FarmerTy Posted March 25, 2015 Author Share Posted March 25, 2015 Oops please disregard. Just passing thru.That's what my build thread has come to now huh Richard? Just somewhere to dump unwanted posts? [emoji30] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted March 25, 2015 Author Share Posted March 25, 2015 Tomorrow is the big day! I'll have fish in my fish tank again! What a concept! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOceanTraveler Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Yea.... So happy for you. Please take video. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted March 25, 2015 Author Share Posted March 25, 2015 Yea.... So happy for you. Please take video.I think there was an anonymous vote on the club banning me from making any more videos. [emoji22] I'll try to sneak one on here though.... shhhhh! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 We have fish! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post FarmerTy Posted March 26, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted March 26, 2015 My old midas blenny's successor... the cave must be a midas blenny's dream home... they are just drawn to it. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 This mariculture has some potential. It had blue polyps in the store! Doesn't always mean they'll stay that way but fun to see how it'll color up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wardlaw Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Looking good teach. Glad you got some fins in the display! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolt Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 I'll be interested to see a photo of that acro in a couple of months after it's settled in to your tank! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 I'll give update photos as it goes. I'd be a little sad if it turns into something only a mother colony could love but that's half the fun I guess... the diamonds in the rough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShawnKoto Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 So happy things are getting back to normal! The reef looks great. Way to persevere. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+olaggie01 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Looking good Ty. Glad they are back swimming in the big tank. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted March 27, 2015 Author Share Posted March 27, 2015 I changed my light cycle up to have it end with only the right MH on at night. I like how it highlights the structure of the rock and the SPS on the right with the dimly lit background of the left side in view. Frag sump back in action, as soon as I throw my 250 watt MH back over it. That yellow refugium light isn't cutting it. Best part is my display tank gets to be a display tank again without a million random frags on the sand messing up my view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted March 27, 2015 Author Share Posted March 27, 2015 E...I...E...I...O... [emoji4] 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted March 28, 2015 Author Share Posted March 28, 2015 Nice to have the frag tank back in full effect again with a 250-watt MH over it. Fungia factory back in business! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted March 28, 2015 Author Share Posted March 28, 2015 It's not all hard coral in here [emoji4] 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 Busy reefing day! I replumbed my chiller which left an open port on my manifold to kick back up my GFO reactor again. I know I've been reading 0 phosphates but that's mainly due to algal growth and the cyano that reared its head when I drained the tank to catch the fish out during my marine velvet epidemic. I'll be glad to have the GFO reactor back online. My SPS have been looking a little on the drab side and it makes me happy to be back at the same regiment that produced such great results in my old tank. I also refilled the CARX media after already using about 4-5" of media in the span of a month to month and a half. This is in a 5" diameter reactor so that's quite the bit of media being consumed. I've actually lowered my alk level from 8.5 dKh down to 7dKh so I can stay away from burnt tips associated with higher alk levels and carbon dosing. Lastly: Today marks Day 1 of the UV experiment. I installed a new 57-watt UV bulb and rubber quartz sleeve wiper and we're good to go to start eradicating all kinds of good and bad things in the water. [emoji4] I'll probably start to clear some corals out of my tank, namely some accidental SPS frags and LPS colonies/frags that have been hanging around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted April 1, 2015 Author Share Posted April 1, 2015 Nothing like a temp spike last night to get my behind moving on moving my Apex to a different location. When I added the chiller, the exhaust was setup to point to the back of the tank so it could exhaust up and out my canopy vent fan. Unfortunately, that's where my Apex head unit is near and on days where the chiller runs longer, it has overheated my main head unit and caused some odd temp and pH readings. For some reason the Apex defaults to 18 degrees when it loses connection to the temp probe. So for the better part of 4 hours, my heater, based on the 18 degrees that the overheated apex unit was telling it, was cooking my tank to try to bring up the temp. Combine that with 3 400-watt MHs and I got up to a whopping 85 degrees in the tank! Luckily, my ambient temp is 81-82 degrees so it wasn't too crazy of a spike. Oddly, not a single coral/fish has any negative symptoms of the temp spike. Go figure?! I went ahead and programmed my Apex to not have the heater run if the temp probe reads something ridiculous, like 18 degrees again. That should at least help avoid this near disaster again. I've also relocated the head unit away from the heat exhaust of the chiller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austx Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Wow and I thought I was having problems with temps getting into the 80s. Thats nuts man glad you caught it and were able to "fix" the issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted April 1, 2015 Author Share Posted April 1, 2015 Wow and I thought I was having problems with temps getting into the 80s. Thats nuts man glad you caught it and were able to "fix" the issue.Yeah, been running an average of 82 for 3 years now with no issues. 85 is a bit higher than I want to go but that tank looks perfectly normal today so I guess it's been good that I've been conditioning them to handle the heat. [emoji5] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bpb Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 First of all I was about to call April fools but it's not a crazy enough story. Second...82 degree ambient temps? Did you grow up in the Sahara? Holy smokes that's hot. I'd die if my house were kept at that! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted April 1, 2015 Author Share Posted April 1, 2015 Oh, no way! I'm part Eskimo! I'd die in 82 degrees in the house. Just my reef tank... average is about 82 degrees. I did think about pulling an April Fools joke but then again, I'd thought I'd be nice for one year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOceanTraveler Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Does that mean you aren't selling any BRS Coral seeds? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted April 1, 2015 Author Share Posted April 1, 2015 Does that mean you aren't selling any BRS Coral seeds?Haha, that's hilarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gig 'em @ NDstructible Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Whoop! Fish back in the tank! I bet that's a good feeling having happy fish back in the tank and getting back to normal. I'm looking forward to the day when I have happy SPS again. 7 months feels like a long time since I've had happy SPS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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