Bob's Aquarium Build - Page 4

rogermccray · 12/02/2011, 01:28 PM

everything is looking good. Are you getting excited to move the fish into the DT? What do you think is your ETA on that?

bellis31 · 12/02/2011, 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rogermccray

everything is looking good. Are you getting excited to move the fish into the DT? What do you think is your ETA on that?

It's looking like New years Eve.. I should have the salinity back to normal and then 2 more weeks of observation before that date!

bellis31 · 12/04/2011, 05:11 PM

Grrrr.. found one white spot on a part of the fish I hardly get to observe, almost made it 14 days with no ich.... I'm feeling pretty good that this will be that last of it. So with this new spot I am pushed out one more week into January before they can be put into the DT.

jacob.morgan78 · 12/04/2011, 09:53 PM

You might want to think about some kind of screen on top because I recently had one of my clowns jump! It was about 2-3 weeks after putting them in and I think they were chasing one another probably establishing their gender. Not sure but it sucked... Had no idea they could be jumpers

bellis31 · 12/11/2011, 12:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jacob.morgan78

You might want to think about some kind of screen on top because I recently had one of my clowns jump! It was about 2-3 weeks after putting them in and I think they were chasing one another probably establishing their gender. Not sure but it sucked... Had no idea they could be jumpers

I have a top on the QT, they are safe from jumping..

bellis31 · 12/11/2011, 12:59 PM

Small update, the second algae bloom is beginning to burn out. I see less and less Cyano each and day skimming wet helps a lot! New tanks take a lot of patience..lol

joejoe1055 · 12/11/2011, 03:59 PM

sometimes even old tanks take alot of patience, keep up the good work

bellis31 · 12/21/2011, 03:42 PM

Well I am still waiting out this cyano outbreak, as soon as I get more salt I will begin a series of water changes to suck out what I can off the sand. I blew it all off the rocks and that worked great but now it's all over the sand.

I must assume that my dry-rock or live-rock is leaching nutrients, I have not fed the tank anything in weeks (nothing but snails anyways) so it must be coming from the rocks. I have increased flow near the sand but that's causing it's own problems, when I suck out some of the sand I may replace or add sea floor grade substrate, it's larger than sugar sand and wont blow around so much.

My clowns are still in hypo 30 + days now, they are very healthy looking and always hungry.. :-( This should all be over soon and at some point I will have a reef tank and not a snail tank... lol

bellis31 · 12/22/2011, 03:26 PM

A few pics.... The green algae on the rocks is pretty bright under 10k T5 lighting..

In this first pic you can see my Cyano outbreak is nice and healthy..

bellis31 · 12/27/2011, 03:49 PM

So I finally added a small light over my fuge so that I can begin to grow macro algae and look what I found growing on one of the rocks.... Can anyone ID this coral?

I used 3 different white settings on the camera thats why they all look different.

joejoe1055 · 12/27/2011, 04:01 PM

looks like some type of sponge

danderso · 12/27/2011, 04:11 PM

Very nice build and thread. I think I've had that type sponge grow in my sump before

bellis31 · 01/06/2012, 10:05 PM

Well it's been a while since I updated but today is a historic day for my tank. My Clowns are cured of any parasites and ready to enter the DT...

joejoe1055 · 01/06/2012, 10:40 PM

yeah, u never forget your first ones

bellis31 · 01/06/2012, 10:43 PM

I almost forgot I also added a fire shrimp today, he went strait into hiding. I will try to get pics of them all in the tank once the lights come back on in the morning.

Vancouver Reefr · 01/06/2012, 11:23 PM

How is your overflow for noise? The tank i have just bought has the same overflow and was wondering if it runs silent?

VR

bellis31 · 01/06/2012, 11:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vancouver Reefr

How is your overflow for noise? The tank i have just bought has the same overflow and was wondering if it runs silent?

