Hemmdog’s 90gal Seaciety and 40gal Vale of Shadows

NY_Caveman · Aug 23, 2019

What cracks me up is if I showed a tank with plastic ornaments people would scoff, but if I said, “It’s my QT tank.” They would all say “Oh, never mind, it’s totally cool.”

Hemmdog · Aug 23, 2019

ScottR said:
The F word in the highest of decibels possible. I can’t control my anger but I don’t hit. The corals took awhile to die. SPS like to give that slow die off. So you can watch them die for days.

I had to toss in ice and ice packs from the freezer and I probably dropped the salinity quite a bit which probably didn’t help. Fortunately I had some extra mixed water ready to correct it.

I feel ya haha. Lol the slow die, that’s so accurate.

Hemmdog · Aug 23, 2019

ScottR said:
That’s the one! Yeah. Some people just drop off. There was an epic tank crash and I feel so bad criticizing this guy... maybe you saw it. He had a monster tank that’s like 400+ gallons or something. Built in his basement. He would jump in the water to rearrange his rocks and stuff (I hate putting my arms all the way in). Then he had a huge ich outbreak. Then got things back up and running and then a fire broke out from his wiring.

Oh yea... was that the plywood build?
I also haven’t seen the guy who made the 1000+ gal tank in his garage. It was leaking like a month in and he dropped off the grid. Dumped a fortune into that tank it seemed.

ScottR · Aug 23, 2019

Hemmdog said:
I feel ya haha. Lol the slow die, that’s so accurate.

I’ve got a friend breaking down his Reefer tmrw. So I’m getting a bunch of free acros, staghorn, monti, birdsnest and other stuff. I like not paying. But if I paid $100 a frag and watched them die, I’d have a heart attack in the process.

Hemmdog · Aug 23, 2019

NY_Caveman said:
What cracks me up is if I showed a tank with plastic ornaments people would scoff, but if I said, “It’s my QT tank.” They would all say “Oh, never mind, it’s totally cool.”

LOL literally what I did when I looked at that link to Victoria’s thread!! Hahahha

ScottR · Aug 23, 2019

Hemmdog said:
Oh yea... was that the plywood build?
I also haven’t seen the guy who made the 1000+ gal tank in his garage. It was leaking like a month in and he dropped off the grid. Dumped a fortune into that tank it seemed.

That’s exactly the one. It was kind of funny though. Because the guy was cocky about it. I don’t think he knew what he was doing

NY_Caveman · Aug 23, 2019

Hemmdog said:
LOL literally what I did when I looked at that link to Victoria’s thread!! Hahahha

That is awesome! I had edited my post to note that too. LOL!

Hemmdog · Aug 23, 2019

ScottR said:
That’s exactly the one. It was kind of funny though. Because the guy was cocky about it. I don’t think he knew what he was doing

Lol yea for real. He was talking like this was his 100th one he’s made lol.

ScottR · Aug 23, 2019

Hemmdog said:
Lol yea for real. He was talking like this was his 100th one he’s made lol.

He put fish in and water in at same time. He put soooo much money in it. And the fire was the cherry on top. I’m looking for it. Can’t find it. Any other threads about ppl messing up that are funny?

Hemmdog · Aug 23, 2019

ScottR said:
He put fish in and water in at same time. He put soooo much money in it. And the fire was the cherry on top. I’m looking for it. Can’t find it. Any other threads about ppl messing up that are funny?

Lol it is tragic. I can’t imagine owning the home, prob not having an insurance rider to cover aquariums, then flood your finished basement with 400+ gallons of cycling tank water, and a fire. That’s bad. My wife would leave me for sure lol.
I’ve seen a few funny ones but it’s only funny because the Op’s are so over confident and/or put all their trust in hobby tech like an apex.
Any time I see acro colonies die though it breaks my heart

more than fish strangely.

ScottR · Aug 23, 2019

Monster Build - 1100g ish plywood build

Did you have any lip for the glass to fit into or does it just sit on the bottom and cover the whole side? How did you brace the 8' side?

www.reef2reef.com

This one...

ScottR · Aug 23, 2019

Hemmdog said:
Lol it is tragic. I can’t imagine owning the home, prob not having an insurance rider to cover aquariums, then flood your finished basement with 400+ gallons of cycling tank water, and a fire. That’s bad. My wife would leave me for sure lol.
I’ve seen a few funny ones but it’s only funny because the Op’s are so over confident and/or put all their trust in hobby tech like an apex.
Any time I see acro colonies die though it breaks my heart more than fish strangely.

I hear ya. Yeah a lot of ppl go all out and they’re buying the best equipment and everything. And then they skip crucial steps and lack experience for what they’re trying to do. There was one guy that kept posting about his fish dying. Everyone pointed out that his bioload was too high. As fish died, he kept getting more and more fish and an anemone. Haven’t heard back from that guy. I think they don’t listen, get over confident, reply on their freshwater skills and then everything dies and they give up.

Hemmdog · Aug 23, 2019

ScottR said:
Monster Build - 1100g ish plywood build

Did you have any lip for the glass to fit into or does it just sit on the bottom and cover the whole side? How did you brace the 8' side?

www.reef2reef.com

This one...

I forgot about that one! There was another one with a dude who liked to swim in his tank. 400+gal inwall plywood build in his basement. Pretty sure it was a complete catastrophe flood.

Hemmdog · Aug 23, 2019

ScottR said:
I hear ya. Yeah a lot of ppl go all out and they’re buying the best equipment and everything. And then they skip crucial steps and lack experience for what they’re trying to do. There was one guy that kept posting about his fish dying. Everyone pointed out that his bioload was too high. As fish died, he kept getting more and more fish and an anemone. Haven’t heard back from that guy. I think they don’t listen, get over confident, reply on their freshwater skills and then everything dies and they give up.

Very true. I’ve found its best to forget everything I learned and did in FW, nothing really translates over the same. The longer I held on to that old knowledge and tried to find correlations to implement those methods in reefs the more I struggled. There are a few similarities but not stuff noobs should be concerned about.

ScottR · Aug 23, 2019

Hemmdog said:
Very true. I’ve found its best to forget everything I learned and did in FW, nothing really translates over the same. The longer I held on to that old knowledge and tried to find correlations to implement those methods in reefs the more I struggled. There are a few similarities but not stuff noobs should be concerned about.

The only similarity is there’s water and fish involved. FW is just soooo different. I never could keep planted tanks healthy. They’re a beast on their own. But yeah, nothing translates over.

NY_Caveman · Aug 23, 2019

ScottR said:
The only similarity is there’s water and fish involved. FW is just soooo different. I never could keep planted tanks healthy. They’re a beast on their own. But yeah, nothing translates over.

I think the problem with most of my freshwater tanks was using tap as opposed to starting with RO/DI. My tap is like 2 ppm PO4.