Melev's new 280g Starfire tank thread - Page 12

melev · 05/07/2006, 05:19 PM

Thank you fishball2222.

Micki · 05/09/2006, 04:57 AM

Reefcast???

Micki · 05/09/2006, 04:58 AM

Reefcast???

Micki · 05/09/2006, 04:58 AM

Reefcast???

Lunchbucket · 05/09/2006, 06:29 AM

what is reefcast? two stoners doing a radio show on reefer??

Lunchbucket

NexDog · 05/09/2006, 06:49 AM

Micki - you certainly got the 'magic' touch.

melev · 05/09/2006, 01:48 PM

Micki...

It would be easier to just give you Evan's phone number.

Micki · 05/09/2006, 02:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by NexDog
Micki - you certainly got the 'magic' touch.

LOL, I have no idea how this happens!

Micki · 05/09/2006, 02:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by melev
Micki...

It would be easier to just give you Evan's phone number.

sure I'll harass him!

I did send an e-mail to him via reefcast...

melev · 05/09/2006, 05:14 PM

Yeah, I just saw it. There were a lot of them in there.

Lordhelmet · 05/09/2006, 09:42 PM

what is with this weather you have here in Dallas, I've never felt so sticky in my life.

gkarshens · 05/09/2006, 10:09 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lordhelmet
what is with this weather you have here in Dallas, I've never felt so sticky in my life.

Welcome to Texas! Try Houston for stickyness!

melev · 05/09/2006, 10:46 PM

It is rediculous. Must have been worst day of the year, weather-wise.

I had the A/C looked over today to make sure all is well. While the guy was here, I sweet-talked him into helping me pull out the window A/C in the fishroom so I could clean it out of all the accumulated salt that has been eating away at the unit.

Now it is nice and clean again, but I have a feeling it won't last until next year. Still, to be able to keep the 280g reef & fishroom cool for the past 1.75 years with a $140 a/c was well worth it.

Lordhelmet · 05/09/2006, 11:16 PM

Nice.

Does your window AC the only thing keeping the fish room sold or does your whole house unit suplement the fish room.

melev · 05/09/2006, 11:30 PM

No, the fishroom is temperature controlled by the window A/C. It is an 8,000 BTU unit, and I keep it at 78F. The tank fluctuates from 79 to 81.5 daily (or less).

During the winter months, I don't run the a/c at all. I'll crack open the door to the garage to let cold air leak into the room to keep the lighting from heating the room too much. Since I work out of my home, I can check the thermostat each time I pass the tank to see if any adjustments are necessary, but as we head into the summer heat, the a/c will simply stay on around the clock, cycling on and off as necessary.

rgj01 · 05/10/2006, 07:44 PM

I just finished reading this thread from the start, and I just have to say great job Marc.

I was kind of hoping there would be a prize for reaching the end (maybe it's in the mail

).

I don't have a reef tank (YET) - just a hi-tech planted freshwater 75g (and who says that freshwater is cheap/easy?) , but this monster thread certainly has given me some ideas for when I take the plunge in to saltwater.

I am a little bit dissapointed that after all this time that the woodwork hasn't been done yet.

Just kidding

Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for sharing your life/reef (same thing, right?) with the world.

Rob.

melev · 05/11/2006, 02:44 PM

Hi Rob, and congratulations for taking on the task of reading this monster thread. You do realize that makes you a little nuts, right?

and....

To Reef Central

Woodwork. If I did that, the thread would be done and no-one would care to read further. I look at it as a major market teaser. "Coming soon - woodwork!"

And you did get your prize, btw. You have a head full of information that you can use now for your own piece of the reef. Instead of guessing and wondering what to do, you'll be ahead of the rest of the pack. Hopefully you'll set up a diary thread about your tank soon, so we can follow along.

Cprowler · 05/11/2006, 08:02 PM

I'm just on my way out to a P.A.E.W.M.T.F.T.F.W meeting and thought I would try one last ditch effort to convince you to finish the woodwork before I leave.

I know you would be very pleased and I'm sure we could find something else to bug you about.

C'mon now

I must say it is very satisfying to finish the woodwork finally. Sometimes I just sit and look at it for hours in awe (well seconds), I think it's more that I'm amazed I actually finished it.

Oh yeah, the best part about it being finished...No stray light. that really browns me off!

Cprowler · 05/12/2006, 03:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Cprowler
I'm just on my way out to a P.A.E.W.M.T.F.T.F.W meeting and thought I would try one last ditch effort to convince you to finish the woodwork before I leave.

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original-reefland · 05/12/2006, 05:40 PM

LMAO

AquaReeferMan · 05/13/2006, 01:53 AM

Bump for greatness.

melev · 05/14/2006, 03:39 PM

FYI, I just updated my personal logs on my site, and it mentions woodwork.

