180G Office Reef Tank

[JDigital]

Originally Posted by reefwars

use a dremel tool to score a line across so that when you hit it it wont break past the score mark or just dremel it completely:P

I suppose that's a option.. Will have to give it some thought.

I'm glad I didn't go with a RO/DI that does anything less that 100GPD... I came into office for 9 hours on Saturday to let the water flow, and then it ran for another 8.5hrs on Sunday.. that got the tank to about 55-60%.. It's been running since 7am this morning and I still got about 20% in the DT to fill + the sump.. Glad I only have to do this once!

Patience, Patience, Patience.....


On a side note...

Does anyone have experience with Reef Lobsters in a reef tank?

My general manager asked me today if he could have a lobster in the tank.. Immediately I was hesitant, asked what kind he was referring too, and told him I would research it as I have zero experience with them.

I gave him two options after browsing Live Aquaria..

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p......&pcatid=555

http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p......&pcatid=752

Any input would be greatly appreciated before I get myself into something I have no experience with.

[JDigital]

Well the tank and sump is finally wet and circulating (during office hours until I get my check valve from The Reef Shoppe). The sand will be getting added as soon as I get the skimmer online in combination with a filter sock to polish the water after.



Picked up an Ocean Runner 2500 return pump yesterday to use a my feed for the Skimz 202. Unfortunately the seller broke the thread connector on it so I've got to fix that today before I can use it. (At least I got the pump for free because of it)

[sphelps]

I've put reef lobsters in reef tanks before without any issue. Seem to be pretty secretive hiding 99% of the time, so don't expect too much from them. Hit or miss with other inverts like shrimp, personally if you're planning on keeping things like shrimp and decorative crabs scratch the lobster as the risk involved hardly seems worth something you'll never see.

[michika]

I like, I like.

Are you going to get a pH probe for the RKE you just bought?

[JDigital]

Originally Posted by sphelps

I've put reef lobsters in reef tanks before without any issue. Seem to be pretty secretive hiding 99% of the time, so don't expect too much from them. Hit or miss with other inverts like shrimp, personally if you're planning on keeping things like shrimp and decorative crabs scratch the lobster as the risk involved hardly seems worth something you'll never see.

That might just be my reasoning to persuade him to pick something else.. I'd rather have some cleaner shrimp which will probably be more beneficial to the tank anyways. Especially if we're not gonna see the lobster much.

Originally Posted by michika

I like, I like.

Are you going to get a pH probe for the RKE you just bought?

I'm actually buying that for myself.. Although until I can find a place to rent/own that will allow me to start my 62G I may run it on this tank... but to answer your question, Yes I will be adding the pH probe..

[JDigital]

Well it seems like if something can go wrong with my builds it does.. No super serious, but looks like I will have to take my brand new Water Blaster HY7000 pump into to Concepts to get checked out... I fired it up this morning and it was fairly silent, after a few hours I could hear it from my office. Loud humming noise that started to get a bit of a clicking noise that you could hear in the rotation.. unplugged it at that point.

Hopefully it is a simple fix.

[JDigital]

Well Dave made my life easy today..

Took the WB7000 back to him.. and downgraded for the 5000. I really think the 7K was too much for this system... I know fishytime is running the 7K on his 260G (+100G sump).. My overflows were getting a ton of bubbles from the flow crashing over...

So I took the WB5000 and a Sedra something-er-rather that I need to feed my skimmer and called it a day.

The 5000 works MUCH better IMO, it's quiet, and the overflows aren't filled with as many bubbles.

The Sedra on the other hand seems to be too much pump for this Skimz 202... It calls for a 500gph feed pump, which the sedra maxes out at, but I am getting MASSIVE amounts of micro-bubbles throughout the sump and returning up to the Display.. So I picked up some plumbing supplies tonight including a ball valve so I can control the flow and dial in the skimmer.


I can't wait to get this thing running smoothly so I can finally work an 8am-430pm shift, instead of the current 8am-8pm..