Custom Look CadLights 50Long

[mpsti05]

They look good, Nice and clean and running the data cable threw the wall will be pretty sweet. Hmmm maybe i'll have to paint my cables white aswell it looks much nicer that way.

[Paleoreef103]

Looking @ Fish list

Starry Blenny

Flame Angelfish Or Tang Or Butterfly

Four Line Wrasse

Pink Skunk Clownfish (trio)

A 36" long tank isn't enough for a tang or a butterfly. Almost all butterflies will tear through your corals too. The safest ones are pyramid butterflies, but they're incredibly expensive. The really longnose butterflies and copperband butterflies are the next safest, but they're much too large for what amounts to a 50 breeder. I have a pygmy angel and a four line in my 40. Awesome fish. Trust me, with the wrasse and the angel you'll have enough cruising in your tank to keep you happy. Love the non-standard clowns and the starry blenny. The will contribute heavily to the biomass within the tank though.

[twan]

Looking @ Fish list Revised 4/13

Starry Blenny

Yasha White Ray Shrimp Goby w/Banded Pistol Shrimp

African Leopard Wrasse

Flame Angelfish

Mystery Wrasse

Pink Skunk Clownfish (pair)

[Daniel Name]

Nice tank, very well designed!

[twan]

Ok question.

 

I finish filling the display and sump with RODI, run the pump and adjust the flow then confirm there are no leaks.

I tear apart the plumbing, dry it then primer/glue those spots that require.

In the meantime I salt my water in both locations to 1.025.

 

Now when I put the plumbing back on, glued, how long does it have to cure before it has (salt) water traveling through it again. All this gluing is below the bulkheads mind you.

[nickjqz]

Hmm well I did all of my plumbing in a day without any ill affects but I am sure that most people would recommend to wait at least 8-12 hours but if you want to to be extremely safe 24hrs.

[Deckoz2302]

I also did my plumbing in a day and had it up and running 6 hours later

[twan]

All is primed and glued.

When I was priming the final piece of the return pipe a drop of primer fell into the sump water.

 

Should I be worried and discard all the sump water?

Is 1 drop so minute that it wont matter in 70ish total gallons?

Is that 1 drop disperesed a danger to my acrylic sump or display silicone?

[twan]

There will be no livestock in the tank until my CUC and that is still at least 1 week and 1 large water change away.

 

To discard all that sump water now would put me back 8hrs of precious weekend time I have to spend fixing any leaks, adding rock and salt.

 

Crap, some of this water is going away later today if all goes well because I have to drain some to allow the rock to go in!

[Deckoz2302]

the primer yes discard water, if it were the glue it would solidify and you could pull it out by running poly. also if your emptying the sump, wipe it down with vinegar, the primer is toxic which is why I don't use it on drains, we aren't dealing with pressurized piping. Sorry to hear about the hiccup twan - it happens to the best of us, just remember its a simple solution and not expensive

[twan]

I did drain the sump, I did not however wipe it down with vinegar. Vids coming soon.

[twan]

Aquascape Vid:

http://youtu.be/voynMHFsVbs

 

Aqua Illumination Vid:

http://youtu.be/a28GmoEbZHo

 

Sump Vid:

http://youtu.be/YRwYkVVoOsY

 

HD Avail for all!

[siwelk]

Wet yet brah?

I decided to take my time and 1up you instead.

 

 

 

[mpsti05]

Everything looks awesome! Can't wait to get my custom picO in a week

[twan]

Equipment Panel Vid:

http://youtu.be/HE1RqN_S6RA

 

Tunze ATO Problem Vid:

http://youtu.be/1-CVnsAxaFw

[twan]

I need help with the ATO, please watch the vid and give comments.

[twan]

Tunze is taking the control unit for the ATO in and replacing it. It went in the mail to Texas today.

[Deckoz2302]

Sorry I missed your updates twan, sucks to hear about the ago, videos look good man

[twan]

So how long do you think I need to wait before testing the water again to get an accurate measurement if I can add a CuC?

 

The rock cycled in bins and ammonia and nitrate went to ZERO over the course of 6 weeks (and sat with zero ammonia and zero nitrite for an additional 1.5 weeks afterward).

The rock was rinsed in fresh RODI, put into the display with new salt water and 40lbs of sand just opened and not cycled (the sand). It has been 3 days since this transfer took place.

 

I want to be able to test all my parameters, confirm ammonia and nitrite are at zero............do a 15% WC and add a CUC. I don’t want to test now and everything come back fine, only to add stuff and have a mini cycle next week (not due to livestock due to new tank syndrome).

 

Come to think of it, how much of a diatom bloom for snails am I going to have anyway? The rock is under LED lighting now but during those hard cycle weeks it was in darkness.

 

Help me take the next step!!!!!!!!!!

[Deckoz2302]

Your diatom bloom will be.small. add snails and hermits. Any mini cycle they start will set off the diatom but it should all equal out in a day or two......doooooo itttttttttt

 

Also since your rocks are cured your diatom bloom should be limited to the glass and sand due to silicates from glass and uncycled sand

 

You will more then likely not even have a spike from the sand. Provided you didn't rinse it.

[twan]

Did not rinse the sand. I'll test parameters 2nite I guess and start picking out a crew (no hermits!) from reefcleaners.

[Deckoz2302]

Haha my hermits are model citizens....I didn't even give them shells to swap with....and they have yet to kill a snail red leg hermits ftw

[twan]

So now that the rock is in the display, with sand and fresh water for a few days it was time to test.

 

 

Questions

 

1.) Calcium - I feel confident in all the tests but the calcium. This was my 1st titration test, I did it twice to make sure. I never got the change from red/pink to blue as I added drops and swirled. Could it be that my calcium is really that high because a.) reef crystals salt is known to have high calcium b.) I have nothing consuming calcium at the moment.

 

2.) Phosphates - Used my new Hannah Meter, love it. As for the phosphates I am not sure if .09 is anything to worry about. My RODI is zero. Maybe it is just the Pukani still leaching? I read that it can do that for a while.............and maybe the silicone on the tank and cement from my plumbing, both pretty new are contributing? Is .09 anything to worry about?

 

3.) Alkalinity - Used my new Hannah Meter, love it. Is it silly testing for alk in such a new system? What is my target alk I should see?

 

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I felt confident enough in the numbers to place an order for my CuC.

 

[Deckoz2302]

Your using red sea kit right? Best answer I have for you is. When you go to titrate...immediately dump 0.5ml in then do a bump squirt til you see purple then do drops. Otherwise the catalyst will keep reversing colors and you'll over titrate your solution

 

Phosphates are fine. I keep mine in the 0.06-0.1 range but up to 0.15 is acceptable

 

Alk depends on what your going to go for and where your PH stands. Spa grow faster at higher alk(11-12) but you need a magnesium level of 1360-1400 and a ph of 8.2+ to hold alk that high

[twan]

Your using red sea kit right?

 

Salifert