400 gallon project

[untamed]

I did something today that I have not done for a long time... I added some fish. Anytime you add fish, you can be sure of one thing. There will be ONE resident fish that will attack the new guy(s). In this case, my rusty angel seems to dislike my new butterfly fish.


I also added a hawkfish, but he is smarter and has hidden away for now.

[Marcel Legros]

Good luck with the new additions untamed. I just finished reading through the whole thread - love the build! I'm going for something similar soon.

After having set up your system and run it for several years, is there anything you would go back and change or have built differently?

[lastlight]

Those are pretty. what sort of qt do you do?

[untamed]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Those are pretty. what sort of qt do you do?

Absolutely nothing. Maybe I'm lucky...maybe it is a matter of healthy fish. Ich has always been in the tank.

[untamed]

The three butterfly fish turned into a bit of a love triangle last week. Two of them decided the third one was a third wheel and #3 was relagated to living in the very top left corner of the tank.

This came to its inevitable end today as #3 has vanished. Another body that will never be found.

In addition, one of my halides blew up it's protective glass, showering glass bits all inside the tank. Directly under this, I found the body of my abalone. Could be related...or not.

Fun spending an hour fishing tiny glass pieces out of coral heads.

[banditpowdercoat]

Originally Posted by untamed

I did something today that I have not done for a long time... I added some fish. Anytime you add fish, you can be sure of one thing. There will be ONE resident fish that will attack the new guy(s). In this case, my rusty angel seems to dislike my new butterfly fish.


I also added a hawkfish, but he is smarter and has hidden away for now.

What is that coral? Is it a Montipora? I have what looks similar, gets brown polyps. Came with my tank and never been able to completely identify it. Soft tho, Like stiff leather I guess

[Jeff000]

The butterflys aren't just eating everything reef in your tank?

[untamed]

The butterflies peck at coral constantly... But there is so much coral that the aren't able to do any damage.

[untamed]

We lost power here for about 24 hours yesterday.

I was prepared...or so I thought. At the 12 hour mark, I unpacked my gas generator. I had purchased this many years ago for emergency use.

The generator fired right up and I connected my circulation pumps. After about 3 minutes, all the pumps overheated and shut down. By alternating one pump, then the next, then the next for 2 mins each I was able to get circulation for about 30 mins. I decided I would repeat this every hour or two until the power returned.

When I fired up the generator an hour later...it was dead. Motor runs fine...no electricity generated. It seems that I now own a gas powered noise maker!

When power finally returned, I had lost only 1 fish...my rusty angel. 6 or so frags have also died.

Another casualty may be my aquatronica controller. After several hours of trying, I cannot get it to recognize my pH probe, so I have limited control of my Ca reactor. I also cannot reconnect my computer, so getting the controller even functional at all was a major challenge.

A tough day...

[Jaws]

Wow, sorry to hear that. Why do you think the generator caused all that?