I tested the reef's water yesterday, and had some pretty good numbers over all. Somehow I seem to have LOST a new Salifert Nitrate kit, which I know I had. The results were so strange that I doubted the numbers and posted to Habib in the Salifert forum a few months ago. I don't know where the test kit went, and they aren't exactly easy to lose. Guess I'll need to pick up a new one again.

Here's something interesting: My Calcium Reactor's effluent was coming out at 1.0ppm a couple of weeks ago, so last week I opened up the lid, poured in 1/3 of a bottle of Phosbuster Pro, closed it up and restarted the pump. A week later, the effluent is testing .03 or less.

Tip of the Day: Frilly mushrooms do not like to be removed from rockwork.

Hop · 05/14/2006, 03:49 PM

Please don't start wood work! That would begin a countdown to the number of days I have to finish mine. I prefer not knowing how long I have until I have to make cabinet door and new wood pieces! I don't feel pressured that way

NuclearReefs · 05/14/2006, 04:57 PM

I just came in for the doughnuts,, Do we have a Canopy built yet marc?

Stile2 · 05/14/2006, 05:09 PM

So your effluent had Phosphate in it, is that normal?

Keith

05/09/2006, 04:57 AM	#277
Micki Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Ohio Posts: 7,163	Reefcast??? __________________ Micki... Western Ohio Reef Club Click the red house for my 125 progress! Current Tank Info: 125 gal. reef, 90 gal. sump, 10 gal. fuge, 40 gallon. 150 gallon fish only.

05/09/2006, 04:58 AM	#278
Micki Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Ohio Posts: 7,163	Reefcast??? __________________ Micki... Western Ohio Reef Club Click the red house for my 125 progress! Current Tank Info: 125 gal. reef, 90 gal. sump, 10 gal. fuge, 40 gallon. 150 gallon fish only.

05/09/2006, 04:58 AM	#279
Micki Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Ohio Posts: 7,163	Reefcast??? __________________ Micki... Western Ohio Reef Club Click the red house for my 125 progress! Current Tank Info: 125 gal. reef, 90 gal. sump, 10 gal. fuge, 40 gallon. 150 gallon fish only.

05/09/2006, 06:29 AM	#280
Lunchbucket Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Brookings, SD Posts: 12,924	what is reefcast? two stoners doing a radio show on reefer?? Lunchbucket __________________ Trying to lose weight by walking is like trying to bake a cake w/ a cigarette lighter - Lunchbucket - "Nancy-Boy Extraordinaire" - maxxII- Current Tank Info: 58gal Oceanic RR, 2x400w MH (20k XM and 10k XM), Deltec PF601 Ca Rx, Deltec AP701 skimmer, mag950 return, iwaki 55rlt w/ an Oceansmotions 4-way unit, Tunze 7300 and 6000 each w/ controller, fluidized po4 rx

05/09/2006, 06:49 AM	#281
NexDog Snail Killer Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Kyushu, Japan Posts: 4,804	Micki - you certainly got the 'magic' touch. __________________ Laurence Flynn 340g In-Wall Envision Tank and 150g Sump. Current Tank Info: Deltec 902, PFO hood with 3x400w Radium 20k and 4x96w PC's. Hammerhead closed loop - and 2 x Tunze 6105 (and Vortech still sucks).

05/07/2006, 05:19 PM	#276
melev Moved On Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Ft Worth, Tx Posts: 43,217	Thank you fishball2222.

05/09/2006, 01:48 PM	#282
melev Moved On Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Ft Worth, Tx Posts: 43,217	Micki... It would be easier to just give you Evan's phone number.

05/09/2006, 05:14 PM	#285
melev Moved On Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Ft Worth, Tx Posts: 43,217	Yeah, I just saw it. There were a lot of them in there.

05/09/2006, 09:42 PM	#286
Lordhelmet Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 2,008	what is with this weather you have here in Dallas, I've never felt so sticky in my life. __________________ I need a new signiture Current Tank Info: 90 gallon, 14 gallon

05/09/2006, 10:46 PM	#288
melev Moved On Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Ft Worth, Tx Posts: 43,217	It is rediculous. Must have been worst day of the year, weather-wise. I had the A/C looked over today to make sure all is well. While the guy was here, I sweet-talked him into helping me pull out the window A/C in the fishroom so I could clean it out of all the accumulated salt that has been eating away at the unit. Now it is nice and clean again, but I have a feeling it won't last until next year. Still, to be able to keep the 280g reef & fishroom cool for the past 1.75 years with a $140 a/c was well worth it.

05/09/2006, 11:16 PM	#289
Lordhelmet Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 2,008	Nice. Does your window AC the only thing keeping the fish room sold or does your whole house unit suplement the fish room. __________________ I need a new signiture Current Tank Info: 90 gallon, 14 gallon

05/09/2006, 11:30 PM	#290
melev Moved On Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Ft Worth, Tx Posts: 43,217	No, the fishroom is temperature controlled by the window A/C. It is an 8,000 BTU unit, and I keep it at 78F. The tank fluctuates from 79 to 81.5 daily (or less). During the winter months, I don't run the a/c at all. I'll crack open the door to the garage to let cold air leak into the room to keep the lighting from heating the room too much. Since I work out of my home, I can check the thermostat each time I pass the tank to see if any adjustments are necessary, but as we head into the summer heat, the a/c will simply stay on around the clock, cycling on and off as necessary.

