Jackie and Glenns 180g Reef Build
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That's what we're all hoping for in Florida... but that may send it directly at the Carolinas and Georgia. Needless to say somebody's going to get the brunt end of it.Still some time to go... hopefully it makes another swing east
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It swung west. Ugh... coming up the West coast and weather models show the eye moving right over us. BUT it keeps changing so....
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Lol. Thank you Janci
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Thank you
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After hurricane Irma update:
Power returned to my house on Tuesday. I was one of the lucky ones. Just one street away they are still without power. The eye of IRMA came right through my county but by the time it did it had weakened to a Cat 2 and we were located on the west side of the eyewall. Not so bad. We sat on the front porch most of the night watching trees sway fiercely and some falling as well as seeing the light show from transformers blowing out. My house faces due south and we were sheltered from most of the wind and blowing rain but the north side was taking quite a battering. All is well and had no serious damages The power coming back on did blow out 2 of my tanks Leds (one one the 45g and one of my AI's on the 180), the coffee pot, a desktop pc hard drive and something isn't right with the water softener unit. So not too terrible.
Power returned to my house on Tuesday. I was one of the lucky ones. Just one street away they are still without power. The eye of IRMA came right through my county but by the time it did it had weakened to a Cat 2 and we were located on the west side of the eyewall. Not so bad. We sat on the front porch most of the night watching trees sway fiercely and some falling as well as seeing the light show from transformers blowing out. My house faces due south and we were sheltered from most of the wind and blowing rain but the north side was taking quite a battering. All is well and had no serious damages
The power coming back on did blow out 2 of my tanks Leds (one one the 45g and one of my AI's on the 180), the coffee pot, a desktop pc hard drive and something isn't right with the water softener unit. So not too terrible.
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Now about the 180....
Finally got to do parameter testing, the results are:
Time- 1pm
Temp- 77.5
Ph- 8.27
Sg- 1.027
No3- 10 (ouch!)
P04- .12 (ouch!)
Alk- 10.2
Ca- 445
Mg- 1380
+ cyano is present....
I'll be putting gfo back online today for sure and a wc tonight after my granddaughter goes home. I'm currently wet skimming and will also going to reduce the lighting and lighting period with no lighting at all overnight (no moonlighting).
This tank has aptasia spreading too I plan to "try" to catch some berghia from the 29g tonight to put in the 180. Hopefully the wrasses will not bother with them. Crossing my fingers I can catch enough of them because they are very difficult to collect. Here are a few pics I just took.
Finally got to do parameter testing, the results are:
Time- 1pm
Temp- 77.5
Ph- 8.27
Sg- 1.027
No3- 10 (ouch!)
P04- .12 (ouch!)
Alk- 10.2
Ca- 445
Mg- 1380
+ cyano is present....
I'll be putting gfo back online today for sure and a wc tonight after my granddaughter goes home. I'm currently wet skimming and will also going to reduce the lighting and lighting period with no lighting at all overnight (no moonlighting).
This tank has aptasia spreading too
I plan to "try" to catch some berghia from the 29g tonight to put in the 180. Hopefully the wrasses will not bother with them. Crossing my fingers I can catch enough of them because they are very difficult to collect. Here are a few pics I just took.
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One big loss did occur, I lost the 20L phyto/pod/macro tank Or only did it die but the overflow lost siphon and when the power came on the tank overflowed about 4-5g before I caught it.... Might have salt splash from that in one of the 6-way timer as well. I'll be dealing with it tomorrow after noon as it'll be the first chance I have with some time to do so.
Or only did it die but the overflow lost siphon and when the power came on the tank overflowed about 4-5g before I caught it.... Might have salt splash from that in one of the 6-way timer as well. I'll be dealing with it tomorrow after noon as it'll be the first chance I have with some time to do so.
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Hi, any updates?
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Hi, thank you for asking
The tank went through a bout of cyanobacteria, quite heavily actually. I would have treated it sooner however I had placed some berghia nudibranchs in the tank to take care of a little bit of Aptasia and I was afraid that chemiclean would kill them. Since 99% of the aptasia are gone I have treated it for cyanobacteria. The tank has leveled off and stable so far. I'm giving it a chance for the sand bed to be fully recovered before I do anything else with it. I believe the sand bed was releasing toxins and was what caused the cyanobacteria. I'd rather be safe than sorry before I add acro's back into the system again. I have been super super busy with other projects and my granddaughter that I haven't had time to actually make up my rock mix and create the bridge that I wanted to make. The form is complete but I have to have time to create the mix and clean out my old 30-gallon tank to use as a curing tank. I'm going to try to do that next weekend. Once I do the Rock Bridge and a few pieces of replacement Rock for those that I tossed the tank should be ready when they are done curing. A week later I will then start adding SPS to the system. So I'd say about a month to a month and a half
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Jackie,
Thanks for the update!!!
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Thanks for the update!!!
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Good to see you again. Did you see my crazy DIY remodel I'm doing? I'll link you to it.
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Hi Joseph! Yes, I saw the YouTube videos. I comment on one of the newest ones just a day or 2 ago. Send me the link to your new build thread (for some reason I'm having trouble hearing some of your videos-low video volume maybe?).
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Yeah, it's been slow but getting there
Thank you!Thank you Fin
I REALLY miss my acros [emoji29] but it's okay, I'll get more and grow them again [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] Freddie- I wish! I need a few more hours in a day just so I can get some sleep lolJackie,
Thanks for the update!!!
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***I'll try to get some current pics of the tank tomorrow. Upon today's wc I superglued the mouths of the remaining 2 aptasia that were located at the top of one of the overflows (Hope this works) as I haven't seen any berghia in a couple of weeks.
Otherwise not much has changed other than cleaning up the cyano.
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