Rebuild and recovery of a dead tank - Page 45

jason2459 · 06/10/2015, 08:10 PM

The new rbta triplet is finally showing itself. It was under the rocks in the big cave for a while. Its the top one just showing a couple tentacles so far.

jason2459 · 06/11/2015, 06:57 PM

Getting a thicker coat of slime

Day 9 and looks ready to wipe. Will do it tomorrow night.

Floyd R Turbo · 06/11/2015, 08:52 PM

You can, or you could give it a few more days

jason2459 · 06/11/2015, 09:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Floyd R Turbo

You can, or you could give it a few more days

Sounds good to me. I'm all about being lazy.

jason2459 · 06/12/2015, 06:26 PM

Day 10 about the same

jason2459 · 06/12/2015, 07:12 PM

I totally forgot about this guy. He's been in the back of the tank forever and finally moving back towards the front. I had to zoom in quite a bit.

jason2459 · 06/13/2015, 11:48 AM

Haven't done a full tank shot in a while. Not much has changed and tank has been fully recovered for quite some time now from the mass chemical invert death done to my tank last year. Edit: full tank shot gives some perspective to the size of the anemones. The individual shots makes them look smaller. They've grown well since I got them.

And the two things that I was always most nervous to get but have wanted since starting the hobby in 2007. They've been doing good it seems but still makes me nervous.

jason2459 · 06/13/2015, 07:38 PM

A bit darker

Day 11

jason2459 · 06/14/2015, 04:48 PM

Couple more days?

Day 12

Floyd R Turbo · 06/14/2015, 04:53 PM

I think I would give it a swipe now. Just palm of hand, one or two passes per side, then either a light rinse in slow running room temp tap water, or a bit of tank water (you can pour over screen while on a melamine cutting board, etc).

Usually you want to remove the false bottom and clean it also every cleaning but the first few, not so critical.

jason2459 · 06/14/2015, 04:54 PM

And this is why my green BTA always stresses me out but have learned to not worry and just let it be.

He's always going through these phases.

Early this morning looking like death

Someone wanting to day Hi

Couple hours later

Noonish time

Couple hours after that

Just now

And in a few more hours he'll be fully open again

jason2459 · 06/14/2015, 04:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Floyd R Turbo

I think I would give it a swipe now. Just palm of hand, one or two passes per side, then either a light rinse in slow running room temp tap water, or a bit of tank water (you can pour over screen while on a melamine cutting board, etc).

Usually you want to remove the false bottom and clean it also every cleaning but the first few, not so critical.

Thanks. I'll do that later tonight. I have to clean out the skimmer cup too.

jason2459 · 06/14/2015, 09:10 PM

... opps

jason2459 · 06/14/2015, 10:10 PM

The trubo hf L series ATS is Very very very easy to do maintenance on. I didn't scrub it at all but just the process of getting the screen out and back in is super easy and can just set it back in, plug the pump back in, and forget it. Love that kind of setup that's easy to maintain.

Just pulled out for the first time

Flipped around to see the other side

Went ahead and pulled the false bottom as it only took me exactly .00367 seconds longer to do that at the same time

Both sides after a quick palm wipe and rinse (it was not slimy feeling at all. Just felt the rough screen)

Day 0

Also to note, I went ahead and did a quick wipe of the inside with a paper towel too.

I was also wondering if I should flip the screen the other way?

