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So... i get over to my fathers. I walk in ready to kill some aiptasia. Walk over to the tank and find not one sign of the pest anywhere. I'm looking high and low. Since I put my 3 peppermint shrimp in the tank I have only seen one of them once. I figured they either died or were not interested...

I went to check on my 30 gallon aquarium over at my fathers last week. I'm about a month or 2 away form moving all my live stock over to my new 120 gallon. I was going to grab a couple pieces of Live Rock out of the 30 gallon to help seed the 120, but I got over to his house and found Aiptasia...

I have the temperature stable at 78 with a hysteresis of .1. its been about 3 days with the shrimp in the tank. I have yet to do an API test, but I do have my Seneye device in the sump just to see how accurately it keeps track of my ammonia. Currently its reading at 0.008 ppm Free Ammonia (NH3)...

I was a little surprised, but it took a 3rd 150 Watt Heater to hit my target temp of 78. With the 300 and 100 W heaters maxed out I was stuck at 76.7 added the 150 W heater and now I'm able to maintain a proper temperature. The ambient temperature in the basement is about 65 degrees. I'm...

Looks like we lost him. I haven't spotted him in the tank. I never had a nitrate spike, but he seems to be gone =(

Here are some pictures. Canopy on - started my cycling process with raw shrimp in a filter sock Inside the back wall. Plumbing, refugium & controller Reefkeeper Elite controller mounted above the tank. Have the Wavemaker working with 2 CL pumps, also have both heaters running. View of the...

Nice build! I'm impressed! I now wish I would have built a stand. Seems like a fun project! NICE JOB!

Quote: Originally Posted by acrylic51 Really not sure if you'll see any major benefit from a DSB at all......Just my .02 yeah.. i'm not sure. I can't find one pieces of solid info on DSB. There is so much back and forth about it being the answer to everyone's prayers and then the next thread is...

Update time. Made some more progress, I'll post pics tomorrow. Some ups and downs over the last couple days. I ran my 75 GPD RO/DI System for about 2 1/2 days to get the 120 Gallon Display, 40 Gallon Sump and 10 Gallon filled to the proper levels. I did some research and decided on a trying a...

Quote: Originally Posted by acrylic51 Looks very good.....Where'd you purchase your rock from... BRS. 100 lbs of Reef Saver Rock. I was really happy with the unique variety of pieces I received! Sump is full of water, Tank is 1/4 full at this point. Looking forward to starting the cycle in a...

I got the rock work done in the tank this morning. I really like the way it turned out. I made some changes to the right side which I think are for the better! I like how open the front is on the left side and the right rock work offers a good geography for future coral placement. I still have...

I worked a full shift on the build last night.. started working around 11 PM in my new "Fish Room" and finally crawled into bed around 6 AM. I got the 5 Stage RO/DI installed. Ran the water lines through the walls from the adjacent room to the tank. I'm filling the sump first via the bean animal...

Little bummed. I was cleaning out my tank 2 days ago, and I walked away for 5 min to get a bucket. I left the top off of the tank, and when I got back I noticed the dog sniffing around at something about 5 feet from the tank. One of my Firefish was laying there. I quickly scooped him up and...

I'm currently working on setting up a new 120 gallon reef aquarium. I discovered a thread on the algae scrubber site about upflow algae scrubbers (UAS). It seems that they have been successful replacements or additions to skimmers. I know there is mixed feelings about not running skimmers at...

I was moving the rock around yesterday to clean off the coral and re-position it so that it gets the most light and flow. While I was moving it I accidently broke a chuck off, so I guess I fragged it. I put the frag in another high flow/high light area. Hopefully that helps. I'm going to start...

My current 29 gallon has 2 bangaii cardinals and 2 firefish and 2 clowns. No issues except the clowns like to chase the firefish into the rocks. But no fighting has been seen.

I have a hammer coral that fell over in my tank. A snail knocked it over. I didn't notice that one head wasn't getting any light. the one head died. The other three heads seem happy and are healthy. Would it be advisable to just leave the dead head or can I cut it off and then super glue the...

I got this frag about 6 ro 7 months back that really started to grow well. The reddish/orange monti was covering the top of my rock. Starting to take a nice shape. However I had a hair algae outbreak 2 months ago. I did a black out period and upped my PH a little bit. The hair algae for the most...

Quote: Originally Posted by acrylic51 A "breather" I was referring to would be nothing more than a "T" placed in your drain line with a little extension pipe coming up to let the air escape the line..... Ok.. that makes sense. I'm going to dry plumb it all hopefully this week and so a test of...

I bought 2 sents of TaoTronic LED's I have 1 on my 29 gallon right now. I just bought another to combine with it to put on my 120 gallon. I've had a good experience with them. They are dimmable as well. I think the first one was $180 and this last one I got for $150. Ebay. If you want the...