Picture thread

[Dj City]

Hello everyone,

This may be kinda random but I wanted to create a picture thread.
I'm trying to post EVERY picture I've ever posted all in one thread and have a running list from this point on.

I don't know why there is no way to see all pics posted within the forum. But... I don't know how these things work so there may be no way to do it.

Well....
Here goes.

 

[jsker]

Hello everyone,

This may be kinda random but I wanted to create a picture thread.
I'm trying to post EVERY picture I've ever posted all in one thread and have a running list from this point on.

I don't know why there is no way to see all pics posted within the forum. But... I don't know how these things work so there may be no way to do it.

Well....
Here goes.

Go in to the media tab and create you own media file. Post all your picture there and your media will be available.

 

[Dj City]

Tank had been running for about 3 years at this point. This is when I joined Reef2Reef
March 24, 2017

March 24, 2017
Beginning to deal with slight algae issue
NOT running GFO at this point in tanks life

March 24, 2017
Started dosing Hydrogen Peroxide trying to deal with what I thought at the time were diatoms

March 24, 2017
It was suggested to me to run a refugium. I explained my super complicated sump set up and that I had no room for a fuge.

From her it goes up through 2 PVC pipes to remote sumps

3 remote sumps
First tank has about 3" of sand and live rock rubble. Then it flows to the 2nd 10gal tank that contains the skimmer. The pump for the biopellet reactor is there as well and the outlet of reactor is right next to the skimmer intake.
Then it flows to the 5gal tank that contains live rock rubble and return pump
Like I said...
It's complicated.

1st is 10gal with sand and live rock rubble, 2nd is 10gal with skimmer and outlet of Bioballs, 3rd is 5 gal with return pump.

 

[Dj City]

April 1, 2017
I was looking for new lights because the lights I had were NOT getting the job done.
I had were current usa orbit led and fluval sea reef led.

This is what I found...
Marineland fixture.
48" 6 lights. Two mh and 4 t5.

I got the light for $25 but one ballast for the MH was bad.
I wound up using the Marineland light WITH the Orbit and Fluval Sea LED's.
Orbit and Fluval Sea down the middle with the T5's to the outside.
This worked out surprisingly well!

 

[Dj City]

April 11, 2017
Added RO/DI unit (NO PICTURES)

 

[Dj City]

April 16, 2017
Fighting HIGH nitrates and what I thought were diatoms and algae.
This turned out to be the beginning of my battle against DINOS though I did not know it yet.
This day was the start of a MASSIVE water change. 1st time using RO/DI water.

April 19, 2017
Everyone thought it was diatoms and asked about my flow.
This was my return pump at the time.

I have a UV Sterilizer on order at this point. Pentair aquatics Smart UV 40W

I'm glad I was getting the UV sterilizer. While doing my water change, I took a powerhead to blow off the rocks and all this stuff came off and into in my water.
I'd never seen it before. Did not know what it was but I felt sure the UV would sterilize it so it could not reproduce.
I put the magnum 350 on the tank in the meantime to get as much of it out as I could.

It was all over the water column just hanging there suspended in the water. With no flow going on during my water change, this was a weird sight to see.
I took a net and grabbed as much add I could but it was an awful lot of whatever it was. I later learned it was DINOS.

 

[Dj City]

April 19th, 2017
I posted pics of my Freshwater tank that has had NO maintenance in over 4 years. No water changes or anything.

 

[Dj City]

April 25th, 2017
New sump...
Eshops R300

How the sump flows

 

[Dj City]

May 9th, 2017
I got my nitrates to 5.0ppm from 40ppm
At this point I'm still working on 0ppm.

My levels are...

Calcium.......................460
Kh.................................8 / 143.2
Magnesium................1460
Ph..................................8.0
Salinity.........................1.026
Temp.............................78.8°

Monti cap is showing good growth. Hammer is not happy.

Granted, these pics were taken after lights out. The 1st pic is what that hammer looked like all day. The others look better during the day but the sad looking one is declining.

 

[Dj City]

April 28th, 2017
The flow in my tank at this time.
My return pump is pushing 1200gph but I also have the two jeabo wp4's with the maxspect gyre and the jecod crossflow.
I had just ordered my new return pump. It's a Jeabo DCT 10000 pump.

