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07-13-2009, 01:44 AM
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07-14-2009, 05:48 AM
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Lots to update on. First of all last night I plumbed in my frag tank. My tank is 80% full of RODI water now. Man, a few days to fill a tank. Gotta have a lot of patience. Here are pictures of the plumbing
This is the spray nozzle that I always had on my frag tank  Here is the drain line T'd into my emergency overflow  That was last night. Tonight was much more exciting. This morning I saw there was enough water so I turned the system on and let her run. I've been heating the water for some time now. So tonight after the kidlets went to bed I salted the tank. I dug up a BRAND NEW bucket of salt from 6 YEARS AGO. I opened up the invoice stuck to the side of the pail and it was dated 8/5/2003. I ordered it from J&L for 54.95. My system ended up using the ENTIRE pail of salt. I even ended up with a free Mini Jet pump in the salt. My salinity ended up being 1.023.... I'll probably slowly bring it up to 1.024 later when I get another pail of salt. Notice that this pail does not have the twist off lid?  Anyway, I added my live rock that I've been storing in heated, salted, flowing water for the last 4 years. I know that I don't have any bad critters at least. This is what 4 year old cooked rock looks like with a few chunks of aragocrete: Water is still a bit cloudy from fooling around in there and I gotta change that yellow light bulb. It's an xm 10K and I don't like it at all - got it from Saltynuts a few nights ago.     Pretty boring, but thanks for following this slow build. I managed to hide all the nozzles of the closed loop fairly well and also the intake of the pump while still allowing full flow with no blockage or things in the way. Last edited by Dez; 07-14-2009 at 01:09 PM.
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07-14-2009, 10:56 AM
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Dez that looking really great. well done you must be stoked by now.
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07-14-2009, 12:03 PM
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Yellow Tang Kole Tang Mandarin Goby (probably a couple of years down the road when it's established) If we can find an angel of some sort that won't touch sps (I know, good luck on that) A pair of clowns (probably just oscellaris) A trigger (maybe Niger or Bluethroat) Regal Tang That's about it so far. We are going to try to find most of our stuff "used" from people who are shutting down systems etc....the livestock seem to be much healthier that way. But our impatience might impede us on this idea.
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07-14-2009, 04:03 PM
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10k does look bad. sorry man didn,t look to bad on my nano(20gal)
i have xm 10k bulbs on the big tank and they must go. looking very good
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07-14-2009, 07:31 PM
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There are some reef safe angelfish that are SPS friendly. I have one in my tank right now. Its going to Russ though unless you can convince him otherwise...there's a male version of my fish at Marine Aquaria right now too if you were wanting a possible pair......
Theres also a really nice pair of Sargassum Triggers there right now. Nice fish. Quote:
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07-19-2009, 02:37 PM
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hey what about a pair of lammerick angels that are not sps nippers i have one in my tank and he is a bubble algae picker.
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180 starfire front, LPS, millipora Doesn't matter how much you have been reading until you take the plunge. You don't know as much as you think.
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