Wayne's 90 Gallon Build

[wmcinnes]

thank you very much! definately been a learning experience and i must say, I am happy with it so far!

[kien]

Nice tank Wayne. Love that orange plate. One of my favourites!

[mseepman]

How did you prepare the Marco rock for your tank?

[wmcinnes]

Originally Posted by mseepman

How did you prepare the Marco rock for your tank?

Not sure if this is what you are asking but I let the Marco rock soak for a week in RO water. I tested the water for Phos and there was very little increase so it was hardly leaching phosphates. For good measure, I changed the water and let them soak for a few more days testing for phosphates again and seeing no increase. Rinsed the rocks off and put them in the tank!

[mseepman]

Good to hear, put 50lbs into a Brute container today of DI water after rinsing them all. Will test, then change the water a few times and then test to see what's what.

[wmcinnes]

sounds like a good plan to me. ive heard stories of the rocks not leaching anything and ive heard stories of them leaching lots, so better to be safe than sorry!

[AquaticFinatic]

Did I miss it some where but what kinda tang is that? Sweet setup.

[wmcinnes]

Just set up automatic dosing of Calcium, Alkalinity and Magnesium with my Marine Magic doser and made a huge woopsie..

Thinking that the first time setting on the first pump was the ON time and the second time setting for the same pump was the off time I plugged in..
Pump A
18:00:00
18:00:15

..thinking that this would turn the pump on at 18:00:00 and off 15 seconds later at 18:00:15.. WRONG! The second line is for the length of time you want the pump to run when it turns on at 18:00:00! My doser was set to pump for 18 hrs LOL. By the time I came by to check on things, 3.5 liters of Calcium solution had been added to the tank. Calcium shot up from 400 to 800 in about 2 hrs..

Luckily for me Alkalinity and Magnesium stayed in check at 7.5 and 1300 respectively and I do not have a snowstorm of precipitate in the tank and everything seems to be doing okay still. I did a 10% waterchange or so as that is all the water I had made up. Hopefully things will be okay and nothing is hurt too badly..

To my defense, the instructions for the doser look to be written by a 12 year old from China who has never spoken a word of English but still, just a reminder to always check, double check, triple check, and check again when it comes to things in this hobby.

[wmcinnes]

Lately I had been wondering why all my SPS seemed to be doing well while my adored Yellow Millepora colony was losing its color and its flesh from the bottom up... Well today I pulled the coral out because I was going to move it to another location in the tank and found a tiny friggen Gorilla crap living inside the Millys branches The coral is not looking so great but I am hoping that since removing this pest the coral will come back.. Crossing my fingers!