Rob's Rea Sea Reefer 450

[RMC]

Originally Posted by Myka

You did a leak test inside your house? That's not the typically recommended action.

Unfortunately my garage is not level. Living on the edge

[RMC]

Been taking it slow for the last couple of months, letting the tank establish. Time to get things moving. Stopped by the LFS this weekend and picked up the last bit of equipment





Next step start transferring the corals!

[Myka]

Any updates?

[RMC]

Tank is up and running, fish and frags are being added slowly. Just added the first SPS. Picked up frags of a bonsai and monti from Canuckgod420.

Currently 3 glass cardinals from JL are in quarantine for the next few weeks.

Had a minor algae outbreak after "testing" my auto-feeder which resulting in a large dump of pellets. The algae is receding and looks in control.

Starting to set up the 2 part dosing system, hopefully gonna get it up and running this weekend.

More details to come.

[Myka]

Awesome. Pics?

[Duckhams]

Thats one tidy control panel! Great job! Lets see some of the fraggies! Time for a FTS!

[RMC]

Well after many times of watching our Hippo Tang wander in one of the MP40's during feed mode (pumps off), today I forgot to check before cancelling the feed mode, by the time I figured out where my 3 year old daughter's favorite fish was, the pumps were on in full force.
Poor Dori had a gash on her side and was gone

Not blaming anyone, but I'm a little surprised that Apex doesn't have a option to set the pumps to low during feed mode, instead of booby trap mode.

Just thought I would let keepers know, as I never heard of this happening before it happened to me. Mind the "Feed Mode" AKA "Murderer Mode"

Now I have the night to figure out how to explain this to my daughter before she asks where Dori is tomorrow morning.

I'm sure I'll hear from the tang police. Let me explain. It's a 5 foot tank, and the hippo tang was 1-1/2". I'm planning on upgrading to a suitable tank in the in the next 18 months.