120 gallon journal - picture Feb 27

[kwirky]

yeah, there's a check valve, and I have the backup that the output is only 3/4 of the way up. I tested it, before installing the valve, and I have room in my sump for the backflow from the display tank in case the check valve fails.

the check valve's spring is stainless steel, but I'm a little nervous still having the metal in the tank... I was thinking of removing the valve at some point, and only having the empty space in the sump as backup.

[kwirky]

The Little Frag That Could...

so this little toadstool frag, my first frag ever has been succumbed to all my mistakes starting from my first nano tank. It hasn't grown at all. In fact, at one point it even shrunk in size. It's fallen off rocks into rockwork, it's gone through n00b water parameter swings. It's gone through everything.

I decided to "be a man! do the right thing!" and give it a permanent home. I epoxied the little bugger down to let him live the rest of his life in solitude

except, as fate would have it, when I was cutting his plug with the dremel he flew 10 feet across the room! So he's now glued down on a good spot, and he won't be moved EVER again.

He's the "little frag that could" I've even decided to name him. "Little Guy"

side note:
by the way, albert's plugs are annoying. I always have to dremel off the "legs" to get them to epoxy down in good spots. Too bad the plugs don't have "week lines" along their legs so they can be snapped off if we don't need them.