Ohio Reef
Reef Discussion => Tank Profiles & Build Threads => Topic started by: Topekoms on August 15, 2019, 21:51:10
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So as most of you know I had a house fire on July 3rd. If not you do now. Needless to say my 180g wasn't what started the fire but it was still a total loss. Except the fish were saved and no coral was harmed in the destruction of the system. So from the ashes a new tank rises I have named it Phoenix. So here is what the new system is going to entail.
210g tank
new stand and canopy
Apex system
Apex Wav
Apex DOS
Iwaki MD55RLT return pump
Vertex Alpha 250
Tideline 72" Sump
Apex ATK
2 Reef Brite LED
ATI sun power 8x80
As it gets built I will be uploading pictures current fish awaiting the tank are as follows
2 Lamark angels
2 Clarkii
1 Blue Throat Trigger
1 Achilles Tang
1 Yellow Tang
1 Purple Tang
1 Melanurus Wrasse
1 Banggai Cardinal
2 Yellow Tail Damsels
1 Orange Tube Anemone
I also have which I am selling if they don't sell they will also be going in to the system though
2 Dej Sailfin Tangs
1 Rabbit Fish
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sorry to hear about they fire. Looks like the tank rebuild is going to be a nice setup. Glad the fish were all ok, funny how you can become attached to a fish.
Jeff
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Sorry about the fire Lee, but glad Your ok and the Phoenix is rising. Looks like your going with a top notch, high tech set up. Love the look of T5's just hate changing bulbs.
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Sorry to hear about the house fire! Sounds like the new build is off to a great start - really like the name Phoenix!
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Here is a pic of the tank and stand we are getting there one step at a time.
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Looks great
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It has started
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Looking forward to seeing it come together
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4 months of waiting for the house and new tank thanks to Jennifer, Jeremy and Mitch couldn't have done it without you
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Nice! I’m jealous, it looks like a lab!
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So fish are now in the tank. I know I know it isn't cycled but I really needed to get them out of the 93 they were in. I have added some bottle bacteria by Dr tims and adding some turbo start on Friday. All the fish seem to be much happier in the 210 couple scrapes and torn fins from moving but no one worst for wear. Everyone is eating even my tube nem is happy. Tank is a bit cloudy from the Dr tims but that will clear up this evening
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What does the third water container hold? I figure RO, Salt, then maybe waste from auto water change?
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Auto top off r/o water :whistle:
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Gotcha, I tended to just use just 2 containers to do that. Is this going to be a mixed reef?
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That I am not sure I would like to but thinking it will be mainly SPS and LPS
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UPDATE: Nitrates are at about 5ppm. Salinity is a bit off still at 27.4 working on bringing it up to 35. Refractometer calibration was off so ya know crap happens. All fish and tube nem are very happy. Got my trident up and running thanks Jennifer (Aquarium Artisans). Also got the bugs worked out on Apex so things are going great.
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So against my better judgement I ordered two more tube nems. I just didn't want to risk someone else buying them I have had my eye on them the last few days on live aquaria. Also thinking my apex salinity probe is needing calibrated again. But with my refactormeter I almost have it to where I want it.
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Don’t count to much on the apex salinity probe. They are not very accurate or consistent
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Yeah but it's going to the extremes when it comes to measurements like 5-20point swings lol
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Neptune says that keeping the salinity probe and cord away from everything else can help. Apparently it is susceptible to interference
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Is this a new probe?
So against my better judgement I ordered two more tube nems. I just didn't want to risk someone else buying them I have had my eye on them the last few days on live aquaria. Also thinking my apex salinity probe is needing calibrated again. But with my refactormeter I almost have it to where I want it.
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Yeah bout a week old
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Looking good!
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If I remember right the biggest issues with that probe is trapped air in the tip of it.
Jeff
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Nice meeting you today. As we discussed, the Apex forums are full of the same question about the probes and calibration. Since it’s new, give it 2 or 3 weeks in the water and then re-calibrate it. I gave up on the calibration fluid and used a refractometer to get my tank exactly 026 and the I calibrated the probe with my tank water. I’ve had it going this way for a year and it’s only about .5 off. But I know it so I just keep my water at 35.5 now. Lol
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The dreaded ugly stage has begun so 10 days in starting to see diatoms so 10 days in started a little bit early but plow thru and see how things shake out.
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Update so no pics have been posted cause I am an idiot and forgot hey dumbass no glass scraper!! So it came in the mail today and here is an update so I have added 3 more tube nems and one little acan as test coral everything seems to be going according as planned.
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Pic
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Ok so now that we got some algae and such it was time for CUC did an order from reef cleaners.org they are floating now.
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:nervous: well the tank ended up with ich. Might have gotten it when they were in friends tank while we waited for the house. Achilles was first to get it so now I have pulled out the rock caught all the fish and have them in copper treatment. Going to be fallow which sucks but it's for the best. Don't quite like the rock work I think that the right stack is too tall and too steep. But it works for now
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Tank pic update
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Lookin good.
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Love the rockscape! I guess you’re still qt’ing the fish? How are the corals doing without fish?
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Looks good!
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Corals doing great here some eye candy
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Corals look color and healthy
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Loot from NY sales
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So update on the tank. I have been trying to solve a low oh issue. Think it is from too much C02 in the house. So today I drilled a hole thru my wall and plumbed a fresh airline for my skimmer. Needless to say it's seems to be working but I now can't get the skimmer dialed back in since I had to remove the silencers. Going to have to modify them so I can run a hose to em. Will post pics of the project when done
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So solved the pH issue with the outside air. But noticed coral starting to pale out did some testing 0 phosphate and less than 5 nitrate so started dosing them today
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So tanks been running a while can't seem to keep any sps/Monti. Sent off a triton test and these are my results. What do you think https://www.triton-lab.de/showroom/icp-oes/114525
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Looks like your phosphates are crazy high per Triton. I don’t personally keep them super low in my own tank, but always try and stay below 0.2 mg/l (equal to ppm). Iodine is high too but I’m not sure if that is an issue, someone else might chime in about that.
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From a lot of research I’ve done in the past, anything over .1 starts impeding calcification in stony corals. Obviously the higher you go over .1 the worse it is and I’m sure there’s also a ceiling where coral death is the outcome. I’d get that under control as quickly as you can. But not so fast that it kills your coral.
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https://www.triton-lab.de/showroom/icp-oes/123463
New Triton results
Still having some problems with coral. Damn this hobby
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https://www.triton-lab.de/showroom/icp-oes/123463
New Triton results
Still having some problems with coral. Damn this hobby
Is there a way to convert it to English? Am I missing something?
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I had a tab pop up for Google translate.