Greetings
 

Just wanted to introduce myself as the latest reefer in Cow-town. I have a 90 gallon RR Oceanic tank with the following

25 Gallon Sump
Aquamedics Turbofloater Skimmer
4 MaxiJet 1200
4" DSB
140# Live Rock
A few crabs and snails

If anyone has any advice for a beginner who is taking this hobby very seriously, please feel free to share.

Greetings
 

Glad to hear of another Cow-towner. Welcome! Is your tank a new set-up? Where do you shop?

I have only one piece of advice: beware the phytoplankton plague! (My tank is currently green through and through - my own particular algae outbreak at the 3-month stage.)

Cheers,

AJ

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Welcome to Canreef. I hope we can entice you to come to one of our meetings some day.

The only generic advice I offer to you is: take it slow, and enjoy the ride. Sounds like a great setup you will have there.

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My tank is covered with a brown algae and I have some small stalk looking things that are green. As you can tell I am really new at this hobby. I have been running my tank for a little under 2 weeks now.

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I actually researched for about 6 months before I actually bought anything. I probably need to get a book on corals and such now for a little more detail.

I just have one question for you,

Anyone know how to cool down my tank without a chiller. It is running in the low 80's right now. I believe it is our weather and the fact that I am running two submersible pumps. My 2 MH probably impact it to. I have 2 fans running 24X7 in the stand and one built into the lighting system. I cannot lift my lights off the top of the tank as my girlfienf would kill me. Any other suggestions?

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Seriak, how low in the 80's is it? My tank is 81 all the time so if it goes to 83 or 84, it's no big deal. If I get up in the morning and it looks like it will be really hot, I unplug one of my MHs for the day.

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Seriak,

Turn off one of the MH's and see if your temperature keeps a bit lower. Best way to do it. I have been for the last couple of days. As well I have been putting a large house fan blowing onto my sump.

hth

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My temperature ranges between 80-84. I would try the MH route but it is a little more difficult for me as mh MH are tied together and I heard you shouldn't leave and empty socket with the power turned on. Either way it would be a lot of work as I have to remove some screws and the the top sheet of plastic to unscrew one. I heard if you rotate bottles of frozen water in your sump it may reduce the temperature. I am going to try that as well.

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I heard of someone who had a closed loop that ran through a small beer fridge! Supposedly it worked pretty well, if you have an extra fridge lying around............

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Seriak, I have a nice big Coral Banded Shrimp available. It is currently in my nano. I would like to get rid of it before I go on vacation on July 17th, so I will not have to feed the nano. It might do well in your empty tank.
Bob