kien's 150g Room Divider Mixed Reef & Stuff

[daddy01]

Remind me not to ask for Coffee if I visit your tank!!

[es355lucille]

Very nice Kien. Sorry this is the first time I have caught a look at your set-up. Nice work!

Brad

[kien]

Thanks everyone :-) Taking pictures of fish is actually pretty hard. Those guys are fast!

So the N/P Bio Pellets have finally caught up with me! The mulm/slough finally clogged up the Two Little Fishes reactor. While I was cleaning the reactors sponges I decided that the sponges in the reactor were actually thicker than they really needed to be. Mod time!



So I took one sponge and cut it in half like so.



From one sponge you end up with two!



I wanted them to be a little thinner still so I shaved off another few millimeters.



After the operation I ended up with a very thin sponge, kind of like enkmat mesh.



I then reinstalled the sponge top and bottom of the reactor like before except the top sponge I decided to install in the opposite position from where you would have it normally.



Flow increase was dramatically increased and hopefully more mulm/slough will be able to escape over time.

[kien]

Oh, I decided to install the rest of the N/P Bio Pellets this evening as well. I was debating whether or not to get another reactor or a bigger reactor. In the end I just serviced my 'fuge and overflow as reactors. I have a cluster of chaeto in my 'fuge now that hasn't really done anything (but maybe recede) over time. I finally figured out what that static ball of chaeto is good for!



I just dumped a couple of handfuls of NP BioPellets into the 'fuge and they fell into the chaeto net. Instant NP BioPellet Media Net.

I threw a couple of handfuls into my overflow box as well, just for variety sake.

[Coleus]

Beautiful picts. This is why i don't want to make my tank thread because I feel so bad looking at my tank after looking at your tank :-)

Thanks for keep updating your tank. How is the baby? you just amaze me how you can still manage to have time taking care of your beautiful tank with newborn. My babies are driving me crazy over here :-)

Cheers

[kien]

Thanks :-)

Babies are easy. All they do is eat-sleep-poop-repeat. Wait until they turn 2! Now that's a handful. Although, he is turning into quite a reefer. Not only does he roll my salt buckets, feed fish and clean the glass, he now doses my coral snow into the sump for me.

[Leah]

Your pictures are incredible