Lairds 180 gallon upgrade

I had know idea you were going through so much. Your behavior all makes sense now and I feel bad for not asking sooner. Perhaps I could have helped you through some of it.

As always, I'm right around the corner to help. I still have all those corals you asked me to save, and they've grown into nice colonies now. They're here when you want them...or want to sell them to fund new stuff. We'll get ya back right as rain.    

Thanks for all the support everyone.

Nikki, I forgot you had those corals. That's a huge relief. Do you still have a pearlberry? That was what I was most upset about losing.

Jarad, that's very nice of you and I will have to take you up on that, but my guess is 4 months would be the very soonest I'd feel comfortable putting sps back in.

What's the best glass scraper for a big tank? I'd always used a homemade stick with razor blades but its not cutting it on this big guy. I need something with a decent arm and really good blade. The coraline is really bad on my glass along the sand bed.

Laird wrote: What's the best glass scraper for a big tank? I'd always used a homemade stick with razor blades but its not cutting it on this big guy. I need something with a decent arm and really good blade. The coraline is really bad on my glass along the sand bed.

I found a plastic handled paint scraper at the paint store. It uses a much heavier blade that a razor but still very sharp. I just have to remember to rinse it off and dry it each time I use it or it rusts very heavily. Blades are a couple of bucks instead of pennies like razors but it works awesome on coraline.

Glad that you have things up and running again.  I am sure you will be in pressing us with your tank in no time at all. 

I'm in love with these lights. Being able to control them like this is amazing. I have complete control over every color, Whites, Reds, Greens, UV's and then Blue and Royal Blue together. Then on top of that I have two Blue + bulbs on the outsides and 1 Purple + on the inside. The spectrum when they are all mixed is absolutely perfect in my opinion.

I had to turn the whites, reds, and UVs off and the blues all the way down to get this pic because otherwise it was just a bright blur.


The LEDs look kind of funny because I have the two end unties angled toward the middle, so the inside sides are up about an inch higher then the ends.

Thanks a lot man. I need to come check out and see how your tank is coming along sometime soon if you'll have me over.

So as I said before the tank was really unhealthy and dirtier then any tank i've ever owned. I also had really bad cyano outbreak.

This picture was taken after I had been cleaning and syphoning it out for a couple weeks. You can see the sand still looks awful but its a 1000% improvement over what it was. This is just a small section of the tank. You can see a lot of the damaged corals. I had two 5 gallon buckets completely full of skeletons that I cleaned out of the tank a couple months ago..... I also have some aiptasia to take care of, I have a file fish in there to try and help me out.


Then after not being able to get rid of it without chemical assistance I gave in. I did a Chemiclean dosage of about 3/4 of what they recommended and it worked shockingly well. Left it in there for 48 hours and it got rid of 99% of the cyano. I did a really big deep cleaning of the tank and a 20% water change, and ran carbon for a day.   I then did a big BioClean dose and let that sit over night with no carbon, GFO, or UV going. Then this morning I turned on my GFO, and Carbon reactors and started up the big UV.

The tank is looking really good... well really good for what it was. The sand is white and clean and everything really coming along. I'm still too embarrassed to put up a full tank shot yet. I also am starting dosing Korallen-Zucht Amino Acid Concentrate to help my LPS recover. I've had a lot of tissue recession from a lot of my chalices so need to get them fixed.

I also added a WXM module so I can have more control over my vortechs. I sure like having more control.

My goal is to start recollecting coral in about 6 weeks. I want to go one solid month of everything looking good, then do another water change and then wait a week or two then I'm going to start accumulating coral and trying to replace a lot of my old pieces.

Nope, 20%. And I have 4 conch already.