280g Inwall

[Skimmerking]

Originally Posted by muck

Muck I didnt know that you liked leapsters games that much,,,

[saltynuts]

Originally Posted by Skimmer King

Muck I didnt know that you liked leapsters games that much,,,

lmao

[lobsterboy]

awesome Tony, so if it took almost two years to get water in it. How long before live rock/livestock ?

[lastlight]

You'll eat those words John. He's got my old rock and there are some sexified pieces in there.

[lobsterboy]

Originally Posted by lastlight

You'll eat those words John. He's got my old rock and there are some sexified pieces in there.

Dam, I knew you guys were in kahoots. maybe the build is already done, fully stocked, just slowly adding pictures.

[lobsterboy]

If you are going open aquascaping then get some sand for sure.

if you doing a wall style, like the old berlin tanks. then maybe not sand.

I have a horseshoe crab, 6 nass snails, and a sandsfiter star, at night you can see them burrowing around, like bugs bunny in the retro cartoons.

I do help them abit at the ends of the tank. Its really worth it though.

[Delphinus]

Might not be quite a zen-ish as yours but I am thinking islands. Have a slightly different vision in mind but we'll see if I can translate concept into reality, I'm not very artistic.

A horseshoe crab?! Wow. I always thought they were something of a no-no but now that I think of it, I have no idea why. Maybe for fear they'll knock things over? I don't really know much about their captive care.

Ever thought about tiger tail cukes? I had some for a while but it occurs to me it's been a lonnggg time since I seen any, maybe they kicked off some time ago and I just never noticed. They did a pretty good job of pooping out clean sand though.

[lastlight]

Not sure why but I actually get faster than 75 gpd out of mine. It is reading 0 tds so I don't question it.

Get a few powerheads in the tank so you can mix salt already!

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Not sure why but I actually get faster than 75 gpd out of mine. It is reading 0 tds so I don't question it.

Get a few powerheads in the tank so you can mix salt already!

That's not a bad idea ... hmmmm. Tomorrow!

Maybe your RO/DI is 100gpd membrane? Or you have higher inlet pressure? You're right, with a TDS of zero .., just run with it and be happy. I'm getting zero right now but it's all new prefilters and new DI. The RO is outputting steady at around 7. Not the best membrane I ever owned, the one before this one had a much better rejection rate or whatever the term is, it was almost always zero except for the first half hour or so. My DI lasted much longer on that membrane .. until the membrane went that is.

[Delphinus]

Rock is scattered amongst various containers in the basement, some of it is wet in rubbermaids with a Seio and a heater, some of it in a 20g, and some of it dry. I am very anxious to get on with setting the rock in and starting aquascaping.

The fish are also in pretty dire need of coming out of the cube these days. It wasn't supposed to take this long.

I'm also succumbing to weakness and thinking I want to go with a little bit of sand in there. I'm not digging the styrofoam underneath too much. I thought all this time "no sand, no sand no sand no sand" but ... I dunno. I think I want some sand after all. Good for the wrasses and .. just overall looking good. Hey John do you vacuum your sand at all? 'Cuz it sure looks good. I'm going to blame you for me wanting the sandbed after all. Is that gonna be cool at all?

So here we are tonight after 24 hours:


... which is interesting because I figure (72*30*8.5)/231 = 79ish gallons minus maybe say 5ish for the overflow and we get 75gpd. And it's a 75gpd RO/DI! Never thought to measure out the volume per day before. I'm pleased to learn it is what it says it is. That is with an input pressure of about 96psi (I bypassed the house's pressure regulator to get that, when I first moved in I noticed the household pressure was around 60psi and I only noticed it because my RO/DI production went wayyyyy down). Anyhow, interesting lesson learned, RO/DI likes input pressure, if you can't get good pressure invest in a good feed pump or try bypassing the regulator and seeing what you get.

Just for something different:


I really can't wait to take the two cubes down. They both have their own set of issues, overcrowding for one, out of control caulerpa in the other (I just spent the better part of an hour pruning it out as best I can .. a weekly exercise in futility - it just comes back.) God I hate caulerpa, not only is it pervasive and invasive but it's just .. I dunno, it's nasty stuff overall, it kills corals, and it's impossible to eradicate if you don't have someone who'll eat it. Luckily I do but just in the wrong tank. Another reason I hope the transfer is not too far into the future.