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elan
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hi everyone!!! remember me??
havent been around in a while due to getting a new camera.. the nikon d100. simply an amazing camera. at first glance, it sounds pricey, but when you consider what this camera does, its well worth the money for photography.
Well... i still havent forgotten about my tank either. my tank has been doing GREAT!!!... i cant belive how well its doing with minimal upkeep...
I am still dosing B-Ionic, but having trouble getting a mechanical doser to work and am waiting for the third replacement to come to my house. But, i upped my dosage from the last time i posted and also upped my dosage of coral vital... the corraline is really taking off.. everything else in my tank seems to like it too.. my xenia is out of control.. i even have a little frag farm going on with about a dozen nice size frags, all about the same size i started with with when i was given a frag from a local frag meeting.
Only problem i had was a flood caused by my forgetfullness... I ran a tube from my RODI unit located in my kitchen to my tank, and use a small nozel to fill my sump to the rigth level. After a week away, my water was quite low, so i had to leave the RODI unit on... well... i forgot all about it... and when i woke up the next morning, i overflooded the sump with alot of water... and i mean alot. the salinity dropped to a nerve racking 1.019 (thats in a 135 gallon with 50 gallons underneath in the sump areas)...
Well.. it took me two days getting the salinity back up to 1.025 with me having to add about 10-15 lbs of salt... over the next few weeks, i was expecting a major fallout, but the only thing that didnt do well was my plate coral... i really liked that plate too..... sad to say, i took him out of the tank, about 2 weeks after the insident.
So... I added a float valve to keep the water at the same level in my sump.. to those who add water to their tank manually.... Get a float valve.. mine was $25.00 and probably overpriced because i got it at a LFS, but, it really makes me have one less major thing to worry about.. and i am sure a constant level is very beneficial since there are no salinity swings.
The only other thing that may have gone wrong, is my starfish... i havent seen it.. at all.. not at night, not during the sunrise or sunset faze, not during the day.... it seems like its just missing, or gotten eaten.... hopefully, its just hiding...but i wont know till i break this tank down. oh, its a blue linka, and when it was added, it went though a 6 hour drip method acclimation, and looked like it was doing well when it moved into the rocks.... so who knows.
well.. thats enough of bringing you up to what i have been up to in the last few months... now, on to some pictures.!!!
havent been around in a while due to getting a new camera.. the nikon d100. simply an amazing camera. at first glance, it sounds pricey, but when you consider what this camera does, its well worth the money for photography.
Well... i still havent forgotten about my tank either. my tank has been doing GREAT!!!... i cant belive how well its doing with minimal upkeep...
I am still dosing B-Ionic, but having trouble getting a mechanical doser to work and am waiting for the third replacement to come to my house. But, i upped my dosage from the last time i posted and also upped my dosage of coral vital... the corraline is really taking off.. everything else in my tank seems to like it too.. my xenia is out of control.. i even have a little frag farm going on with about a dozen nice size frags, all about the same size i started with with when i was given a frag from a local frag meeting.
Only problem i had was a flood caused by my forgetfullness... I ran a tube from my RODI unit located in my kitchen to my tank, and use a small nozel to fill my sump to the rigth level. After a week away, my water was quite low, so i had to leave the RODI unit on... well... i forgot all about it... and when i woke up the next morning, i overflooded the sump with alot of water... and i mean alot. the salinity dropped to a nerve racking 1.019 (thats in a 135 gallon with 50 gallons underneath in the sump areas)...
Well.. it took me two days getting the salinity back up to 1.025 with me having to add about 10-15 lbs of salt... over the next few weeks, i was expecting a major fallout, but the only thing that didnt do well was my plate coral... i really liked that plate too..... sad to say, i took him out of the tank, about 2 weeks after the insident.
So... I added a float valve to keep the water at the same level in my sump.. to those who add water to their tank manually.... Get a float valve.. mine was $25.00 and probably overpriced because i got it at a LFS, but, it really makes me have one less major thing to worry about.. and i am sure a constant level is very beneficial since there are no salinity swings.
The only other thing that may have gone wrong, is my starfish... i havent seen it.. at all.. not at night, not during the sunrise or sunset faze, not during the day.... it seems like its just missing, or gotten eaten.... hopefully, its just hiding...but i wont know till i break this tank down. oh, its a blue linka, and when it was added, it went though a 6 hour drip method acclimation, and looked like it was doing well when it moved into the rocks.... so who knows.
well.. thats enough of bringing you up to what i have been up to in the last few months... now, on to some pictures.!!!
