280g Inwall

[muck]

Anyone up for badminton or Karaoke?

[andestang]

playing online poker

[Delphinus]

This it, Mike? http://www.korallen-zucht.de/en/serv...-just-14-days/

It sounds pretty neat but man adding fish at day 10 without checking things like nitrite beforehand seems kinda brave ... I suppose there's no harm in checking nitrite and adjusting the schedule accordingly if the reading is non-zero.

[lobsterboy]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

I think so but it was a couple years ago so I don't remember much of it, I should look for it again (got a link handy? I'll look for it too though). I remember Albert was a fairly strong proponent of Zeo and I remember him saying you could add livestock to a tank at 2 weeks on a zeo system. I'd be a little concerned that the bacterial cultures would be all in the zeolites and not the rock especially when starting from dry rock (or at least a 50/50 mixture of dry rock) although I imagine over time a bacterial film should develop over the substrate anyhow..

Tony I used the 14 day cycle for my system, and even had the slimers in after that. I think at the start of my thread you can see the alage outbreak, but then that was it.
I dunno, now a days there are many different ways to run a tank. just sayin.

Originally Posted by lastlight

ZEOVIT SUCKS.

I thought that all this was behind us, E.T. ouch

[Rbacchiega]

Originally Posted by lobsterboy

I dunno, now a days there are many different ways to run a tank. just sayin.

mwaaaaahahahahahahaha

I've done the 14 day start when I ran zeo briefly....liked it. Then got lazy. We're starting a good old fashioned cycle on the tank today with a hunk of scallop.

[andestang]

Well John was going to be one of my references about it but beat me to it. Saved me some typing I'm thinking it's the method that will be used when I start a tank from scratch.

[Delphinus]

So ... whilst waiting for silicone to cure ..

1) Clam spawn mess on Sunday night. Did an emergency water change Sunday night and another on Monday, changed out the carbon filter skimmer etc etc etc. Bit of a rough night but everyone did OK. Also I finally finished my old carbon so to get new carbon on the tank I cracked open the Rox0.8 carbon. Holy CRAP is that stuff awesome! I have not seen such water clarity since I was running Zeo on the tank.

2) Didn't put my skimmer back together tightly enough, had some skimmate spill yesterday. Ew.

3) Back to Sunday. After the water change I couldn't get one of the powerheads to start. Took them ("them" plural - it's a dual so has two propellers on the same pump head) apart and discovered the shafts were all rusted out. Trying to DIY a fix using bike spokes (helps to have a friend with a bike store - he just gave me a handful of spokes to work with - stainless steel, should work well.) Having a bit of trouble getting the rusty ones out though. Odds are not bad I'm going to end up wrecking the whole impeller.

4) Carpet tank skimmer (BM150) stopped working. Took it apart discovered the impeller had totally shattered. Oho! I have me a spare impeller. Clever me. Replaced the impeller, still doesn't go. Took it apart, discovered this one is broken now. Oh right .. this happened to me before and I forgot that I had fixed the one impeller using Weldon. Guess it didn't hold. Am now in a hunt for a new impeller for an Altman 2500. I've msg'd Progressive Reef and hoping for the best.

5) Did at least get part of the plumbing redone. Sump return is back together. I haven't finished the skimmer feed as I don't really know how I want it. I'll dry fit it and then decide that I hate it. And so on.

Tomorrow night will be 7 days since the new silicone was applied. I can't wait to get the tank filled the rest of the way to see what next hurdle can present itself.

[Zoaelite]

Better to spill than forcefully launch into your wall.




I'm going to blame the disproportionately strong right hand on that move . Can't wait to see the 280g full Tony, you still have that beautiful Red Sea Sailfin tang?

[Delphinus]

I remember that. Wow man, that was ... epic.

I do. He's a total camera hog too, I should try getting some pictures. I meant to last night but the camera battery was toast, I plugged it in and promptly forgot about it. I should go take some pick-choors.

[Lance]

Originally Posted by zoaElite

Better to spill than forcefully launch into your wall.




I'm going to blame the disproportionately strong right hand on that move . Can't wait to see the 280g full Tony, you still have that beautiful Red Sea Sailfin tang?

How in the hell did you do that?