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8 hours ago, micoastreefing said:

looks great! Alk has been stable?

 

6 hours ago, teenyreef said:

I'd say it's recovering nicely :happydance:

 

2 hours ago, RollaJase said:

Looks like it's bouncing back pretty well Harry.

 

Alk stable, but I've become pretty discouraged after having to toss two large colonies and like 5 frags. When things aren't doing well it makes the tank more of a stressor than something I can enjoy and admire. Corals are definitely bouncing back though, seeing a massive growth spurt now that things are back in line.

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2 minutes ago, micoastreefing said:

whatever happened with your Monti shipping experiment?  Did it go well?

 

Worked fine with 2 day shipping in 80-80 weather. 

 

Current tank picture (Adjusted warmth to get out some blues since I was too lazy for DSLR) 

 

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On 7/12/2017 at 8:03 AM, HarryPotter said:

Update: Looks like it's back on track. Alk stabilizing around 7.6 with 60ml daily. 

 

I lost 2 frags (of larger colonies), 20% of two colonies which were trimmed and are recovering and 50% of another. The one with 50% was that yellow one that is also being stung by LPS. The recession stopped but I haven't trimmed it- I'm seeing what will happen. 

 

I also used chemiclean to clean up the cyano from the nutrient imbalance, love that stuff. 

 

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I love the sombrero and dingle balls :lol:

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On 9/13/2017 at 3:31 PM, micoastreefing said:

Harry, you and your tank got through the hurricane OK?

 

Not great man- I had a small generator but my apex fried so I just have the return pump on and I try to turn on the lights for a few hours a day. I don't have the $ for a new apex and am trying to contact neptune with no luck. So no dosing, no real light schedule, no heater, nothing. My netgear router thing also wont turn on so I presume that is broken. The Vortech quietdrive is crazy loud since the hurricane and has to be turned off at night. Something wrong with that too. Ecotech says I can send it in, but if I do I wont have any flow in my tank. 

So pretty bummed with the tank right now. Seems like post-hurricane it is demanding I put a grand into it with the apex, doser, and a temp pump while I get the MP40 repaired, which I can't do. I was considering bringing in some corals to the store, try to sell them there, in the meantime. Not great stuff. 

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9 minutes ago, HarryPotter said:

 

Not great man- I had a small generator but my apex fried so I just have the return pump on and I try to turn on the lights for a few hours a day. I don't have the $ for a new apex and am trying to contact neptune with no luck. So no dosing, no real light schedule, no heater, nothing. My netgear router thing also wont turn on so I presume that is broken. The Vortech quietdrive is crazy loud since the hurricane and has to be turned off at night. Something wrong with that too. Ecotech says I can send it in, but if I do I wont have any flow in my tank. 

So pretty bummed with the tank right now. Seems like post-hurricane it is demanding I put a grand into it with the apex, doser, and a temp pump while I get the MP40 repaired, which I can't do. I was considering bringing in some corals to the store, try to sell them there, in the meantime. Not great stuff. 

:( Sorry to hear this. Wish I were more experienced and in a position to help you out while you get things back on track. Good luck.

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9 hours ago, Tamberav said:

Crappy!! Was there a power surge? How did everything get broken? :(

 

Is it the dry side of the vortech? Maybe swap in something cheap while it is fixed?

 

 

 

Yes it’s the dry side. Motor seems off balance. Crazy vibration. 

8 hours ago, gone_PHiSHin said:

damn, so sorry to hear this

 

Thanks... yeah it sucks the big one. Neptune support sucks too. 

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sorry Harry,  :(

 

Maybe the LFS will loan you some of their extra powerheads in exchange for frags/trade-in's, I'm sure they've got extra used ones laying around. 

 

Sounds like you're doing most things APEX was doing manually for now?  Be careful with the manual lighting and dosings:  less light (fewer hour/day) >> less growth >> less Ca and Alk consumed.  Depending on how long you have to go manually (the corals aren't gonna stop growing suddenly), but just keep that in mind.

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22 hours ago, DaveFason said:

Sorry to hear man. I am still digging around old stuff. Do you need a controller just to turn on/off certain equipment? Do you have real power now?

 

Yesterday evening my phone started to get Apex spam- it connected to the internet. Not sure what happened given it was factory reset, but I was able to log in and program some basic things. So right now all that is down is dosing. I am looking for an Apex DOS for around $200 shipped, in the meantime I can try to do it manually in one dose daily (40ml Ca & 40ml Alk). 

 

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4 minutes ago, kimberbee said:

Well that's good news!! I hope you can find a doser option soon. 

 

No idea how it happened. The Apex was factory reset and had no data, I updated it, but then could not get the key to log in. But after a day of being connected to the router I started getting spammed with OLD temperature alarms- I logged into Apex Fusion and it had connection. Weird. So now outlets are all programmed with lights on timers, power outage instructions, temperature/ATO empty/ water on floor alarms. 

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