Richie's 48x24x12 frag tank

[richiev]

I wish I could get a perfect picture of this tank right now. My acros and other sps are growing into such large colonies that I'm starting to run out of space! At some point I'll start fragging these, and also at some point I'll start transferring them to my display (after I get it setup again).

I'm going to start hunting for more lights for this tank so that I can start spreading things out more.

 

[richiev]

New problem for the day. ATO dumped about 20 gallons of freshwater into my frag tank. Saw it in the morning, turned a fan on over it and went to work.

Finally checked salinity just now and it's about 28.0ppt. I pulled about 6 gallons of water out and added a bit under 5 gallons just to boost a bit.

All coral and fish are still happy looking, including acros with fully extended polyps. Clam however is gaping, which is the main reason I did some water switch.

Currently has a heater blasting in that room, two fans on the tank.

Hopefully is ok. The crazy thing is I've had so many issues with this tank recently and yet everything is very happy. I've never had acros this colorful and growing so well.

Issues just in the last couple months:
* Twice had to power go out overnight due to EcoFlow issues. That would've led to a pretty big temp swing and very little water movement for upwards of 10 hours
* Recently my kalk dosing was either too low or off. Alk has been around 5.5, and I've been slowly increasing it, but it's still below 6. I thought that's actually what screwed up today at first, that I'd been dosing too much kalk until ill realized it was ATO.
* This salinity crash

There's something that's making this tank robust and I'm not sure what it is.

* I dose All-for-Reef during the day and Kalk overnight
* I don't do that many water changes
* I feed many many times a day with an Avast feeder and a mix of reef jerky + mysis
* I occasionally test alk, but nothing else

Really interesting.

 

[richiev]

New problem for the day. ATO dumped about 20 gallons of freshwater into my frag tank. Saw it in the morning, turned a fan on over it and went to work.

Finally checked salinity just now and it's about 28.0ppt. I pulled about 6 gallons of water out and added a bit under 5 gallons just to boost a bit.

All coral and fish are still happy looking, including acros with fully extended polyps. Clam however is gaping, which is the main reason I did some water switch.

Currently has a heater blasting in that room, two fans on the tank.

Hopefully is ok. The crazy thing is I've had so many issues with this tank recently and yet everything is very happy. I've never had acros this colorful and growing so well.

Issues just in the last couple months:
* Twice had to power go out overnight due to EcoFlow issues. That would've led to a pretty big temp swing and very little water movement for upwards of 10 hours
* Recently my kalk dosing was either too low or off. Alk has been around 5.5, and I've been slowly increasing it, but it's still below 6. I thought that's actually what screwed up today at first, that I'd been dosing too much kalk until ill realized it was ATO.
* This salinity crash

There's something that's making this tank robust and I'm not sure what it is.

* I dose All-for-Reef during the day and Kalk overnight
* I don't do that many water changes
* I feed many many times a day with an Avast feeder and a mix of reef jerky + mysis
* I occasionally test alk, but nothing else

Really interesting.

Lost the clam. Rest of the tank seems fine. Bummer because I had that clam a long time, but nice this tank is so robust.

 

[richiev]

Lost the clam. Rest of the tank seems fine. Bummer because I had that clam a long time, but nice this tank is so robust.

My unlucky streak continues. Left town for a couple days, have all my backups in place, and of course right after leaving my primary power supply dies. I even got a wonderful alert via home assistant that my EcoFlow power output dropped to basically 0, but I was driving and assumed it was a false alarm.

Later my neighbor who was checking on things let me know something was alarming. That was the heater in my sump which is underpowered intentionally. Thankfully I moved my main heater into my display awhile back, so at least the temp was stable.

I over the phone walked her through it and got a backup running my return pump, but my power heads are all off, along with my reef pi, and the pump for my QT tank that has a filefish in it. I'm hoping I can get a different friend to stop by tomorrow and connect another one tomorrow.

Worst case it'll be one more thing to deal with when I get back Wednesday.

If that tank wasn't growing so well I'd probably tear it down at this point.

 

[Turkeysammich]

My unlucky streak continues. Left town for a couple days, have all my backups in place, and of course right after leaving my primary power supply dies. I even got a wonderful alert via home assistant that my EcoFlow power output dropped to basically 0, but I was driving and assumed it was a false alarm.

Later my neighbor who was checking on things let me know something was alarming. That was the heater in my sump which is underpowered intentionally. Thankfully I moved my main heater into my display awhile back, so at least the temp was stable.

I over the phone walked her through it and got a backup running my return pump, but my power heads are all off, along with my reef pi, and the pump for my QT tank that has a filefish in it. I'm hoping I can get a different friend to stop by tomorrow and connect another one tomorrow.

Worst case it'll be one more thing to deal with when I get back Wednesday.

If that tank wasn't growing so well I'd probably tear it down at this point.

I’m in sf. Let me know if I can help.

 

[Srt4eric]

I’m in sf. Let me know if I can help.

My unlucky streak continues. Left town for a couple days, have all my backups in place, and of course right after leaving my primary power supply dies. I even got a wonderful alert via home assistant that my EcoFlow power output dropped to basically 0, but I was driving and assumed it was a false alarm.

Later my neighbor who was checking on things let me know something was alarming. That was the heater in my sump which is underpowered intentionally. Thankfully I moved my main heater into my display awhile back, so at least the temp was stable.

I over the phone walked her through it and got a backup running my return pump, but my power heads are all off, along with my reef pi, and the pump for my QT tank that has a filefish in it. I'm hoping I can get a different friend to stop by tomorrow and connect another one tomorrow.

Worst case it'll be one more thing to deal with when I get back Wednesday.

If that tank wasn't growing so well I'd probably tear it down at this point.

Im on several people's emergency tank phone list. You could always add my number to your list.

 

[richiev]

Thanks all! I have the return pump and Kalk dosing still working, which means the only thing it's currently lacking is maximum flow. I think it's stable enough that I'm not considering it an emergency, but I really do appreciate the offer.

The tear down would be kinda sad, but also would be a big money saver and stress remover. I need to get my main display all back in order so I can start moving colonies over and reassess my investments.

Just crazy though how stable this tank is despite all these issues. Hopefully it's still good when I get home tomorrow.