Tank maintenance day

[marie]

Originally Posted by Tom R

Hi Marie

Your tank looks fantastic. I have told Anthony that the next time he is going to Powell River I am tagging along with the hope of visiting you and your tank.

Tom R

Tom, your welcome to come up anytime. There are only 2 stipulations 1. you have to like dogs ( well 1 large, slobbery, in your face, kinda dog especially ) and 2. be prepared to go home with you pockets full of montipora

[michika]

Originally Posted by marie

Tom, your welcome to come up anytime. There are only 2 stipulations 1. you have to like dogs ( well 1 large, slobbery, in your face, kinda dog especially ) and 2. be prepared to go home with you pockets full of montipora

Sounds like great stipulations!

Thanks for the squence photos, they look phenomenal! I drooled!

How did you mount the corals on the back glass? Just straight epoxy?

[Delphinus]

Good Gravy!! 5lbs of media in a month? What kind of CO2 rate do you have? What kind of effluent rate? What's the pH? That's awesome. I'll wait for your reply by my reactor with my fingers on the knobs ready to adjust to whatever you've got

[marie]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Good Gravy!! 5lbs of media in a month? What kind of CO2 rate do you have? What kind of effluent rate? What's the pH? That's awesome. I'll wait for your reply by my reactor with my fingers on the knobs ready to adjust to whatever you've got

I try and maintain my effluent ph at 6.5 ,I did try a lower ph but I hate cleaning mush out of the bottom of the reactor so I raised it back up again. I still get an inch or 2 of mush to clean out every month though. Other then that i just keep cranking up the flow rates everytime my alk starts to drop. The co2 is coming out too fast for me to count the bubbles (more then a hundred bubbles/min) and the effluent is coming out in a steady stream .
I haven't tested my tank ph in ages and to be honest I don't really want to know.

Oh and just so I get the sympathy vote, you can't get co2 bottles filled in Powell River, they have to be sent out of town which can take up to 3 weeks

[fishmaster]

Oh and just so I get the sympathy vote, you can't get co2 bottles filled in Powell River, they have to be sent out of town which can take up to 3 weeks [/quote]
I don't know if the fitting is different, but Powell River Outdoors fills the paintball bottles. They might do a bigger one? The cost might be a little higher, but you wouldn't have to ship.

[marie]

Look what I found on the bus this morning

[christyf5]

Wow, I'm gonna go hang out at the bus station!

[Delphinus]

There's nowhere in Powell River to fill up a CO2 bottle?? There has to be something. Check the welding supply shops, the medical gas shops, the beverage supply places .. there has to be somewhere. Those drink dispensers at McDonalds et.al. - those are CO2 cylinders that drive those things, somebody has to be able to fill them up.

Are you still running this tank skimmerless BTW?

[marie]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

There's nowhere in Powell River to fill up a CO2 bottle?? There has to be something. Check the welding supply shops, the medical gas shops, the beverage supply places .. there has to be somewhere. Those drink dispensers at McDonalds et.al. - those are CO2 cylinders that drive those things, somebody has to be able to fill them up.

Are you still running this tank skimmerless BTW?

My husband checked around last year and he couldn't find anyplace. It is after all a very small town.

Even though my skimmer probably doesn't do much good, I started it back up any way... mostly for my piece of mind. It just didn't feel right not having a skimmer cup to clean out

[Delphinus]

Oops, forgot to mention fire extinguisher places, there has to be some of that.

I'm surprised is all, I thought Powell River wasn't, you know, that small (isn't it 20,000? That's not exactly tiny ).

Anyhow, I poked around in yellowpages.ca a bit and came up with this place, maybe you know it already, maybe they suck, I don't know. But hey, maybe they're worth a call since they say they're a Praxair depot:
http://yellowpages.ca/bus/British-Co...did=13795459aa

Also this place might be worth a call:
http://yellowpages.ca/bus/British-Co...d/3454250.html