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Top down 28


frahny

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7 hours ago, Legendary Corals said:

Definitely going to agree that there is most likely some sort of disease in the tank. I saw your post on the IM 10 thread about low O2 levels, which wouldn't make sense since all of your corals are healthy. 

Thanks for checking in, at that point I was in full blown spam/panic modeomgomgomg

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quick update got some shots of the acans coloring up. Colors are popping and everything seems pretty happy. My frog spawn seems to be retracted a bit and one zoa that was damaged in the bag has pretty much dissolved to nothingness. But other than that the corals are very solid. 

 

This us week is going to start off to be the start of some extended time away. I'll be at home for a few days at a time but from now till the end of October I'll be traveling almost every week with projects. 

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1 minute ago, gogeta said:

Everything looking super healthy!

Thanks! Looking forward to these growing out and filling up the dead space on the rock.

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Figured I would just continue the journal on this tank transition. Tank started to get neglected, crashed, moved, bubble out break and loss of most corals...….. Just after life settled down (business and family) I started to battle the bubble outbreak, kept up on WC's one of the corner seams sprung a slow leak and swelled the stand (ikea). Obviously, its been 2 years since my last post so all of that was fairly spread out except for the leak. That was last week. 

 

I used this little disaster to work my way through an upgrade. I always have liked the lagoon or shallow reef tanks, ever since AJ tsin's 47 gallon I have been on one for those types of reefs. I landed on either an IM 25 lagoon or the waterbox 28.2. Waterbox won!

 

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Problem we had here is that it needed some new equipment and a new stand. So the orders and projects commenced.

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Time to prime

 

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And top coat

 

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In short this is how she sits now.

 

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And with one of the lights installed, the second comes end of the week.

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It was late so I'll take better pics soon. 

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  • 2 weeks later...

Tanks been up for 2 weeks ish, didn't have much of a cycle at all since I used all seeded rock and rinsed the sand. Added some fish for waste and nutrients and will try and get some pictures of them soon enough. Added another AI prime HD for better light spread and am running Saxby's profile on a 12 hour cycle. One thing that I noticed is that this tank consumes WAY more top off water, thank the Lord for tunze ATO's :bowdown:

 

Now on to the fun stuff, don't have great pics yet as still using a filter-less iPhone but picked up some fruit loop zoas, a seasons greetings cap and yellow and red grafted WWC cap. Super pumped to get some more coral in this tank and start the growing process. 

 

Also..... Sorry about the dirty glass tank view:rant:

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On 6/7/2019 at 7:56 AM, SURVEYMAN46123 said:

Looks great!   Can't wait to see it grow out.

 

 

Thanks homie, if it's a fraction of your tank I'll be doing something!

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3 hours ago, gone_PHiSHin said:

can you link me to the filter?  i can’t take a good picture of my tank!

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Sure thing! My camera was picking up all the particulate from scaping the diatoms off the glass so the focus should get way better as the water polishes up.

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On ‎6‎/‎24‎/‎2019 at 11:29 AM, SURVEYMAN46123 said:

Looking great so far!

 

 

Thanks man, means a lot coming from a reefer such as yourself!

 

 

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17 hours ago, frahny said:

Thanks man, means a lot coming from a reefer such as yourself!

 

 

You're too nice.   Thanks

 

 

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So following the reminder of my dude @SURVEYMAN46123 it's water change night. Figured I'd take a few shots. 

 

Top down is really the only way to enjoy a reef tank IMO. Looking forward to starting to putting a list together of target pieces. On an equipment note using the old nano ghostskimmer and it's never performed so well. Got it dialed in pulling pretty dry dark brown almost black skimmate.

 

Enjoy

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10 hours ago, frahny said:

So following the reminder of my dude @SURVEYMAN46123 it's water change night. Figured I'd take a few shots. 

 

Top down is really the only way to enjoy a reef tank IMO. Looking forward to starting to putting a list together of target pieces. On an equipment note using the old nano ghostskimmer and it's never performed so well. Got it dialed in pulling pretty dry dark brown almost black skimmate.

 

Enjoy

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Noice!   Cant wait to see that beauty fill out.

 

 

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Water change night. My sg from the start has been 1.028 and trying to work it down to 1.026 so been doing a wc between wc's to help. Also, noticed a little bit of growth in some of my pieces while adding a few more. Tank is absorbing 1 dkh through out the week so may look at a doser in the next few weeks. Any how here's the tank. Still a little cloud and glass needs cleaned daily.

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Very nice tank!  I love the top down view, it really shows off the coral.  I wish I had one of each of your zoas, they are very colorful.

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6 hours ago, kimdawg said:

Very nice tank!  I love the top down view, it really shows off the coral.  I wish I had one of each of your zoas, they are very colorful.

They grow out well enough I may just have to make a frag plug with one of each:biggrin:

 

Thanks @SURVEYMAN46123!

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Quick update, found that the tank is eating more alk than I am comfortable with having to replace in wc's. So Thursday comes a dosing pump for two part. It's currently losing about .3 dkh per day so with travel and such I want to keep things as consistent as possible. Also, had a swing a few weeks back and my pink tip Mille didn't make it, I also think my MP10QD was blasting it super hard. Regardless before more acros get added I want to keep numbers super steady. On to the pics!

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