Nanofreak79 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 Benny I found you a lil' guyKat....you have really manly hands and arms, weird? Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted March 23, 2014 Author Share Posted March 23, 2014 Cleaned up, rescaped, and did a *gasp* water change on the FW tank. I literally pulled out a liter (compressed) of peacock moss that didn't have any hair algae (and about twice that of the part that did). Looks better. I just wish I had a CO2 rig for it to keep the algae at bay, but getting a CO2 tank filled locally is an absolute bitch - a 5lb tank will cost $85 at the only place in town that fills it, Airgas. :/ Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted March 23, 2014 Author Share Posted March 23, 2014 It's turkey shaped. My wife had to get it for me because of the irony. Link to comment
metrokat Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Kat....you have really manly hands and arms, weird? DANGNABBIT! He found out I'm really a chick masquerading as a man! ARGH! Link to comment
Arkayology Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 It's turkey shaped. My wife had to get it for me because of the irony. I was thinking it worked better because it was a turkey baster that had a turkey on it Link to comment
Psychosis Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Cleaned up, rescaped, and did a *gasp* water change on the FW tank. I literally pulled out a liter (compressed) of peacock moss that didn't have any hair algae (and about twice that of the part that did). Looks better. I just wish I had a CO2 rig for it to keep the algae at bay, but getting a CO2 tank filled locally is an absolute bitch - a 5lb tank will cost $85 at the only place in town that fills it, Airgas. :/ Blasphemy! Suffer not the heretic to live! Good to see the tank I'm motion, at least in terms of progress. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted March 24, 2014 Author Share Posted March 24, 2014 DANGNABBIT! He found out I'm really a chick masquerading as a man! ARGH! Hey now, I've seen pics. It's hard to fake what you got goin' on I was thinking it worked better because it was a turkey baster that had a turkey on it Xzibit would be very proud of it! Blasphemy! Suffer not the heretic to live! Good to see the tank I'm motion, at least in terms of progress. Yep, and I was planning on getting the sump cleaned, connected, and running (along with the skimmer), and put the sand and live rock in it, but I forgot I was going to help a friend move today... and by move, it turned out that they had packed up nothing, and had only planned to move the big furniture, but it was impossible to get to without packing all of the other stuff, so it was a fun day. We got them all moved, though, there's only a little stuff in their old place! Link to comment
just a noob Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 And I thought I had it bad at $9.50 up from $8.50 for a 5 pound refill of co2... Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted March 24, 2014 Author Share Posted March 24, 2014 Yup, its friggin terrible. My dad dreads the refill for his 20lb tank he uses for welding. Link to comment
Nanofreak79 Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Nice turkey baster.I was gonna say, totally sick azz baster. Blasphemy! Suffer not the heretic to live! Good to see the tank I'm motion, at least in terms of progress.Love those bow fronts, nice tank ben. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted March 24, 2014 Author Share Posted March 24, 2014 Brought home some familiar faces last night. My friend that was moving, I took his two chromis (that I gave him) and all his corals and a rock flower nem (which I was holding and had just recently given back to him lol) and brought them here. I put the two chromis in with my fish (no big deal, full strength chloroquine phosphate) and the corals and nem are still in a bucket with an airstone and CFL. Unfortunately, I just watched one of the chromis stop breathing and my fairy wrasse is gasping for air I haven't been running the powerhead in that tank, and I don't think that just the AC30 filter on it is enough circulation to keep the water aerated enough, and although both wrasses have been swimming around and whatnot like normal, this morning, only the leopard wrasse was out, and the fairy wrasse was laying on the bottom, not gasping though. That was right after light started coming into the room, so I figured it just hadn't 'woken up' yet. Fast forward to now, the chromis was gone and the wrasse is being blown around the tank gasping. I have the powerhead back on and the airstone, and hopefully I'm not too late. Link to comment
zemuss Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Sorry to here Ben. Hoping the Wrasse bulls through! Link to comment
Mr. Microscope Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Awe. Sorry to hear about those fish Ben. I hope you get lucky with the wrasse somehow. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted March 24, 2014 Author Share Posted March 24, 2014 But - the show must go on. Link to comment
RollaJase Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Sorry to hear about the fish troubles Ben . Did you ever get that replacement GPU? Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted March 25, 2014 Author Share Posted March 25, 2014 Yes, I got it, and I finally figured out why I was getting random hard locks with the system - I guess over the years I've pushed a liiiittle too much voltage through the CPU and the memory controller is a bit flaky when all four RAM slots are populated. Have four of them in - system hard locks every once in a while and Memtest86+ just stops running. Take two out, and I have no more instability and Memtest will run as long as I let it. I figure eh, it's good enough for right now, I'll just grab some blue 8GB sticks and still have 16GB total, plus the red color on the current RAM clashes Also - the stock clocks on the new GPU are 889MHz/941MHz boost, and 1032MHz in-game. Bumping the voltage up to 1.200v on the core, I got it to go to 1241MHz boost, and 1346MHz in-game. With both of my old 6970 overclocked to 1GHz on the core, the Unigine Heaven benchmark gave me 609 points. The stock 780 gave me 847, and overclocked it gave me 1018. I know it usually leans a bit more towards the nvidia architecture, but damn! Link to comment
jbb Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 but getting a CO2 tank filled locally is an absolute bitch - a 5lb tank will cost $85 at the only place in town that fills it, Airgas. :/ Have a local paintball shop ? They might fill it for you . Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted March 25, 2014 Author Share Posted March 25, 2014 Have a local paintball shop ? They might fill it for you . Used to, they'd fill a 20oz tank that I used for a while for $4. They were an auto shop that also fill paintball canisters, but they went out of business around a year ago. Link to comment
Paleoreef103 Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 Used to, they'd fill a 20oz tank that I used for a while for $4. They were an auto shop that also fill paintball canisters, but they went out of business around a year ago. Find out where the people with Kegerators go. Link to comment
1.0reef Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 DANGNABBIT! He found out I'm really a chick masquerading as a man! ARGH! Da fuq???? Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted March 25, 2014 Author Share Posted March 25, 2014 Find out where the people with Kegerators go. I don't really have any friends that are local, and I don't hang out with anyone that drinks enough to own one. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted March 25, 2014 Author Share Posted March 25, 2014 Spoke too soon about my computer - it just gave me a crash. At least I got an error code this time, 0x00000050 - basically saying the RAM is bad, or maybe the memory controller isn't bad after all and it is the RAM, though it would be strange that all four stick were bad. :/ Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted March 25, 2014 Author Share Posted March 25, 2014 Got the system filled, got my new live rock from KPA scrubbed, freshwater dipped, and in the tank, and fired it up. This drain is going to drive me absolutely ####ing ballistic. I have it set the exact same as it was before, with the same pump, same sump water height, and same drain tube length, and if the pump is anything over 50% capacity, it causes no end of noise, not flushing, just gurgling at the drain intake as it is struggling to maintain full siphon (which it can't be) and trying to pull in far more air than it needs. If the pump is valved to less than 50% capacity, I get toilet flush non stop, which again should not happen, as this was the same place I had it valved to before. If the pump is valved to around 10% or so, the drain is only mildly irritating, but the caveat is I'd estimate the flow to be around 50GPH or so, which is far from optimal. If this thing doesnt quiet down, its gonna become friends with a hammer and fire. Link to comment
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