diy acrylic overflow on glass?

sleasia

sleasia

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Ok, I'm slow
...I finally get the concept of the "siphon Break" using airline tubing from the return up to the water surface....I saw a tank today which used this technique and I finally see the point, that it will immediately break the siphon for you instead of continuing to back siphonl until the water level drains down to wherever a hole has been drilled. Yes I am going to do this.
 
bojik

bojik

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Loving your new lights i take it leasia? Crocea, Maxima,or that other one i can never remember the name of....?
 
sleasia

sleasia

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Well...I'm not sure...one of the hermits knocked it off its perch and down into the rockwork. I finally found it but had to go to work, so I will have to dig it out tomarrow morning and reposition it. so far though, I haven't seen anything on it that looks like xenia...there are some small polypy things but they haven't been willing to open at all.....maybe the lighting took too long? or maybe the calcium was too low...I found it to be too low a couple days ago and dosed it up again....we'll see. also couldn't put the pics on of a few new additions....so I'll post them tomarrow. the pink zoo is still ok, just not thriving yet, but hanging in there.
 
bojik

bojik

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Originally Posted by sleasia
Well...I'm not sure...one of the hermits knocked it off its perch and down into the rockwork. I finally found it but had to go to work, so I will have to dig it out tomarrow morning and reposition it. so far though, I haven't seen anything on it that looks like xenia...there are some small polypy things but they haven't been willing to open at all.....maybe the lighting took too long? or maybe the calcium was too low...I found it to be too low a couple days ago and dosed it up again....we'll see. also couldn't put the pics on of a few new additions....so I'll post them tomarrow. the pink zoo is still ok, just not thriving yet, but hanging in there.
least it survived :) The xenia in my tank has grown in size quite a lot.[like 10+ times its original size] Try putting that xenia in a lower current spot near the light more. It should open up. When I sent it to you it had 3 small sticks with stars on the end when open attached to that shell.Also when it does open try feeding it some phytoplankton/filter feeder food.
 
sleasia

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Ok, I will move it around tomarrow...I found it and its back up on top of the rockwork...nothing is opening...maybe the three polyps were knocked off in shipping...inthe mean time, I have the other one I bought recently doing ok....
should I try and send you frags of the daisy coral, the gonipora (flower pot coral) and that other hard coral????
 
sleasia

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Bojik...Oh, I guess I posted the pics in the photo section under the thread "sleasia goes reef" . anyway check it out, maybe there is something I can frag and send to you....
 
bojik

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Thats the kind I sent you :).

That one is interesting i do not recognize it.
I didn't have luck with the small frag of red montipora, or was it goniopora, cup coral I had. Not sure if its too little current or light that was the problem. Not sure on that daisy coral? IF its soft or leather it should be ok in mine.
Thanks for offering :)
 
sleasia

sleasia

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the one you didn't recognize is a flowerpot coral goniopora..
the other one you liked I think is montipora cup coral...looks like it could be fragged easily enough...If you want a piece let me know and teach me how to frag it...and what day to have it arrive on...thanks
 
bojik

bojik

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Originally Posted by sleasia
Ok, I'm slow
...I finally get the concept of the "siphon Break" using airline tubing from the return up to the water surface....I saw a tank today which used this technique and I finally see the point, that it will immediately break the siphon for you instead of continuing to back siphonl until the water level drains down to wherever a hole has been drilled. Yes I am going to do this.
HEH *just read this one right* Easier to understand seeing than reading huh? Makes more sense than what i tired to explain i bet. MY advice though to keep that from clogging is to do this sorta thing instead. Put a hole in the line you want to break siphon and seal in a inline airline splicer into that hole and run an airline section off of that to the level at which you want the siphon to break.(in main tank) I have heard that can be more reliable than drilled holes. Some people have complained that they can get coated over with algae etc.
Just my take on it anyways.
 
sleasia

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do I need only one of these (airline things) or do I put one on each return??? Also, reefmadness is a serious disease....look what I snuck out and got today while the kids were in school.....a scroll coral and blue shrooms.....

 
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