the return and the tank was extremely loud because the gate valve hadn’t been adjusted to the correct amount and it was still below the main returns opening in the overflow. After hours of adjusting the gate valve slowly I finally got it to sit where it’s supposed to and my return pump at the speed it should be 👍🏻 
I added an entire bottle of dr Tim’s nitrifying bacteria the 60 gallon bottle and took out the filter socks as it says too. The noise coming from the tank now is just the water pouring into the sump where the filter sock would be, otherwise the tank has almost quieted down completely. IcecapGyre is still a little loud too but hopefully that breaks in and quiets down. This was my first time hard plumbing a tank so I am very happy with how it turned out 🙏🏻 Not perfect but it works for me and I feel comfortable replumbing my reefer 350 now for sure. I have to give A TON of thanks to @Oregonic again for answering my many noobish questions really most of the credit should be theirs wouldn’t have been able to do it nearly as easily without the help! I added a chunk of some shrimp after adding the dr tims to get the cycle going and will return the filter socks in 48 hours.
 

Littlw update on the drop off, it is coming along has some algae growing from it being new but no ammonia no nitrite and has 2 ppm nitrates so I will add a fish in the next few days hopefully the pixie hawk fish I saw @MrBret’s shop Paradise Coral where the stock was looking realllllly nice when I visited for the Dr.Tims. I read they should be added last so maybe I will add another fish first then grab that guy assuming he’s still there! Let me know if there’s anything you see here that I have done wrong or would have any suggestions for at all, thanks for reading 🤙

46 minutes ago, Aerixx said:

You can’t receive messages 

My fault I fixed that

14 minutes ago, Aerixx said:

Is this still available

Yes it is👍🏻

10 hours ago, Saltfishlover said:

What do you feed yours?

Both of mine will eat mysis, brine and fish frenzy. If you don’t use fish frenzy I would maybe recommend atleast trying it to get them to feed it has selcon soaked in which I’ve found when food is soaked in selcon it’s a stimulant for my fish to eat. 

My cardinals will eat right out of the pipette try putting some food on other end of tank to draw aggressive eaters then using one to put food right in front of their face until they realize it comes out of there and spark their hunger hopefully.

3 hours ago, Willapa said:

I think those clamps only fit the braided type vinyl tubing with a larger OD. I just use nylon zip ties if below water line or near salt spray.

3 hours ago, obrien.david.j said:

You got bit by my mail order fears.  Is my understanding of Size, the same way they're quoting it.   When first ordering, I usually order a range of sizes to figure out what I really need.  (Yes I have a box of, Not-the-right-size stuff.)

Yes I think you might be right it is for braided but I bought a few 3/4 and 1 inches so I felt like I should be safe but I received some too small and some too big but none the right size 😂 nylon zip ties might be the winner as it will be under water 👍🏻

58 minutes ago, Bicyclebill said:

Zip ties work fine. 

Should’ve thought of this might just do this one it would be easy to snip off with scissors if u need to, thanks👍🏻

I ordered a bunch of 3/4 and 1 inch plastic hose clamps from brs just to be safe and literally none of them fit my 3/4 tubes. Anybody bought some from ace hardware or Home Depot that are reef safe they can point me in the direction too? Thanks. 

Saw that this is too high price drop to 300

Hey I have my 25 lagoon that was setup for about 7 months with the aps stand. Comes with the return line connections but might want to replace them as they’ve swelled some and don’t push in all the way(doesn’t effect function). There is a small chip in the lip from a bowl barely tapping it doesn’t effect function, is on the outside of the tank above water line not near silicone or anything and me or anyone I asked truly never noticed it when looking at the tank especially when it’s full of water. Asking 400 For tank and stand OBO!! Love this style of tank I just upgraded to the 112 version 👍🏻 Thanks and let me know if any questions I’m in Beaverton. 

Anybody have any led’s they’ve used for a while that have worked out well they can recommend for motion sensor light in my stand? I was looking at the phillip hues but they are a little spendy but if most of them that are cheaper just aren’t reliable then it might be worth it. Thanks 👍🏻

10 minutes ago, Zoolander said:

3 hours ago, Zoolander said:

Still have it. Message me. 

just saw this, did you give it to someone else? If so no worries 

I will take it if no one has

🤙 got it set on the stand wasn’t too bad I had 4 people and easy access. Now to start on the plumbing, feel a lot more confident after checking out @Oregonic’s tank today which was super nice thanks again and learned pretty much everything I needed too about the plumbing I think! 