05/10/2006, 07:44 PM	#291
rgj01 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 5	I just finished reading this thread from the start, and I just have to say great job Marc. I was kind of hoping there would be a prize for reaching the end (maybe it's in the mail ). I don't have a reef tank (YET) - just a hi-tech planted freshwater 75g (and who says that freshwater is cheap/easy?) , but this monster thread certainly has given me some ideas for when I take the plunge in to saltwater. I am a little bit dissapointed that after all this time that the woodwork hasn't been done yet. Just kidding Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for sharing your life/reef (same thing, right?) with the world. Rob.

05/11/2006, 02:44 PM	#292
melev Moved On Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Ft Worth, Tx Posts: 43,217	Hi Rob, and congratulations for taking on the task of reading this monster thread. You do realize that makes you a little nuts, right? and.... *To Reef Central* Woodwork. If I did that, the thread would be done and no-one would care to read further. I look at it as a major market teaser. "Coming soon - woodwork!" And you did get your prize, btw. You have a head full of information that you can use now for your own piece of the reef. Instead of guessing and wondering what to do, you'll be ahead of the rest of the pack. Hopefully you'll set up a diary thread about your tank soon, so we can follow along.

05/11/2006, 08:02 PM	#293
Cprowler Premium Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,758	I'm just on my way out to a P.A.E.W.M.T.F.T.F.W meeting and thought I would try one last ditch effort to convince you to finish the woodwork before I leave. I know you would be very pleased and I'm sure we could find something else to bug you about. C'mon now I must say it is very satisfying to finish the woodwork finally. Sometimes I just sit and look at it for hours in awe (well seconds), I think it's more that I'm amazed I actually finished it. Oh yeah, the best part about it being finished...No stray light. that really browns me off!

05/12/2006, 05:40 PM	#295
original-reefland Reefer Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: New York Posts: 2,177	LMAO __________________ Rich Durso Visit My Chunk of the Ocean, click the Red House above. Current Tank Info: 180G Oceanic SPS/Clams/LPS, AB Aquaspace Light 3x250w AB 14K HQI with 4x24w PC Actinic, 2x80w T5, Dual Tunze 6100 and Vortec (10,000 GPH), Euro Reef RC-500 Skimmer.

05/13/2006, 01:53 AM	#296
AquaReeferMan Got Reef? Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Under the Sea, Pa Posts: 4,593	Bump for greatness. __________________ Couple SPS/Zoanthid tanks and a couple of FW planted tanks. Current Tank Info: 5 pieces of glass with some silicone and plastic frames holding them together

05/14/2006, 03:39 PM	#297
melev Moved On Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Ft Worth, Tx Posts: 43,217	FYI, I just updated my personal logs on my site, and it mentions woodwork. I tested the reef's water yesterday, and had some pretty good numbers over all. Somehow I seem to have LOST a new Salifert Nitrate kit, which I know I had. The results were so strange that I doubted the numbers and posted to Habib in the Salifert forum a few months ago. I don't know where the test kit went, and they aren't exactly easy to lose. Guess I'll need to pick up a new one again. Here's something interesting: My Calcium Reactor's effluent was coming out at 1.0ppm a couple of weeks ago, so last week I opened up the lid, poured in 1/3 of a bottle of Phosbuster Pro, closed it up and restarted the pump. A week later, the effluent is testing .03 or less. Tip of the Day: Frilly mushrooms do not like to be removed from rockwork.

05/14/2006, 03:49 PM	#298
Hop Carpe Noctem!!! Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Western Colorado Posts: 8,548	Please don't start wood work! That would begin a countdown to the number of days I have to finish mine. I prefer not knowing how long I have until I have to make cabinet door and new wood pieces! I don't feel pressured that way __________________ Hop Current Tank Info: 300-gallon in-wall system (mixed reef)

05/14/2006, 04:57 PM	#299
NuclearReefs Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Fort Lauderdale Florida Posts: 2,606	I just came in for the doughnuts,, Do we have a Canopy built yet marc? __________________ Kalkwasser in Coffee Current Tank Info: 125 RR SPS, LED's & T-5 O3's

05/14/2006, 05:09 PM	#300
Stile2 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Yucaipa, California (some little town you've never heard of) Posts: 1,624	So your effluent had Phosphate in it, is that normal? Keith __________________ If you have a college degree, you can be sure of one thing. You have a college degree! Superman owns Chuck Norris Pajamas!! Current Tank Info: 77 Gallon Custom peninsula 3 sides viewable, DIY Steel Stand, OM Squirt, 2 x 250 w MH, 2 x 95 w VHO, DIY Skimmer