Rebuild and recovery of a dead tank - Page 34

jason2459 · 11/30/2011, 02:17 PM

Finally got around to filling the tank.... ran out of water again. So far I have 170G put in and that was enough to fill the main display tank. Only issue is I didn't have enough to start up the sump before the return pump runs dry. I just needed a bit more water. Not much like 10 gallons. I should have it all up and running tonight.

gobuckeyes · 11/30/2011, 04:39 PM

Wow lots of time and work put into this . Nice and Thanks for the thread

jason2459 · 11/30/2011, 07:14 PM

Thanks. It will be worth it all. At least I keep telling myself that.

jason2459 · 11/30/2011, 11:17 PM

Well, its done. Completely full and sump is in use. There's a couple things I need to tweak out a bit like a bit longer stand pipe in the external overflow for the open channel to raise the water a bit. I also need to take out a baffle in the sump closest to the return pump to give a bit more room for evaporation top off. I will have to take some pictures tomorrow. All the lights are off now.

jason2459 · 12/01/2011, 11:37 AM

No leaks so far. Will try and get some pictures tonight.

jason2459 · 12/01/2011, 11:35 PM

Some pictures. I took a video and working on making it a smaller size so may have it uploaded tomorrow.

Full tank shot before I started messing with the rock work a bit and taking the heater out.

Have my corals on the left side still. Not as much direct flow there and they seem to like it.

Hammer still looking good. It gets a bit more flow there and doesn't seem to mind.

poor thing keeps getting moved around but starting to come back out now and probably the last place I'll be moving it too

right side before I started messing around

jason2459 · 12/01/2011, 11:38 PM

Then I noticed the heater and took it out. Then pulled this rock out of the sump while I was at it and found this spot for it after putting it all over the place of course and stirring up the sand bed so the rest of the pics are a bit cloudy.

played around on the right side a bit with this little rock to make another arch

new flull tank shot

oh hai

jason2459 · 12/02/2011, 12:16 PM

Here's the video. Shows the rock work, back overflow, lights in the canopy, and my controllers. It was after I was messing around with the rocks and stirred up the tank so it is a bit cloudy. Fish are ****ed off at me for doing that too and hiding. I still need to finalize the overflow in the back. It's still just a straight up open standpipe for the open channel which really isn't that noisy either. You can see a close up of my son's favorite feature the dragon. Also, just noticed I still have the tubing hooked over the back I used to fill the tank up from my mixing station in the basement.

http://youtu.be/fIfECvgLWR0

jason2459 · 12/02/2011, 01:30 PM

I did get a decent shot of my Magnificent Foxface. He found where my cleaner goby lives and likes to do this

So far he loves to eat everything I feed except nori. He loves these spirulina flakes I got and will nibble them out of my fingers.

jason2459 · 12/02/2011, 07:32 PM

Note: Tunze 6105 at full power in wave pulse mode can toss water out of a 180...

jason2459 · 12/03/2011, 08:41 AM

Have the full beananimal overflow completed now with it running so quite now. The Tunze pumps are the noisy components now. I just need to get 1/4in line connected to the johnguest fitting on top the open channel and zip tie it to the failsafe overflow so it can turn into a full syphon if need be.

uploadfromtaptalk1322923323376.jpg

jason2459 · 12/03/2011, 08:50 AM

This may be a bit better picture.

jason2459 · 12/03/2011, 03:37 PM

My 7month old daughter just loves to sit in front of the tank and always calms her down. I've been noticing that the clown and foxface have instant become best friends and usually swimming around together. I also noticed along with a bunch if pods crawling on the glass I have hydroids.

uploadfromtaptalk1322948197658.jpg

They should be harmless.

jason2459 · 12/03/2011, 04:47 PM

Note II: plate glass can cut to the bone very easily.

In removing the baffle before the return pump I've sliced the back of my thumb pretty good.

jason2459 · 12/07/2011, 09:23 AM

I got some somewhat decent pictures last night and get a new coral addition in the main tank.

