Jestersix

Michael's 300 In Vegas

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Got my aqua UV setup with a Sicce 5.0 pump. Thanks @Srt4eric for the silicone plumbing recommendation. Seems like full bore is pretty close to the minimum flow rate, so not a bad thing, but something to think about for tuneability.

Pump in 1st chamber, drains into last chamber. Zip ties hold silicone hose onto barb fitting on pump and UV. Velcro holds UV in place.

There was also a coral show here in Vegas yesterday I got permission to go to (baby problems). Here are some pics from what I got. I'll take better pics when I get things glued down.

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Also picked up a pair of Storm clowns from a local breeder. Trying to get him to make a journal here, he's breeding some cool stuff.


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Kensington Reefer said:
Are you sure there’s enough light on that tank?
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I might need another row, 15 should do the trick

BAYMAC said:
I find they LOVE lotsa flow and don't do as well in lower flow areas.
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The worms come out every day, it's tucked in a little alcove becasue otherwise it would get blasted.

I added 2x Reef Octo 4 pulse and have them facing each other on the far side of the tank doing 4 second alternating flow.

Then I still have 4x wav's on one side and 3x wav's on the other.

tribbitt said:
Snake polyp cameo
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They keep growing in both the tanks I have them in. My urchin grabbed 3 of them the other day in my 30 and walked them around the tank.
 
Got my order of live rock from https://www.tankstop.com/

Communication was great from the get go. Eric sent me multiple pictures of what he had, we texted a fair amount, mostly about other reef stuff because we both like to chat, but also about the rock. There are lots of options for rock and I told him I was looking for as much biological diversity as possible and boy did he come through.

First impression is I see tons of life, macro algae, coralline algae, possible sponges and other cool stuff. It is all pocillopora rock so very spacious for its weight. I got 10 lbs, and it smelled relatively fresh. No rotting smell and still smelled like ocean. It was a mix of larger pieces and some rubble, which may have broken off during shipping.

It is all in my sump now and the tank got a little cloudy, but I did just dump all the water and everything from the box in there, and I'll let my tank deal with it. I wouldn't recommend that for every system, but mine is old enough and has lots of biological filtration already so I am fine with whatever mini cycle happens. All in all, very happy with it.

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I'll definitely move this stuff to the display and take more pictures, I just was in a rush to get everything in the sump before the baby woke up from her nap, and I barely got that in time.
 
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Tank has been doing stuff. I have enough coral that it doesn't look empty, but definitely isn't full.

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The acantho and the mushroom leather have been doing great.
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While I was cleaning, I knocked one of the blue fromia starfish into the haddoni carpet. I very quickly pulled the starfish out, and a small chunk of the nem tore off and came with it. Boy was it stuck! The next day or so the wounds from the nem were very visible. Since then, the legs have come apart but still have structure. I am letting them work their way out in case they grow the body back. The tube feet are still active and look healthy.

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I also have been having one torch die off every month or so for the last 3 months. I am almost certain this is Brown Jelly Disease. I used the last of my Chemiclean, which I believe is amoxicillin based, and now I am doing an in tank ciprofloxacin dose at double the dosage of what aquabiomics did in their test on the R2R forum. It ends up being one 250mg pill for the entire tank of 330 gallons of water and I am doing it for 4 days until I go to San Diego for the weekend. The iodine dip slowed down the death of one torch but it still died completely after 3 days instead of the over night that I saw on my other couple torches. I ordered an aquabiomics test that I will use once the antibiotics have run their course. I cut the UV light and pulled my carbon and cuprisorb from by sump during this antibiotic treatment. I may do another 5 day treatment after this weekend to just make sure things are suppressed.

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I am getting this calcarious green algae on the glass that is tougher to scrape off than normal, so here is me in a precarious position scraping the algae off the back glass. I have to do one face at a time during my daughter's naps.
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derek_SR said:
Damn you beat me to it. I did a double take when I saw that ladder.

Another fool who shoulda been born taller!!
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I would need to be 8' tall to maintain this tank without a ladder. The top of it is 6'6". 4' stand and 30" tall tank. I can look up at the fish swimming while standing up and I am just over 6'1".
 
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