Rodney’s 150 hexagon 3 years late!

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Well I got up this morning to go to work and I hear my cross flow pump sucking air bubbles blowing them in my display tank. I checked and my return pump quit last night! Went and reset it it wouldn’t pump had to install my old pump it’s working but only a stream as big as your thumb. Will have to order a new one today. So aggravating!!! :mad: Hope the air bubbles and reduced flow didn’t hurt my new Acro frags. Maybe in a little while when the lights turn on I can tell.
 
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Got my old pump hooked up and it is working. It will do until I get my new pump from amazon. Thankful that it didn’t happen while we were gone on a trip or something.
 
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Ups jest delivered my new 5200 gph.DC pump got to get it installed!
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Wow my drain lines will have to be up graded pump will fill tank up to top on 80 % 59 % matches old pump.
 
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Got my new cheap low tech ATO I built yesterday and installed today on my frag tank sump.
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Over the last three or so
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weeks I have been slowly raising my KH. A little bit and feeding more to raise No3 and po4. And my raja rampage that had turned purple has turned back green.
 
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Trying some new products this week. Going to propagate some phytoplankton and and got a bottle of hatching food with several kinds of live eggs will try it and see what hatches?

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I tried putting a 2x2 “ frag plate on the shelf were my clown fish lay their eggs and she would have no part of it ! She fanned with her tail and pushed it off the shelf’s edge. Guess I will have to get something heavier.
 
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It’s been 9 days since I started my culture of hatching food I bought. Today I thought it was all dead so I undone the bubbler and held the 3 leader bottle up to the light and saw a lot of movement. So I strand it through a fine mesh net and put it in my frag tank and their were thousands of small creatures swimming everywhere. Probably mostly brine shrimp but I’m not sure next time I’ll check it under my microscope and see what all there is?
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Well it’s been one month today since I got my 8 new Acropora frags and all are still alive and the color on all has improved and Have some growth extremely happy so far!
 
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I built a shelf and added a second light for my phytoplankton cultivation containers. I also raised my light on my display tank to 100 percent on blue and 45 percent white from 90 and 40 . I will leave it there for two months if it does well and maybe try 50 percent.
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I am thinking about moving two rocks with some of the mushrooms on them towards the bottom to open things up a little bit and see how it looks.
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I moved the two rocks with a lot of the mushrooms on it to my frag tank. I like the way it opened up the aquscape will probably get better water flow through the bottom of the tank. However my clowns were not happy about it one of the rocks was a favorite egg laying spot. Maybe now I can put a tile on the other rock and they will lay on it!
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Today I was noticing my Oregon tort. And checked a photo from the day I got it 2 1/2 months ago I couldn’t believe it has incrusted as much as it has.
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I found out today why my pump quit in September The long spine urchin I put in my sump ate holes in the cord he done it to my new one had to plumb it in external and rewire it.
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Good news I redone the wiring on the pump that quit in September and it works so now I have a really good backup pump it will just have to be plumbed external!
 
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Yesterday I noticed this little guy in my frag tank. I put it on a ID thread to see if is ok . I hope it is a good hitchhiker it looks
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