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Its always possible. This is like my 8th tank move and this is the first time I've ever had anything negative happen in the least.
To answer your questions about the temperature and ammonia, it was 76, and 0. The temperature reading was taken about 10 minutes after I got to my new place, and the ammonia, probably 3 hours later (give or take). Thank you though for clarifying your original post. |
An update from yesterday:
Lights came on today and all my fish are still alive. My shrimp molted, and my urchin is still pretty fiesty. Something very cool, yet sad at the same time, is that some of my frags and colonys still have polyps, but no flesh. I now wonder how many frags/colonies I removed that weren't 100% dead. I am also seeing zoas opening up (I didn't even know I had these), which is a good sign. My remaining clams have gone to stay elsewhere until everything is resolved. Thank you Tony for watching over them. The neon green algae on the glass isn't so neony anymore, and so far I haven't yet had to clean my glass. This is a huge improvement of the multiple cleanings the tank required yesterday. Parameters: SG: 1.025 Ammonia: 0.75 Nitrate: 0 Nitrite: 0.10? pH: 8.1 http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...a/DSC_0004.jpg |
The tank today
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...a/DSC_0007.jpg I need to deal with the micro bubbles asap! Does anyone have, or have you tried, those little feeding rings that keep all the floating foods in one area? I can't turn my pump off to feed (design flaw), and want to try and minimize wasted food. I also need to add to my skeleton crew, aka my clean up crew. I'm thinking a bunch of snails maybe? The GHA is returning too...not cool at all. A few more photos of survivors: Candycane - it was just a skeleton with a slight overlay of flesh yesterday, and today its all puffed up and much happier looking. http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...DSC_0026-1.jpg Some zoas I didn't even know that survived. I have 3 types of zoas and I was sure two of them had already gone to the big tank in the sky. http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...DSC_0023-2.jpg Cactus coral, probably my oldest coral from before the disaster! It was bleached and I was sure it was dead last week. I didn't remove it and today the color is returning, no polyp extension yet. http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...a/DSC_0024.jpg I think today I will clean out the remaining skeletons and just clean up the tank a bit more. |
Things seem to be on the up and up lately, so I'm feeling much better about the future of my tank. With time I'm sure I will have a positive outcome from the disaster.
Good things! - Canopy is here, and it is beautiful - Toe kick is here, it just finishes out the system. - Added more clean up crew members! - Filter socks on their way to deal with microbubbles - I have pocket money and it feels SO strange, but in a good way. Not So Good things - I don't see any pods in my system anymore - I should have bought more snails, oh well! - I have a lighting dilemma (see further down) - The seal kit I ordred early December for my Snapper Pump has not arrived, I will be buying a new pump this week if its not here by Tuesday. I have to say the customer service is disapointing when it comes to getting my pump repaired. I am now unsure if I should replace my exisiting pump with one of the same brand. :sad: Lighting Dilemma! I got my canopy and it is awesome, but I now I have an unexpected choice to make and would love some input please. I have two options; 1 MH light on a luminarc reflector supplimented by actinic PCs, or 2MH lights on two batwing reflectors, again supplimented by actinic PCs. As Drew (Der_Iron_Chef) was nice enough to point out 1MH consumes less energy and creates less heat! On the flip side I wonder if 1MH is going to be enough light overall. Sorry, no photos right now. |
Any FTS? I want to see this toe-kick thing.
Pods will come back... hang in there. They always do. And snails, well, you can always get more snails (as if you really needed a reason to keep visiting the LFS's and ordering stuff MO, right? :p ) As for your lighting .. I'm guessing this won't be for a 28g. :lol: I'm not sure what size you were thinking for the tank? That may influence your choice of reflector (or the "1 vs 2" argument). 1 may be less energy+heat than 2, but the flip side is you can probably get away with smaller wattages if you went with 2. Ie., instead of a single 400, you could go 2x250. Or even 2x175 if the tank was not very deep. Technially 2x250 > 400 but only by 100W, that's not that's terrible. I dunno. There are so many choices when it comes to lighting it gets overwhelming to sift through it all sometimes. One thought though: I'd probably consider T5's over PC's. The lamp replacement cost alone trumps that one. I've been wanting to switch to T5's for my FW tank for ages (my last PC holdout) because it's a question of $20 lamps versus $40 lamps. :neutral: Seems the cost to get into T5 initially is more but the long-term costs, I think, are less. Anyhow just a thought. Plus I'm not real sure about the PC actinics, a lot of them just seem like blue lights to me. I'm sure there are "real actinics" out there but .. definitely some that aren't. |
Yeah your right, I probably don't need more excuses to visit more stores!
The lighting actually is for the 28g. I found I have more space then I thought and now I have the choice. I have 175w MH now with two actinics, but I find that the 175w is too far from the water surface to get all the areas I need with just the batwing reflector. If I could do t5s I would, but I already have the PCs, and I don't really want to put out any $ for T5s at this very moment. I also have a PC size that is just perfect for my system 13", so I want to stick with them for as long as I can get bulbs! What would you do? Go 2x 175w MH in batwing reflectors, one on each side of the tank, or o 1x 175w MH in a luminarc? With the luminarc the light hits the tank in all the right places, but I worry that it isn't bright enough on the sides. |
LOL - what you need is two mini Lumenarcs over that tank. :p
I dunno, maybe two batwing reflectors? Seems to me two big lumenarcs would be overkill.. Maybe try the single lumenarc. Unless it looks horrid having the sides dimmer, it could just be a zone for things that like less light (brain corals, maybe some monti's, etc. - that sort of thing). |
Here is the FTS, and some other photos.
I'll start with the lighting photos because I really want to sort this out before boxing day. With the single batwing I have lots of shadows from the lockline, and if you put your hand in, its a PITA to see anything below your hand. http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...DSC_0007-1.jpg Before today's clean up http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ka/DSC_4-1.jpg After http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...a/DSC_0002.jpg Post Cleaning left side http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...DSC_0003-1.jpg Post Cleaning middle http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...DSC_0004-1.jpg Post cleaning right side http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...DSC_0005-1.jpg View from the left side: http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...DSC_0014-1.jpg View from the right side: http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...a/DSC_0013.jpg The good thing is that the microbubbles will be solved on Thursday, so I hope to have a nice clear tank by Friday. Some final shots: The detritus that I found under all the remaining skeletons. I siphoned some out, and I hope to take care of the rest later today or tomorrow. http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...DSC_0015-2.jpg Shrimp! http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...a/DSC_0016.jpg The last bucket of skeletons to be pulled out. A lot of them had GHA on them so everything just came out, and I am deciding how to deal with it. http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...a/DSC_0017.jpg |
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A week worth of skimmate;
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...a/DSC_0001.jpg The tank is chugging along. Things seemed to have plateaued at this point. No improvements in anything, water parameters included. Its a bit disheartening not to see any changes in what was supposed to be my dream nano system. I'm still plagued by microbubbles, and while I was hoping to have the problem solved last week, plans changed. I now need to make another trip to the hardware store as I'm going to replumb my skimmer as well as using filter socks in the future. |
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