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I'm thought about it a little lately. I've had such bad experiences with Inkbirds in the past, so that's out. Been thinking old school and going with a Ranco.
What were the problems you had with inkbird?
 
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This stylophora is really growing on me! Love it!

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Random Friday night tank shots:

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Cali tort coming back!

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Some chunky monkey colonies man. Looking shhhhweeeeet!
Update: Water change day. I've been Aiptasia hunting so far today. Got seven of them.

The wiring has been put on hold. I decided that the issue wasn't overloading the circuit, but a bad GFCI. I replaced the GFCI with a new one and cleaned the ATO pump. After cleaning the pump it wouldn't restart. This could have been my issue all along with a bad pump. So i replaced the pump and so far all good.

Next is to clean the inside glass with a razor blade and mount the wave maker power bricks i've let hang under the DT stand.

More to come.......
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I'm thought about it a little lately. I've had such bad experiences with Inkbirds in the past, so that's out. Been thinking old school and going with a Ranco.
Just brush the sandy blonde bangs out of your eyes and ull find a fix in the trunk of ur car under the tire. A twist wrap and a 9v duracell outta do the trick.
 
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Some chunky monkey colonies man. Looking shhhhweeeeet!

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Just brush the sandy blonde bangs out of your eyes and ull find a fix in the trunk of ur car under the tire. A twist wrap and a 9v duracell outta do the trick.

You can fix anything with some bacon strips and a large hammer! Lol And that doesn't work, some RP-1 and some LOX and send it to Orbit! LOL
 
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As luck would have it, I woke up Sunday with a sore throat. Went to a urgent care near by and they did a covid test on me. I don't have strep confirmed by a test. So with that said, I feel fine, but i'm in quarantine till the test comes back. Work won't allow me back till then. 3-5 days.
 

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As luck would have it, I woke up Sunday with a sore throat. Went to a urgent care near by and they did a covid test on me. I don't have strep confirmed by a test. So with that said, I feel fine, but i'm in quarantine till the test comes back. Work won't allow me back till then. 3-5 days.
Fingers, fins, and toes crossed its nothing.

What project videos shall we endeavour this week? ;Watching;Woot
 

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As luck would have it, I woke up Sunday with a sore throat. Went to a urgent care near by and they did a covid test on me. I don't have strep confirmed by a test. So with that said, I feel fine, but i'm in quarantine till the test comes back. Work won't allow me back till then. 3-5 days.
Pray nothing serious.
 

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Went salty and after the cycle in went some easy corals

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I started out with T5's over this tank. Aquticlife 8 bulb fixture

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But got tired of changing bulbs (ATI) and the cost involved, so in October of 2016 I switched over to the Mars Aqua units. Corals responded very well with the LED's.

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And as of this month I modded them by replacing some of the diodes to mimic the SB reeflights layout

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So that's about it. I've been slowly adding more and more SPS frags. Some acropora, some montipora caps and digitatas.

Fish as of right now:

Tomini tang
Paired ocellaris clownfish
mandarin dragonet goby
yellow coris wrasse
Vermiculite leopard wrasse

I love this hobby! Fins up and happy reefing!
This is awesome I’m building a house right now and we have a basement that I’m going to use as my fish room! Am upgrading to red sea reefer 9xl I am going to get our plumber to make me something similar where I can return the clean water back up a pipe in the wall to the tank and drain dirty water out into a drain! I will have ro holding tanks to store and make water.
 

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That @telegraham guy is all sixes and sevens! :)

BTW, beautiful corals!

Update: Corals are doing great! I was able to synchronize the Jebao’ and I like the chaotic flow, so do the corals!

Water change soon. Water is made and ready.

I’m going to go DIY for phosphate. Was watching a Youtuber “telegraham” live stream making it. Food grade trisodium phosphate. Way cheaper! This will happen!

Going to pull the trigger on a clip on filter for my iPhone soon.

My corals the wife ordered from Yourreef will be shipping soon. I will do my best to take some pictures of them after they settle.
 
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That @telegraham guy is all sixes and sevens! :)

BTW, beautiful corals!

LOL!

Thank you and :
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I'm honored to have you visit my build thread and a well known Youtuber to boot! Thank you for your service! (I'll forgive you for being Air force just because you worked on high level "stuff" :p LOL) Army vet here. Worked on BIG bombs as "glow worm" 55G.

I've been tossing around doing a Youtube channel for sometime now, just don't have all the "stuff" to do it yet. Maybe by the end of the year.
 
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