GK3’s IM AIO 30 - Tank+Apex+100%DIY

[GK3]

Sensor for lights

this shelf while looks cool is wildly in practical. It’s very annoying to have to raise the hood anytime you want anything from this shelf. Again, looks really cool and makes people go ooooo, in actuality, pretty inconvenient.

 

[GK3]

So live stock update. Fish wise, thriving. Dave the angler fish eelanoor the golden dwarf eel are loving life. My two chromis still have never been caught by the above two and continue to thrive. My starfish - is huge, but creepy as can be. Will be giving him away soon.

corals - ups and downs. I have had two things happen - 1 my dose lines got mixed up and caused my Alk routine to be cal and my calcium routine to be alk. That fried 75% of my sps. Got that under control and tried sps again. Had a huge phosphate spike (I think my media went bad quickly) and my phosphates and nitrates sky rocked. This ended all of my sps except for one. I still have not gone back to trying sps.

the above phosphate spike also killed by nice torch from TSA and my misting sunset monti.

Zoas and mushrooms -these are thriving. So much that I have stopped feeding the tank any sort of coral food. I junky feed the fish frozen. Zoas and mushrooms continue to grow like crazy.

Need to clean glass.

Top right you can see the torch I picked up a while back. It was so small we didn’t know what it was. Now the 1 head is turning into 4-5. Looks like a cristata torch but not sure.

my original Aussie torch is doing ok. Won’t really grow but is always out and happy.

I picked up this new torch last week.

it’s a CB dragon ball torch.

 

[GK3]

My TSA star foxxs

my TSA Mardi gras bounce

 

[GK3]

Green wasabi bounce mushroom is what I bought these as. Never bounced but look cool.

 

[GK3]

Now that I am up to date. Here is what’s is going on today:

3D printing overflow and pump box for the new frag tank.

 

[GK3]

40 hours later my overflow is done. Looks pretty cool. I mis measured one thing but I can live with it.

 

[GK3]

Made some custom frag grow out plates. Acrylic so they are easy to pull of and put on plugs. 3D printed name plates.

They’re a little dusty from cutting the acrylic, need to run under so RO.

 

[GK3]

I was updating my xr15 for above the frag tank. When I did the reset, the lights came on full blast. It was aimed at my newly made frag holders:

Oops.

 

[GK3]

taking out the stock pump, finally using the various-2 I got. Dry fitting the new manifold.

 

[GK3]

Frag tank is 90% done and installed. Most importantly it’s running and has frags in it. Pics coming soon.

 

[Sshannon]

Should I be concerned about how green my rocks are? It’s not slimy or anything. They basically did this instead of turning purple with coraline.

The rocks will turn green with algae before they begin turning purple

 

[Sshannon]

Regular:

open for maintenance:

shot for my fellow nerds who want to know the lift system works:

Can you tell us what parts were necessary to make the lift?

 

[Sshannon]

What is the name of that camera?

 

[GK3]

Can you tell us what parts were necessary to make the lift?

It’s all 80-20 parts and then take linear actuators from Amazon to move it up and down. There are pics earlier in this thread.

 

[GK3]

What is the name of that camera?

Wyze

 

[James_O]

You have a gorgeous tank! Very healthy looking zoa colonies.

 

[SteveMac84]

So live stock update. Fish wise, thriving. Dave the angler fish eelanoor the golden dwarf eel are loving life. My two chromis still have never been caught by the above two and continue to thrive. My starfish - is huge, but creepy as can be. Will be giving him away soon.

corals - ups and downs. I have had two things happen - 1 my dose lines got mixed up and caused my Alk routine to be cal and my calcium routine to be alk. That fried 75% of my sps. Got that under control and tried sps again. Had a huge phosphate spike (I think my media went bad quickly) and my phosphates and nitrates sky rocked. This ended all of my sps except for one. I still have not gone back to trying sps.

the above phosphate spike also killed by nice torch from TSA and my misting sunset monti.

Zoas and mushrooms -these are thriving. So much that I have stopped feeding the tank any sort of coral food. I junky feed the fish frozen. Zoas and mushrooms continue to grow like crazy.

Need to clean glass.

Top right you can see the torch I picked up a while back. It was so small we didn’t know what it was. Now the 1 head is turning into 4-5. Looks like a cristata torch but not sure.

my original Aussie torch is doing ok. Won’t really grow but is always out and happy.

I picked up this new torch last week.

it’s a CB dragon ball torch.

Awesome