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Originally Posted by paintballer768 Holy moley. Thats alot of problems all at once. Is the livestock ok while all of this is happening? Best of luck to you. Thank goodness the other pump attatched to the sump for the chiller loop ran once I refilled the sump. The temperature had climbed to...

LESSON LEARNED....Fix today what needs to be fixed and don't put it off until tomorrow. Looks to me that if I have to replace both pumps, the price tag is going to run around $350.00, not to mention the frustration and anger I have with myself for letting this happen.

So now I have two problems. First, the Blueline 20 pump recirculating the calcium reactor is locked up. I need to take it apart to see what damage has been done. The second problem is to remove and inspect the Bluline 70 pump at the end of the sump. It is screwed directly into the bulkhead in...

I closed the feed to the calcium reactor and filled the sump. Turned on the pumps and the chiller loop fired right up. THANK GOODNESS! Unfortunately, the other pump which provided flow to the sand filters, GFO reactor, refugium, and one return to the tank DID NOT. Locked tighter than a drum...

My first thought was that something Willy and I did the other night didn't hold, or we knocked some fitting loose in the project. I checked all of the fittings and it didn't appear anything was leaking from them, or anything near them. Then I noticed that the construction paper I had wrapped...

I ordered and had received the new media to change out in the reactor, but it sat on the shelf and I kept finding reasons not to change it out....(very stupid on my part) Sometime between Thursday and last evening it caught up with me. The recirculation pump on the reactor finally gave out.

I can't remember how far back I posted the fact the long ago, the calcium reactor solenoid had stuck in the open position and melted much of the media in the reactor.

Water..water....Everywhere.....................80 gallons

Learned once again from one of my mistakes, if it's not working...FIX IT. Don't procrastinate and expect it to fix itself. A small problem has now mushroomed into a much larger, and probably more expensive problem as a result of waiting...........

A few new things, (NOT FISH), picked these up today at the LFS. Some Flower Pot corals... Some Zoanthus... I think that there might be a little SPS attached in the middle of this one???

Originally Posted by Coral Keeper AMAZING fish/pictures!! Originally Posted by eelfan77 wow, you have my dream tank absolutly stunning. Originally Posted by Nano Reefer so cool Thank you all, I need to get a few more pictures posted for this tank, seems I have been spending too much time...

Originally Posted by regina13 The clown tang was going in circles around the tank again a few minutes ago. again I missed it...

Originally Posted by Coral Keeper Very nice fish/pictures!! Thank you!!

Originally Posted by ntracy What kind of fish is that in the right corner of this pic? The one with the red eyes and yellow markings on it's side. It's a Labout's Fairy Wrasse (Cirrhilabrus laboutei).

I added a pair of Golden Rhomboidalis Wrasses, (Cirrhilabrus rhomboidalis), similar to the pair I added yesterday in the big tank. This pair was 4" & 3", a little smaller than the first pair. The male stayed in the open while the female headed into the rocks.

Originally Posted by Flricordia Those are awesome! Probably the nicest wrasses I have in any of my tanks. Like them so much, I bought another pair for my 470.

The new wrasses were out and about at one end of the tank today. They posed nicely to get their picture taken.

Originally Posted by alexmir To get my mangroves to keep their leaves above water i just cut a small hole in some styrofoam, stuck the mangrove through, and let them float, works perfect! Sounds like a great idea, once the leaves start developing, I will try and move them to the sumps. I am...

Originally Posted by chris17 to the fish man lol I have been trying to go to sleep for about an hour now, can't seem to stop going thru this thread....trying to reach the end. I blame you for my lack of sleep. I am sure I'm not the only one either. Amazing Thank you! I hope that now you are...

Originally Posted by David24 Goodwin, I stopped going to all saltwater message boards online except for this thread. Thanks for keeping this thread updated for so long! Thank you for your posts! I appreciate them!