210 gallon Dream tank

[Kensington Reefer]

Here is a breif update:

Two new additions.

1.) Porcupine Puffer 3.5-4 inches
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Picked him up 2 weeks ago.

He's crazy cool follows me around the tank and I mostly feed him with tongs but he's let me hand feed him as well. He pretty much ignores all the other fish and goes where ever he wants very peaceful. He's also shown zero attention to any corals or my snails.

I've only been able to get him to eat Krill, and occasionally he will grab frozen mysis or larger brine when I feed the other fish.

I've tried clams on the half shell he ignores them and mostly everything but Krill (I may try some regular shrimp and just cut them up to the size of krill)


2.) Clown Tang 5 inches
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From @Srt4eric

This fish almost thinks it's a wrasse. It just swims back & forth, up & down, and around & around all day long. I will say by that he loves the tank.

He's.shown no aggression to any of the other fish. They really crazy part despite the size of the tank. It sleeps in the same cave with the yellow tang, flame angel, and the two maroon clowns. They are all literally touching while they slept.

As far as the tank itself:

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I'm starting to see some hair alage popping up.

I tested p04 a few days ago with hanna ulr and got a reading of .57 so a bit elevated but nothing that has me crazy concerned. I'm still slowly ramping up on cuc over time.

In orderto keep p04 from rising more I added a larger brs reactor like I have on my main sps tank running Rowaphos.
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I will test again tomorrow and see if the reactor is making a difference or if I need to adjust it some.

I'm also noticing bubbles clinging to some of the rocks. I strongly suspect I need to add more mp40s to the tank. Currently only running one. I do have 3 older white mp40s waiting to be added. Though I'm concerned about tripping breakers in the house so I've Hesitated to hook up more. I will likely try to get at least one of them added to increase the flow so that hopefully I don't end up with cyano or the like.

I want to also add the uv from my frag system as well, but the same power use and tripping breakers has me again worried about adding another energy draw.

That’s a phat lil yellow tang!

 

[derek_SR]

It's older construction and I have 3 tanks in the same room. So a total of 7 - 360xs, 3 different heaters, 6 return pumps (3 are small ones granted)

The tvs and other typical house appliances.

It's not all on the same outlet of course, but most of these outlets are on the same breaker with my livingroom and master bedroom. I had to plug the bed room ac up down the hallway with super long extension cord not to trip the breaker. I may likely need to do the same for one of the tanks to spread out the power draw on different breakers idk.

In my kitchen different breaker. I can't run microwave and washing machine at same time or that breaker will trip. In my garage I have to unplug the frag tank to run my air compressor as well. So kinda a older house type issue.

Sounds pretty sketchy - you may want to have an electrician take a look. If the breakers are 15amp circuits it would be a pretty easy upgrade to 20amp to open up some capacity without needing to do a ton of work. But if there's room in your panel you could just add an entirely new circuit as well.

Your situation would give me some serious anxiety, fires are not uncommon in this hobby!

 

[MichaelB]

Sounds pretty sketchy - you may want to have an electrician take a look. If the breakers are 15amp circuits it would be a pretty easy upgrade to 20amp to open up some capacity without needing to do a ton of work. But if there's room in your panel you could just add an entirely new circuit as well.

Your situation would give me some serious anxiety, fires are not uncommon in this hobby!

It's was like at 530 pm every day they would trip turning off all my tanks like clock work until we plugged ac up elsewhere hasn't happened since than. It's a apartment so highly limited on what I can change or alter. Not sure if trying to get a electrician to upgrade a breaker would be to much.

 

[derek_SR]

It's was like at 530 pm every day they would trip turning off all my tanks like clock work until we plugged ac up elsewhere hasn't happened since than. It's an apartment so highly limited on what I can change or alter. Not sure if trying to get an electrician to upgrade a breaker would be to much.

Ah yeah I forget you’re in an apartment.

