Eric's Frag tank!!!

[Srt4eric]

What made you change?

I'm not the best at refilling my dosing containers.

 

[Darkxerox]

In the last month I've lost five torches. About one per week. They look amazing the night before and then I check my tank before work and they are covered in brown jelly. This morning it was my NY Knicks torch. I need to do something. So I'm starting an in tank treatment of cipro.

I didn't have enough time to set up a qt tank for my knicks so I put it in a container and floated it in my sump. This is what it looked like after work today.
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This is what it looked like yesterday...
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This is my nightmare, sorry you have this happening Eric. Maybe the torch whisperer @Danhsj has any tips?

 

[popper]

I’ve done in tank cipro or chemiclean treatments when my torches look unhappy. Works wonders.

Which method did you use?

 

[Srt4eric]

Which method did you use?

Brown Jelly Disease and Euphyllia

I was doing a bit of reading on possible treatment options for BJD. I found this information on “another forum”. This experimental information is very interesting and I was wondering if anyone on here has had success using this treatment also. Or any of the meds listed by Taricha in his post. I...

humble.fish

 

[Srt4eric]

It's been a little while since I've updated this thing. The 80 frag tank that I set up to hold all my lps is going to crap. I've lost most of my acans and the thing is infested with aptasia and covered in gha. It's sharing the sump for my sps tank that is doing amazing.

I just had Chris from Rhinos Reef print me this amazing photo booth. It really neat and so far its the best one I've used. It has a couple of adjustments on the base so you can either raise the frag being featured or angle it towards the camera.

Here's a Pink Floyd I got from @Rcruz392 before he moved 5 months ago.

Here it is last night in the photo booth.

 

[Coral reefer]

Sps only it is!

 

[salty_taste]

It's been a little while since I've updated this thing. The 80 frag tank that I set up to hold all my lps is going to crap. I've lost most of my acans and the thing is infested with aptasia and covered in gha. It's sharing the sump for my sps tank that is doing amazing.

I just had Chris from Rhinos Reef print me this amazing photo booth. It really neat and so far its the best one I've used. It has a couple of adjustments on the base so you can either raise the frag being featured or angle it towards the camera.

Here's a Pink Floyd I got from @Rcruz392 before he moved 5 months ago.
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Here it is last night in the photo booth.

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Love the Macro Shots!

 

[Matthew Meyer]

Those Frags are amazing Eric.

 

[Kensington Reefer]

Sad about the torches
But your SPS look very happy

But I can see many aiptasia tentacles
Scary...

 

[tankguy]

That’s an awesome pic. Coral looks as happy as can be

 

[Srt4eric]

Sad about the torches
But your SPS look very happy

But I can see many aiptasia tentacles
Scary...

Torches are all fine now. Just the acans sucks at life currently.

 

[Srt4eric]

Sad about the torches
But your SPS look very happy

But I can see many aiptasia tentacles
Scary...

Moen!!! I haven't forgotten about you

 

[Srt4eric]

So I tore down the 80 gallon frag tank and replaced it with a 48x24x12 glass frag tank I got from @Coral reefer. The 80 was only 4 inches taller but it made a huge difference.

 

[Turkeysammich]

Looks like a Fish store.

 

[salty_taste]

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Were you able to save this gem of an acan? Never seen one with colors like this before..

 

[Srt4eric]

Were you able to save this gem of an acan? Never seen one with colors like this before..

Nope. It's gone.

 

[Kensington Reefer]

Oh my!
I see you have “the problem”
Polyps looking good!
A fine collection

 

[richiev]

Wow man, that's a crazy collection and build out! Nice work!

Have you done any growth time lapses of those sps? It'd be interesting to see your growth

 

[ashburn2k]

Man been there with 3 frag tanks hopefully you can keep those up as long as you can. It was joyous but tremendous work, nice job!

 

[Srt4eric]

So its been pretty bumpy. The new 60 gallon frag tank only has one drain. Some how the return pump got bumped up to 100%. The m2 vectra pushes a bit more water than that single drain can handle. Tank overflowed a bit and salinity was dropped to 30ppt. A little less than two weeks later the sps losses started. Oh well...

That was almost a month ago. Last Wednesday the power went out for just under an hour. When I came back on my Apex was screwed up and one of my eb832s had blown. Must of lost one of my 3 heaters also because for two morning I woke up and head my inkbird beeping in my garage before leaving for work. Two nights in a row my tanks dropped below 70... 68° to be exact. My carx had also been down for four days.

Yesterday I spent hour pulling every single piece of equipment off my tank and reinstalled everything neatly. If my wires weren't such a rats nest it wouldn't of taken me 4 days to get that power bar swapped out and it would of saved me a lot of headaches.

Everything is up and running better than ever now.