1370 gallon propagation system

Robthorn · Sep 27, 2016

Build a heat pump to lower your gas bill.

Rcfiftyone · Oct 1, 2016

Just went through this whole thread. Very impressive. Im putting together somthing similar on a smaller scale (750 gal total) so I can appreciate the amount of work and planning involved. Any tips for making quality wholesaler connections? Im encountering a lot of resistance because I do not have or plan to have a storefront. You obviously have made some great sources. Thanks and great work!

nitro · Oct 1, 2016

Pretty impressive, looks really good.

joeyhatch11 · Oct 15, 2016

Rcfiftyone said:
Just went through this whole thread. Very impressive. Im putting together somthing similar on a smaller scale (750 gal total) so I can appreciate the amount of work and planning involved. Any tips for making quality wholesaler connections? Im encountering a lot of resistance because I do not have or plan to have a storefront. You obviously have made some great sources. Thanks and great work!

Look into trans shippers. They seem to pop up a lot on Facebook due to all the groups and sale pages started there. I'm a small business owner without a store front and have my own FB business page. They contact me often trying to get me to place orders. But I currently have a US vendor that I deal with that ships directly to my house so no airport running around anymore LOL

gettaReef · Oct 15, 2016

What is your Facebook username (for your business)?

joeyhatch11 · Oct 15, 2016

gettaReef said:
What is your Facebook username (for your business)?[/QUO
I'll PM you

Reefer93105 · Dec 9, 2016

Been awhile since I really updated. As some of you may already know my main system took a beating almost 2 months ago from chlorine/chloramines breaking through my RO/DI unit. Acros tips started to die off and eventually started to move down. It took me two weeks to figure out what was going on. There were no ALK swings and parameters were all pretty normal except for elevated nickel from a Triton test result. Not sure how long the system have been topping off with contaminated RO/DI water. Not knowing, I did a 100g water change with this water. Eventually it got worse. A livestock supplier advised me to check my top off water. Called a local water company to test and the result after the DI showed .003 free chlorine/.06 total chlorine. I have since added two 4X20 catalytic carbon canisters with the existing two carbon blocks to my RO/DI unit. Not taking any chances I test for free chlorine and total chlorine with Hach CN-70 every time I fill up my RO/DI storage tank. After hundreds of gallons water change the system is back to normal. I manage to save some brown acros but some were just too badly beat up they eventually didn't make it. Lost over 100 acro colonies and roughly three 1 gallon bucket of frags.
But I'm back at it again with 150 new acro colonies in the next few weeks. Never a dull moment.

Here's a pic of some of the damage.

aaron23 · Dec 9, 2016

Wow so sorry to hear this

Reefer93105 · Dec 9, 2016

aaron23 said:
Wow so sorry to hear this

Thanks. I was just freaking out for a week. Eventually have to get it together.

Reefer93105 · Dec 9, 2016

Some pics of the 50 new colonies cooking that I picked up a week ago. Going to pick up another 50 tomorrow and another 50 the following week. I have since added 4 ATI blue plus with the radions on each tub.

najer · Dec 9, 2016

Sorry to hear about the setback, new ones look great.

Addicted2ACRO's · Dec 9, 2016

Sorry for your losses. I freak out when I lose one colony, I can't imagine what it's like to lose 100. The information you have provided can be very valuable to other reefers that may experience the same issue. The new ones look beautiful. Maybe you would be interested in selling frags to me to help offset and recover some of your unexpected expenses. I would be very interested.