DD
"Rambo"
LMAO! That bastard gots ta go!
My New Upgrade.....Again
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LMAO! That bastard gots ta go!
DD
"Rambo"
Looks goodyour clams look happy as a clam
Took a while to get them to chill out in one spot. They're finally all chilling where I want them, well sort of anyway.
DD
"Rambo"
Thanks Joe! That's what I shoot for is a nice mix of colors. I'm going to try and be more selective in my new tank. Also putting fewer pieces in so that they can grow into really large colonies. I've learned a lot since I set this tank up. I like the look of massive colonies vs. five thousand frags. Gives them some room to grow and it looks a lot more natural.
I like how your tank is set up. You've got lots of room between corals to let them grow. That's really cool!
madjoe
Premium member
now I just gotta get em to grow faster lol if I dosed might help . or tested or well who knows . as long as they got good color im not worried . after the turtle group buy I will save for a doser I guess
DD
"Rambo"
The marine color doser works really well. It's fairly easy to set up too. Let me know if you get one, I can show you how to set it up if you need help with it.
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1000rrstunna
Member
Sweet looking tank Dom!
DD
"Rambo"
Thanks Glenn!
DD
"Rambo"
Finally had a chance to read through your build, very nice Dom
Thanks Dan!
DD
"Rambo"
Perplexing update:
So I just had one of the weirdest experiences happen with this tank. About a week ago, I decided to throw my mp10 into NTM mode after having not done so in a few months. The next day, the water was cloudy. So I tested the water and everything seemed fine. I just figured it was a small bacterial bloom.
Sunday comes and the tank just continues to get more cloudy. I did a WC and figured it should get better. Next day the water is even cloudier. Again, I would wait a bit to see if it cleared up since I tested it again, and the parameters were all perfect. Come the following day, Tuesday, I can't seem to figure out why the water continues to cloud even more. I ran some tests again, and then I see what a possible problem is. PH 7.9, it's normally 8.2, ammonia is .03ppm. Low but not normal as I have zero ammonia normally.
So I dump a bottle of Dr Tims. in to take care of the ammonia. Tested the next day and the ammonia was gone.
Throughout this whole time, I noticed some brown, algae, snotty stuff on my glass and rocks. Dino's. So I'm thinking that the mp 10 in NTM kicked some crap up. Which led to the dino's and also caused the cloudy water. At no time were there any frags, fish, or inverts missing.
So I started a black out yesterday. Last night as I sat near the tank, I could hear a strange noise coming from the tank. So I pull up my apex home page and start turning equipment off piece by piece to find the source. It was my return pump.
So I decided to try and clean it out. Well as I'm doing this I look at the sump and notice the water is really high. I look more closely and see water beginning to pour over the side.
So it's now 11:00pm, I need to be up early and I find myself making water, draining the sump, removing all the equipment from the sump, then removing the sump from the stand. I have a piece of carpeting under the sump to soak up whatever water splashes out of the sump. Well that was soaked.
Well after removing that piece of carpet, I throw it outside to dry, and seeing as I really needed to get the tank running again, I dried the inside of the stand, used an entire pack of ceramic frag disks to prop the sump up, kind of like pillars on a pier. This was so that any residual moisture can dry up with the sump being slightly elevated. Reinstalled all the equipment, then got it all running again.
One thing I forgot to mention is that during the cloudiness period, I had panicked and started grabbing sps from the tank, dipping them, then adding them to the new setup, where they were destined to end up anyways but just haven't had the time.
So after all this drama, draining the sump and reinstalling it, which was basically like doing another WC, caused the tank to clear up? WTF?
Either way, this tank will be coming down soon. Will is building me a new tank, that's reef ready vs the hob overflow I have now. Comparing this setup to my new one is night and day. It's so messy that I hate it. I literally started adding equipment as I went vs setting up and anticipating from the beginning what I would be running.
The new tank will be all acrylic, 20"L X 18"W X 18"H. It will have a built in external overflow with a herbie drain and one 3/4" return. I'm going to hard plumb everything like I did with my new setup. I still haven't decided if I'm going to reuse my live rock, or do a fresh dry start.
Moral of the story is, if you have an mp10, make sure you use NTM mode at least twice a week if not more, and when setting up a tank, anticipate what you are planning on having equipment wise from the beginning, before there's even water in the tank.
I never had this tank drilled because I didn't see the value in having a sump. Equipment in the tank looks ugly as chit. ATO is also so much easier when you have a sump.
So please, learn from me and do it right the first time. I'm sure you can tell from my 50 cadlight cube build, I learned a bunch of lessons the hard way.
So I just had one of the weirdest experiences happen with this tank. About a week ago, I decided to throw my mp10 into NTM mode after having not done so in a few months. The next day, the water was cloudy. So I tested the water and everything seemed fine. I just figured it was a small bacterial bloom.
Sunday comes and the tank just continues to get more cloudy. I did a WC and figured it should get better. Next day the water is even cloudier. Again, I would wait a bit to see if it cleared up since I tested it again, and the parameters were all perfect. Come the following day, Tuesday, I can't seem to figure out why the water continues to cloud even more. I ran some tests again, and then I see what a possible problem is. PH 7.9, it's normally 8.2, ammonia is .03ppm. Low but not normal as I have zero ammonia normally.
