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fishytime · #1 01-04-2012, 11:31 PM

thats one thing most people dont think about.....everyone thinks "ya, I wanna huge tank!"....they seem to miss the fact that operating costs go up exponentially as well.....I know of one guy here that has a 500g display and he does a full bucket of salt(180g) every two weeks

.....Laurie does 50g a week on her 700g system and I dont think that is enough....she should probably do 100g a week but that would be quite expensive .....

The Grizz · #2 01-04-2012, 11:42 PM

Exactly Dougster!! That is something I still have to figure out how to acomplish weekly as well on the 300 when it's done. Really hard to do on a septic system but I have a few iders

Parker · #3 01-04-2012, 11:56 PM

I go through a bucket about every six weeks or so, depending on how lazy I am.

lastlight · #4 02-02-2012, 04:07 PM

Here was fence 1:

I then proceeded to split that compartment with another fence (he was hiding in the rear rock pile) and as I was zip tying the inner fence (no pic due to rage meltdown) he slipped between a gap at the front of fence 1! I tried scaring him away when he was nearing it and the bugger calmly swam past. He was nipping my smooth skinned acro before I had fence 1 removed. Broke a few corals along the way

Fence 2 on other side:

Fence 2b:

Got him on the back half of this partition but he slipped into the front half after all was zip-tied. Took ages to dismantle the inner fence and lift it and scare him back to the much simpler (coral and rock) side.

I spent 5 hours removing colonies/towers and breaking stuff for a 1" fish. I had heard he was a risk to my LPS perhaps and I decided it was worth the risk. In the end he nipped my gorgs and SPS (when he really got into it we're talking a nip every 2 seconds!)

I re-learned I don't have a lot of patience. LESSON LEARNED!

mseepman · #5 02-02-2012, 04:11 PM

Ouch! Sorry to hear that Brett. I too have learned that if they say "risky" I should be saying "no thank you" as Murphy's Law always uses me as it's poster child.

Did you get him out or just trapped?

kien · #6 02-02-2012, 04:13 PM

love the hair algae.

lastlight · #7 02-02-2012, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by kien

love the hair algae.

Yeah still growing well but only on my new rock. Thanks for the rock again =)

christyf5 · #8 02-02-2012, 04:14 PM

Ugh that sucks. Makes me glad my filefish worked out (or at least I think he has, he's done his job eating all the majanos and aiptasia anyways).

lastlight · #9 02-02-2012, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by mseepman

Ouch! Sorry to hear that Brett. I too have learned that if they say "risky" I should be saying "no thank you" as Murphy's Law always uses me as it's poster child.

Did you get him out or just trapped?

Yes I was able to get him out.

lastlight · #10 01-04-2012, 11:58 PM

I'm not sure about other salts but reef crystals says 160 gallons on the bucket. Then you factor in the fact that that's for 1.022 or whatever. I'm not getting even 3 changes out of a bucket so i guess a bucket won't last me a month which sucks. If I'm realistic I have maybe 6 months worth leftish.