Amazing tank! Whats the thickness of the glass?

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Thank you. 3/4" there was an option to use thinner glass but this way I have peace of mind.

Picked up some tanks which should be perfect for a frag system and for a less cumbersome fish QT.

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Recently out of QT and into the big tank.

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Clams that hate standing up.

Your clams are beautiful!:biggrin:

Some top down shots I took sight unseen.

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My smallest clam at 2" with his buddy Bubbles.

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Beautiful!!!

Looking great Catherine! Those birdsnests look happy :-). Actually, everything looks pretty happy.

Thanks everyone.

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Floating in the display while the QT is topped up.

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DIY leg tank scrubber. Regular maintenance is tedious, so anything to lesson the strain.

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Next up; just waiting on some addition LED fixtures for the left side of the tank.

I'd like to re-arrange some of the rock work and build upon some specific points, but since I have so many fish, I can't do any rearranging until I have more rock cooked to ensure there are enough hiding spaces for everyone.

I'm also making homemade fish food again. It's full of scallops, shrimp, krill, mysis, cuddlefish, bloodworms, squid, sometimes garlic, and sometimes silversides. It's too costly and I keep screwing up the proportions of different meaty foods on their own. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/28/5u4e9yta.jpg

My clams need to pull in their mantles the fish come darting out for the food that quickly.

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I was also lucky enough to be able to pick up a Kalk stirrer from a local. I'm chomping at the bit to set this back up again. Here it is post clean. http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/28/qara4yqy.jpg

I dose via two part and I use a stirrer/reactor to keep my dKH where it should be (8-9). It's a lifesaver because my tank is going through about .75 dKH/day.

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Soon it's time for an SPS buying spree I think. The left side of the tank is looking mighty empty. Please ignore the bags, they were floating while I tested the QT parameters.

April FTS

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Looking good. What led's do you have ordered?

Thank you.

AI Sols and an AI Hydra.

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I have always liked a school of yellow tangs.

I find them so colourful and they really add a calmness to the tank.

Today has been productive;
- replaced the netting on my lid.
- set up two new light fixtures (AI Sols)
- did some in tank clean up; last minute colony moves before encrusting begins
- refilled my autofeeder and upped the frequency of feedings (I have pigs, not fish)
- refilled my dosing containers
- re calibrated my daily dosing to account for the upped usage lately.
- Added T5s to the refugium

Three more fixtures and I should be done adding lights. I'm just waiting for an AI Hydra to show up so I can decide if my last two fixtures will be Kessil 360s or Hydras.

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You are going to have first hand experience with different lighting simultaneously over one tank. Will you keep them all or settle with a favorite and sell the others?

I'm going to settle with LEDs, half blues and half full spectrums. I'll repurpose what I can and probably sell the rest. Whichever full spectrum LED fixture doesn't make the cut will become primary frag tank.

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Added some rock to the display to fill in some of the empty spots. I'm still not happy with the left side, but I am getting closer to something I can live with. I'll keeping adding more rock every week until I'm pleased with it I guess.

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After nearly a month in the tank my butterfly, the first fish to do so, has finally figured out what the shrimp are for. Now he is hanging out being cleaned all the time.

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Friday afternoon movie

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Link; http://s21.photobucket.com/user/michika/media/B52715D1-27C1-4DFF-AC91-00F67D276FB9_zpsgu5hbwie.mp4.html

Post re-aquascaping movie of the stalkers I call fish.
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Looking great! Did you get the lights up you were waiting for?

Thank you. Yes, I did. The Sol Blues are up and running, the Hydra is here but not online yet. I'm just waiting for the Apex AI module to arrive, hopefully Tuesday.

love that mini-school of tangs! Looks great C!

Thank you!

Here is the hydra light. It's thinner than the SOLs, and the number of lenses are different, 4 vs. 8. Should be interesting when it goes online considering my SOLs are only at a 48% intensity.

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Somebody's going through a growth spurt!
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You'll like the Hydras. I ran Sols for a long time and was always looking to supplement for more coral pop. Since I put the Hydras online i'm way happier and i'm betting you will be too. Good choice.

I love how all the fish you bought are together in the picture! Looks great!

I'm dying for UPS to deliver my package today.

They integrated so very well and easily. They all eat and all the zebrasoma tangs follow the new yellow. I'm very happy with them, and they seem pretty pleased with their new home.

So Happy they are in a good home. Those clams are awesome!

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Hydra 52 looks good

Thank you. So far I'm very happy with it. One hydra balances out the colour, to the eye, of two SOLs.



