bitts Posted April 17, 2010 Share Posted April 17, 2010 speaking of lights how are you liking those mh now yove had them up a while. Link to comment
nemmy Posted April 18, 2010 Author Share Posted April 18, 2010 speaking of lights how are you liking those mh now yove had them up a while. Love the MH. So much better sps coloration and growth. In fact better growth in all the corals under it. The other tank has extremely strong t5s but maybe my color spectrum is off or something. The MH just grows coral so much better. Link to comment
nemmy Posted April 19, 2010 Author Share Posted April 19, 2010 How's the skimmer? skims off and on not pulling much right now. After i feed the tank it pulls some good muck then it dies out for a bit. My tank is just wayyyy to clean right now. In about 110-120 gallons of water and a whoping 4 fish it doesnt have much work to do. After i transfered the tanks and the old sand it kicked ass for a few days from all the organics i kicked up. I have no complaints on the skimmer at all or regrets, its just i dont have a big enough bioload for it to skim constantly. It cleans up after feedings and hangs out, kicks up to pull out some waste from fish, the kicks back in from feedings. If i had a high bioload it would pull some nasty junk 24 /7. I have no cyano, no GHA, no algae at all in the tank. So i guess its doing what it needs to! Link to comment
nemmy Posted April 20, 2010 Author Share Posted April 20, 2010 So heres the window of the tank room. This is what people see when they drive down my street. I cant believe nobody called the cops that I'm "growing weed". Link to comment
lasongo Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 Nemmy, this is ridiculous...and I mean that in the best way possible, haha. Awesome. I hear you about the cops, if you look at the top floor of my house from the outside it looks like I'm firing up a Stargate or something out of Ghostbusters. Link to comment
nemmy Posted April 20, 2010 Author Share Posted April 20, 2010 Nemmy, this is ridiculous...and I mean that in the best way possible, haha. Awesome. I hear you about the cops, if you look at the top floor of my house from the outside it looks like I'm firing up a Stargate or something out of Ghostbusters. LMAO!! Link to comment
nemmy Posted April 20, 2010 Author Share Posted April 20, 2010 12+ inch crack in my sump that magically appeared. Happy birthday to me.... Link to comment
bitts Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 dude, sorry. oh and happy b-day to you. Link to comment
Apoptosis Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 12+ inch crack in my sump that magically appeared. Happy birthday to me.... Happy B-day! Sorry about the crack. Following along. The build looks great so far. Good job. Link to comment
bitts Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 So heres the window of the tank room. This is what people see when they drive down my street. I cant believe nobody called the cops that I'm "growing weed". makes me think of the thread were someone was checking there sump for bugs or whatever. when the nabors called the police and busted through the door, cause they saw a guy with a flash light. Link to comment
Apoptosis Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 makes me think of the thread were someone was checking there sump for bugs or whatever. when the nabors called the police and busted through the door, cause they saw a guy with a flash light. That's funny as hell! Link to comment
nemmy Posted April 20, 2010 Author Share Posted April 20, 2010 Happy B-day! Sorry about the crack. Following along. The build looks great so far. Good job. There wont be much left of this build if that sump doesnt hold on for a few more days. Right now theres pieces of acrylic siliconed over the crack to try to hold back the flood. Need time to build a new sump. Link to comment
bitts Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 could you bypass the sump and run the first tank into the second, for the time being. kinda like a closed loop. Link to comment
nemmy Posted April 20, 2010 Author Share Posted April 20, 2010 could you bypass the sump and run the first tank into the second, for the time being. kinda like a closed loop. If i have to i can run them separate with heaters in both and low water level. Not much you can do at 3am when stuff like this happens (cant get parts). Worst part is waiting 24hrs for silicone to dry for a new sump. Keep your fingers crossed everyone. Link to comment
bitts Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 huh, why do you need heaters. cant you just use those mh to heat the fishroom. Link to comment
nemmy Posted April 20, 2010 Author Share Posted April 20, 2010 huh, why do you need heaters. cant you just use those mh to heat the fishroom. Probably could, but the MH would boil the one tank without the other 80 +/- gallons of water in the system. Ugh this sucks balls. Link to comment
nemmy Posted April 20, 2010 Author Share Posted April 20, 2010 Well the sump "repairs" made it through the night. It looks like its going to hold until i get another tank, silicone, and acrylic. Everybody pray for no power outages. If the power goes out and my pumps back siphon we could have a problem. Link to comment
Apoptosis Posted April 20, 2010 Share Posted April 20, 2010 dude, hoping all goes well. +1 Link to comment
nemmy Posted April 21, 2010 Author Share Posted April 21, 2010 Well despite my repairs the sump was still leaking slowly. The water was pooling in the lower rim and coming out of it. I couldnt get in there to patch it. Ran to walmart and got two big plastic totes for a makeshift sump. So i proceeded to drain the sump without unplugging the heaters and fried one like a freaking idiot. Theres was 4 in the tank and it was the oldest one that fried so oh well. Theres still 450watts of heaters in the system. Tanks only dipped 1 degree during the swap thank god. So at least now i dont have to re cut all of my acrylic sump dividers i can razor knife them out, clean them up, and silicone them right into a new 40B. Dont mind the messy "crap sump", or my ghetto repair job of the crack. But at 2am or whatever it was when i saw the leaking crack i had to use what i had to try to fix it. I outlined the crack just in case you cant see it well. Link to comment
lex0219 Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 Everything looks awesome! I love how the tanks sit flush with the wall and having them side by side. Very cool! Sorry to hear about the sump though, that really stinks. Link to comment
nemmy Posted April 22, 2010 Author Share Posted April 22, 2010 Everything looks awesome! I love how the tanks sit flush with the wall and having them side by side. Very cool! Sorry to hear about the sump though, that really stinks. Thanks! These things happen though i just encourage everyone to keep some of those big totes around just in case something like this comes up. I need to get some new updated shots, a lot has changed in the display tanks. Still waiting for that group buy to get more rocks though! Link to comment
rllemmon Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 Display: Two 40 Breeders joined by sump.Sump: 40 Breeder with fuge section (chaeto, rock, few frags) Skimmer: BM Nac6 Lighting: Tank1: NEP 6x39w T5HO Tank2: 250w 14k phoenix HQI, 2x39w T5HO Sump: 24 inch T5HO 4bulb. Controller: Two Reefkeeper Lites (one for each tank) SL2 Module, PH probe, Salinity probe (waiting for replacement for my dead salinity probe) ATO: Digital aquatics float switches hooked to SL2 Module. Current FTS of the build. Awesome Awesome Awesome!!!! Link to comment
cruiZe Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 out of the 3 40B's you have, good thing the sump was the one that cracked ! Link to comment
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