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09-08-2010, 06:02 AM
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Basically my tank tried to kill me a week or so ago... got electrocuted... luckily it was only my arm and didn't ark across my chest, if it had I would have probably gone to the ER or morgue. Then just this last Saturday my dad comes home (he's been gone for over a month) He's in the basement cleaning up and he plugs back in one of his things... but to do that he unplugs an extension cord. The cord was powering my water pump for the cooling of my LED's... So I get home from work and I reach up to test the temperature of my pipes (to make sure that it is dissipating well and not starting to warm up.) and of course my pump is off, so I burn my hand pretty bad... I unplug my LED's. 50% are burnt out, after they cooled some came back on... but I'm sure my whole set-up of 60 LED's has greatly shortened it's life. So I take the lights down replace the 21 that are not working and put it back up... while I am plugging my LED's back into the power bar I slip and get a valve in the eye. Now it looks like I lost a fight, right around my eye is a little cut up and all black and blue. Also I didn't let my rocks cure long enough in the ocean... (3 weeks wasn't enough) so my PH is a little high... I'll have to continue to work it down till I have stabilized it. I was in such a rush in setting up I forgot to check the rock to see if it was done leaching prior to putting it in my tank. It looks like maybe no fish till... Christmas? I hope I don't have to wait that long but I need to step back and learn some things from this... like; I need a controller for my LED's with a thermometer to tell them to shut off past a certain temp, people were not kidding when they said "The only thing that happens quickly in a reef tank is failure." I will continue to answer questions and such but I'm guessing between 2-6 weeks for my rock to finish leaching... so I won't be able to do anything until then... so I just have to wait it out.
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09-09-2010, 01:02 AM
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sorry to hear about your lights, and good luck with the rock..cant wait for it to all start coming together for ya..looks great though
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09-09-2010, 06:58 AM
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WOW!! Good on you for taking on this tank setup! Next to a complete DIY eh! I was just searching DIY LED and your build came up.
I just read all the posts or more less scanned as fast as my little mind could think. When I saw the post about the tank bottom broke, I almost had something touching cloth thinking it was the display tank! But at least it was your sump... crappy for sure but it could have been your tank. Then you shocked yourself!! WOW lucky lucky lucky lucky eh! Then dad unplugs the cooling pump!! WOW THEN you slip and fall and hit your eye on a valve sorry but WTF!! Bud usally things happen in 3’s LOL  It kinda like a higher power saying "YO CHILL BUD HAVE A MARLEY let this process take some time  " LOL I’m sooo impatient I have to ask the wife to go feed the “fish” not the fishes. I want lots all at once but I have killed too many to repeat this cycle over and over; especially after a lighting fire…This is really awesome! If I ever travel your way it would sure be neat to stop by and check your tank out! Keep going with this setup! Pretty neat!
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10-13-2010, 04:07 AM
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Lego, You are welcome to stop by if your in the neighborhood... but if I were you I would wait till after the new year cause I still don't have fish...
Inedaan, nothing new... just waiting. I'll be doing a 200% water change on Thursday and then see where I am at.
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01-19-2011, 07:49 PM
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Well It's been a while... I had some troubles with PH so I was having to flush the system as often as I had time... I forgot the water was on at one point and it flooded my house... so I left the tank empty for a while. I have been waiting for an apex controller to come on sale, not having any luck there. I have also been really busy with family and work... also my car ended up getting totaled as well. Anyways... I'm working on the tank again. I filled it with fresh water two weeks ago PH got up to 8.2 I emptied it last week and re-filled it. Today I emptied it and it was down to 8.0. I will be doing it again and again every week until I get a stable PH. I will try to post here next week as well and answer any questions.
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01-19-2011, 08:25 PM
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Yours was an interesting thread I'm glad you're back at it.
The ph issues are caused by your DIY rock? How long did you have them in the lake curing?
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