Jim's Custom 274G Rimless Starphire Shallow Peninsula

[boudster]

Originally Posted by jdantunes

I first saw your tank on You Tube and now I'm happy to subscribe to your thread.

I really like what you done so far. I left you a question on your past video, down in the comments. I'll just copy and paste it here...

"Awesome reef tank!!! Did you get your inspiration from Steve Weast tank? The dimensions and aquacape are very similar"

Thanks! I've never heard of Steve Weast. I'll have to look him up.


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[laredo300c]

Awesome build, love the videos. Did I miss what you are using for water flow?

[boudster]

Originally Posted by laredo300c

Awesome build, love the videos. Did I miss what you are using for water flow?

I'm using 2 Gyre 150s


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[maxxII]

Originally Posted by boudster

Thanks! I've never heard of Steve Weast. I'll have to look him up.


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Seriously?

Wow...I would put his reef tank as one of the top 5 in the hobby. He took it down, but it was TOTM and was photgraphed & articles were written about it. It was stellar.

[jdantunes]

Originally Posted by maxxII

Seriously?

Wow...I would put his reef tank as one of the top 5 in the hobby. He took it down, but it was TOTM and was photgraphed & articles were written about it. It was stellar.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he suffer a system crash? Maybe he rebuild after that but was never the same...

Here is the post that that explains it from RC Archives:

Well....I had a little incident Thursday morning......

Thursday morning, I did a water change and decided to clean the powerheads on my skimmer since I haven't cleaned those in over a year. I got everything up and going, when I got a call that forced me to leave earlier than I had planned.

I returned home around 10pm......meaning that I was gone some 14 hrs. Well, apparently, clean skimmer pumps are much more efficient than dirty ones......so, the skimmer proceeded to overflow and empty my entire 200 gal sump down the drain. I had to do something....and since I had no water made up and it would take two days to generate 200 gals....I was forced to use tap water. Our water up here is actually not too bad out of the tap.

I also had some dechlorinator on hand that I've had...but never needed....for years. I filled the sump, mixed in dechlorinator, salt.....mixed well.....and powered up. Everything was back on line....went to bed.

I woke up Friday to the tank of death....every single sps coral is gone. All ricordea....gone. Fish and lps are fine....anemones...not happy; but alive. I removed all the dead stuff.....some seven buckets of sps heads ....some two feet in diameter.....very sad.

I feel that the fault was mine....I probably would have been fine with just taking the two days to create more water.....after all, my closed loop was working fine and I could have always added aeration. The second mistake was probably adding too much of a very old dechlorinator....which, I feel, was the primary cause of death. It was just a case of reacting too quickly and not thinking.

[boudster]

Oh wow.. That's just terrible.


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[scubadan206]

Very impressive tank. I like the dimensions and the black sand, strangely enough....

[GQsmooth]

hows that overflow working? You got the 20" one?

[Justin330]

Really nice build!

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