Xmetal's 75G AGA

[xmetalfan99]

Hey man, just went thru the whole thread, didnt ever see it on 3reef. Really nice! You will be super happy with the results of the bio-pellets. And adding them slowly is a good idea. If you are running any GFO, I would slowly phase it out after your pellets are in full swing. like 6-8 weeks.

One question: How do you keep the back glass so perfectly clean?

The blue vinyl background hides all the algae. The only time you can see it is if you look from a side pane or I move rocks a little bit. I dont run GFO but i plan on reintroducing carbon. I finally got y dkh down to 7.5. I hope this is low enough.

Thank you for the kind words.

[jiffy]

picture update please =]

[xmetalfan99]

picture update please =]

Ooops, I forgots...sorry. How about a video?

[skinz78]

No worky?

[xmetalfan99]

No worky?

Now it worky.

[revhtree]

Nice video and nice corals!

[xmetalfan99]

Nice video and nice corals!

Thank you.

And an Update:


Got the biopellets hooked up and am using a Hanna Checker to make sure my Alk doesn't go above 7.7dKH. Just an fyi, they don't tumble if you only have a small layer in the reactor. Once I added another 1/4 cup they started tumbling.

I have also added a CO2 scrubber to help keep my pH up without any additives that would screw with alk and cal levels. So far it is working extremely well.

I put two of my chalices on putty pancakes and the growth rate of them has increased exponentially. I currently have 11 new eyes growing in roughly 2 weeks.

[waterhog69]

Very nice, i bet that was exhausting to set up.

[xmetalfan99]

I finally got a smart phone a few weeks ago. The camera on the phone is much better than my actual camera. So, after rooting and fiddling around with ROMs, I took some photos.

[xmetalfan99]

Due to an unfortunate event, i had to remove all of the livestock, invert wise, out of my tank. Then the event reversed. i decided to take advantage of not having coral or clams in the tank and redid the rock big time. After 4 tubes of marineland epoxy, 2 tubes of jb waterweld, and about 5 containers of superglue this is what I came up with. Te photos don't do a good job at showing the intricacy of the rockwork.






Livestock will be slowly introduced during the next few weeks.