Michika's 28g long nano-esque tank!

[michika]

A bit of a photo update. I apologize for the quality of the photos, I'm not used to the P&S camera I've borrowed. Today I changed out my luminarc reflector back to my batwing. The theory is that my reflector is causing my MH to burn the SPS I have in the system.









The SPS I'm trying not to kill






After this MH reflector test my next step is picking up another ORP monitor (one that isn't broken), and then after that a ozonier.

[michika]

Well this final SPS experiment has failed. I was away last night when I cam back this afternoon everything looks horrible. I do not expect anything to last until Wednesday.

digi: some polyp extension, all flesh below has come off
acro: flesh is gone, its a white skeleton with a few pieces of skin
cap: white and dead
stag; some flesh, doesn't appeared to have changed in two days.

Next step is ORP & Ozone. After that this tank will be shut down when my 180g goes online in a month or so.

[michika]

This tank is officially down. I needs to be cleaned, and disassembled, but its out for the count. I feel very relieved to know that I don't have to fight with it anymore, and that I can stop stressing about what the next issue will be.

I will post the tank up for sale, assuming someone who has already called dibs does not want it.

[michika]

On the account that I have had no less the 8, yes 8, buyers back out on the purchase of this system let me clarify why this system couldn't keep sps.

1) The rock seemed to have lost one of its essential bacteria populations. Adding in new live rock solved the issue at the end.
2) The flow was too much with a 3600gph Reeflo Dart pump for young SPS frags.

If you look at my new 180g system, all the same rock is now in that system, and keeping SPS alive with no problems.