72x30x18 DIY build thread

[Nate Chalk]

Posting here for the multi brain collaboration! please feel free to add to convo

 

[fishguy242]

are you just planning on dipping individual corals , not full system treatment ?
never used it , so really not much help... :rolleyes:

 

[Nate Chalk]

are you just planning on dipping individual corals , not full system treatment ?
never used it , so really not much help... :rolleyes:

Last I used flat worm exit, was very expensive to treat the whole tank, and didnt do the job.

Since they arent the bad type, the plan was to treat individual colonies, until I got the predators (fish) to monitor populations. It took around 8 months to get to this point. So if an annual pull and treat. Thats not terrible for husbandry.

Good question!

 

[Stang67]

Springeri damsel.

 

[F i s h y]

Springeri damsel.

this but get a few if you can

 

[Nate Chalk]

Springeri damsel.

yes

The plan is some of those, and the wrasses

have a fishh list out to lfs who said they can get some in

 

[Nate Chalk]

Prazipro didn't knock them all off entirely. Jason suggest fresh water dip which was more aggressive.

Tissue looks much more clean.

Will evaluate rest of day. Also gave me the opportunity to blow off the weird detritus patch on top.

 

[Nate Chalk]

Status
Look at them happy little mouths

 

[Reefing_addiction]

And yeah the mouths arent blue. Those are the worms

Photosynthetic flat worms pop growing too fast.

Need to nuke them back some...until I get more predators .

Have prazi pro. Gonna pull this colony and test first. Since it's a basic colony and has been healthy for awhile.

Well now I’ll have nightmares about blue flatworms

 

[Reefing_addiction]

Try potassium chloride ….. I think recommended is 2 tablespoons per a gallon and that usually stuns them enough to make them come off if you baste them or you could double the strength and that might kill them…..or even a strong iodine dip….i find most things (pest) hate iodine….most corals don’t mind….

 

[Nate Chalk]

Well now I’ll have nightmares about blue flatworms

Haha they are the photosynthetic clear brown ones.

 

[Reefing_addiction]

Haha they are the photosynthetic clear brown ones.

Nope they are now blue you can’t change my mind

 

[BryanM]

I'm pretty brave, but you've got me beat, DIY tank building of anything bigger than small would stress me out!

 

[Projects with Sam]

Well now I’ll have nightmares about blue flatworms

 

[Nate Chalk]

Nope they are now blue you can’t change my mind

Current status

 

[Projects with Sam]

DIY air quality tester. It has CO2 among an impressive array of other tests.

 

[Reefing_addiction]

Great now this who needs sleep

 

[Nate Chalk]

DIY air quality tester. It has CO2 among an impressive array of other tests.

Made a friend locally who has a printer :) exploring fusion 360 when i can get some free time. First thing im considering printing is single frag holders for an idea with monti caps.

Second im planning to redo the dosing lines with hard line, and might need to tweak our original design some to make room.

third, i want to make a removable fragging rack that i can pop on to hold a dish for frags, might just get a couch folding tray for this tbh...

 

[Projects with Sam]

Checkout OnShape or SolidWorks too... Those have been getting a lot of YouTube maker plugs.
( https://www.youtube.com/@rctestflight )

TinkerCad has really goo lessons to start out on but may be limiting once you've gotten your chops.

 

[Nate Chalk]

Check out what he printed !