heck, he can just keep mine, he doesn't need to barrow...
what does your temp usually say at? do you notice any flucuation with the season changes?

79 to 81 right now, was 77 to 79. so yes. with it getting warmer I can tell I am going to have to mount a fan on the lights.

Almost forgot to add, my Red Sea Regal should be in tonight. I am ready to see if all the preperation has worked. The QT is ready to go!

I have had a bad few weeks, I lost a pair of Potters Angels, a Regal Angel and an Oregon Tort. However my friend Kevin AKA Aquarius77 has decided to take a break from the hobby and I am holding his corals for if and when he comes back.

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Yesterday I added two Coralvue dual head 3000 gph powerheads to the display and kicked up the flow a notch.

Prater you need to update this thread! Nothing new in 4 months?

That is correct, I have gotten nothing new in 4 months

How did you lose the Angels?

I love this reply. hahaha .. Honest and to the point. I am sure the little one is keeping you busy...

They never would eat for me. Blueface is still doing great. I am going Saturday to pick up a majestic that has been established in a tank for over a year. Buying established fish from indiviuals is the way to go.

WOW this is like a rare sighting. did you get that glass cleaned off? hope everyting has been good with you mike.

Yeah, most of the way. I need to buy a kent scraper to finish it

Thanks Lobb4920, but it has a long way to go.

New Fish

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Those Angels would have eaten up your corals! Is there room in there for my boy? :)

Teri

I have 7 fish.
Blueface angel
majestic angel
coral beauty
purple tang
yellow tang
hippo tang (may be selling him not crazy about his behavior, just swims up and down in the corner)
oscelaris clown

powder blue would look awesome in there

I think he would like it, but he has been alone for awhile in the 220 gal here. By the way...I want to show you the scrapers I use. They are awsome and you would LOVE these. Don't buy those cheapo (but costly) Kent scrapers. Buy these at Home Depot in the wallpaper/paint section! Guaranteed NOT to EVER bend and scratch the glass!!!

Teri

Metal cannot be used on acrylic. But thanks. Light switch cover worked wonders as a scraper!

Well I ordered a few things today to forward my build. My next two goals are to improve my lighting setup to a modern high efficiency metal halide setup and work toward semi-automation of the water changes. As far as lighting, I have the lumenarc reflectors, but everything else was temporary just to get the tank going. The chinese bulbs suck and magnetic ballasts are gas guzzlers if you know what I mean. I plan on going to XM 20k Bulbs powered with Lumatek e-ballasts. I also will be getting rid of the wooden temporary light rack and upgrading to aluminum. Tax money can get here soon enough.

Back to the things I ordered today. To continue to semi-automate my water changes. I ordered a "y" fitting, a ball valve and a float valve for the saltwater reservoir. I will set up the saltwater the same as the fresh RO except I will have the ball valve that will allow me to control when the RO unit recognizes the float valve. I am seriously debating on a JBL ATO. I know there is no such thing as a truly failsafe ATO, but the JBL shuts off after 3 minutes if it is still running. That seems like it would work.

Any thoughts?

I love my JBJ ATO, knock on wood, I have never had any problems with it in the 4 years I have had it.

I just found out it has auto shutoff that has to be manually reset. That is genius and is close to failsafe as you are going to get.

Found out my tax return is going to be much larger than I thought. This build should see some new action! I really want to focus on lighting and water changes.

Well the crappy temporary wood light rack is no more. Here is the permanent new solid aluminum rack.
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I added a float valve to the salt reservoir, so now I do not have to monitor both of them when they fill, and I dont have to move pumps or use buckets! I put a shut off on the salt side since I obviously not want it to fill every time I take some water out. Especially once I get the salinty right. So I can turn valve on when I am ready, then go down when it is full and shut it off. Dont have to worry about it spilling over!

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I also replace all the filters in the RO/DI unit. Back to 0 TDS!

Glad to see some action again!

Just finished reading the whole thread. Its made me more patient with mine. Looks very nice!