Willie’s super budget 168 build.

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Best movie ever.
 
More tinkering. I had a sea torch beast 160 sitting in my garage. They are from Australia so they run on 240v. Bought a power inverter put it pulled too many watts.almost 50. I dug around the garage and what do ya know. A small octo 1000. With some quick pvc mods. We have a eco budget skimmer. Not ideal but I’m a big fan of run what you got. Pulls almost 9 watts. I was playing around with ozone last year. Killed almost all my sps. Eh…… ozone is bad in high doses. Well. At setting 1 it isn’t. Dunno if you guys know it kills pathogens. So I put it on cuz I had it. Kilowatt meter doesnt even register the watt pull.
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So here it is. Frankenstein skimmer ozone uv contraption. I had to spend 11 dollars for the eBay uv bulb. Oh if you guys didn’t know. You can use a mason jar and cut / crack the end out a little for slow flow. The jar will break up the uv so it doesn’t damage your plastic.
Flow is like this. Skimmer > Ozone > UV.
 
Supposed to be anything 1/4” thick the uv disburses. I haven’t seen any crazing in the acrylics. I’ve burned fish with open uv before thru a pvc with holes drilled thru it. I’ve also run open uv in the back of glass aio without issues. The light doesn’t get to the skimmer. It’s in the drop down side before the heaters.

I right. You guys make me paranoid. Lol. I don’t think it’s gonna happen cuz the bottom of the mason jar is the thickest. But anyways. I put a 1/2” piece of sacrificial acrylic between the jar and the sump panel.
 
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The Grim Reaper came in the middle of the night. I was sloppy again. I got about 10 fish from the wholesale. I’ve never crapped out like this before from this wholesaler. Took a huge risk and lost. Big time.
VELVET. BAD VELVET. I tried the peroxide method since it worked about 3 years ago in my 190. It only slowed the death down. Didn’t get rid of it. I was lucky enough to get a really nice uv that Marvin gave me. @wazzupmac Thank you Marvin. I owe you. It helped but still slow death. Since it’s a fowlr. I made the call. Pulled all inverts and coral. Dropped copper power. Yes I know it’s drastic. Yes I know the aquarium, rocks, sand ,etc is ruined. We are in this for the long game. I will fix it.
 
Kensington Reefer said:
@Turkeysammich
you are not alone...
been there, done that

onward and upward,
keep on keeping on

there will always be fish to "rescue"
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Yeah. I need to be smarter. I jinxed myself because I asked Tina for a sand sifting goby. She goes only small ones. I said that’s ok. It will grow. It died the first day. Then the dominoes started falling.
Super Lucky it wasn’t my 320. I would quit if it was.
 
Turkeysammich said:
Yeah. I need to be smarter. I jinxed myself because I asked Tina for a sand sifting goby. She goes only small ones. I said that’s ok. It will grow. It died the first day. Then the dominoes started falling.
Super Lucky it wasn’t my 320. I would quit if it was.
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Sorry to hear that, the feeling is still recent for me. Is the effected tank in a different room from others?

I assume you know more than i did and weren’t using same maintenance equipment on all the tanks.

Are any still managing to hang it there?
 
MichaelB said:
Sorry to hear that, the feeling is still recent for me. Is the effected tank in a different room from others?

I assume you know more than i did and weren’t using same maintenance equipment on all the tanks.

Are any still managing to hang it there?
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Once I identify a problem. I keep everything separated. So it’s contained within that one aquarium.
Once I dropped the copper power. It takes about 4 days to see any results. I managed to save 5 fish. The aquarium has turned a corner in regards to the velvet.
 
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