Project 70
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matty0h_52
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what do you have covring your closed loop intake so no one gets sucked in? allso did you make a ball valve connection for quick watter changes?
wax32
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I didn't plumb in a seperate valve to drain the tank... I thought about it, but decided it was tight enough under my stand. I just drop a mag 5 in my sump and suck water out into a bucket. I have a strainer sorta thing on the closed loop intake:
The Intake
I sat the rock on top of it to shade it some, hopefully coralline will build slowly on it. Under the intake is a small length of PVC that is glued into a threaded adapter that is threaded into the bulkhead. The strainer isn't glued so I can unscrew it and replace it if coralline build up gets too bad.
The Intake
I sat the rock on top of it to shade it some, hopefully coralline will build slowly on it. Under the intake is a small length of PVC that is glued into a threaded adapter that is threaded into the bulkhead. The strainer isn't glued so I can unscrew it and replace it if coralline build up gets too bad.
matty0h_52
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you could just branch off of the closed loop section but....just wanted to know cause i know its really a pain when trying to do a 10g watter change with the power head. (i little messy too). i personally just use a syphen no power head.
matty0h_52
Member
do you have to light acclimate everything you put in there. even those little patches
wax32
Active Member
Also...
my favorite corals are zoanthids. I find that some open up almost as soon as I put them in the tank, every polyp. But some take a week for even a single polyp to open. Besides light they take a while to adjust to the water conditions of the tank. So far the only ones I've killed were the ones I put 4 inches under my 300w of VHO right after bringing them home on the old tank. They cooked in a day! And those came from a store that had them high up under a MH. I also bleached an acro under those same VHO's. I saved him in time though and he recovered.
my favorite corals are zoanthids. I find that some open up almost as soon as I put them in the tank, every polyp. But some take a week for even a single polyp to open. Besides light they take a while to adjust to the water conditions of the tank. So far the only ones I've killed were the ones I put 4 inches under my 300w of VHO right after bringing them home on the old tank. They cooked in a day! And those came from a store that had them high up under a MH. I also bleached an acro under those same VHO's. I saved him in time though and he recovered.
