Dawn's 56g memorial seahorse tank!

[vlangel]

What kit are you talking about that you need that's only comes in 1/4? I'm really a visual girl, so can you point to some links that show what you're talking about. I had water change systems running all over my house. We can definitely make this easier for you.

https://www.thespruce.com/saddle-valve-2718691
I could not find this kit in 3/16th. 1/4th seems to be the smallest.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Couldn't you just then cut the line and put in an adapter?

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Oh sorry, that image is bigger than I though it was.

http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/it...yXMxgq7AhNXhMKNf861DRagC_TOKUUyBcThoCz_7w_wcB

 

[vlangel]

Oh sorry, that image is bigger than I though it was.

http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/it...yXMxgq7AhNXhMKNf861DRagC_TOKUUyBcThoCz_7w_wcB

Yes, that looks like it should work.

 

[JaimeAdams]

Dawn - It was nice to see you this evening.

 

[vlangel]

Dawn - It was nice to see you this evening.

Yes, it was nice to be there. Also good job Jamie on your talk about pests and how to control them.

 

[vlangel]

I added a new gorgonian that I won at our local club meeting.

 

[vlangel]

You can see the new gorgonian amongst the big dead man's finger coral. I moved everything out of the conch shell because I was afraid that it could trap food and fuel bacteria and epoxied everything onto a coral skeleton.

 

[vlangel]

Eve is posing in both pics too.

Also Dave, my husband and I have begun preparing for my new water making/mixing station. We know where we are going to mount the RO/DI unit. This is going to be a huge improvement for me.

 

[vlangel]

Tonight I am bleaching my brute can and hose that I use to transfer water. It felt like some sort of residue was building up in it and I thought I better deal with it.

 

[vlangel]

I worked on my fishroom a lot today. I went through old fish supplies, threw away ancient stuff and rearranged other stuff. Among the things I came across was my 1st seahorse tank, a 30 gallon XH tank with stand and lights. I have lots of artificial ornaments and some dry dead rock that I could use with a HOB filter to have a ready quarantine tank. Since everything is artificial I don't need to use the lights so this tank would be cheap to run. It could also serve as a baby nursery for seahorses. I said I would never raise baby seahorses again but never say never.

 

[vlangel]

Well I did it! I set up a QT/nursery tank. I have 2 pieces of LR to get the cycle going with all the dead rock.

 

[vlangel]

Considering that I did not have to buy a thing I would say this isn't too bad. It even has a prism skimmer on it but I am not running it yet because I will wait til the cycle is done. I put 2 pieces of LR from my sump to get the cycle going.

 

[vlangel]

Dave plans to mount my RO/DI unit on the fishroom wall tonight along with running the water line to it. I am really excited. I have been keeping marine fish for 20 years and to have a water making/change station that requires only turning valves plugging in pumps is so awesome. It takes all the drudgery out of it,

 

[vlangel]

Dave mounted the RO/DI unit in my fish room so all the heavy lifting, carrying and dragging have been removed from WCs. I currently do 15-20 gallons a week on the seahorse tank but when I get 3 more ponies I will be doing 20-30 gallons a week so making WCs as easy as possible was my goal. This is a functional system folks, its not pretty. My back does not care about how beautiful it is, ha ha! And after all, its in our basement which we call the dungeon.

 

[vlangel]

I pivotted all the rockwork 90° and slid the back rock to the right. The effect is one continuous structure but of varying depths. Of course different sides of the rocks are in view also. I love being able to totally rescape without all the nasties being stirred up. The tank is photogragh ready in an hour. Tomorrow I will try to take pics.

 

[vlangel]

A new video to document the new scape with new sponge, and macros.

 

[vlangel]

Since I rescaped, I noticed that Eve has chosen a higher hitch. She has kind of a matriarchal air about her.

 

[vlangel]

The matriarch with the patriarch looking on from above.

 

[vlangel]

I keep playing with the scape to try and come up with the best flow pattern. I want the particles to be put in suspension, but anything that isn't needs to be easy to syphon up. I do not want to move rock to get at the debris.
Today I tried pointing my powerhead almost straight down and that seems to be working well. Its a nano-stream that I have set at full blast which is 1500gph+, so it has some punch. I have it at the top of the tank to spread out the flow pattern by the time it hits the bb. There is no rock right near so an oblivious pony should not be smashed into rock.