VR

It's pretty quiet, I found putting a couple of egg-crate pieces in the overflow (cut to fit exactly ) on top of the inside cover helped a lot (no gurgle), it allowed me to crank up the flow from my return and also keep the noise down. I mostly hear water in the pipe now. At this point my skimmer is the noisiest part of my setup, but not for long.

bellis31 · 01/08/2012, 12:38 PM

Everything is lookin pretty good now that I have some life in the tank. My Fire Shrimp has found a cave to hang out in and the clowns appear to be feeding on copepods in the tank.

bellis31 · 01/10/2012, 12:55 PM

Today I added a second Vortech MP10 ES to the tank, wow do I ever have enough flow now... Both are set on reef crest mode...60% for one and 70% for the other I have no corals yet so I will adjust for corals when I get some...

My cyano has dissipated and been replaced with a brown hair algae, it seems to grow mostly on the rocks and a little in the sand. I have phosban coming to help with phosphate removal and at some point I will need a tester to figure out where it's coming from if it's not just left over nutrients from cycling..

The clowns spend the entire day hunting for pods on the back wall of the tank, I had no idea they would eat pods but it's pretty cool.. They ate frozen shrimp this morning along with the fire shrimp who comes out when I feed to scoop up what he can..

That's it for now...

bellis31 · 01/16/2012, 05:53 PM

New addition to the tank today, I added a fighting conch snail to plow up the sand. This things a beast...

joejoe1055 · 01/16/2012, 06:53 PM

nice, been considering one myself to help keep my sand clean

rogermccray · 01/16/2012, 07:24 PM

I have two of them in my tank, they need a bit of open sand but are always cleaning the sand.

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bellis31 · 01/18/2012, 08:00 PM

So today I received my new ATI T5 bulbs and wow is my tank ever brighter...

I have in order front to back
ATI Blue +
ATI Purple +
KZ New Gen 14K
ATI Blue +

The added Purple + is way cool my fire shrimp is really red now...

On the bad side so is my cyano outbreak.. :-(

My old bulbs were 2 10k daylights and 2 actinics.. The new bulbs made a huge difference for me.

Today my Conch finally woke up and began eating his way across the tank, he needs to get to work ..hahaha..

ZOKU · 01/18/2012, 08:17 PM

Looks like it's progressing nicely!

TAGGED!

jacob.morgan78 · 01/18/2012, 08:55 PM

How big is your conch? ...I've been thinking about getting one

12/04/2011, 05:11 PM	#78
bellis31 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sacramento, Ca Posts: 1,021	Grrrr.. found one white spot on a part of the fish I hardly get to observe, almost made it 14 days with no ich.... I'm feeling pretty good that this will be that last of it. So with this new spot I am pushed out one more week into January before they can be put into the DT. __________________ 80g Custom + 29g Sump BM Curve 5 Skimmer - Eheim 1262 Return Pump 2 Vortech MP10wes + 2 Vortech MP40wes 2 Radion G3's + Apex Jr Controller + WXM

12/11/2011, 12:59 PM	#81
bellis31 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sacramento, Ca Posts: 1,021	Small update, the second algae bloom is beginning to burn out. I see less and less Cyano each and day skimming wet helps a lot! New tanks take a lot of patience..lol __________________ 80g Custom + 29g Sump BM Curve 5 Skimmer - Eheim 1262 Return Pump 2 Vortech MP10wes + 2 Vortech MP40wes 2 Radion G3's + Apex Jr Controller + WXM

12/11/2011, 03:59 PM	#82
joejoe1055 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: cullman,Alabama Posts: 739	sometimes even old tanks take alot of patience, keep up the good work __________________ grrrrr Current Tank Info: 180 reef in progress

