Lazy’s Coral House Build Thread

[SweetReefOH]

Wow, that really looks good. Is it forgiving regarding imperfections in the original cement floor? I may have to do this to my basement.

[lazylivin]

Thank you: The first step they do is resurface the floor by diamond grinding or shot blasting. Then they repair any damaged area or cracks.

[merlin3]

Would love to be able to do this in my hangar or garage

[lazylivin]

If anyone has interest in getting a quote contact my buddy Lee Baker at https://m.facebook.com/your1dayfloor/?tsid&source=result

[Agame43]

 
  Brian,
  The floor looks great - Can you bring me up to speed on what happened to the floor to cause this rework? I have been reading through the post but do not see what caused you to pull tanks and redo this?

Cheers Rick

[Steve]

  Brian,
  The floor looks great - Can you bring me up to speed on what happened to the floor to cause this rework? I have been reading through the post but do not see what caused you to pull tanks and redo this?

Cheers Rick

I was going to ask the same question Rick.

[lazylivin]

I never really like the floor but I got some water under it. We pulled up the affected areas to dry and was going to put it back down. But figured it would probrably happen again so we decided to go this route instead. There is info on the water spill in the video I posted on June 20 if you have interest in hearing about the cause

[Rob]

Wow.  I have not on this site in a long time, maybe a year or so.  However, I stumbled upon this thread.  I absolutely love what you have built here, what a wonderful model.  Sorry to see you have had a couple of bumps along the road.

[lazylivin]

Thanks Rob.

[lazylivin]

The Trident is installed and has performed its first test. The entire installation only took 15 minutes. I delayed setting this up for a couple weeks thinking it was going to be difficult. It wasn’t. Basically one line drops in sump and the other line goes to a waste container. That’s it aside from plugging it into the apex 1link port. Couldn’t be any easier. I have to wait 48 hours before I can run the calibration task. For now the first test came up with Alk 8.92 vs 9.30 on salifert, Calcium 296 vs 450 on Sailfert and Mag 1501 vs 1425 on sailfert. We will see where it goes in a couple days after calibration

[lazylivin]

 Acros are looking great as well as most other corals. Nice to start sharing some coral pics again

[CoralBeauties]

Looking good. color and p/e are doing real well.  Love the hairy green acro!!
Jeff

[Tobe1971]

Awesome, man! So glad to see things looking like the Lazy’s of old! Can’t wait to come see the shop!

[Steve]

Looking good Brian.

[VikingCoral]

Colors are looking great!

[SweetReefOH]

Looking good Brian. What have you learned thru the problem?

[lazylivin]

Thanks all. Jesse unfortunately I haven’t learned anything new about the issue. Having torn down the tanks twice to have the floor installed caused 2 back to back 80% + water changes.

[lazylivin]

 I ran the calibration today with Neptune system trident calibration fluid. It fixed the low calcium reading. Mag pretty much stayed the same which was accurate before calibration. Alk was good before the calibration and out of range by .50 dkh after the calibration. I tested  the calibration fluid with my sailfert and Hannah test kits. Calcium was spot on as well as mag however alk was way off which made sense based on the post calibration results. I made my own calibration fluid and tried it again. Now it is spot on!

[erky]

lazy does the trident work like the old alk monitor you had in the alk test?

if so want to work on a reagent fluid?

[lazylivin]

It is different in that the kh guardian used ph probe and acid. Trident does titration via color meter. Basically the same as sailfert or other box test kit

Here is a few screen shots of some of the views it displays in the app. There is also alerting that can be done based on values and dosing. The dosing is nice in that you can give it a set value to never dose more or less then a configured amount in 24 hour period for safety

[CoralBeauties]

Are you going to let it control your dosing or just monitor?
Jeff

[lazylivin]

I don’t think I will ever let it dose but as I gain confidence I will probably makes adjustments to the dosing amount and schedule based off testing results.

[ricksastro]

Yea, I used the Trident for 1.5 months...it really allows you to keep your pulse on the tank!   After the first round of reagents ran low, I decided it was overkill for my tank and sold it for what I put into it (could have gotten more with the crazy scarcity).   I don't regret using it it and found it enlightening, and should be perfect for your application, Brian.     Just be warned that my Ca shot up as the reagent got low.  Others have reported something similar, and likely due to sucking air.   

I agree with you on being wary of auto dosing, especially after the Ca experience.  That said, Neptune did a nice job of putting safeguards in for auto-dosing.   I just like to observe and adjust dosing myself.

[lazylivin]

Good feedback Rick. I have also seen the issues reported with calcium drifting up when reagent gets low. They are still speculating  air is getting in it but no official word from Neptune systems yet. If I see it happen I won’t get to excited. I have to say I am really impressed. For their first edition it is a solid product so far. If it continues to operate like it has I am super impressed. The difference in quality, compared to the kh monitor is night and day in every aspect. It is reading exactly the same as what I am getting on all my test now.
Tonight’s test on Hannah checker for alk was 9.3 trident 9.38
Calcium sailfert 430-440, trident 432
Mag sailfert 1380, trident 1388

[lazylivin]

Everything seems to be back to normal. Never figured out the issue. Wish I did but glad corals are healthy, colorful and growing again. Prepping for reopening in a couple weeks.