I never thought about it. I think my body (working the camera) is probably blocking the halides. That was the first challenge that I noticed with the top down photography..I'm blocking all the light.

Skimmer working overtime
 

This is exactly 7 hours worth of skimmate from the G6. 1 cup worth of really foul smelling stuff. While this is the part that I can easily drain out, there is considerably more gooey stuff in the neck and collection cup.

Skimmer needs to be completely cleaned 2x per week.

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/000_0266.jpg

So did you use Weldon 16 to bond the Acrylic?

I made one a few years ago but never put a bottom pain. So it kind of made it useless

J

ha..ha..Yeah, the bottom is a pretty important piece of a viewing box....

I've never used Weldon 16, but I considered it for this project. I used Methylene Chloride. It wicks into the joints really well, but I find it hard to control how much I'm adding and sometimes it goes right through the joint and comes out on the other side, damaging that surface. I bet that Weldon 16 is easier to use.

Wife know what you do with her measusing cup?

wow, that's all I can say, just wow.

I hope in the future I can have the guts and know how to build a system like this. Great job.

New Fish...
 

A Few days ago, I added a couple of new fish. A cleaner wrasse, and a White Face Tang (sold to me as a Powder Brown, but it is a White Face or Japanese Tang)

If you are a fan of the aquarium camera, you know that the new Tang has had a pretty rough time. The Achillies Tang really dislikes the new guy and is more than twice his size. He's spent the past few days hiding in the Xenia.

Here is the White Face Tang.
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/000_0281.jpg

The cleaner wrasse is...well...I'm not sure I like having him in the tank. He is a very active cleaner. It is interesting to watch the cleaning behaviour, but he is so relentless that it is driving the fish to distraction! Moe (Blonde Naso) seems to get the most attention mostly because he doesn't move around very fast. There's clearly a point where the fish says.."ENOUGH!!!", but can't easily get away from the cleaner.
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/000_0284.jpg

The wrasse is leaving small "bite marks" that are visible on the Naso Tang. These heal within a day, but new bites are added all the time. Here I was all worried that the wrasse would starve...now I find out that it eats pellets, shrimp and harrasses my fish leaving bite marks all over them! He may become the first fish that I evict...we'll see. He does clean my arm whenever I reach into the tank, which is kind of funny.

If you look at the photo below, you can see the dark bite marks on Moe's grey areas on his nose, behind his gills and on his back.
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/000_0278.jpg

Tank View
 

You can see that the tank is taking on my characteristic "untamed" look...I think I need about a dozen more large sea cucumbers to mulch through that sand bed...

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r...000_0280-1.jpg

White Cheek (Acanthurus japonicus) is my all time favorate fish.

Looks Great.

J

Untamed, you may have a trickster in your tank. What that wrasse is doing sounded familiar to me, so Check out this link.

http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordp...ple-disguises/