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Old 08-13-2012, 05:34 AM
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Ouch. That's why I use a 5g salt bucket for my top-up.
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Old 08-13-2012, 06:47 AM
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It would be nice to have an ato with a built in salinity sensor. That way once the salinity drop to 1.024 the ato would turn off.
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Old 08-13-2012, 07:16 AM
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I feel for you man I did that earlier this month too. Some of the zoos in that tank are coming back but so far none of the mushrooms have came back all the fish seem to be rebounding nicely now I just have to contend with a cyno bloom. Keep positive that your corals will come back. My top off system as I use it for multiple tanks scattered around the house is simply a 1/4" line that I drag to the appropriate tank and open the valve and the ro unit turns on and stays on till I close the valve again. Simple but very risky we are retro fitting the system with a pair of solenoid valves rigged to a timer that will open them for a user set time period then close them after that amount of time. And to keep from relying on the valves to work to shut things down it will have a stand alone manualy cleared timer as well to make it hard to ignore/ forget about.
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Old 08-13-2012, 01:45 PM
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Oh no! Sorry to hear.
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Old 08-13-2012, 03:11 PM
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Ouch Nick! That sucks. If you ever want some blue mushrooms to re-populate your corals...just ask.
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Old 08-13-2012, 03:53 PM
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Ouch. That's why I use a 5g salt bucket for my top-up.
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Old 08-13-2012, 03:57 PM
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+2 mind you 5g of fw in ky tank would drop the salinity pretty dangerously as well
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Old 08-13-2012, 05:05 PM
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Old 08-13-2012, 05:46 PM
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well, i just went down and checked for improvements and here is my update


Dead:

sebae anemone 12"
frogspawn
hammer
torch
acans
kenya tree

Still alive (might make it)

carpet anemone
polyps

not the best of turn outs.. but very happy and surprised that the carpet has made it through so far.

Mark, those mushrooms almost are appealing right about now... are you sure you have any extras to spare?

thanks all for condolences

my new ato plan is going to include a 3.5gal ro storage tank that i will fill when needed and will be the only water available to float switch in tank. Been meaning to do this for a while now, lesson learned i guess.

pics coming...
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Old 08-13-2012, 06:56 PM
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i also just noticed that my Seneye sent me an email saying that my ph was way low an hour after i forgot to shut it off... kinda wish i had my emails with a ring on my phone not silent.

here is a chart of the last few days in the tank... ph shouws where things got a bit off track... ammonia has gone up quite a bit with all the die off.



here is the bucket of sadness



and yesterdays fts



and a fts from a week or 2 back

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