If it was me I would just go with fewer tanks. But I have STS, the opposite of what most of y’all got

 

[Kensington Reefer]

It's was like at 530 pm every day they would trip turning off all my tanks like clock work until we plugged ac up elsewhere hasn't happened since than. It's an apartment so highly limited on what I can change or alter. Not sure if trying to get an electrician to upgrade a breaker would be to much.

Electrician…$$$
But not burning your apartment complex to the ground may be worth the investment.
Or less plugs and watts
I’m sure your neighbors would appreciate it
How the renter’s insurance?

 

[Turkeysammich]

It's was like at 530 pm every day they would trip turning off all my tanks like clock work until we plugged ac up elsewhere hasn't happened since than. It's a apartment so highly limited on what I can change or alter. Not sure if trying to get a electrician to upgrade a breaker would be to much.

It’s a waste of time to have an electrician come out. This is how buildings work. The breaker is not to protect the equipment/ appliances. It’s actually to protect the wire. The wire is the most expensive part since if it fails it can cause a fire or super expensive to replace ( man hours ).
That being said. The wire is gauged to the breaker. It is sized correctly. Now if you change the breaker to a higher amp. You are commanding the wire to flow more amps which will heat the wire up. This can result in a fire. So yeah. No licensed electrician will be able to help. He will tell you to run a new sub panel and appropriate wire to the aquarium from the main.
Sorry for the bad new. A alternative is to find 2 separate circuits and share the load to the aquarium.

 

[MichaelB]

Electrician…$$$
But not burning your apartment complex to the ground may be worth the investment.
Or less plugs and watts
I’m sure your neighbors would appreciate it
How the renter’s insurance?

I have some renters ins, it's mainly high wattage stuff that surges ac, microwaves air compressor washing machine that we have to be mindful of using at the same time. None are on same breaker as tanks currently.

It's a issue through the entire house.

 

[Coral reefer]

It’s a waste of time to have an electrician come out. This is how buildings work. The breaker is not to protect the equipment/ appliances. It’s actually to protect the wire. The wire is the most expensive part since if it fails it can cause a fire or super expensive to replace ( man hours ).
That being said. The wire is gauged to the breaker. It is sized correctly. Now if you change the breaker to a higher amp. You are commanding the wire to flow more amps which will heat the wire up. This can result in a fire. So yeah. No licensed electrician will be able to help. He will tell you to run a new sub panel and appropriate wire to the aquarium from the main.
Sorry for the bad new. A alternative is to find 2 separate circuits and share the load to the aquarium.

This is likely the case. Sometimes wire could be large enough gauge for a 20 amp breaker, but this is older appartment building. I dont know enough about historical construction and electricity to know if everyone at that time just used 15 watt breakers when this was built or what gauge wires were common. No idea if this building would be knob and tube or romex insulated or…?
An electrician could likely tell you what gauge the wires connected to the breaker are and easily put in a new 20 amp breaker if the wires were sufficient.
I’m guessing it would wind up being a waste of time and money and they won’t want to do it.

 

[MichaelB]

It’s a waste of time to have an electrician come out. This is how buildings work. The breaker is not to protect the equipment/ appliances. It’s actually to protect the wire. The wire is the most expensive part since if it fails it can cause a fire or super expensive to replace ( man hours ).
That being said. The wire is gauged to the breaker. It is sized correctly. Now if you change the breaker to a higher amp. You are commanding the wire to flow more amps which will heat the wire up. This can result in a fire. So yeah. No licensed electrician will be able to help. He will tell you to run a new sub panel and appropriate wire to the aquarium from the main.
Sorry for the bad new. A alternative is to find 2 separate circuits and share the load to the aquarium.

Yea I may try to get one of the tanks on the kitchen breaker. To spread it out more.

I will likely get ride of frag tank in my garage, so at somepoint, A tank can also be directed to that breaker.

My frag tank is pretty much empty except last of my torches I will move over today, lots of zoas a d some mushrooms.

Only a baby maroon clownfish in it as far as fish.