BTW, the entire thing is dead silent now. Never did hook up the drain valve.

jason2459 · 06/14/2015, 10:12 PM

...
Dang it I keep messing up my posts tonight. Need to get some sleep

Floyd R Turbo · 06/14/2015, 10:14 PM

You can if you want. I never pay attention to orientation so I'm sure it gets flipped around every so often

jason2459 · 06/14/2015, 10:17 PM

Want to give some skimmer loving too. I clean it out every 4 days and like clock work it is filled with the same nasty thick 4 cups of skimmate. Always 4 cups and always 1 cup every day. It's been so consistent I could not be happier with it. I've done pictures of the nasty previously but here it is just after start up as I was cleaning out the ATS just doing what it does best. A nice thick foam head right away.

jason2459 · 06/14/2015, 10:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Floyd R Turbo

You can if you want. I never pay attention to orientation so I'm sure it gets flipped around every so often

Thanks. I just kept it going the same way for now. Maybe in a couple weeks I'll flip it then.

jason2459 · 06/15/2015, 06:55 PM

Day 1

Floyd R Turbo · 06/15/2015, 07:00 PM

Looks a bit lighter actually, or is that just the flash effect?

jason2459 · 06/15/2015, 07:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Floyd R Turbo

Looks a bit lighter actually, or is that just the flash effect?

Don't think so. It looked a bit lighter to me too.

jason2459 · 06/16/2015, 09:58 PM

Day 2

Looking a bit darker now

jason2459 · 06/17/2015, 08:43 PM

Day 3.

Overall more filled in and maybe a bit darker

jason2459 · 06/17/2015, 09:19 PM

AND. OMG. Where has the Tunze Care Magnet been all my reefing life !!!!!!!

So, I've had a few areas of green coraline on my glass. Mag Float never kept up at all and got worse. Then I got a really big magnavore and it at least put a stop to it and started getting rid of some of it after many many many many passes but certainly not going anywhere quick. Then I tried a magic eraser and that was still a lot of elbow grease but was able to get a very small area completely free of the coraline but it was so not worth the effort to me to continue. I resolved to just going over all the glass with the magnavore nightly when I could and hoped to have the glass cleared of that green coraline by 2045 just in time for me to take the tank down because I'll be to old and weak to move the hefty magnavore across the glass.

I finally decided to try the Tunze Care Magnet as I've seen many good reviews for it. I've been hesitant because for one I already spent a good amount of money on the magnavore and two I did not like that the inside component didn't Float.

Well, I got the Strong in for my 5/8" glass 180 today. Wasn't what I was expecting coming from large Magnet Float cleaners. I felt kind of ripped off. It's very slim and not much to it. It did come with a couple extra (1 large and 1 small) spare plastic blades. But only a single metal blade you can attach to the large plastic one. Again felt ripped off thinking there should be two metal ones if anything as that's what will be used on glass tanks.

I decided to not put the metal blade and test it out in the tank getting used to it to make sure I wouldn't scratch it up worse then it already is. I was also still very nervous to drop the inside part into the sand.

ALL hesitations, fears, doubts, feelings if being ripped off, nerves, etc etc were VERY QUICKLY eliminated. Glad my kids are in bed because I said, quite loudly, a word I can't type on this forum but it started with HOLY @$&$*. It quickly scraped of a LOT of the coraline one 2 passes. A few more and a good amount of it was cleared from one area. 5 or 6 more swipes and the area was completely cleared.

This was with just the plastic big and small blades. Now I don't see why they even included a metal blade. I did take care to not cross swipe it and turned going back and forth the long ways. I was nervous turning a corner at first and found it very easy. I positioned it vertical and slid the outside around the corner and the inside moved right along with it. Never once dropping it. I did dare to go into the sand. And did not have any issues. I still would not recommend it.

I didn't expect to be so excited about this but its amazing. Pictures to show why

One area Before

And After

Another area before

After

So freaking easy and quick compared to what I was doing before. And yeah I could have dove in there with a razor and elbow grease but again so not worth it to me right now. I just want to sit back and enjoy my tank as much as I can.

jason2459 · 06/18/2015, 08:00 PM

Day 4

Looking like its getting back on track

06/10/2015, 08:10 PM	#1101
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	The new rbta triplet is finally showing itself. It was under the rocks in the big cave for a while. Its the top one just showing a couple tentacles so far. __________________ 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

06/11/2015, 06:57 PM	#1102
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Getting a thicker coat of slime Day 9 and looks ready to wipe. Will do it tomorrow night. __________________ 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