12/21/2011, 03:42 PM	#83
bellis31 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sacramento, Ca Posts: 1,021	Well I am still waiting out this cyano outbreak, as soon as I get more salt I will begin a series of water changes to suck out what I can off the sand. I blew it all off the rocks and that worked great but now it's all over the sand. I must assume that my dry-rock or live-rock is leaching nutrients, I have not fed the tank anything in weeks (nothing but snails anyways) so it must be coming from the rocks. I have increased flow near the sand but that's causing it's own problems, when I suck out some of the sand I may replace or add sea floor grade substrate, it's larger than sugar sand and wont blow around so much. My clowns are still in hypo 30 + days now, they are very healthy looking and always hungry.. :-( This should all be over soon and at some point I will have a reef tank and not a snail tank... lol __________________ 80g Custom + 29g Sump BM Curve 5 Skimmer - Eheim 1262 Return Pump 2 Vortech MP10wes + 2 Vortech MP40wes 2 Radion G3's + Apex Jr Controller + WXM

12/22/2011, 03:26 PM	#84
bellis31 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sacramento, Ca Posts: 1,021	A few pics.... The green algae on the rocks is pretty bright under 10k T5 lighting.. In this first pic you can see my Cyano outbreak is nice and healthy.. __________________ 80g Custom + 29g Sump BM Curve 5 Skimmer - Eheim 1262 Return Pump 2 Vortech MP10wes + 2 Vortech MP40wes 2 Radion G3's + Apex Jr Controller + WXM

12/02/2011, 01:28 PM	#76
rogermccray Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 1,050	everything is looking good. Are you getting excited to move the fish into the DT? What do you think is your ETA on that?

12/04/2011, 09:53 PM	#79
jacob.morgan78 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Farmville, VA Posts: 1,184	You might want to think about some kind of screen on top because I recently had one of my clowns jump! It was about 2-3 weeks after putting them in and I think they were chasing one another probably establishing their gender. Not sure but it sucked... Had no idea they could be jumpers

12/27/2011, 03:49 PM	#85
bellis31 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sacramento, Ca Posts: 1,021	So I finally added a small light over my fuge so that I can begin to grow macro algae and look what I found growing on one of the rocks.... Can anyone ID this coral? I used 3 different white settings on the camera thats why they all look different. __________________ 80g Custom + 29g Sump BM Curve 5 Skimmer - Eheim 1262 Return Pump 2 Vortech MP10wes + 2 Vortech MP40wes 2 Radion G3's + Apex Jr Controller + WXM

12/27/2011, 04:01 PM	#86
joejoe1055 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: cullman,Alabama Posts: 739	looks like some type of sponge __________________ grrrrr Current Tank Info: 180 reef in progress

12/27/2011, 04:11 PM	#87
danderso Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Melbourne, FL Posts: 396	Very nice build and thread. I think I've had that type sponge grow in my sump before

01/06/2012, 10:05 PM	#88
bellis31 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sacramento, Ca Posts: 1,021	Well it's been a while since I updated but today is a historic day for my tank. My Clowns are cured of any parasites and ready to enter the DT... __________________ 80g Custom + 29g Sump BM Curve 5 Skimmer - Eheim 1262 Return Pump 2 Vortech MP10wes + 2 Vortech MP40wes 2 Radion G3's + Apex Jr Controller + WXM

01/06/2012, 10:40 PM	#89
joejoe1055 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: cullman,Alabama Posts: 739	yeah, u never forget your first ones __________________ grrrrr Current Tank Info: 180 reef in progress

01/06/2012, 10:43 PM	#90
bellis31 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sacramento, Ca Posts: 1,021	I almost forgot I also added a fire shrimp today, he went strait into hiding. I will try to get pics of them all in the tank once the lights come back on in the morning. __________________ 80g Custom + 29g Sump BM Curve 5 Skimmer - Eheim 1262 Return Pump 2 Vortech MP10wes + 2 Vortech MP40wes 2 Radion G3's + Apex Jr Controller + WXM

01/06/2012, 11:23 PM	#91
Vancouver Reefr Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Kenora, ON Posts: 152	How is your overflow for noise? The tank i have just bought has the same overflow and was wondering if it runs silent? VR __________________ .................AQUATROLLER..................... The Ultimate DIY Aquarium Controller of the 21st Century!!! ... LED's, PH, Salinity, Clock, LCD, ATO, Auto Water Changer, Variable Speed Cooling Fan Control and lots, lots more...... Current Tank Info: 75 Gal in the making