The Duncan starting to come back out nicely
[IMG]http://i42.*******.com/a0v53a.jpg[/IMG]

this guys been through a lot and hopefully starts growing again in it's permanent home
[IMG]http://i43.*******.com/fwqbd5.jpg[/IMG]

Waiting...
[IMG]http://i39.*******.com/w0ncz8.jpg[/IMG]

...for a little spa treatment
[IMG]http://i40.*******.com/dtax0.jpg[/IMG]

I was just not getting a good picture of this new guy. A nice 1" frag of frogspawn. Really nice green with deep purple tips.
[IMG]http://i43.*******.com/rvkcud.jpg[/IMG]

jason2459 · 12/07/2011, 09:37 AM

Google's adding a "-" in their image links causing them not to work on here with the img tags. Had to relink them through another source.... all fixed now.

jason2459 · 12/07/2011, 11:27 PM

best friends

jason2459 · 12/08/2011, 01:05 PM

I finally got the white balance corrected for one picture. I have no idea how I did it and probably wont be able to figure it out again. My camera just pics up so much blue from the LEDs. It is bluer but anywhere near is blue as the camera makes it out to be. The body of the foxface is finally white in this picture.

mjhall85 · 12/08/2011, 02:03 PM

It's looking great!

PaPa_Johnny · 12/08/2011, 02:26 PM

Wow, Jason a lot of work and planning have been put into this. Sorry to hear about your cut, hope it's doing better now. I tried to check your vid but it says "this video is private". I'd love to see it, maybe I'm doing something wrong. Also, when are you putting a tree in the tank for the kids

. I don't blame you for the dragon, and I bet he's a blast when he roars at it.

Still following........

jason2459 · 12/08/2011, 02:52 PM

Thanks, thumb is still sore but not bleeding anymore.

Video should be working now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIfECvgLWR0

jason2459 · 12/08/2011, 05:07 PM

Looks like what I was calling a hammer coral is actually a E. cristata.

great site on Euphyllia sp.

http://sdmas.com/corals/146.php

jason2459 · 12/08/2011, 09:19 PM

Wow, much more on just about every coral you can think of.

http://sdmas.com/corals/species.php

I will probably waste the next week on browsing all the different species of coral.

jason2459 · 12/27/2011, 10:52 PM

Haven't updated in a while. Been super busy. I'm starting to sell off some stuff I'm not using anymore but that's going to go pretty slow as I'll probably do just one at a time to make sure I can get stuff shipped out on time. Already sold my hy2000 skimmer pump. Really wish I could have kept it as a spare but I'm so glad I went with the SRO3000. It's really doing an amazing job. I got to see a SRO2000 at the new LFS and it's amazing how much bigger the SRO3000 skimmer is from the SRO2000.

I believe I killed my frog spawn because of placement in the tank. I moved it up a bit on the rocks to get some more lights. I got back from a trip and all the heads were popped out. I though it might have been the foxface at first that ate the coral but I spotted two of the heads withered away under a rock. I believe it's because of to high of flow. I forgot about my tunze storm cycle and I have it go off every 6 hours. The storm cycle really kicks things up and keeps the detritus up off the rocks and sand but the frogspawn was in a current it certainly didn't like.

On another note I swore my kauderni cardinals grew twice in size in the past couple weeks. Since having two sets of them now I have noticed very similar things like the male seems to eat a lot more and is not picky about what he eats. The females seem to be a lot pickier and will only eat meaty items like misys and spirulina brine but doesn't like the krill I have or any of the algae based foods. In the carnivore blends she finds only the whole pieces she likes. I also can now see on this pair a definite physical difference between the male and female besides not being picky about eating and being slightly bigger the jaw is much more defined and square. I've read about that is one way to tell them apart but never seen it. I still have no idea which one makes the knocking sound or how they do it or maybe both do it. I can hear it but can't see them doing anything at all special to make the sounds.

Here's about the best pictures I could get of the male. The jaw is more squared and hard to explain but the middle juts forward a bit from the front.

I really couldn't get a good picture of the female

Another bad pictures but Left Female and right the male

jason2459 · 01/04/2012, 07:22 PM

I couldn't pass it up.... we'll see it in 6 weeks hopefully in the display tank after QT!

