Is it normal for clowns not to sleep in rock work?
One of my ocellaris used to hang out at the overflow grate all night. Furthest point from the rocks. I suspected the bleed through from the refugium light attracted him.
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Is it normal for clowns not to sleep in rock work?
Yeah.. strange animals. The lights go out at 1030 And about 1015 all the other fish are going to bed in the rocks. Not the clowns. Chilling up near the top by a gyre. Out of the current, but still.. kinda strange.One of my ocellaris used to hang out at the overflow grate all night. Furthest point from the rocks. I suspected the bleed through from the refugium light attracted him.
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Looks great! Beautiful set up.
Smart man! Definitely get her enjoying it as well. Buy In is everything.
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I love the look of a tall tank.
Scape looks great! But way to close to the glass.
Lol make sure you can safely reach the bottom of the glass with a long handles scraper to clean it.
You want at least 3 or 4 inches free space to work inside the tank. Especially with a tank that tall.
I wiffed on this one horribly.
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Definitely learn from my mistake.
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You can let the very bottom row get a little closer to the glass but at least leave room for the thickness of the scraper at an angle.
Get on your 4' or 6' stepladder and stick your hand in the tank while it's still dry and practice cleaning motions before you get too far with the build.
Don't tumble the rock scape and break the glass!
I use a clean (never used otherwise) plastic (mostly) 4" wide razor scraper from Lowes (maybe Home Depot?) We have a lot of coralline.
You will want to get some long handled grabbers and tools (and get proficient with them) soon.
18" stainless steel tweezers, tongs are a must have. $17 on Amazon.
I get a lot of use out of them cause I can't fit my fingers in between the rocks and the glass.
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As part of setting yourself up for success, you may want to predrill a bunch of 1/2" or 5/8" holes for frag plug bases into your rock now, while it's still dry.
The tall tanks look absolutely beautiful! But they are more work to work inside. Good news is you will keep your hands out of the tank more.
Never a bad thing.
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You will spend a lot less time saying "oh, I'll just move this over a few inches."
I like everything on live rock rubble for a more natural look but we have plenty of frag plugs in our tank.
I use tile nippers to rough up the edges of most of the frag plugs to help them blend in a little better.
A half dozen (max) small trochus snails, no hermit crabs, will keep fewer frags from falling.
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Not trying to scare you but something to consider.
Tall thin tank on top of tall thin stand. And it's salt water besides.
We have a tall 37 gallon similar to yours.
I took 2 long metal framing straps, bent them in a U shape and screwed the back side of the stand into the wall stud about 4 inches from the wall.
It's not foolproof, but it gives me a lot of piece of mind.
Our house is on crawlspace and the tall tank only jiggles a little bit with heavy foot traffic or rough housing nearby.
Nope, I lied. The 75 stand has the metal straps.
The tall 37 just has two 1.5" hooks screwed into the wall studs and thin velcro straps double wrapped around the top of the back 2 legs of the 4 leg stand.
Hardy foolproof, but 1/8" movement beats "timber".
Ok, sorry if this is scary. We have never had any issues! I just felt better taking precautions.
The set up looks beautiful.
You got it at a great price.
Your wife is into it.
You are taking your time and moving slowly and it should be a fantastic build!
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Congrats!
Great idea!If you have a crawl space spend the $50 bucks and support under your tank. Will help level the tank, and stop all the jiggle in the floor. I’ve done this for all my tanksnin a crawlspace
I think my blasto is dying a few of the polyps are still bright blue, but a few have turned basically black.. it's in a low light low flow area
Do you have your Gyre's vertical or horizontal? and i have been broadcast feeding reef Chili, but i will target feed it. It is either dying slower, or is doing better, should i see color start to come back to the parts that already look dead? Or will it end up growing over? For reference, It is the frag dead center on the sand bed.turn the pumps off and feed them directly every other day. I have a 2 polyp frag at the top. a small colony at the middle and a large colony aprox. 6" off the bottom. all are doing well.
I have a 150T. (48x24x30)
2 Maxspect Gyres 230's. mounted back corners of side glass facing each other.
30% max OC setting on the controller. return flow is back left corner facing right front corner.
Do you have your Gyre's vertical or horizontal? and i have been broadcast feeding reef Chili, but i will target feed it. It is either dying slower, or is doing better, should i see color start to come back to the parts that already look dead? Or will it end up growing over? For reference, It is the frag dead center on the sand bed.
Yes I am. Thank you for the concern thoughsince you are new to this awesome hobby, you are aware of potential, but not probable, dangers with keeping zoas/palys?