KrazyKuch's & Michika's 180Gal Tank Build - Page 59

tang daddy · #**581** 01-04-2009, 03:47 PM

wow thanks!!

I love anything blue, my car, my walls and ofcourse blueberry sps...

I see that you're using the pinesol cleaner for qt, I recently found out that it works wonders form threads that I found on RC and have been passing the happy news around town.

If it's not too much to ask when you have sometime a 2009 ft would be cool thanks.

michika · #**582** 01-04-2009, 03:51 PM

I asked Kevin at RC to bring in Revive for me after I kept reading about it on Reef Central. So far I think its a great product!

I'm hoping tonight to clean up the extra algae around the top & bottom of the tank, as well as fix the aquascaping. There will be lots of photos to share.

Delphinus · #**583** 01-04-2009, 05:38 PM

What's this about Pine-Sol? Are you guys kidding? Or is there an URL you can point me to, or can give me a quick synopsis?

Skimmerking · #**584** 01-04-2009, 06:06 PM

Catherine where are you getting your coral colonies from very nice..

robzilla · #**585** 01-04-2009, 07:57 PM

Roots in the drain pipe? does this mean the line running to the city line is broken? how did the roots get in there? it might cause another problem down the road.....

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Originally Posted by michika

Well the issue turned out to be roots in the drain pipe, the result of it not having been cleaned in a very long time. It cost us $50 to have a company come out and clean the line. The guy said that he could only make it 70 of the 90 ft because the root system that had developed were too difficult for his machine. He made some changes and pushed through the last 20 ft eventually.

The basement was under 3" of water total, and we couldn't use any drains or the toilets for most of yesterday. Its all cleaned up now, but there is damage to most of the walls, the old front door that was stored in the basement, as well as all my laundry. I took photos and now we need to inform our insurance and then make a decision as to if we should make a claim or not.

After the cleaning and before the plumber showed, the drain is still under 3" of water

This morning

The new reactor

Top down

I'm confused by your questions. What are you asking me about, the existing 180g or the new system? Our current system is completely DIY, so we did all the work ourselves.

Delphinus · #**586** 01-04-2009, 08:46 PM

WHAT a good looking reactor. Kudos to the clearly very talented person who built that thing.

michika · #**587** 01-04-2009, 08:52 PM

These colonies came from Red Coral here in town.

The Pine-Sol we're chatting about is Revive by Two Little Fishies.

The reactor is awesomely huge. Possibly big enough to run the large system for awhile when its lightly stocked.

About the drain, I don't know, our house is from the late 50s, and I'm pretty clueless about this drain line business. I think it needs to be investigated further so we know what to expect down the road, or if we have to start gearing up to do a replacement this summer.

michika · #**588** 01-05-2009, 01:41 AM

I sort of reaquascaped. I fixed up the right side of the tank that I hated so much, but lost motivation to do the left side. I still don't really love it though. Finally got around to removing the heater and the seio powerhead (which was not even plugged in) from the tank to clean it up. The sand got smoothed out a little bit, and most of the algae around the top and bottom of the tank was removed. Kevin also swapped out the refugium light bulb.

The power control center is getting a work-over. Half of the timers are no longer needed, and the DJ powerstrip isn't being used, so its being removed, and it keeps tripping the GFI for no reason. The new power center is going to be half the height, and will hold 3 timers, a switched plug, the RKE head unit, and maybe the nitrate monitor.

The tank needs a new float switch, ours is not longer sending correctly to the RKE. It just uses everything in the top-off bucket. We are still using the top-off system, but only when topping off in small doses, this method is allowing us to continue to dose Kalk. via the freshwater.

JDigital · #**589** 01-05-2009, 01:49 AM

Interested in selling the DJ powerstrip?

If so, can you pm me some dimensions on its length?

michika · #**590** 01-05-2009, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by JDigital

Interested in selling the DJ powerstrip?

If so, can you pm me some dimensions on its length?

It has a problem though, it works, but kicks off the GFI when its plugged in to the GFI. I think its 20" long.