So I dump a bottle of Dr Tims. in to take care of the ammonia. Tested the next day and the ammonia was gone.
Throughout this whole time, I noticed some brown, algae, snotty stuff on my glass and rocks. Dino's. So I'm thinking that the mp 10 in NTM kicked some crap up. Which led to the dino's and also caused the cloudy water. At no time were there any frags, fish, or inverts missing.
So I started a black out yesterday. Last night as I sat near the tank, I could hear a strange noise coming from the tank. So I pull up my apex home page and start turning equipment off piece by piece to find the source. It was my return pump.
So I decided to try and clean it out. Well as I'm doing this I look at the sump and notice the water is really high. I look more closely and see water beginning to pour over the side.
So it's now 11:00pm, I need to be up early and I find myself making water, draining the sump, removing all the equipment from the sump, then removing the sump from the stand. I have a piece of carpeting under the sump to soak up whatever water splashes out of the sump. Well that was soaked.
Well after removing that piece of carpet, I throw it outside to dry, and seeing as I really needed to get the tank running again, I dried the inside of the stand, used an entire pack of ceramic frag disks to prop the sump up, kind of like pillars on a pier. This was so that any residual moisture can dry up with the sump being slightly elevated. Reinstalled all the equipment, then got it all running again.
One thing I forgot to mention is that during the cloudiness period, I had panicked and started grabbing sps from the tank, dipping them, then adding them to the new setup, where they were destined to end up anyways but just haven't had the time.
So after all this drama, draining the sump and reinstalling it, which was basically like doing another WC, caused the tank to clear up? WTF?
Either way, this tank will be coming down soon. Will is building me a new tank, that's reef ready vs the hob overflow I have now. Comparing this setup to my new one is night and day. It's so messy that I hate it. I literally started adding equipment as I went vs setting up and anticipating from the beginning what I would be running.
The new tank will be all acrylic, 20"L X 18"W X 18"H. It will have a built in external overflow with a herbie drain and one 3/4" return. I'm going to hard plumb everything like I did with my new setup. I still haven't decided if I'm going to reuse my live rock, or do a fresh dry start.
Moral of the story is, if you have an mp10, make sure you use NTM mode at least twice a week if not more, and when setting up a tank, anticipate what you are planning on having equipment wise from the beginning, before there's even water in the tank.
I never had this tank drilled because I didn't see the value in having a sump. Equipment in the tank looks ugly as chit. ATO is also so much easier when you have a sump.
So please, learn from me and do it right the first time. I'm sure you can tell from my 50 cadlight cube build, I learned a bunch of lessons the hard way.
DD
"Rambo"
Alright update time:
This tank has been doing extremely well since my last update. Everything thrives in this tank so that's always good.
I'm currently using this tank as the life support system for all the corals I hoarded for the 50 cube. Every coral that looked like it was on it's way out has recovered fully, or is nearly there.
Here is a quick pic, the blues are ramping up to night mode currently so the colors will be a bit jacked up.
This tank is pretty self sufficient, requiring very little of my time. I'm hoping that the 50 cube begins to be able to support sps so that I can move everything over. But as I learned from my last f%&* up, I'll go slow with it. I just have no room for anything right now lol!
This tank has been doing extremely well since my last update. Everything thrives in this tank so that's always good.
I'm currently using this tank as the life support system for all the corals I hoarded for the 50 cube. Every coral that looked like it was on it's way out has recovered fully, or is nearly there.
Here is a quick pic, the blues are ramping up to night mode currently so the colors will be a bit jacked up.
This tank is pretty self sufficient, requiring very little of my time. I'm hoping that the 50 cube begins to be able to support sps so that I can move everything over. But as I learned from my last f%&* up, I'll go slow with it. I just have no room for anything right now lol!
DD
"Rambo"
So some bad news about this tank.
After traveling and getting really busy with work and other time consuming activities, this tank went downhill.
Nearly all of my znps are doing great, but the sps, well........not so much.
I've had a horrible infestation of grape caulerpa that must have hitched a ride on a frag.
Just did a water change yesterday and also removed a shopping bag worth of this horrible menace.
Will post an update once I get the frag racks out and place the frags in good locations. Pretty depressing looking at the above pic, and what it currently looks like.
After traveling and getting really busy with work and other time consuming activities, this tank went downhill.
Nearly all of my znps are doing great, but the sps, well........not so much.
I've had a horrible infestation of grape caulerpa that must have hitched a ride on a frag.
Just did a water change yesterday and also removed a shopping bag worth of this horrible menace.
Will post an update once I get the frag racks out and place the frags in good locations. Pretty depressing looking at the above pic, and what it currently looks like.
BigBarnacles
New member
DD
"Rambo"
That stuff is like the plague. Actually, it is the plague. I hate that stuff like there's no tomorrow.
DD
"Rambo"
Lol, not until I get rid of the frag racks. Trying to figure out how to remove a colony of znps that grew on the rack. Problem is that more than half of the colony grew onto the rack.