Ch-cha-changes!

Top is before.

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FTS

Last weekend

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Today, about 5-6 hours after I moved the rocks.
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It's the heights of the left most structure I'm not happy about. It's too forced, and the flow sucks in some spots. But, there are lots of nice places for frags to take hold.

Looks great Catherine!

Thank you!

This mornings view from the couch.

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Had to bump the auto feeder up again last week. It keeps the peace and let's me realize my dream of colourful swimming sausages.

I need to add some more sand to my display soon. I'll start with 2 or 3 more bags but I think I'll need 4 when all is said and done.

I think I'm going to bite the bullet on a new calcium reactor too. This manual dosing stuff is a huge PITA as my tank goes through stocking surges and growth spurts. Frankly I'm tired of constantly recalculating my dosing and fiddling with this or that. I'll still dose to fine tune parameters but I need a reactor to set a higher baseline so I don't have to waste so much time and find ways to add more liquids then is needed. I need more stability in my tank's life.

that's an impressive panorama..

colourful swimming sausages !! :lol:

Thar, she blows.

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So much cyano, still. Oh well it's probably only about a quarter of what it was in late July.

I bought the materials to enclose the canopy yesterday to get that done. I've settled on LEDs and T5s as my lighting system so I can finally build. I hope it will also afford some cost savings now that the heat from the tank will be fully contained in the fish room.

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My little emperor is so big now!

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I want to put black backing on my tank I think. Now I just need to find some. :)

Doesn't cyano suck to deal with in large tanks!!

For the back I used black limo tint from Canadian Tire on the 300 and it worked great.

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I have nothing to say on the subject of cyano that will not earn me an insta ban at this point in time. I practice a lot of deep slow breathing when it comes to my tank lately.

My clam really seems to be enjoying the PAR38 bulb I keep over my refugium. It's shunned the MH I had specifically set up for it so much so that I shut it down.

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I'll have to make a trip to Canadian Tire and see what's around. Thanks for the tip.

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I think I need a second autofeeder, one for each end of the tank. My fish who prefer the side opposing the feeder aren't getting their fair share and when people come to hand feed all you get is a swarm, see above.

Guess the good news is that I can probably offset it's cost with the sale of al the MH equipment I have. Ooh I'm practically salivating at all the extra space I'll have in the fishroom.

And for the record a fish room is the greatest thing I've ever done. Everything is in one room, it stays in one room, and, my favourite, it stays organized and findable.

And the power is out. Been out since just after 5am today. No leaks, no messes and I think everything is accounting for. Now to just wait it out.

One of my favorite tanks to distract me during my work day. Cyano is tough though...I recently had a bout that i'm still fighting off. Hope the power is back soon for you. My whole home generator was the best insurance i've ever bought. It was cheap in comparison to what I spent on tank build.

The generator came out but never got turned on. My 1st backup system, battery power heads for oxygenation, worked well, and my second back up, the generator, wasn't really needed. After ~9 hours with no power the tank only dropped 2 degrees. I "covered" the top to keep the heat in for about 4 of those hours.

Everything seems to be business as usual in the tank.

I do need to upgrade my generator though as it's only sized to run the tank; pumps and heaters particularly. Some lights now too since I'm mostly LED now as well. The next step up would be a whole home system.

Take a look at KMS tools for the Whole home system. They have a store in Calgary and they were the cheapest price I ever found.

Ugh. I am so tired of cyano. I just got rid of it early this year, only for it to return late July after a vacation away. It is getting better; I clean the glass less often, I blow off the corals and rocks less frequently. But, I am still tired of its maroon colour and how hard it is to tell apart from some types of coraline.

Today I scraped the glass, I miss when I only did this every 10 days rather than every 3. I blew everything off today with my good old trusty turkey baster too; stringy pieces of cyano everywhere. There was a break for drinks and a pep talk on why I don't quite need to bust out the Red Slime remover yet. The kalkwasser reactor got refilled, and the parameters tested. Now its back to the old reefkeeping standards; time and patience. I just want to stock my tank with SPS.

Hi Catherine

What kind of salt are you using I was using H2O ocean and i started getting cyano. I am now switching and havent had any cyano come back since the switch.

Hey,

I use Instant Ocean. The cyano this time around is definitely nutrient based. While I was on holidays my house sitter added at least an extra 2 cups of pellet foods to the tank over a 14 day period in addition to that one of my yellow tangs died during that same time period which just made things worse. :( Thanks for the recommendation though.