11/30/2011, 02:17 PM	#826
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Finally got around to filling the tank.... ran out of water again. So far I have 170G put in and that was enough to fill the main display tank. Only issue is I didn't have enough to start up the sump before the return pump runs dry. I just needed a bit more water. Not much like 10 gallons. I should have it all up and running tonight. __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

11/30/2011, 07:14 PM	#828
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Thanks. It will be worth it all. At least I keep telling myself that. __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

11/30/2011, 11:17 PM	#829
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Well, its done. Completely full and sump is in use. There's a couple things I need to tweak out a bit like a bit longer stand pipe in the external overflow for the open channel to raise the water a bit. I also need to take out a baffle in the sump closest to the return pump to give a bit more room for evaporation top off. I will have to take some pictures tomorrow. All the lights are off now. __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

12/01/2011, 11:37 AM	#830
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	No leaks so far. Will try and get some pictures tonight. __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

12/01/2011, 11:35 PM	#831
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Some pictures. I took a video and working on making it a smaller size so may have it uploaded tomorrow. Full tank shot before I started messing with the rock work a bit and taking the heater out. Have my corals on the left side still. Not as much direct flow there and they seem to like it. Hammer still looking good. It gets a bit more flow there and doesn't seem to mind. poor thing keeps getting moved around but starting to come back out now and probably the last place I'll be moving it too right side before I started messing around __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

11/30/2011, 04:39 PM	#827
gobuckeyes Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: ohio Posts: 67	Wow lots of time and work put into this . Nice and Thanks for the thread

12/01/2011, 11:38 PM	#832
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Then I noticed the heater and took it out. Then pulled this rock out of the sump while I was at it and found this spot for it after putting it all over the place of course and stirring up the sand bed so the rest of the pics are a bit cloudy. played around on the right side a bit with this little rock to make another arch new flull tank shot oh hai __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

12/02/2011, 12:16 PM	#833
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Here's the video. Shows the rock work, back overflow, lights in the canopy, and my controllers. It was after I was messing around with the rocks and stirred up the tank so it is a bit cloudy. Fish are ***ed off at me for doing that too and hiding. I still need to finalize the overflow in the back. It's still just a straight up open standpipe for the open channel which really isn't that noisy either. You can see a close up of my son's favorite feature the dragon. Also, just noticed I still have the tubing hooked over the back I used to fill the tank up from my mixing station in the basement. http://youtu.be/fIfECvgLWR0 __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank Last edited by jason2459; 12/02/2011 at 12:23 PM.*

12/02/2011, 01:30 PM	#834
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	I did get a decent shot of my Magnificent Foxface. He found where my cleaner goby lives and likes to do this So far he loves to eat everything I feed except nori. He loves these spirulina flakes I got and will nibble them out of my fingers. __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

12/02/2011, 07:32 PM	#835
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Note: Tunze 6105 at full power in wave pulse mode can toss water out of a 180... __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

12/03/2011, 08:41 AM	#836
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Have the full beananimal overflow completed now with it running so quite now. The Tunze pumps are the noisy components now. I just need to get 1/4in line connected to the johnguest fitting on top the open channel and zip tie it to the failsafe overflow so it can turn into a full syphon if need be. uploadfromtaptalk1322923323376.jpg __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

12/03/2011, 08:50 AM	#837
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	This may be a bit better picture. __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

12/03/2011, 03:37 PM	#838
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	My 7month old daughter just loves to sit in front of the tank and always calms her down. I've been noticing that the clown and foxface have instant become best friends and usually swimming around together. I also noticed along with a bunch if pods crawling on the glass I have hydroids. uploadfromtaptalk1322948197658.jpg They should be harmless. __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

12/03/2011, 04:47 PM	#839
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Note II: plate glass can cut to the bone very easily. In removing the baffle before the return pump I've sliced the back of my thumb pretty good. __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

12/07/2011, 09:23 AM	#840
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	I got some somewhat decent pictures last night and get a new coral addition in the main tank. The Duncan starting to come back out nicely [IMG]http://i42.*****.com/a0v53a.jpg[/IMG] this guys been through a lot and hopefully starts growing again in it's permanent home [IMG]http://i43.***.com/fwqbd5.jpg[/IMG] Waiting... [IMG]http://i39.***.com/w0ncz8.jpg[/IMG] ...for a little spa treatment [IMG]http://i40.***.com/dtax0.jpg[/IMG] I was just not getting a good picture of this new guy. A nice 1" frag of frogspawn. Really nice green with deep purple tips. [IMG]http://i43.****.com/rvkcud.jpg[/IMG] __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank Last edited by jason2459; 12/07/2011 at 09:36 AM.*

