crabs new 24" cube

[i have crabs]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Yeah I'm upping my dry rock order from 100 to 150 lbs and I'll see where that takes me. I think dry rock and silicone alone would work. What do you think?

on the test ones i did it held ok but after a day in water i riped it off, the crumbs from the rock were still stuck to the sillicone but it wasnt holding enough that i was ok with it,
i totaly covered the back of the rocks with a layer of epoxy but i dont think they need that much on them, around the edges or where the rock will make contact would be fine im shure
i also went up fairly high and i keep having hermits dropping into the overflow, kinda annoying, maybe i should build them a ladder

[lastlight]

Like I so often have during this build...changed my mind.

I think as far as keeping my clean look and mostly just playing it safe, a rock wall is out. I'd love to cover up my ugly overflow but might just have to create a nice large ledge that extends in front of it to distract the eye some.

Reading about your ordeal made me ****ed off...i can't imagine what you felt and how you're still in the game after that! Your last pic you posted looked awesome btw.

[i have crabs]

well i figure this little ordeal set me back about 6 months or so which is basicly the life of the tank since corals were added, i really expected a big cycle when i seen how cloudy the water was, i didnt have a amonia test kit so i didnt bother but i did a couple waterchanges and everything seemed to calm down during the week i was ignoring the tank due to my anger,
at least i know my sandbed is doing some work, after a day or two a big black ring showed up halfway down the sandbed due to the whole biological thing that im not about to type out a book over, i still havnt but ill probably give a little mix to a few areas over a few areas to release anything in there just to be safe but im shure its nothing to be concerned with.


this is the last pic i had before i trashed everything,


and where i am now, the corals are not mounted, i just placed them in there, they seem good but the milli isnt back to 100% yet.


i was having trouble with the colors browning/darkening up and im not shure what i needed to do to fix it,dont really matter now but im shure ill have to deal with it again,

i added a couple more fish a bit ago also, a tomini tang, coral beauty and the mystery wrasse is still in there and doing well, dont give me greef about the tang hes small and i have lots of other tanks for him, hes in there to eat some algae which he has been doing.

[Myka]

Sucks to hear about the losses.

The SPS could have been darkening up from having nutrients a bit high. Try cutting back on dosing any foods, and try to polish the water up nice and clean.

[i have crabs]

Originally Posted by Myka

Sucks to hear about the losses.

The SPS could have been darkening up from having nutrients a bit high. Try cutting back on dosing any foods, and try to polish the water up nice and clean.

tank never showed any nitrates and im fairly careful with over feeding, i did lack a bit on water changes

[lastlight]

Wow that's nasty. It's little things like rinsing food that can help out with algae I'm sure. I used to just melt it up and toss it in. The algae LOVED me.

You really need to stop posting shots of that rock wall man. I change my mind about something new for the tank EVERY day and who knows you may sway me yet. Thankfully my build is close to done so there is less laying awake at night and changing my mind than there used to be =)

love the tank man. bring it back to it's former glory!

[lastlight]

Updates?

[i have crabs]

when i built the sump i think i over complicated things tryin to make shure i had options and i have been kinda annoyed workin with such a small cramed sump area so originally it was split into 4 areas,first the drain flowed into the top left which i had seperated from the bottom left so i could fill with live rock rubble or chunks, the bottom left is for the skimmer, the right top was a small fuge that the return pump supplyed water too and the bottom right was where the return pump sat.. if that made any sense
anyway i decided to pull out the baffles seperating to left side to have more to hide the brs reactor that i run carbon/gfo in, after about 2.5 hours getting the skimmer out and tryin to cut out a baffle the glass exploded in my hands gining me about 50 very nice cuts to my hand, some were fairly bad but i wasnt done so i got to keep workin in the salt water for another hour or so which was lots of fun but it least its finally handled. on the right hand side im gonna remove that baffle also and not run the fuge so i can have the room to add a kalk reactor, adding the 2 part was really getting to me and i couldnt believe how much i was using so i hope a kalk reactor will cut down the work a bit, i dont have a auto top up so is it possible to just run them with a powerhead with the reactor releasing x amount of drops per second?

[i have crabs]

since im posting heres the reason you really should wash out your frozen foods

frozen mysis


and the fertilizer most people add to there tank daily.... what's causing my cyano?...i changed my bulbs....i increased my flow....i turned out my lights for 3 days.....
maybe quit adding fertilizer for your algae and cyano. sorry i had to rant a bit