01/08/2012, 12:38 PM	#93
bellis31 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sacramento, Ca Posts: 1,021	Everything is lookin pretty good now that I have some life in the tank. My Fire Shrimp has found a cave to hang out in and the clowns appear to be feeding on copepods in the tank. __________________ 80g Custom + 29g Sump BM Curve 5 Skimmer - Eheim 1262 Return Pump 2 Vortech MP10wes + 2 Vortech MP40wes 2 Radion G3's + Apex Jr Controller + WXM

01/10/2012, 12:55 PM	#94
bellis31 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sacramento, Ca Posts: 1,021	Today I added a second Vortech MP10 ES to the tank, wow do I ever have enough flow now... Both are set on reef crest mode...60% for one and 70% for the other I have no corals yet so I will adjust for corals when I get some... My cyano has dissipated and been replaced with a brown hair algae, it seems to grow mostly on the rocks and a little in the sand. I have phosban coming to help with phosphate removal and at some point I will need a tester to figure out where it's coming from if it's not just left over nutrients from cycling.. The clowns spend the entire day hunting for pods on the back wall of the tank, I had no idea they would eat pods but it's pretty cool.. They ate frozen shrimp this morning along with the fire shrimp who comes out when I feed to scoop up what he can.. That's it for now... __________________ 80g Custom + 29g Sump BM Curve 5 Skimmer - Eheim 1262 Return Pump 2 Vortech MP10wes + 2 Vortech MP40wes 2 Radion G3's + Apex Jr Controller + WXM

01/16/2012, 05:53 PM	#95
bellis31 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sacramento, Ca Posts: 1,021	New addition to the tank today, I added a fighting conch snail to plow up the sand. This things a beast... __________________ 80g Custom + 29g Sump BM Curve 5 Skimmer - Eheim 1262 Return Pump 2 Vortech MP10wes + 2 Vortech MP40wes 2 Radion G3's + Apex Jr Controller + WXM

01/16/2012, 06:53 PM	#96
joejoe1055 Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: cullman,Alabama Posts: 739	nice, been considering one myself to help keep my sand clean __________________ grrrrr Current Tank Info: 180 reef in progress

01/16/2012, 07:24 PM	#97
rogermccray Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 1,050	I have two of them in my tank, they need a bit of open sand but are always cleaning the sand. Sent from my DROID2 using Tapatalk

01/18/2012, 08:00 PM	#98
bellis31 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sacramento, Ca Posts: 1,021	So today I received my new ATI T5 bulbs and wow is my tank ever brighter... I have in order front to back ATI Blue + ATI Purple + KZ New Gen 14K ATI Blue + The added Purple + is way cool my fire shrimp is really red now... On the bad side so is my cyano outbreak.. :-( My old bulbs were 2 10k daylights and 2 actinics.. The new bulbs made a huge difference for me. Today my Conch finally woke up and began eating his way across the tank, he needs to get to work ..hahaha.. __________________ 80g Custom + 29g Sump BM Curve 5 Skimmer - Eheim 1262 Return Pump 2 Vortech MP10wes + 2 Vortech MP40wes 2 Radion G3's + Apex Jr Controller + WXM

01/18/2012, 08:17 PM	#99
ZOKU Resident Ninja Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Oshkosh, WI Posts: 560	Looks like it's progressing nicely! TAGGED! __________________ - SCOTT. Check out my homepage to see my build! Current Tank Info: 40B / Super Reef Octopus SRO2000INT / 35-gal. acrylic sump+refuge / 120W LED lighting / Water Blaster 3000 Return... IN PROGRESS!

01/18/2012, 08:55 PM	#100
jacob.morgan78 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Farmville, VA Posts: 1,184	How big is your conch? ...I've been thinking about getting one

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