12/07/2011, 09:37 AM	#841
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Google's adding a "-" in their image links causing them not to work on here with the img tags. Had to relink them through another source.... all fixed now. __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

12/07/2011, 11:27 PM	#842
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	best friends __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

12/08/2011, 01:05 PM	#843
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	I finally got the white balance corrected for one picture. I have no idea how I did it and probably wont be able to figure it out again. My camera just pics up so much blue from the LEDs. It is bluer but anywhere near is blue as the camera makes it out to be. The body of the foxface is finally white in this picture. __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

12/08/2011, 02:03 PM	#844
mjhall85 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Phoenix,AZ Posts: 535	It's looking great!

12/08/2011, 02:26 PM	#845
PaPa_Johnny Premium Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ranburne, AL Posts: 683	Wow, Jason a lot of work and planning have been put into this. Sorry to hear about your cut, hope it's doing better now. I tried to check your vid but it says "this video is private". I'd love to see it, maybe I'm doing something wrong. Also, when are you putting a tree in the tank for the kids . I don't blame you for the dragon, and I bet he's a blast when he roars at it. Still following........ __________________ Johnny Current Tank Info: 90 gallon AGA, 240 gallon in the works, gathering equipment now.

12/08/2011, 02:52 PM	#846
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Thanks, thumb is still sore but not bleeding anymore. Video should be working now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIfECvgLWR0 __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

12/08/2011, 05:07 PM	#847
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Looks like what I was calling a hammer coral is actually a E. cristata. great site on Euphyllia sp. http://sdmas.com/corals/146.php __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

12/08/2011, 09:19 PM	#848
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Wow, much more on just about every coral you can think of. http://sdmas.com/corals/species.php I will probably waste the next week on browsing all the different species of coral. __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

12/27/2011, 10:52 PM	#849
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Haven't updated in a while. Been super busy. I'm starting to sell off some stuff I'm not using anymore but that's going to go pretty slow as I'll probably do just one at a time to make sure I can get stuff shipped out on time. Already sold my hy2000 skimmer pump. Really wish I could have kept it as a spare but I'm so glad I went with the SRO3000. It's really doing an amazing job. I got to see a SRO2000 at the new LFS and it's amazing how much bigger the SRO3000 skimmer is from the SRO2000. I believe I killed my frog spawn because of placement in the tank. I moved it up a bit on the rocks to get some more lights. I got back from a trip and all the heads were popped out. I though it might have been the foxface at first that ate the coral but I spotted two of the heads withered away under a rock. I believe it's because of to high of flow. I forgot about my tunze storm cycle and I have it go off every 6 hours. The storm cycle really kicks things up and keeps the detritus up off the rocks and sand but the frogspawn was in a current it certainly didn't like. On another note I swore my kauderni cardinals grew twice in size in the past couple weeks. Since having two sets of them now I have noticed very similar things like the male seems to eat a lot more and is not picky about what he eats. The females seem to be a lot pickier and will only eat meaty items like misys and spirulina brine but doesn't like the krill I have or any of the algae based foods. In the carnivore blends she finds only the whole pieces she likes. I also can now see on this pair a definite physical difference between the male and female besides not being picky about eating and being slightly bigger the jaw is much more defined and square. I've read about that is one way to tell them apart but never seen it. I still have no idea which one makes the knocking sound or how they do it or maybe both do it. I can hear it but can't see them doing anything at all special to make the sounds. Here's about the best pictures I could get of the male. The jaw is more squared and hard to explain but the middle juts forward a bit from the front. I really couldn't get a good picture of the female Another bad pictures but Left Female and right the male __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank

01/04/2012, 07:22 PM	#850
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	I couldn't pass it up.... we'll see it in 6 weeks hopefully in the display tank after QT! __________________ rebuild and recovery log: No more red house, you'll have to click on my name and visit my homepage! You can check out my parameters at reeftronics dot net website and look for my username. Current Tank Info: 180g mixed reef w/ a beananimal overflow to a dolomite RRUGF. \| 20g long G. Smithii Mantis Tank