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[Nor'easter Reefer]

get the tank running last night?

All saltwater is in, i'm going to finish hooking up electrical stuff tonight after the kid goes to sleep, tomorrow I get rock and filtration stuff(foam filters etc) and i won't have sand until Monday. But hopefully get my rockscape figured out this weekend!

 

[Nor'easter Reefer]

Never seen that! Is it typical lager price, or allagash price?

 

[kevgib67]

All saltwater is in, i'm going to finish hooking up electrical stuff tonight after the kid goes to sleep, tomorrow I get rock and filtration stuff(foam filters etc) and i won't have sand until Monday. But hopefully get my rockscape figured out this weekend!

Can’t wait to see it Mike!

 

[Nor'easter Reefer]

So I had a bad tank day yesterday. I needed to clean the two gyres as they were barely working so I put in the back up pair and put the ones I removed in a bucket to be cleaned. Even though I didn't touch the programming, the clean pumps quickly decimated the tank. They knocked the birdsnest off its glue point on the rocks, they knocked over all of the frags in the sand and buried the favia. Instead of a relatively flat fore reef I had two sand dunes and a black acrylic desert between them. All of the fish were hiding and the water was so thick with sand particles that it was hard to see. I disconnected one of the pumps and changed the programming on the other so that it would settle down a little but I am beginning to really dislike gyre pumps. I love their flow pattern but their throughput is so inconsistent and they require maintenance so often that I'm ready to chuck them, except I can't, at least for now.

All of my frags are now behind the rocks partially protected by the Aqua Rocks that break up the flow and all of the fish have come out long enough to catch a quick bite to eat except the yellow wrasse but they went right back into hiding.

I'm pretending I don't own a tank for the rest of the day and tomorrow, sometime, I'm supposed to get my Meridian 35 so I will mount it, probably just completely remove one of the gyres and then dink around trying to get my tank back in rhythm and the corals in sane locations.

Ugh i'm sorry buddy. I hate messing with pumps. It feels like only one way works just right and as soon as you touch something it goes full meltdown from there

 

[Üter]

All saltwater is in, i'm going to finish hooking up electrical stuff tonight after the kid goes to sleep, tomorrow I get rock and filtration stuff(foam filters etc) and i won't have sand until Monday. But hopefully get my rockscape figured out this weekend!

if you want to minimize the sand cloud, you could use a PVC pipe and a big funnel and pour it in and straight to the bottom and move it slowly where you want it.

 

[Nor'easter Reefer]

Can’t wait to see it Mike!

Hopefully Monday night it'll be in its near final state! Short of corals. I think i'll get sand and rock in, and let it ride out a few days? Then add a cheap easy fish(should be fine using existing live rock, and gulf base rock)

 

[tharbin]

Dang Tom, I know how you feel buddy. I hate to hear this. It's been a couple hours, how's it looking now?

I've got a flow that seems pretty close to what I want from the one pump and left the other one off. The water has cleared and the fish are more or less back to normal except the Foxface that is royally POed that there is a favia right under his favorite Aqua Rock. I've pretty much fixed the sand and it is kind of staying in place. Once I put the new light up I'll try to place the corals. Overall the tank has recovered nicely.

 

[Üter]

Never seen that! Is it typical lager price, or allagash price?

I think it was $16 or $18 for 12. so pretty good actually. I never saw it before either. I wish their Curieux came in kegs.

 

[kevgib67]

I've got a flow that seems pretty close to what I want from the one pump and left the other one off. The water has cleared and the fish are more or less back to normal except the Foxface that is royally POed that there is a favia right under his favorite Aqua Rock. I've pretty much fixed the sand and it is kind of staying in place. Once I put the new light up I'll try to place the corals. Overall the tank has recovered nicely.

Glad to hear Tom!

 

[Nor'easter Reefer]

if you want to minimize the sand cloud, you could use a PVC pipe and a big funnel and pour it in and straight to the bottom and move it slowly where you want it.

I was also considering siphoning out water into buckets for that part. That would probably be less work though!

 

[Imrahilwjz]

I'm jealous

 

[Üter]

I was also considering siphoning out water into buckets for that part. That would probably be less work though!

if you filled it, you will have to suck out some water anyway for displacement of rock and sand etc...

 

[ShakeyGizzard]

Updated my pico of anyone's interested.

Thought I was, where is it ?

 

[Üter]

I'm jealous

I'm really happy that it eats frozen and pellets. it does eat pods too. But is fat and healthy. I keep thinking about a spotted one.

 

[Calmwaters]

Thought I was, where is it ?

The link is in my signature if you're on your phone turn it sideways and you will be able to see my signature.

 

[ShakeyGizzard]

The link is in my signature if you're on your phone turn it sideways and you will be able to see my signature.

don't use my phone for R2R, unless at work to find out I did not win the giveaway lol

 

[kevgib67]

 

[Nor'easter Reefer]

That is a reasonable price, if I'm buying something else as well. Have you purchased from them in the past?

Half my corals are from them. I got in person

 

[Calmwaters]

don't use my phone for R2R, unless at work to find out I did not win the giveaway lol

Did you find it?

 

[Imrahilwjz]

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