So I went through a long process this year with finding a tank and finally decided on the one I was looking at in the first place before I saw any dropoffs. Received the 112 lagoon 2 weeks ago and they rolled it right into my garage for me which was perfect because I had people scheduled to come help move it in because they say they won’t do that but no need! On the same pallet was my 20 gallon drop off tank and they both arrived in perfect condition.

20 gallon drop off:

I had a 25 gallon lagoon set up in my living room area and decided that this tank could replace it for the time being but I wanted it in a back room rather then having all my tanks in the front area of the house. It sits on a separate stand that has a little drawer that pulls out for storage. In my 25 lagoon it was overrun with aptasia so I took only a few rocks that had nice corals and only 1 or 2 aptasia and put them into the drop off. I used about 20 lbs of natural reef live sand, those few rocks from the established 25 lagoon, a few lbs of dry caribsea branch life rock, and put it into the drop off then filled it almost completely up with water from my other reef tank that has been running for about 4 years. I added the clownfish that was in there along with it all after dripping it because the water was from a different tank and put the pintail fairy wrasse into my reefer 350. They are both looking great today 2 weeks later. I added some microbacter7 for a few days after the filling of the tank and I am doing my first water change today on it as there is a brown film growing now, all the corals look perfect in the tank as well. I added the ghost skimmer from the lagoon, the spin stream nozzles, the hydra 26, and the mini reactor from the lagoon that was setup. The 100w jaeger heater won’t fit in the back compartment where it should so it’s in the display currently and looks bad so still looking for one that fits it’s a very small spot the neotherm I have seen breaking open in too many tanks I believe...

112 gallon INT lagoon:

This is going to be a really fun tank to setup I am taking my time and really just want to do stuff right the first time especially in regards to setup of the actual tank and equipment. I have the stand completely setup(it wasn’t to bad with 2 people) with my sump and ATO set in the stand so I can access both, the doors on 3 sides make this very easy. Next step is to get the tank onto the stand this weekend, along with going to see @Oregonic 112 build to get an idea of it set up completely and running along with allowing me to borrow a tool for plumbing then plumbing the tank! Which gets me to my other point I have never dealt with hard plumbing a tank and I am dreading it for this tank! Also figuring out the best way to cycle this tank and I would be interested in the best way for me to do it would be, I have 2 other tanks with some media and stuff to seed some if that would have input into your method you’d recommend.  
 

Anyways just a start to this thread I wanted to get going to keep track of all my stuff for these tanks because I have seen other peoples and thought they were cool and useful for other people to see what different people use and their methods. Any thoughts on the builds and input will be much appreciated 🙏🏻 Thanks! 

Hey there got a few mushrooms that dropped a few babies off of their plugs👍🏻
2 gonzo golden dragon baby’s for 60

2 about 2-3 inch gum drop mushrooms for 100

let me know if you have any other offers thanks have a good day! 

I think mushroom boxes are always a good idea, easy design to print I think and places are crazy behind in production on them because of Covid! 

13 hours ago, Blue Z Reef said:

I am in the same boat, although it was a pain to run lines all around (under the house to the garage for me), it was well worth it for my mixing station/AWC setup. The automation we have available now makes things so much simpler. This was my big change for my most recent reef iteration (started early this year).

 

If I were to start over today, I would probably make minor changes to my stand to reinforce an area or two better, but otherwise happy where I’m at.

This is something I am interested in with apex DOS, I was wondering if the lines get dirty easily and wether changing the lines out would be a huge pain you think. I guess it depends on where you run them but in my case it will probably be what u have to do run them through the garage. Thanks for any tips🤙

On 9/27/2020 at 11:00 AM, kilmca said:

i have a single Blue Jaw Tilefish.  I don't have a good picture but it looks just like the one on liveaquaria.  Tried 2 others at different times so i would have a pair but the others jumped out thru light crate.  I was really surprised since they barely fit thru the light crate dried up.   they are considered moderate care but the fish i got were good eaters in QT.  the one i have is a great fish, not aggressive and it eats everything.    

Oh okay that’s sweet! I wasn’t aware of that variation I just knew of the flashing and purple but from what I see the blue jaw is more hardy and they look awesome too. That’s unfortunate though I will definitely get a mesh lid for the tank, thanks for your input! 

21 hours ago, Gumby said:

Terry at Seahorse might have some. He is into tilefish. He might have some tips.

Oh nice that’s good to know I will definitely reach out love that shop! 

Has anyone had any experience with one? I am getting a 112 lagoon and want to put a pair in there. I saw one at world of wet pets a long time ago and they are amazing in person. Any tips on where to get one and how to care for it would be appreciated thanks! 

Love the title 😂