280g Inwall

[saltynuts]

nice to sea! whats next ageing the water! lol

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Delphinus]

Also as a completely irrelevant tangential aside, but because I'm compelled to share the story now that I reminded myself of it .. bypassing the household regulator was in fact my SECOND idea. The first idea I had was just to open the adjustment screw all the way. It was only the next day after when I was in the shower when I learned why my house was set to 60psi. The shower valve is just a on/off type thing that you can adjust the temperature but not the flow. Full on 96psi out of a shower head sends out these little ultrasonic speed streams of water that hurt like heck. "Ow ow ow ow ow! WTF is wrong with this shower? Ow ow ow ow ow! .... ohhhhhhh."

[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.

[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!