Riceboy's 8.9 gallon set up

[riceboy]

Well heres an update of my system, i had a huge scare on friday night when my digital thermometer was telling my temperature had spiked to 33 degrees celcius, but just turned out that the thermometer was going screwy(went to golds and bought a new one 27 degrees celcius ) anyways i just added a oddysea 550gph power head to the system (thanks kevin from red coral), so all and all i have 1350 gph plus the fuge thats in the back pumping in my 8.9 gallon tank. I have also added a lot of corals to my tank thanks to everyone giving me a good deal on the stuff (calgary's saltwater community are so friendly) anyways heres my livestock that are in there right now.


livestock:
Frogspawn huge colony (thanks parkinsn)
blue crocea clam (thanks parkinsn)
green digita(thanks xtreme)
orange monticap (thanks xtreme)
birds nest (thanks xtreme)
zoo frag (thanks fragzilla)
zoo frag (thanks kevin (redcoral))
dandrophelia (thanks kevin (redcoral))
neon red mushroom frag(thanks bluetoyota)
purple monticap (thanks bluetoyota)
green monticap (thanks bluetoyota)
reverse superman monticap (thanks bluetoyota)
green bta (thanks vagabond)
gsp (thanks kien)
2 clown fish (thanks golds)
1 blue damsel (thanks golds)

now to watch everything grow, and water changes every week lol, also everything is doing very well dandros are so fat from eating mysis, and never new monticaps had little polyps that sprout out lol (you learn something everyday), now all i need to do is invest in a dslr so i can take better pics of growth rather than use my iphone

[riceboy]

and looks like i won't be getting a box fish since further reading say they are pigs and will chow down on all corals note to self never doubt anyone on canreef

[Pufferfreak]

I don't mean to sound rude as this is my first post. Am I correct in reading that you have all that stock in a tank that's under 9 gallons? A GSP should be in a minimum 30 gallons. I have mine in a 25 gallon for now as he's still a baby.

[Kryptic4L]

Originally Posted by Pufferfreak

I don't mean to sound rude as this is my first post. Am I correct in reading that you have all that stock in a tank that's under 9 gallons? A GSP should be in a minimum 30 gallons. I have mine in a 25 gallon for now as he's still a baby.

Green star polyps, not green spotted puffer. Welcome to the reef forums

[Pufferfreak]

I'm so sorry for that mistake. I'm pretty embarrassed now so I'll go stick my head back in the sand.

Thanks for the welcome all the same.

[riceboy]

lol no worries, welcome to canreef.

anyways i have been getting temperature fluctuation for a about 3 days now and couldn't figure out why. it was fluctuating between 28-31 degrees celcius which really hot. well i found the culpret last night it was the new power head i bought (never buy the odyssea power head thier cheap for a reason) as soon as i took it out and replaced it with a koralia 1 less flow the temperature drastically changed down to the 26 degrees celcius range.


****NEVER CHEAP OUT ON YOUR EQUIPMENT ***************

[Fragzilla]

Looking good riceboy!

I will be looking for the updated pics as they come. The zoas opened up real nice I see!

[riceboy]

well i guess fate has done it again my tank once again crashed from excess heat.

i went home for lunch today and found my tank at 34 degree celcius..

i found the cause of the heat increase was that a piece of rubble had fallen into my power head and the spindle wouldn't spin, therefore sky rocketing my tempurature..


looks like i'm back at square 1 again

[Crytone]

That sucks! Hopefully everything works out this time. Did anything survive?

[riceboy]

Not sure yet haven't gotten of work yet