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07-20-2007, 07:17 PM
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All ribbing aside, the sprinkler valve does have some merit. I wish I had one even though I have a large reservoir.
I'll be around those dates of your vacation, if you need a tanksitter. I actually will be away for 3 weeks (starting next weekend to August 19), my Dad's gonna come feed the fish but I could probably use a backup contact for him if you're around in that timeframe?
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08-04-2007, 06:24 AM
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post overhaul
Well, due to the tank going down hill I had to overhaul it before it was too late.
I was experiencing extreme hair algae and detritus, probably do to the overwhelming bio load the tank was under. and my corals were starting to die. I had a regal tang, bi-color angel, gold striped maroon clown, YWG with pistol shrimp, 4 green chromis, a dragon goby, a red cheek anthias and recently a lawnmower blennie. For cleaners I only had like 6 hermits, 3 snails and a cleaner shrimp. that was most likely because of my bully pistol shrimp. So this past week I tore it down, took out all of the corals, LR and fish. Scrubbed the live rock of all hair algae and took a few fish to the LFS. The only fish I kept were the tang, angel, clown, YWG and the lawn mower blennie. In trade for the fish the LFS gave me a whole lot of hermits and snails. Now with no pistol shrimp preying on my cleaners, I imagine that they'll stick around for a while longer than before. I think by the end of the overhaul I had changed out about 50% of the water. So some of my SPS are a bit faded because of the ordeal, but I think they will bounce back. My LPS on the other hand will take a bit longer. Before: You can see hair algae, and the water looks green.  After: The rock scaping leaves a bit more to be desired than before IMO, but its only for a few months until I get the 110 set up. 
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08-04-2007, 05:00 PM
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The tank looks great! I hope scrubbing off the GHA works for you!
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08-04-2007, 05:10 PM
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How the heck do you get your caps to plate like that? Mine form "cups" and then whorl out from there but they don't plate very flat
 Is it a flow thing?Oh and the tank looks great by the way. Makes me want to do an "all cap" tank 
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08-04-2007, 06:36 PM
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That tank is stunning. I relay like the Monti cap(green) on the top right hand corner so eye popping.
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08-05-2007, 02:55 AM
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Thanks everyone, I hope the GHA stays away too.
As for the caps; they have all been fragged and broken and abused, thats why they looks the way they do. Every fracture will form a new "pedal" so to speak. It will also help to have them grow up the side of rocks or even the tank wall. I have always tried to keep them up high and in high flow for maximum color.
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