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Posted: August 06 2006 at 9:39pm |
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No kiddin'. I wish I had room in my tank for all of the gorgeous
acros out there. This really is an addiction.
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Posted: August 07 2006 at 10:09pm |
Ozone is online now. I'm going to run it at a low setting for awhile like Mark had mentioned in his presentation last week. It is the Aquazone Plus 100 and I will run it at 50% to see how, or if it effects anything for now.
My skimmer has two eheim pumps on it so I had to T the line above my skimmer in order to divide the ozone into both pumps. I also added a couple of T's to it so it can pull fresh air also. This is how I have it running on my other tank.
I also had to Drill a hole on the side of my stand to get the probe to reach my sump. OOOOhhh that hurt!
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Posted: August 07 2006 at 10:15pm |
Here are a couple of new tank shots.
I couldn't resist .
Left side.
Right side
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Posted: August 09 2006 at 11:25pm |
Finallly! I think I have added the last step to my equipment. I just got my calcium reactor online. I don't think I really need it right now but with the addition of new acros that are doing well I wanted to make the tank as stable as could be.
This reactor is from Deltec also, It is suggested that I run it only 8 hrs a day. 4 hours after the lights come on and off when my lights go off. This will help sustain max ph in the tank.
It also uses a ph probe in the top of it, so I can monitor the ph inside the reactor. It suggests that I maintain a ph of 6.5- 6.8 inside the reactor.
So now I have it hooked to my ACIII to run 8 hrs a day and set to shut off if the ph in the tank gets below 7,8 and go on if the ph gets above 8.3
I know its overkill but with the neptune and the ozone reactor and the calcium reactor running now, I have 2 ph probes and 2 ORP probes running in my system.
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Posted: August 09 2006 at 11:39pm |
Hopefully this is the final configuration of my tank and sump.
Left side with the 2 Dart pumps, skimmer, calcium reactor.
Right side with the refugium and Phosphate reactor and filter sock.
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Posted: August 09 2006 at 11:41pm |
Simply amazing!
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Posted: August 09 2006 at 11:45pm |
I would start lower with the Ozone and work up really slow. over weeks
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Posted: August 09 2006 at 11:57pm |
I thought about that Brian, but I only have it set at 50mv with it being split into the 2 pumps and once it hits my set point of 390 it shuts off. So I think I'm safe. My Orp was reading on my ACIII at right around 380-400 with out useing ozone. My Aquazone is reading about 10- 15 points lower, I don't have the answer for that other than two different probes.
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Posted: August 10 2006 at 8:08am |
before I got my ozone generator installed I had no idea what the orp was at, so sounds like you will be fine. One of the things that I have done recently was to turn the ozone down to 30mv for now to rule it out as a culprit, but at the moment temp is really looking like it was the problem, not to hot, too cold.
the new aqua jr is set up and running, so I'll see soon what the temps have been doing,:)
I wouldn't really worry about 10-15 points.
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Posted: September 02 2006 at 9:35am |
I waited my 3 months and now it is time to add fish. Everything is running great. I was out of town for two weeks and came home a couple of days ago and checked the water perameters and everything was great . Calcium was at 420, Alk 8.9, So my reactor must be working right.
Aquatica brought in 12 Xmas island anthiases and I got 5 of them before they were gone. Dkle got the other 7.
Next week my mystery wrasse will be in.
If anyone ever wants to come by and check it out in person, you are more than welcome to. But I wont be home untill Monday, I'm off to Strawberry for the weekend.
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Posted: September 02 2006 at 10:05am |
Brad! That looks great!! I would love to come and see it. What's the address??
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Posted: September 06 2006 at 9:13pm |
They are finally starting to come out of the rocks so I can get some pics.
Shawn @ Aquatica brought me in a Mystery wrasse, and I got him today.
Adam!---He brought in 2 of them!!
Sorry Sukie for not getting back to you.
PM me if you still would like to come by and take a look.
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Posted: September 06 2006 at 9:36pm |
I cannot start to say how much i love the open top with pendent! Looking great!
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Posted: September 06 2006 at 10:02pm |
Brad-
I'd get one for sure... if I had a tank. But my wife is getting a bunch more tangs real soon.
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Posted: September 06 2006 at 10:15pm |
The anthias look cool but that mystery wrasse is AWESOME!
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Posted: October 11 2006 at 6:35pm |
Just an update with pictures of some of my new colonies in my tank. I just got some frags from a guy in western New york, Very nice frags, If anyone is interested in getting some, let me know so I can hook you up. They were 10 to 15 dollars a frag, The more you get the lower the price.
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Posted: October 11 2006 at 9:23pm |
It's coming along well.
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Posted: October 11 2006 at 9:45pm |
Amazing! When I get the time I'd love to see your masterpiece!
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Posted: October 12 2006 at 10:43am |
Is that a large fan at the top end of the tank? If it is, where
did you get it and what are the dimensions? Looking for something
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Posted: October 12 2006 at 5:14pm |
It is a large fan. I have it blowing across the water to keep the heat of my lights at bay. The name of it is a Blizzard and we got it from Bed, Bath and Beyond.
Izzy, you are welcome to come by anytime.
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