The Goose Tank

[coolhandgoose]

I figure I'd post a quick update.

I'm kind of stalled at the 90% complete stage, you know how that goes. Still have doors to do but we've been busy with yard work etc. at the moment.

The tank is really coming along. I'm using h2ocean salt now and the corals are really starting to thrive and colour up since their year of neglect in my basement.

Here are some pics.

Bubble coral (can't remember the name) with a finger leather frag.


Maxi mini anemone showing awesome colours with the led lights (colours I didn't know it even had)


As you can see I have some Kenya trees to chop down as its blocking some of the light getting to the nem. Also the acan is colouring up and has some new heads already.


Favia


Hammer coral starting to really come out, gsp in the background.


Torch

[Myka]

Looks like the transition went well!

[coolhandgoose]

A few new additions thanks to riceboy.

Blue Stag


Sitosa


Idaho Purple Grape Montipora



Bird of Paradise

[coolhandgoose]

It's been a long time since I updated this thread.

I created doors finally before Christmas so here's what they look like. Bought the glass from a stained glass shop. They look cool.





The tank looks like crap right now since I had a couple disasters. Doing a major water change tomorrow so hopefully things start improving. Obviously need to keep up on doing weekly water changes, but the other problem is not enough flow, so will be adding another pump too.

Made some improvements to my rodi system. Put on a dual tds meter. One measures output from the ro filter, the other from the di. Also added two shutoff valves so when I turn the water on, I block off the di resin until the ro water reads 3 or less, usually takes about a minute. Then I open up the valve to the di resin and close the other testing line.

[e46er]

i really like the doors

[coolhandgoose]

Originally Posted by e46er

i really like the doors

Thank you very much!

Well I am 4 hours into doing this water change. Made 35 gallons of saltwater.

Took out all the rocks and rinsed them in a bucket of saltwater. You should've seen how brown and disgusting the water was. Most likely because I had a major gfo accident that turned my tank brown and I finally got around to washing the rocks off.

I checked my Mg levels, and they were at 1000ppm. I raised it to 1100 but will add more tomorrow. I've read you shouldn't raise it more than 100 ppm per day. I want to get it to around 1350.

Will check alk and Ca when I get the mg stabilized.

I auto fragged my trumpet coral so once it recovers I'll be able to sell some pieces.

I know of one peppermint shrimp that for sure survived the big change today but haven't seen the other yet.

I also added a new pump so flow is awesome right now. Will probably need to adjust positioning later but for now looks like no dead spots. The corals are already starting to come out a bit more, so hopefully this is a sign of good things to come. I'm promising myself to start taking better care of the tank so I can some nicer stuff to look at!

[Bblinks]

Those are the coolest doors I have ever seen on a stand, nicely done bud!

Test you calcium and alk at the same time and see where it is, adjust accordingly and as for mag, I usually just bump mine from 1100 to 1350 without any issues but you can go slow if you like.