Hop's downgrade to 300 gallons: A simple build thread

[crvz]

Any cool fish in the future for diversity?

[Hop]

Originally Posted by motorslave

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!!

Originally Posted by aquawolf

I'm not sure what else I need right now. The two part and kalk are more than sufficient for my current needs, I want to bump the power and reliability of my closed loop pump and change the lights to two 250 watts instead of the 175 and 400. Then the additional vortec has always been in the plans.

I am thinking about plumbing two 44 gallon brutes into the tank with ball valves so I can shut them off from the system, drain them, refill them and turn them back into the system for easy water changes... I think I have every thing I need for this already.

Originally Posted by ScruffyRubicon

Very cool look at your tank in the video!

Thanks eric!

Originally Posted by crvz

Any cool fish in the future for diversity?

Not really anything set in stone. I would like to add a blenny and another small tang perhaps. Since I can't get the cardinals, I was thinking of perhaps around 5 anthias. I really need to refresh my clean up crew one of these days. Then I would like some more montis and perhaps and few other acros. I'm about done with the LPS I think other than I want a favia or something with a real splash of intense color.

Otherwise I'm hoping things take off and I can frag and move some more of the corals I already have around. There is still a bunch of realestate to fill in that area

[crvz]

Originally Posted by Hop

Not really anything set in stone. I would like to add a blenny and another small tang perhaps. Since I can't get the cardinals, I was thinking of perhaps around 5 anthias. I really need to refresh my clean up crew one of these days. Then I would like some more montis and perhaps and few other acros. I'm about done with the LPS I think other than I want a favia or something with a real splash of intense color.

Otherwise I'm hoping things take off and I can frag and move some more of the corals I already have around. There is still a bunch of realestate to fill in that area

You should get a bariene or dussumier. Although the mata is really cool, too. Of course then we'll see the "Hop's upgrade back to 450 gallons" thread in a few months.

If you need any frags, I ship. I'm actually wanting to get rid of a few of my caps. Think about it (purple rim calling your name)!

[Hop]

Originally Posted by crvz

You should get a bariene or dussumier. Although the mata is really cool, too. Of course then we'll see the "Hop's upgrade back to 450 gallons" thread in a few months.

If you need any frags, I ship. I'm actually wanting to get rid of a few of my caps. Think about it (purple rim calling your name)!

That would be cool! I have a purple cap that I got with the last order and it just isn't doing well at all. Now my red and green are doing great. In fact the red it encrusting over the rock and growing like mad. I notice growth every few days. I'm going to see about moving the purple this week and see if does better on the other side of the tank. I also need to move the green before it starts growing on the rockwork too.

I'm cleaning up my ATO valve now since I came close to a kalk mishap the other night. It's been to long since I cleaned it and it got stuck in the closed position thank goodness

[Hop]

Wordage update... No response needed...

I managed to get the new vent fan installed today. they changed the design so I had to do some modding of the new vent fan, but it seems to be working OK.

I also cleaned the powerheads in the tank and did a once over. Everything looks to be doing fine... Also had to pick up a few months supply of frozen food since I was just about out.

[Hop]

Another text update

I removed the manifold from the sump today that fed my po4 reactors and fuge. First it was just too much pump and second, one of the joints apparently started sucking air in and blowing massive microbubbles into the fuge. So I slapped an eheim 1250 and a mj1200 back on.

Otherwise I may have found a killer deal on a pair of 250 watt HQI ballasts with lumenarc mini reflectors. So the conversion to 250 watt may come sooner than later. Then I started thinking what if I kept the 400 watt and moved it to the center and added the 2 hqis to the sides...Hmmmm....

[Fly Guy]

Originally Posted by Hop

Then I started thinking what if I kept the 400 watt and moved it to the center and added the 2 hqis to the sides...Hmmmm....

the sweetest colored tank I have seen was acropora nuts.

he was running two reeflux 12k's and 3 reeflux 10k's.

I actually tried to duplicate it but couldnt with 2-10's and a 12 over a 6 foot tank..........I woudl have need to use 5 bulbs as well....

it is sweet though

[Hop]

Originally Posted by Fly Guy

the sweetest colored tank I have seen was acropora nuts.

he was running two reeflux 12k's and 3 reeflux 10k's.

I actually tried to duplicate it but couldnt with 2-10's and a 12 over a 6 foot tank..........I woudl have need to use 5 bulbs as well....

it is sweet though

I think I swapped some emails with him when I was doing my lighting research. I really liked his set up.

[Hop]

Urgggg. I just found a aeolid nudi in my fuge... I'm a little panic stricken now Guess I'll be doing some reading and treatment...

[crvz]

what kind of nudi is that?

[Hop]

the monti loving kind

[Fly Guy]

how many montis do you have??

have you inspected them??

[Hop]

I have six (three caps and three digis). It looks like there may be a spot on the underside of my green digi that is affected. I was planning on pulling t out here later and looking closer. Of course it's the one that is glued to a big rock

[Hop]

I think my plan of attack will be to remove and inspect each monti today, dip them, pick off any visible nudis, clip any affected areas where eggs may be and then add a wrasse. I guess I'll have to keep up this routine.

I'm just bummed since my red cap is getting huge and growing well

[Hop]

Well I inspected the montis and can't see anything... My green digi had some tissue issues on the underside of a couple branches, but I couldn't see any eggs. I did a 15 minute dip in TMPCC of the green digi and didn't see anything except a pod floating in the water.

I think at this point I'm going to order the wrasse (since I needed to restock my CUC anyways) and keep monitoring.