06/11/2015, 08:52 PM	#1103
Floyd R Turbo Either busy or sleeping Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: West Des Moines, IA Posts: 4,265 Blog Entries: 15	You can, or you could give it a few more days __________________ Algae Scrubber Basics!!! GOOGLE "algaescrubber zoho" General Interest Forums --> Advanced Topics --> Algae Scrubber Basics (sticky) --> POSTS #3251-64 (Basics), #5206 (Cleaning), #6884 (LEDs), #729

06/12/2015, 06:26 PM	#1105
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Day 10 about the same __________________ 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

06/12/2015, 07:12 PM	#1106
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	I totally forgot about this guy. He's been in the back of the tank forever and finally moving back towards the front. I had to zoom in quite a bit. __________________ 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

06/13/2015, 11:48 AM	#1107
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Haven't done a full tank shot in a while. Not much has changed and tank has been fully recovered for quite some time now from the mass chemical invert death done to my tank last year. Edit: full tank shot gives some perspective to the size of the anemones. The individual shots makes them look smaller. They've grown well since I got them. And the two things that I was always most nervous to get but have wanted since starting the hobby in 2007. They've been doing good it seems but still makes me nervous. __________________ 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; 06/13/2015 at 11:53 AM.

06/13/2015, 07:38 PM	#1108
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	A bit darker Day 11 __________________ 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

06/14/2015, 04:48 PM	#1109
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Couple more days? Day 12 __________________ 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

06/14/2015, 04:53 PM	#1110
Floyd R Turbo Either busy or sleeping Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: West Des Moines, IA Posts: 4,265 Blog Entries: 15	I think I would give it a swipe now. Just palm of hand, one or two passes per side, then either a light rinse in slow running room temp tap water, or a bit of tank water (you can pour over screen while on a melamine cutting board, etc). Usually you want to remove the false bottom and clean it also every cleaning but the first few, not so critical. __________________ Algae Scrubber Basics!!! GOOGLE "algaescrubber zoho" General Interest Forums --> Advanced Topics --> Algae Scrubber Basics (sticky) --> POSTS #3251-64 (Basics), #5206 (Cleaning), #6884 (LEDs), #729

06/14/2015, 04:54 PM	#1111
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	And this is why my green BTA always stresses me out but have learned to not worry and just let it be. He's always going through these phases. Early this morning looking like death Someone wanting to day Hi Couple hours later Noonish time Couple hours after that Just now And in a few more hours he'll be fully open again __________________ 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

06/14/2015, 09:10 PM	#1113
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	... opps __________________ 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

06/14/2015, 10:10 PM	#1114
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	The trubo hf L series ATS is Very very very easy to do maintenance on. I didn't scrub it at all but just the process of getting the screen out and back in is super easy and can just set it back in, plug the pump back in, and forget it. Love that kind of setup that's easy to maintain. Just pulled out for the first time Flipped around to see the other side Went ahead and pulled the false bottom as it only took me exactly .00367 seconds longer to do that at the same time Both sides after a quick palm wipe and rinse (it was not slimy feeling at all. Just felt the rough screen) Day 0 Also to note, I went ahead and did a quick wipe of the inside with a paper towel too. I was also wondering if I should flip the screen the other way? BTW, the entire thing is dead silent now. Never did hook up the drain valve. __________________ 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

06/14/2015, 10:12 PM	#1115
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	... Dang it I keep messing up my posts tonight. Need to get some sleep __________________ 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; 06/14/2015 at 10:18 PM.

