400 gallon project

[JDigital]

Wow! Congratulations on TOTM for Nov. That's a huge honor and well deserved IMO.

[untamed]

Thanks very much. For those who subscribe to this thread and might not have seen the TOTM write up....here's the link:
http://canreef.com/ftotm/nov08/index.php

[Snaz]

It's late, I spent one hour at work and another three tonight reading this entire thread closely.

What I can say that hasn't already been said before so I will just say thank-you to you and your wife for a beautiful tank and showing me just what is possible with a dream, gumption and big wallet.

Perhaps I missed it but were you able to buff out the scratches in the acrylic?

Keith

[justinl]

congrats on the TOTM brad! well deserved for sure

[untamed]

Originally Posted by Snaz

Perhaps I missed it but were you able to buff out the scratches in the acrylic?

Keith

The scratching that was being done by the male Blue Throat trigger have been dealt with....but there is a constant accumulation of assorted scratches caused by the fish and urchins. I have not spent much time working on them, but have all the tools necessary to remove any scratches that truly bother me.

The part about the scratches that tends to bother me the most is that the scratches provide a foothold for algae/coraline to grow. The mag cleaner doesn't remove the algae from the scratches and I have to reach into the tank and manually rub the algae out off scratches.

I've also found that really small scratches just tend to go away on their own through regular mag float cleaning.

[Delphinus]

For the deep scratches that for which repeated magfloat cleaning won't remove, and thus you would have to use those tools you speak of - would you have to drain the tank to do so, or can you work on the scratches below the waterline?

[fishytime]

TOTM. Well deserved. Just one question. What took so long Ive been following this one since I joined the site and I think it was TOTM material back then. Guess it just needed to grow in before it became official.

[untamed]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

For the deep scratches that for which repeated magfloat cleaning won't remove, and thus you would have to use those tools you speak of - would you have to drain the tank to do so, or can you work on the scratches below the waterline?

No need to drain the tank. It is just a lot of different grades of very fine sandpaper. While you can attach the sandpapers to a magfloat, it is more effective to just reach in there and polish by hand. It is just really tiring, so it has to be a really bad scratch before I'm willing to do it.

[untamed]

Lately, I've noticed small areas on some coral that look dead. These are small areas where there is no polyps...just barren white skeleton. At first, I thought that some sand had landed there and caused that spot to die.

Here's a photo of what I'm looking at.


I suspected that my Majestic angel was nipping the polyps off, but further observation suggests that only investigates the white spots on the coral that are already dead. Even that, he does extremely rarely so he could not be the culprit I originally suspected.

[JDigital]

"SPS Polyps.... it's a hell of drug!"..

Would one angel be able to decimate your sps population?