my new baby... AKA The Café

[Lowell Lemon]

I built a few glass tanks over the years and you are showing one reason I like acrylic! Acrylic can cut you as well but it was lighter and did not shatter.

 

[Goaway]

Hey Cafe, I need moar blue. Do I change lights or add supplement bars. I'm at 95% on blue/uv channels on current lights.

T5s?

 

[Alfie]

Wrasse Wednesday!

never have a dragon wrasse again

 

[Projects with Sam]

never have a dragon wrasse again

They mess with you?

 

[Goaway]

They mess with you?

I'm sure it did quite often.

"Get away from my corals you stone throwing sob! Hey, hey, don't eat that snail!"

 

[Nate Chalk]

Okay brain trust, Got a local buddy who doesn't forum but needs some help outside of my expertise. (Cyano)

We set up the tank about a year ago with new live sand, existing live rock and marine pure blocks that have been cycle for many years.

5 ft. 150 gallon running 3 AI Hydra 32's that are two years old. There is Plenty of flow across the sandbed.

N03 stable at 10-12
PO4 stable at .07-.1
Running appropriately sized UV

Homie has been battling Cyano (red slime) for months. It is Only present on the sandbed. Never on the rocks. Vacuuming it out in clumps and it returns the next day.

Done two chemiclean red treatments which only helps for a short time but does not eradicate it. The slime is back in full force shortly after treatment.

I've never delt with or had to battle cyano.

Any thoughts on the problem and ways to tackle it would be appreciated.

Uv?

The calcium carbonate water clarifier with bacteria is said to with cyano.

Oxydator?

 

[Nate Chalk]

M

Sup Cronies? What's the quickest most effective way that yall have found to remove heavy metals from the water column? I've done all the water changes my system can take and going to have to go to plan B.
@Lost in the Sauce its crazy you mention cyano as it was the 1st thing that popped up to let me know i had an issue which turned out to be a rusty razor blade stuck to a frag rack magnet. Has he sent a sample in?

Metazorb second/thirds on that

 

[Nate Chalk]

Dang caught up on the plane . @N1tew0lf1212 almost lost a finger. Geesh. Nems ok. And cyano brain trust. Boom boom.

Frankentank no movement yet? @fishguy242 or maybe I missed.

 

[Goaway]

Dang caught up on the plane . @N1tew0lf1212 almost lost a finger. Geesh. Nems ok. And cyano brain trust. Boom boom.

Frankentank no movement yet? @fishguy242 or maybe I missed.

@fishguy242 is mia.

Some kind of fallout. Hopefully he's back soon.

Ps... keeping this as discrete as possible. Someone insulted someone and r2r and is perma gone.

 

[Nate Chalk]

@fishguy242 is mia.

Some kind of fallout. Hopefully he's back soon.

Ps... keeping this as discrete as possible. Someone insulted someone and r2r and is perma gone.

We start r3r then!

That sucks. Ok I'll drop it. So we all remain safe and sound from the evil ban lords

 

[Nate Chalk]

Found a good deal on a tank

Comes with an above tank sump too. Imagine setting this up as a top down aquarium lolol. Good cave structure.

 

[Stang67]

Yeah no tank work for this guy going to have to guide the wife through it

Why does my mind always go straight to the gutter.

 

[Nate Chalk]

Just landed in Georgia Savannah to visit friends.


Georgia Aquarium we will be going July 4th week. So excited . Havent been in a few years and of course pics for people

 

[Nate Chalk]

I know we've talked about this before. Can you achieve a Herbie overflow without a box by ....

1. having a main drain hole with a gate valve
2. An emergency drain drilled slightly higher on the tank/putting a 45 on it and having a slow trickle.

Or is a box easier... Plumbing is hurting my head

 

[Mhamilton0911]

So can I trust used radions? Or should I go orphek bars, I was looking at the blue plus.

 

[Nate Chalk]

So can I trust used radions? Or should I go orphek bars, I was looking at the blue plus.

Orphek has been great! Though I suspect I have a bad controller that keeps burning a bar out.

But easy to fix!

 

[Stang67]

Just landed in Georgia Savannah to visit friends.


Georgia Aquarium we will be going July 4th week. So excited . Havent been in a few years and of course pics for people

You can swim/dive with the whale sharks there. Do it. Thank me later.

 

[Nate Chalk]

You can swim/dive with the whale sharks there. Do it. Thank me later.

Wait . How. Seriously? I will **** my pants ( will let autocorrect do its thing here)

But that would be amazing

Wait there's sharks in there.... I just watched. I'm terrified now

 

[Stang67]

Wait . How. Seriously? I will **** my pants ( will let autocorrect do its thing here)

But that would be amazing

Wait there's sharks in there.... I just watched. I'm terrified now

Of all the things to be a weenie about. Seriously do it. Whale sharks are amazing. And there are rays. And a tshirt.

 

[Nate Chalk]

Of all the things to be a weenie about. Seriously do it. Whale sharks are amazing. And there are rays. And a tshirt.

Do experienced armed body guards go down with you?

I'm highly considering it