 

[Dj City]

July 31st, 2017
I've had this tank up and running for over 3 years at this point.
I've had nitrate issues in the past but they seem to have just about gone away since I started using ro/di water.

The problem I'm having is this yellowish film that develops on the glass. It's thick, it's constant and no matter how much I mag float it, it keeps returning the next day. I can't go two days without having a thick film on my tank walls.

I am not over stocked, I do not over feed. I have more than enough flow. I have a good sump and skimmer. I run gfo and rox carbon. I change out my filter sock every 2 to 3 days. I have good lighting with two led steps and four t5 lights (about 2 months old).
The film is not on the rocks that I can see, just on the glass.
My levels are pretty good at....
Ph..............8.4
Nitrate......5.0
Phos...........0
Calcium....520 (I know it's high)
Kh..............7dkh / 125.3
Mag...........1480 (approximately)

Lights are
Orbit marine led
Fluval sea reef led
4 t5 at I bulbs (3 blue 1 purple)
Skimmer is SCA 302

I cleaned a small part of the glass for contrast

 

[Dj City]

August 17th, 2017
I decided to build an algae reactor to try to deal with high nitrates.
I had a large Aquatop media reactor that was not being used so I re-purposed it.
I have a maxijet 1200 on it running wide open.
DAY 1

Aug 21st, 2017
Day 4 of algae reactor

Aug 24th,
Day 7 of algae reactor

After adding seachem fusion 1 and 2 last week, I see that I need to start dosing a calcium supplement. After adding the seachem, calcium went up to 460 and Kh up to 9.
My calcium went from 460 to 420 in 7 days. Kh remains the same.
The algae reactor is working! For the 1st time in 4 years, I have 0 nitrates according to the test.
My water parameters as of today
Calcium......................420
Kh/Dkh.......................161.1 / 9
Mag.............................1475 (approximately)
Ph.................................8.0
Nitrate.........................0
Phos.............................0 (according to test)
Salinity........................1.024

 

[Dj City]

Dec 26th 2017
Getting ready to tart Triton
I did not have real lights for my fuge (yet). I used the LED strip from the algae reactor that was decommissioned in favor of a larger fuge for Triton.
I moved the skimmer to the fuge section of the sump because the skimmer section is larger.
The Snowflake clown lives in the sump because my large Maroon clown is trying very hard to kill her
Green stuff in skimmer is phytoplankton that was dosed to the tank.

Dec 26th 2017
Tank is not clean inside or out. Sand is not clean but I guess I'm not doing toooooo bad based on the coral gtowth between this pic vs. the last pic of the tank that I posted.

I decided to buy the Growstar 150watt LED light

Compared the spectrum. Pretty dang close to the Kessil h380 at about 1/7th the price

 

[Dj City]

Dec 31st, 2017
Not quite as ghetto rigged anymore.
I have a fluval sea marine nano led light.
I had both lights running over the fuge.

Jan 2nd, 2018

 

[MSB123]

How do you like the growstar?

 

[Dj City]

Jan 3dr, 2018
I had chaeto and grape growing on purpose but I had hair algae growing around the grape. I removed as much as I could from the "on purpose" algae.
Once this stuff was identified, It got tossed!

 

[Dj City]

Jan 5th, 2018
This is the cheato growth under the growstar light.
This is 5 days of growth. I posted day 1 pic with day 5 pic for comparison.

Day 1 (Hair algae removed right after this pic was taken)

Day 5

 

[Dj City]

Jan 14th, 2018

I was having a problem.
I'm was growing cheato but getting this thick film on the surface of the water and a lot of air bubbles on the algae

 

[Dj City]

Jan 21st, 2018
I thought I might have to stop using the Growstar ufo light.
I had to switch my sump back to a traditional configuration. I thought the Growstar was going to be too much light for the size of the fuge. I put it over the fuge, turned it on and almost went blind. The fuge has white walls and the power of the light plus the reflection of the light is really very bright.
I had put the Fluval Sea marine and reef nano led light over the fuge for the time being.

Specs of Fluval Sea LED light

 

[Dj City]

Feb 27th, 2018
I put the Growstar back over the fuge along with the Fluvan LED around Feb 1st.

Jan 21st pic

Feb 24th pic

The Growstar has been doing it's job VERY well.
I have a maxijet 1200 in the intake section feeding the fuge with raw tank water