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rmhigby

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  1. So I took some water and made a trip to Saltwater Obsessions and turns out my water is perfect for a pair of clowns. I did a bang up job of drip acclimation and they were dropped into my tank a few minutes ago. They are just chilling now. I also grabbed two turbos to keep things clean. Yeah, I chopped the 65g acrylic down to a frag tank that is now 48x18x10. I have a 20g long that I will make a sump out of. Yes, I have 2lbs of live rock in with my dry rock. I've read a ton but really I kind of just jumped in with both feet. If my clowns are alive 30 days from now I will consider it a success for this first stage. Blue Z - Yes, I would love a test frag. I really don't want to kill anything but my guess is that I need to accept that possibility. I'm just a shot down 205 and east to Camas. You name the time and place! Here is the progress on my frag tank. Still have a lot of work to do but it's coming along.
  2. My guess is that the Apex needs to make a call to the fusion site and for some reason your local (home) router wasn't allowing the connection. Without manual control over a firewall you have to rely on the dynamic nature of the router to allow the outbound connection and that doesn't always work for non-standard ports or "services" that devices like the apex use. I do network stuff for a living and this is my best guess based on your having to reset your router.
  3. Welp, I went a different direction. I was able to pick up a Red Sea Max E-170 with an Apex EL controller, Tunze 3055, and IM 10g tank for $1k. Included was a ton of Red Sea coral care products and a couple hanna testers. Oh yeah, and a 4 head doser and dosing container. So, I have started my cycle but I am not 100% sure I am doing this properly. I just tested my nitrates and the results were 1.91. It's been around three weeks and I used the Fritz turbo bacteria. I left my skimmer off for the last few days and I only just now turned on my light for a little bit. Questions: 1. Should I be doing water changes while I am cycling? 2. How long should I expect to cycle if I am already building nitrates? 3. Would a pair of small clowns be a bad idea? Any advice is welcome.
  4. Hello Folks - I've decided that marine husbandry is where I want to sink some free time and to that end I found a used saltwater setup for sale on craigslist. I snapped it up for $300 knowing that I would still need to purchase more or replace what's reached its EOL. I've spent a few days looking over plumbing designs and I think the tank setup will be simple enough but I wanted to post some photos of my gear and solicit some feedback. I know that my tank isn't the most beautiful but beauty wasn't my main focus. Initially I wanted to get into the hobby a cheaply as possible so that I had the equipment required to start learning all aspects of water chemistry. I'd like to progress to a place where I can raise some sps and lps corals as well as some livestock. I'm attaching some pictures in hopes that someone in the area can give me some guidance on how I should plumb my tank in order to use the equipment I have. If all goes well, I'll be ordering a Reefer Deluxe 350 and converting this first tank to a frag tank, but for now that is my long term vision. In the short term, I just want to get some progress made. Any help is EXTREMELY welcome. - Robert
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