How did that happen.......there is a 260 gallon aquarium in our walkout basement family room now....Not anymore

[Jeto2004]

But after ramping up lights I started to grow some algae and one side of the tank looks like this:

And the other side looks like that:

Hope that this will settle down overtime

 

[Jeto2004]

Do you guys think I can add this one to my stocking list?

 

[Jeto2004]

Couple of new additions from a LFS. No idea of the names:
A green purple tip torch:

And a fine looking green Acro - let see if I can keep it alive.......

 

[Jeto2004]

Started to have some algae issue

But after I got this guy out quarantine he cleaned this up in less than a week and the tank is looking good!

 

[southerntnreefer]

Loving your build!! Jealous!!

 

[Jeto2004]

Loving your build!! Jealous!!

Thank you for the compliment. There are plenty of builds I’m envy off.......

 

[Jeto2004]

Knowing myself wanted to make skimmer maintenance as easy as possible on me! So I added a swabbie to the skimmer - modified to include a float switch.
Two other things I think doing in the long run:
1) Directly drain skimmate to a drain
2) Run the AWC through the cup to keep it clean

Anybody did that? Worththe hassle?

 

[Jeto2004]

A shipment from TSM aquatics its on its way! Can’t wait to receive it tomorrow!

 

[Jeto2004]

Shipment arrived this morning way before 10:30am. Probably a benefit of being a major FedEx hub.

The shipment was nicely packed. 4 heating elements. Bagged fish were in a black bag and the fish on its own were tripple bagged.

 

[Jeto2004]

Could sample water from one of the out bags. SG matched my tank. So I just floated the bags for 30 min and than emptied the bags one by one of a fish net and added fish directly to the tank. Nice the TSM has a 30 day quarantine process in place.


Fish are happily scouting around the tank but are a little skittish if someone is directly in front of the tank. Hopefully they will settle in quickly and I can share some good pics.

 

[Crabby48]

Nice build I been drooling over tanks! Following along
TSM is one of my LFS and are great people.

 

[Jeto2004]

Thank you so much. I’m very happy with the shipment. While we have a few LFS in Indianapolis with good fish selection having the option of local pre quarantined fish is something that gives me envy.....

 

[Jeto2004]

Haven’t updated this thread recently so here are some updates:

The tank I have has two center braces and I had trouble arranging the 8 XR15 over the tank that each of the 3 section get equal light distribution. So I had to bite the bullet and had to add more lights. While originally I wanted to add additional XR15 ended up adding 2 used xr30 pro gen 4 for the middle section....mind you - this was before the XR30 gen5 were announced - could have saved couple of hundreds just waiting a few weeks - ces’t la vie I guess....

Running the lights know at 60% and achieve ~320par at the top of the rock structures and 120-180 par at the bottom of the tank during peak hours

 

[Jeto2004]

My RFA moved a little, first time I could get a shoot during blue hour (light change from 14K to 18K to deep blue the last 1 1/2 hours of lights on) almost in its full glory..... Really like the red orange tentacles with the green inner disc....

 

[Jeto2004]

Recently had to work from home. New favorite place to work on the laptop........have a guess.....

 

[Derby City Reefer]

This thread is amazing thank you for sharing

 

[Jeto2004]

This thread is amazing thank you for sharing

Thank you! Glad to share! Thank you for reading......

 

[jstephens24]

ill be getting all my fish from TSM within the next month. SG 1.026 correct?

 

[Jeto2004]

ill be getting all my fish from TSM within the next month. SG 1.026 correct?

Nice - all your fish what’s the stocking list?
I measured at 1.025 SG and 34PPT. Form my experience 35PPT gives me 1.026 SG so it’s very close. Please don’t assume and test for yourself as we all work with a relative large margin of systemic inter operator error!!

 

[jstephens24]

Nice - all your fish what’s the stocking list?
I measured at 1.025 SG and 34PPT. Form my experience 35PPT gives me 1.026 SG so it’s very close. Please don’t assume and test for yourself as we all work with a relative large margin of systemic inter operator error!!

well I meant my total of all fish over the next few months, not all on first order. think 2 clowns, royal gramma, 8 wrasses, thinking 3 yellow tangs and a powder blue tang.