Christopher Marks Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 59 minutes ago, TheKleinReef said: everything is gone. every. single. coral. I'm done. Oh Roger that's awful, I'm so sorry to hear 😔 Quote Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Spoiler Sorry to hear... fish survived? What happened? Was it the alk issue? Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted July 1, 2018 Author Share Posted July 1, 2018 Tank is getting a major rehaul in August. In the mean time, I gots me a FW tank with some Ecotech goodies. IMG_0340 by Roger Klein, on Flickr 3 Quote Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 That's so good to hear @TheKleinReef, I'm glad you checked in! Nice freshwater setup, is it your first planted tank? I'd like to try my hand at a planted tank one of these days. Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted July 1, 2018 Author Share Posted July 1, 2018 4 hours ago, Christopher Marks said: That's so good to hear @TheKleinReef, I'm glad you checked in! Nice freshwater setup, is it your first planted tank? I'd like to try my hand at a planted tank one of these days. I’ve had a few low tech set ups before but I usually ended up ripping them down after a few months out of boredom. Since I got this light I may try some higher light plants but I don’t really know what to get. Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted July 2, 2018 Author Share Posted July 2, 2018 Debating on removing the tang and flame angel. Anyone in the NW suburbs of Chicago want a gluttonous tang and a decently behaved flame angel? 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 Re haul complete. Drained the tank, cleaned off the rocks, removed the sand, put in new sand. Redid the scape. Will post a picture when the lights are back on. 3 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 Debating on removing the tang and flame angel to get some nicer smaller fish. Thoughts? 1 Quote Link to comment
Patrick17 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 4 hours ago, TheKleinReef said: Debating on removing the tang and flame angel to get some nicer smaller fish. Thoughts? I've always liked more smaller fish than less of something bigger. Even with tropical tanks I find that more pleasing. Having said that, the bigger fish seem to have more personality, how attached to them are you? 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 1 hour ago, Patrick17 said: I've always likes more smaller fish than less of something bigger. Even with tropical tanks I find that more pleasing. Having said that, the bigger fish seem to have more personality, how attached to them are you? I’m indifferent to them but my mom loves them 1 Quote Link to comment
Patrick17 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 49 minutes ago, TheKleinReef said: I’m indifferent to them but my mom loves them Sounds like an excuse for a new tank in your mum's name 😉 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 Here's the tank as of today August 2018 by Roger Klein, on Flickr 6 Quote Link to comment
davy jones Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 How do the talbots behave? I would love a trio but dont want them to be little shits and mess with my other fish. Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted August 4, 2018 Author Share Posted August 4, 2018 9 hours ago, dirtrider225 said: How do the talbots behave? I would love a trio but dont want them to be little shits and mess with my other fish. A trio didn’t work. Two of them beat up the third. The two have been pretty good, but they can’t really pick on anything else since they’re the smallest fish in the tank. Quote Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 looking good! I am about to reboot my tank also after loosing 90% of my corals and fish. 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted August 4, 2018 Author Share Posted August 4, 2018 8 hours ago, ninjamyst said: looking good! I am about to reboot my tank also after loosing 90% of my corals and fish. 😞 crashes suck. Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted August 5, 2018 Author Share Posted August 5, 2018 Complete list of Upgrades/maintenance: Blue line pump replaced with vectra M1 29G refugium is up and running drained the tank rinsed off rocks in bucket of SW from the tank removed sand added new sand (1-2mm particle size from carib sea) added rocks (kept it around the overflow to maintain sand space, not much depth though new corals (hammer, a few easy sps, duncan) new clownfish since my female clown went MIA new T5 bulbs (3x coral+, 3x blue+) Vinegar discontinued Iphone picture as of 8/2/18 August 2018 by Roger Klein, on Flickr 3 Quote Link to comment
davy jones Posted August 14, 2018 Share Posted August 14, 2018 Hey Roger, What is your plan this time around? Is this still at your parents place while you are in school or did you get one set up with you as well? Looking good though! Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted August 17, 2018 Author Share Posted August 17, 2018 On 8/14/2018 at 8:03 AM, dirtrider225 said: Hey Roger, What is your plan this time around? Is this still at your parents place while you are in school or did you get one set up with you as well? Looking good though! This tank is effectively my parents' tank. I don't plan on setting one up anytime soon as the town where I live has 0 reefing LFS's so if something went south i'd be SOL (unless I prepared, and bought 2 of everything). Also, I'm renting so SW+rent+ new dog isn't ideal from a landlord perspective. The goal with this tank is making it as low maintenance as possible with the 29g fuge and auto dosing. Next step is auto WC. Side note. My second original clown died. Mom found it with a huge bite out of the chest. Looking for a new platinum clown now. 😞 1 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted November 20, 2018 Author Share Posted November 20, 2018 In town for thanksgiving. There was another mini crash. Lost most of the anemones, both clowns, and a goby and GHA popped up out of nowhere. Here's why: A mouse made its way into the sump and died. yeah, wut. I guess the sump is so dark that my parents didn't notice it. When they did a full cleaning they found it. That was a about 2 weeks ago. I came home and removed most of the GHA by hand, the parents also picked up some kessil refugium lights and a GFO/Carbon reactor as well. I'll take some pics when I can. 4 Quote Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 wow, never would have guessed that to be cause of a crash...good luck with getting things back on track! if you are ever by O'Hare area and want big plates of green montipora with blue polyps, let me know. I also have small frags of starburst monti, purple stylo. FREEEEE for you. 2 Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted November 20, 2018 Author Share Posted November 20, 2018 1 hour ago, ninjamyst said: wow, never would have guessed that to be cause of a crash...good luck with getting things back on track! if you are ever by O'Hare area and want big plates of green montipora with blue polyps, let me know. I also have small frags of starburst monti, purple stylo. FREEEEE for you. Soooo tempting, lemme see if I can make it out there, if you still have my number text me! Quote Link to comment
--chris-- Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 Hey @TheKleinReef, I just spent 30 minutes reading from the change from the 29 to 65. Well done, don't let the hiccups knock you out! Quote Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted November 20, 2018 Author Share Posted November 20, 2018 4 minutes ago, --chris-- said: Hey @TheKleinReef, I just spent 30 minutes reading from the change from the 29 to 65. Well done, don't let the hiccups knock you out! well there's been a lot of them in the last 3 years. Quote Link to comment
--chris-- Posted November 20, 2018 Share Posted November 20, 2018 HA! I saw them, I 'sped read' from 2013 onward. I have had some bad luck, I think everyone does. Its just....no one posts it! Besides your tank was amazing, I need some inspiration for my own 36x24 footprint tank 🙂 Quote Link to comment
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