No need to be down dude I was just curious. My two big astrea have been pretty good to me so far it's the hermits that like to crawl all over the sps! Sounds like things are at least stable as they are and you haven't even finished with your equipment! Looking forward to regular updates now that's you've been dug out of the sand yourself =)

I'm not down about it, I was just being a jerk and messing with you! It's what I do best... :mrgreen:

It's actually very stable, all I'm doing it skimming ( pretty dry too ) and water changes with sub-par salt. I have no hair algae or cyano, I do get this fuzzy type of turf algae if I over feed for a few days in a row. If I cut down my feeding it goes away in a couple of days. Fish are all eating and healthy. So far I'm happy enough with the tank, once I get a few things taken care of I'm sure the SPS growth will come with it.

I never seem to find all these cool fish and corals that everyone else is posting pics of when I'm out shopping though!

Hey I'm always 95% sure you're kidding but on the 5% chance you're a whining pansy I gotta cover my bases :mrgreen:

You live in the same city as Dez. No excuses go liberate the man of his frags!

Since Brett made me feel so bad about the state of my tank I thought I should get in gear and get a few things crossed off the list.

First on the list was to get a manifold built to take care of the reactors. I set it up so I can isolate any of the reactors for maintenance or in case it's no longer needed.
Bio-Pellets
Carbon
Calc - Run off the long run to the right. My Calc Reactor is located in the first cupboard to the right of the tank. It reduces from 1/2" PVC to 1/4" tubing for the final tie into the reactor.
Spare


Sorry for the low quality pictures, I used my phone.
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/a.../Manifold2.jpg

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/a...d/Manifold.jpg

I got the manifold up and running last night but I'm not entirely happy with the way it turned out so I might rebuild it. On of the problems I had was getting the hose barbs on the PM reactors to seal up properly, they are very short so there isn't a lot of barb for the hose to connect too, they still seep ever so slightly making me pretty nervous so I shut them down for now. I may have to convert them to run in-sump, we'll see. The sump is plenty big enough so it might be the best option. I got the Calc Reactor up and running for awhile, until I broke off the nipple on the bubble counter where the Co2 connects. I hope I don't have tooooo much trouble trying to source another one.

So all in all a very unproductive weekend working on the tank!
:lol:

Decided to take a few pictures of the tank, not too many of them turned out. None of the SPS pics turned out.

A rock with a couple different zoas on it. It used to look much better but I did a three day lights out a few weeks ago and they haven't quite recovered yet.
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/a...d/IMG_2887.jpg

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/a...d/IMG_2888.jpg

The ONLY thing that grows in my tank! The trouble with have a deep tank is it's a huge pain in the rear to get to these guys to kill em. I need to put my face inthe water to get this guy. I've been lazy and I will pay for it!
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/a...d/IMG_2883.jpg

Overall a nice build... I love the cabinet and nice and clean setup... about the fish... most fish stores will bring in a fish if they know they have a buyer. Go online and find the fish you want then put in a request :D
Once you get the apex thing sorted out let me know how the whole warranty thing went, that tends to say a lot about a company.
And how about a FTS the last one was over 2 months ago... a good build like yours should have a FTS once a month.

Thanks.

The Apex problem is already sorted out. I e-mailed Curt and I had an RMA to send it back within the hour. Everything went really smooth. The nice thing about the Apex is I didn't have to take it off line to get the head unit looked at. The system continued to run as it should.

That settles it... Apex it is... when I have the money... Thanks man.

I love the APEX. I have EVERYTHING plugged into it. It can do some pretty cool things and I haven't even scratched the surface of what it can do.

You'll be very happy I'm sure.