06/14/2015, 10:14 PM	#1116
Floyd R Turbo Either busy or sleeping Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: West Des Moines, IA Posts: 4,265 Blog Entries: 15	You can if you want. I never pay attention to orientation so I'm sure it gets flipped around every so often __________________ Algae Scrubber Basics!!! GOOGLE "algaescrubber zoho" General Interest Forums --> Advanced Topics --> Algae Scrubber Basics (sticky) --> POSTS #3251-64 (Basics), #5206 (Cleaning), #6884 (LEDs), #729

06/14/2015, 10:17 PM	#1117
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Want to give some skimmer loving too. I clean it out every 4 days and like clock work it is filled with the same nasty thick 4 cups of skimmate. Always 4 cups and always 1 cup every day. It's been so consistent I could not be happier with it. I've done pictures of the nasty previously but here it is just after start up as I was cleaning out the ATS just doing what it does best. A nice thick foam head right away. __________________ 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

06/15/2015, 06:55 PM	#1119
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Day 1 __________________ 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

06/15/2015, 07:00 PM	#1120
Floyd R Turbo Either busy or sleeping Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: West Des Moines, IA Posts: 4,265 Blog Entries: 15	Looks a bit lighter actually, or is that just the flash effect? __________________ Algae Scrubber Basics!!! GOOGLE "algaescrubber zoho" General Interest Forums --> Advanced Topics --> Algae Scrubber Basics (sticky) --> POSTS #3251-64 (Basics), #5206 (Cleaning), #6884 (LEDs), #729

06/16/2015, 09:58 PM	#1122
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Day 2 Looking a bit darker 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

06/17/2015, 08:43 PM	#1123
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Day 3. Overall more filled in and maybe a bit darker __________________ 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

06/17/2015, 09:19 PM	#1124
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	AND. OMG. Where has the Tunze Care Magnet been all my reefing life !!!!!!! So, I've had a few areas of green coraline on my glass. Mag Float never kept up at all and got worse. Then I got a really big magnavore and it at least put a stop to it and started getting rid of some of it after many many many many passes but certainly not going anywhere quick. Then I tried a magic eraser and that was still a lot of elbow grease but was able to get a very small area completely free of the coraline but it was so not worth the effort to me to continue. I resolved to just going over all the glass with the magnavore nightly when I could and hoped to have the glass cleared of that green coraline by 2045 just in time for me to take the tank down because I'll be to old and weak to move the hefty magnavore across the glass. I finally decided to try the Tunze Care Magnet as I've seen many good reviews for it. I've been hesitant because for one I already spent a good amount of money on the magnavore and two I did not like that the inside component didn't Float. Well, I got the Strong in for my 5/8" glass 180 today. Wasn't what I was expecting coming from large Magnet Float cleaners. I felt kind of ripped off. It's very slim and not much to it. It did come with a couple extra (1 large and 1 small) spare plastic blades. But only a single metal blade you can attach to the large plastic one. Again felt ripped off thinking there should be two metal ones if anything as that's what will be used on glass tanks. I decided to not put the metal blade and test it out in the tank getting used to it to make sure I wouldn't scratch it up worse then it already is. I was also still very nervous to drop the inside part into the sand. ALL hesitations, fears, doubts, feelings if being ripped off, nerves, etc etc were VERY QUICKLY eliminated. Glad my kids are in bed because I said, quite loudly, a word I can't type on this forum but it started with HOLY @$&$*. It quickly scraped of a LOT of the coraline one 2 passes. A few more and a good amount of it was cleared from one area. 5 or 6 more swipes and the area was completely cleared. This was with just the plastic big and small blades. Now I don't see why they even included a metal blade. I did take care to not cross swipe it and turned going back and forth the long ways. I was nervous turning a corner at first and found it very easy. I positioned it vertical and slid the outside around the corner and the inside moved right along with it. Never once dropping it. I did dare to go into the sand. And did not have any issues. I still would not recommend it. I didn't expect to be so excited about this but its amazing. Pictures to show why One area Before And After Another area before After So freaking easy and quick compared to what I was doing before. And yeah I could have dove in there with a razor and elbow grease but again so not worth it to me right now. I just want to sit back and enjoy my tank as much as I can. __________________ 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

06/18/2015, 08:00 PM	#1125
jason2459 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Iowa Posts: 9,671	Day 4 Looking like its getting back on track __________________ 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