Miracles Do Happen! Bill's (Sawcjack00/Epic Aquaculture) 460 Gallon Custom Miracles Aquarium Build!

1ocean · Mar 25, 2022

Sorry for your loss makes me sad too...

Big E · Mar 25, 2022

Very sorry to hear about the fish Bill.

The display tank looked fantastic on Reefbum's podcast!

ScottB · Mar 25, 2022

I am so sorry Bill.

I dose LC on a roughly monthly basis, and I have recommended its use here repeatedly. Which now worries me.

As painful as it will be, I hope you are able to help us understand fully what transpired. I will go back for the video; perhaps you already covered it.

ScottB · Mar 28, 2022

ScottB said:
I am so sorry Bill.

I dose LC on a roughly monthly basis, and I have recommended its use here repeatedly. Which now worries me.

As painful as it will be, I hope you are able to help us understand fully what transpired. I will go back for the video; perhaps you already covered it.

I have been dosing this to the overflow which passes through 100 micron socks, then skimmer,

I just ordered 5 micron socks before I do this again. The 100s clog pretty quick, so guessing I will need to be on guard with these. Without tangs, my tank goes to s*** pretty quick so I wanna make the effort. Again, sorry Bill.

Perry · Mar 28, 2022

Bill,
I am sorry for your fish losses, I too caught up on the YouTube stream.
Blessings my friend

Epic Aquaculture · Apr 5, 2022

Thank you everyone for the kind words. It's been tough, and the corals did suffer some color loss and browning out, but seem to be rebounding quickly. I will slowly replace fish over the next year or so, but those that survived are doing well. I will also post a thread about exactly what happened, but I'm not ready to do that yet. That being said here's some chalices for your entertainment...

Epic Aquaculture · Apr 6, 2022

ScottB said:
I have been dosing this to the overflow which passes through 100 micron socks, then skimmer,

I just ordered 5 micron socks before I do this again. The 100s clog pretty quick, so guessing I will need to be on guard with these. Without tangs, my tank goes to s*** pretty quick so I wanna make the effort. Again, sorry Bill.

Hey Scott do you use Sea Klear for pools, or one of the aquarium products with LC?

panic · Apr 10, 2022

Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry to hear about the loss of all those fish. The chalices look beautiful though

ScottB · Apr 10, 2022

SawCJack00 said:
Hey Scott do you use Sea Klear for pools, or one of the aquarium products with LC?

Tropic Marin Elimi-Phos. I've not done any math but assume it is rather diluted relative to the pool products. The dosing instructions give me some comfort, and my experience gives me the rest. I get a fairly consistent result each time according to Hanna. I have had ich in the past and have NOT gone fallow, so I do worry about my tang/foxface population when doing this. There are enough anecdotes out there. Unlike with carbon, I don't drink and dose at the same time.

Every two-three weeks, I dose 10ml to drop my PO4 by about .05 in a 140G display, and about 17ml in my 280G frag to do roughly the same. I mix it with some RODI & slowly, manually, dose it to the top of my overflow over an hour or so. Replace socks some time afterward.

csund · Apr 10, 2022

ScottB said:
Tropic Marin Elimi-Phos. I've not done any math but assume it is rather diluted relative to the pool products. The dosing instructions give me some comfort, and my experience gives me the rest. I get a fairly consistent result each time according to Hanna. I have had ich in the past and have NOT gone fallow, so I do worry about my tang/foxface population when doing this. There are enough anecdotes out there. Unlike with carbon, I don't drink and dose at the same time.

Every two-three weeks, I dose 10ml to drop my PO4 by about .05 in a 140G display, and about 17ml in my 280G frag to do roughly the same. I mix it with some RODI & slowly, manually, dose it to the top of my overflow over an hour or so. Replace socks some time afterward.

I use the same elimi-phos for years with no issues. I’ve even added the dose directly to the display display. I now dose the overflow or crash box. I have a gem, yt, scopas, white tail and hippo.

Epic Aquaculture · Apr 20, 2022

Just a quick update on the DT. Things are definitely rebounding. Still a long way to go, but here are some cell phone pics I took under blues of several Monti's that were pretty much brown a week ago.

Epic Aquaculture · Apr 21, 2022

Our Holy Grail Micromussa's did not suffer any setbacks. Here's one of our colonies looking fat and sassy under daylight and blue setting!

Epic Aquaculture · Apr 22, 2022

Seeing improvement in the sticks daily!

1ocean · Apr 23, 2022

I am so happy for you that your tank is coming back. It is looking good I bet it is even better in person. I almost saw it a little over a year ago when Ken called you while I was at his house. I have his purple tang and he is still happy in the 300 I built.
Sal

ScottB · Apr 23, 2022

SawCJack00 said:
Seeing improvement in the sticks daily!

I learned about the fish problem in your interview (sorry about that), but missed the source of the SPS troubles. Are they related? Was there a phosphate deficit or spike?

Whatever it was, I am glad you are back on the path.

Epic Aquaculture · Apr 25, 2022

ScottB said:
I learned about the fish problem in your interview (sorry about that), but missed the source of the SPS troubles. Are they related? Was there a phosphate deficit or spike?

Whatever it was, I am glad you are back on the path.

Yes they were most definitely related. I'm not exactly sure what caused the SPS to brown out, but within 4 days of the LC incident they all started browning out. I suspect there may have been some smaller fish that died and ended up in the rockwork where I didn't find them, causing. I lost a few colonies, all of which I have backups for. They are showing daily improvement now although it will still be a while until they are fully colored up again.