Daplatapus's upgrade

[daplatapus]

Lol!


We have water going in the tank!!!!

[daplatapus]

Well, it lives!!!!!

[Aquattro]

wohoo!!

[hillegom]

Looking good
Always nice to see new start

[Bblinks]

Yaaaaaahoooooo!!!!!!

[daplatapus]

So I'm sure to everyone's chagrin, I'm starting this baby up totally wrong, lol. All dry Marco rock, dead shrimp and all

3 frozen prawns were chucked in there Wed. They are at the point now of falling apart and disintegrating. Checked ammonia levels with an out of date crappy Hagen kit. Says it's somewhere around .3.
Nitrite and nitrate are both 0 still.
For giggles I checked PO4, Thurs it was at .06 ppm so I put in roughly 30 drops of Phozdown. Yesterday checked it again and it was at .1 ppm. Looks like PO4 is leaching from the dry rock and sand. So I dosed another 30-40 drops. No lights or anything yet on the tank so I figure what can it hurt. I'll try and get the PO4 down before I do much with it.

[reefwithareefer]

Really nice looking setup and I am sure all will be good.

[WarDog]

It's all looking very impressive Dom! Have you finalized your stocking plans?

[daplatapus]

Originally Posted by WarDog

It's all looking very impressive Dom! Have you finalized your stocking plans?

Thanks man! Stocking plans... no, not finalized yet. Right now I have in my main 77 gal DT:
- a yellow tang
- a flame angel
- a Starry blennie
- a pink spotted goby
- a single Ocellaris clown (his mate died, pretty sure the tang was the killer)
- bi-colour pseudo-chromis (Been trying to catch this sucker to give away for a couple months now) he is NOT going in the 210
- a RBTA
- a clam - no idea what kind - came in as a rescue

In my 20 gal cube I have:
- a yellow watchman Goby and pistol shrimp combo
- 2 blue/green chromis
- several maxi-mini anemone's

In my 50 gal rescue tank I have:
- another blue/green chromis
- a mated pair of True Percula clowns
- a purple dottyback
- a skunk cleaner shrimp
- a banded coral shrimp
- another maxi-mini anemone


I'm pretty open to moving all those into the 210. Although there has been some bad blood in the past between certain fish - hence the multiple tanks, lol.
The YWG doesn't get along with the Starry blenny - although he didn't have the pistol shrimp with him at the time.
The pink spotty goby stole the YWG's pistol shrimp, leaving him out in the cold.
And the bi-colour pseudochromis will kill my shrimp. So he's gone - not even a question.

I love the shrimp - I'd have several more in my tank if I can.

Wish list:
I know my tank is really pushing it but I would like both a sail fin tang and a blonde Naso. Any thoughts as to long term success with these two with the current list would be appreciated. There's NOT a lot of rock in my DT - so a fair bit of swimming room.

I would also like to add 5 or 7 Lyretail anthias. Now I'm not entirely certain this was the one I wanted. I have to do a bit more research. I was in J&L once last summer and saw the anthias I wanted. The scales were clearly visible, almost crosshatch looking.

Anyway, that's about it. Thoughts and comments always welcome

[daplatapus]

Pretty stoked right now

I finally got my lights finished, Jarduino controller finished and lights hung

As mentioned a while back, I went with pocket door rails and wheels. That allows me to push the lights back on the rails to work in the tank.





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