I'm back!

[grizfyrfyter]

Moving the big tank to my office was a mistake.

 

[Apon]

what happened?

 

[grizfyrfyter]

My coworkers don't listen and are ignorant. I turned the office heater up to keep bins and corals warm while the tank filled up (with every heater I had inside it). Someone shut off the heater and everything but the tank was 65 degrees this morning.

Someone noticed the float valve I was using to fill the tank wasn't at the top so they moved it up, causing water to go in the overflow which filled up the sump then flooded the office.

I lost a 3 head frag of bicolor octospawn, Toadstool, green nepthea, 10 trochus snails, 2 turbo snails and all my hermit crabs.

"it smells bad in here."
Yup, that's the smell of my animals dying.

 

[grizfyrfyter]

Had to sit everyone down this morning and tell them not to touch anything without speaking to me first.

This thing ran almost flawlessly all fore season while I was gone for 2 to 3 weeks at a time. 24 hours in the office and I already regret bringing it. I would have rather sold everything.

 

[Apon]

For when I had my tank in office is that I hid the food and only 2 people I trusted to touch the tank. unless there was a power outage it ran good for years. 25g mixed reef.

 

[grizfyrfyter]

I hid the pellets. They can feed a sheet of Nori once a day.

 

[grizfyrfyter]

I had a biocube in my office in Sac a few years ago. It was very successful but became a distraction. I was a dispatcher and couldn't get people to be quite and stop asking me questions about the tank.

 

[musclebenz]

My coworkers don't listen and are ignorant. I turned the office heater up to keep bins and corals warm while the tank filled up (with every heater I had inside it). Someone shut off the heater and everything but the tank was 65 degrees this morning.

Someone noticed the float valve I was using to fill the tank wasn't at the top so they moved it up, causing water to go in the overflow which filled up the sump then flooded the office.

I lost a 3 head frag of bicolor octospawn, Toadstool, green nepthea, 10 trochus snails, 2 turbo snails and all my hermit crabs.

"it smells bad in here."
Yup, that's the smell of my animals dying.

That sucks

 

[grizfyrfyter]

Biocube is doing great. I advance the roller mat every time I feed the tank.

The patches of algae are rapidly receding.

 

[grizfyrfyter]

 

[grizfyrfyter]

My daughter said this Yuma grosses her out and asked me to take it to the office tank.

Twist my arm lol

 

[grizfyrfyter]

 

[grizfyrfyter]

I can't have anything on the sand bed. The pistol shrimps will bury it or drag it into their cave.
They recently pushed a rock out of their tunnels and it had a single surviving polyp of vivid rainbows that was stretched about half an inch trying to find light. It's doing better now but that's really annoying.

 

[grizfyrfyter]

Bought a 6x54w dimmable ati fixture last night (used) and the dimming isn't working. The bulbs pulse from the dim setting to full power about once a second.

Already talked to ati and they gave me some troubleshooting tips. Probably a bad controller.
$130.

Sometimes I feel like I just can't catch a break.

 

[grizfyrfyter]

Getting 200 par on the bottom glass and 600 on the rocks. It would be nice to be able to dim them.

 

[Darkxerox]

Could always run some layered screening over the tank like I did in the metal halide days. Not ideal but it's an option.

 

[grizfyrfyter]

Pretty sure this isn't the Cotton Candy torch that Deep Blue Aquarium claimed it was.

 

[grizfyrfyter]

Now I know why they gave me a free t-shirt with the $240 coral.

I hate this industry.

 

[grizfyrfyter]

The 6 bulb ati sunpower at 100%.
I'm glad I didn't try growing much with the 8 bulb. The numbers must have been outrageous. No wonder I don't have coraline anywhere but the underside of rocks.

 

[grizfyrfyter]

So, the dimming function on my ati fixed itself overnight.
I don't really understand how. Maybe the internal battery on the controller needed a charge without the bulbs being powered? I've been scratching my head about it all morning.

I lowered it back down to about 8" off the water (to reduce light spill on my co-workers desk who insisted on sitting right next to the tank). Both channels at 35% gives me a peak par reading of 125 μmol on the bottom glass with no shading and some reflection off a vertical pane.

Tomorrow I will see what I'm getting on the top of the rocks. I may have to raise the light a little and just build a shroud for it. Lots of aluminum and a tig welder in our hanger so it won't be hard.