1200 pounds of fun

[WarDog]

Originally Posted by Ram3500

I was bored on the weekend and I was thinking about the good old day when I would run 500w of MH for 9 hours day. So I started to think to myself and then I was convinced that I had better colour when I was running my phoenix 250 watt 14k. So I thought I would do a side by side comparison to my a360we.
I was totally surprised that when I tunded the the kessil to 70% colour I could not see any or very little difference at all. I am sure the die hards will disagree but I here is a my photo. Sorry for the low quality but you get the idea

Yay Team Kessil! Woot woot!

[Ram3500]

I love the Okanagan! So nice to sit of the balcony after a day at the beach enjoy the view and have a glass of wine.

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I have been lucky this summer to get away a few times. I always get a lot of anxiety about leaving the tank though. I mean what can go wrong?? I run a apex so if I can get wifi I will check the temp make sure the pumps are running etc, etc for the most part it's a big leap of faith when we go away.

This year my late mother inlaw bought my wife and I a security camera system for our home, so when we going away I set a camera up on the Tank. It has given me some piece of mind to be able to check in and see the tank running. I have huge fear of the hole thing exploding when I am away.

After a nice day at the beach and a great dinner I checked the tank on my phone app " time and date is wrong it should be 8 00 pm aug 18 "

AHH piece of mind all is good in reef land

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After a nice restful night what is the first thing a reef geek would do in the morning? Well check to make sure all is well in reef land of course.

" Time should be 10 00 am "

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OMG WTH the tank light should be on by this time and there is no water movement. I got on the laptop to see if I could log on to the Apex and it was dead. I feared the worst everything that could go wrong has and I am a four hour drive away.

I had not choice but to hop in the truck and drive home. It was a long drive home to say the least. I have only had the breaker go on the gfi outlet once over the last few years and it was from a faulty heater. The good news was I could see that the fish were still swimming but for how long ? I had no idea when the power was lost not being sure how long the fish would last was stressful to say the least .

After travelling 381 kilometres I arrived home to find a still aquarium but all the inhabitants were breathing, breathing very rapidly but sill alive. What caused the breaker to go was a overflowing skimmer that created bubbles to reach up the a power bar in the sump. Note power bar in sump bad Idea.

I consider my self lucky very luck I dogged another bullet It could have been much much worse. We all play with water and electricity and no mater how many precautions we take it never seems like enough. Nothing like driving eight hours in one day. It gave me lots of time to re think my sump I will be ordering a safer one soon It was millimetres away from overflowing.

Thank you to Marie for buying us the camera RIP.

[Myka]

Sorry I'm late to the party, but holy crap, that was a close call!!! How did it all work out in the weeks following? ...and what do you mean RIP to the camera?

[Ram3500]

Originally Posted by Myka

Sorry I'm late to the party, but holy crap, that was a close call!!! How did it all work out in the weeks following? ...and what do you mean RIP to the camera?

Since you asked my mother in law passed away July 16 th after a long battle with cancer her last gift to me was security cameras. I am very thankful for the gift she gave me . I would have never known about the power outage if she never gave them to me every thing in my tank would have died as I wasn't coming home for another five days. I did the coral for cancer auctions on can reef a year and a half ago in support of her fight and thanks to this forum we raised over $2000.00 . She was a amazing lady here is a neat link about all she did .

http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2015/1...topped-caring/

[Myka]

So sorry for your loss. She must have been looking on you.

[Ram3500]

It's kind of one of those when I am so board I almost wish I was at work any way I need something to do so here I am bumping my thread.

I am sure I am not the only one here who has wanted to put new flooring in but has a few thousands of reef in the way. I have been debating how to deal with this for over a year.We wanted to put hard wood floors but this damn tank isn't going anywhere.

I decided that it would be to much work to take it down and set it up so I had the floor built around the tank. It far from perfect but when I put a moulding at the base of the stand and around the back of the stand no one will know but me.

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You can see how I had a small leak that stained the sub floor hopeful that will be the last one.

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Here is a few top downs

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This one will be going to a canreef auction soon.
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Every thing is grow fast some to fast. I am regretting ever getting a monti it looks nice but its growth is just to fast . I am constantly breaking off pieces and scraping away at it. I think I will be removing it and a few other weeds to make room for some more desirable acros. I am also thinking of adding some more live rock possibly a large shelf in the middle of the tanks for more sps.

[Myka]

Wow, looks awesome!!! Love the coral in the first top down. I'll be bidding on your auctions once you get into Acro frags that's for sure!

The new floor looks really nice. Fwiw, you can drain a tank your size into a large tub beside the tank using a 1" hose in about 5 minutes, get a couple people pushing on it, and you can slide it over (on a smooth floor only, and only if the bottom of your stand is smooth too), and refill it with a pump in about 10 minutes. Total effort - about 30 mins max.

[Ram3500]

Fwiw, you can drain a tank your size into a large tub beside the tank using a 1" hose in about 5 minutes, get a couple people pushing on it, and you can slide it over (on a smooth floor only, and only if the bottom of your stand is smooth too), and refill it with a pump in about 10 minutes. Total effort - about 30 mins max.[/quote]


I thought of doing that but the rock structure would have collapsed all my rock work is held together by gravity no epoxy here. For the most part I am happy with the rock work and didn't want to risk a rock slide and broken sps. lucky for my friend is a wood installer and it wont be a tough or expensive for me to finish the floor if I decided to move the tank in the future.

[gregzz4]

Corals and new floor look awesome Ian !!

[Ram3500]

Thanks buddy if you ever cross the portman you will have to come by for a beer or two lol