My 320 Gallon Build - Father of 10

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It looks Isopod or Chiton to me kind of. Looks like it has hinges along it's back.

 

[Imrahilwjz]

It looks Isopod or Chiton to me kind of. Looks like it has hinges along it's back.

Makes sense.

 

[Imrahilwjz]

Results came back on mixing tank. No copper or zinc. Kinda high silicon, but I can live with that. Water changes started.

 

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Results came back on mixing tank. No copper or zinc. Kinda high silicon, but I can live with that. Water changes started.

And he's back!

 

[Imrahilwjz]

My 3 year old likes to help

 

[Imrahilwjz]

19 years of marriage today. Hopefully my daughters won't let the tank crash while we're gone

 

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Congrats on 19!

 

[Imrahilwjz]

Congrats on 19!

Thank you!

 

[Imrahilwjz]

An experiment, in the vein of @PaulB. I'm hoping algae will grow on the burlap. I have quite a lot of it. When it gets clotted with algae I can bury it in my garden and add new burlap

 

[Imrahilwjz]

These are Chemipure Elite. I plan to change 1 bag out on 6-25 and then change a bag every month. That way once the schedule is started each bag will be changed every 4 months.

 

[Imrahilwjz]

An experiment, in the vein of @PaulB. I'm hoping algae will grow on the burlap. I have quite a lot of it. When it gets clotted with algae I can bury it in my garden and add new burlap

I had the idea for this while reading a @PaulB post. He described something similar that used window screen or something like that

 

[Imrahilwjz]

This was my original 13 gallon tank when it was brand new. I was taking advice from the LFS owner. He thought that white spotted hermit was reef safe - NOT! He also said the spotted mandarin would be fine if I target fed him. He did survive right up until I had my new 90 gallon setup cycled. Then he jumped out of the tank. Maybe he thought he would starve in there. I'm pretty sure a tiger conch did. Later I had a green mandarin in the 90 gallon who did well. I did have a small Algaebarn pod prescription, but it probably had more to do with the fact that I bought live rock from 2 different LFS's.

 

[Imrahilwjz]

Same tank. At the time I was hoping someone on YouTube would know what this worm was. I didn't know about Reef2Reef then.

 

[Imrahilwjz]

Waiting on a filter body and need to get DE. Still thinking about how to back flush it after use.

 

[Imrahilwjz]

An experiment, in the vein of @PaulB. I'm hoping algae will grow on the burlap. I have quite a lot of it. When it gets clotted with algae I can bury it in my garden and add new burlap

Didn't work. The burlap softened faster than I thought it would. About the time it started to seriously grow algae the burlap tore and fell into the sump. The falling water splashed against the door and actually lowered the sump a few inches before I saw it. Fortunately I had plenty of ASW. Also made me glad that I had a stainless steel tray built to go under the stand. The tray drains through a piece of PEX that then mates to the ABS pipes under the house. If I could do it over, I would have made the drain from the tray at least 1.5 inches, maybe even 2". It would require more planning to make sure you had clearance for the pipes, but would have been worth it. The drain handled this overflow, but my refugium has the same size drain and when I first put the system together I had too much water flowing into the refugium for what the return could handle and flooded my bedroom. My wife was awesome about it. She just cleaned it up and put everything up on scraps of lumber. However, it would have been easier if all the water just ran down the drain.

 

[Imrahilwjz]

Didn't work. The burlap softened faster than I thought it would. About the time it started to seriously grow algae the burlap tore and fell into the sump. The falling water splashed against the door and actually lowered the sump a few inches before I saw it. Fortunately I had plenty of ASW. Also made me glad that I had a stainless steel tray built to go under the stand. The tray drains through a piece of PEX that then mates to the ABS pipes under the house. If I could do it over, I would have made the drain from the tray at least 1.5 inches, maybe even 2". It would require more planning to make sure you had clearance for the pipes, but would have been worth it. The drain handled this overflow, but my refugium has the same size drain and when I first put the system together I had too much water flowing into the refugium for what the return could handle and flooded my bedroom. My wife was awesome about it. She just cleaned it up and put everything up on scraps of lumber. However, it would have been easier if all the water just ran down the drain.

Contemplating either trying used cotton t-shirts in place of the burlap, or setting up a plastic tray that the burlap can just sit in until it is thoroughly covered in algae. Still undecided