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[Darkxerox]

So when my tank turned on this morning I found that my rainbow diaseris was dead. It wasn't flipped over or anything so I'm guessing that something had to have ate it because it was healthy and looking great last night.

My experience with diaseris/plates/etc. frags has been poor at best over the years. They often just slough off tissue and die overnight (looks like this one did the same). The fact that one is smaller than a fingernail probably didn't help either.

 

[Invictus]

So when my tank turned on this morning I found that my rainbow diaseris was dead. It wasn't flipped over or anything so I'm guessing that something had to have ate it because it was healthy and looking great last night.

That's always frustrating. I recently had a nice Zoa which had grown from one to four polyps, and then seemingly overnight it was gone like it had never been on the plug.

Unrelated, but i noticed you also bid on that Scoly and Rapunzel torch from CaliKid. Those were nice pieces.

 

[PjFish]

How are those Vegemite bars doing?

 

[Reefer Madness]

My experience with diaseris/plates/etc. frags has been poor at best over the years. They often just slough off tissue and die overnight (looks like this one did the same). The fact that one is smaller than a fingernail probably didn't help either.

Yeah that is what @ReyDeFarts told me is that my tank hates me and and I'm not worthy of a nice diaseris lmfao.

 

[Reefer Madness]

That's always frustrating. I recently had a nice Zoa which had grown from one to four polyps, and then seemingly overnight it was gone like it had never been on the plug.

Unrelated, but i noticed you also bid on that Scoly and Rapunzel torch from CaliKid. Those were nice pieces.

Yeah they shot up crazy high in price on there so I ended up grabbing two really nice cynarinas and a rainbow pectinia.

 

[Reefer Madness]

How are those Vegemite bars doing?

They are the vitaminis from dalua and they have been great so far. I recently got done with the par meter and have pretty good spread throughout the tank with the main lights of corse.

 

[ReyDeFarts]

Yeah that is what @ReyDeFarts told me is that my tank hates me and and I'm not worthy of a nice diaseris lmfao.

Word for word!!!

 

[Reefer Madness]

Word for word!!!

@ReyDeFarts Lmfao I wanted to make sure I didn't miss quote you.

 

[Reefer Madness]

I'm officially less of an idiot I have Two trash cans with rollers lmfao

 

[Reefer Madness]

Laying amongst the zoas

 

[tribbitt]

it really does like hugging your zoas

too funny lol

 

[Reefer Madness]

it really does like hugging your zoas

too funny lol

Yeah i had a better picture but no matter how much i resized the picture it wouldn't upload.

 

[Reefer Madness]

While doing some late night checks with my red light I noticed the porcelain crab i picked up from @SupraSaltyReefer today has already nestled himself into a torch unfortunately it is my holy grail

 

[Reefer Madness]

I am finally beginning to fully utilize the full potential of my skimmer! I had already incorporated the Co2 scubber last month and am genuinely amazed with the improvement in my pH level. I now maintain a steady 8.4, which is significantly higher than the previous range of 7.7-8.1. Unfortunately, this isn't the reason for my post. Instead, it's the fact that I recently added the drain line for my skimmer, which is my most gratifying achievement lmfao

 

[Darkxerox]

I am finally beginning to fully utilize the full potential of my skimmer! I had already incorporated the Co2 scubber last month and am genuinely amazed with the improvement in my pH level. I now maintain a steady 8.4, which is significantly higher than the previous range of 7.7-8.1. Unfortunately, this isn't the reason for my post. Instead, it's the fact that I recently added the drain line for my skimmer, which is my most gratifying achievement lmfao View attachment 63865

You can actually use it to do water changes too by aggressively wet skimming. Kenny does that in his displays. Just be careful with your return chamber volume or if you have any ATO situation since if anything disrupts your sump level you could end up with a flood plus a brackish tank.

 

[Reefer Madness]

You can actually use it to do water changes too by aggressively wet skimming. Kenny does that in his displays. Just be careful with your return chamber volume or if you have any ATO situation since if anything disrupts your sump level you could end up with a flood plus a brackish tank.

Yeah I normally keep my sump level a little lower than this but when I do water changes I have a tendency to put more water in than I take out. So it's a little high right now but the sump is 74 gallons and should be able to handle all the ato water and the return water if something fails or both.

 

[Reefer Madness]

Soooooo....while messing with the tank my wife and little one went up to bed and I went on a good old cental valley crack head mission late into the night. Don't judge tomorrow the wiring should be properly secured to the wall "not by tape" and hidden by a hopefully painted wall strip lol we will see how motivated i am. The lights still need to be leveled and probably lowered a bit but nonetheless here it is in all it's glory. Let's all take a second and pray my lights arent in the fish tank in the morning lol

 

[MarcosD]

Soooooo....while messing with the tank my wife and little one went up to bed and I went on a good old cental valley crack head mission late into the night. Don't judge tomorrow the wiring should be properly secured to the wall "not by tape" and hidden by a hopefully painted wall strip lol we will see how motivated i am. The lights still need to be leveled and probably lowered a bit but nonetheless here it is in all it's glory. Let's all take a second and pray my lights arent in the fish tank in the morning lol View attachment 63868

What did you end up using to attach the light mount to the ceiling?

 

[Reefer Madness]

What did you end up using to attach the light mount to the ceiling?

I still went with toggle bolts just alot smaller ones then I planned on using. I'm kind of upset with myself because I should have used the bigger ones because they are just better quality and don't feel as cheap. The ones i got are still rated for 75 pounds. Then I went with the wire style like the one pictured that uses a screw to run in the rms channel to hold the bar. I bought stainless machine screws with a number 6 washer what I grinded down on each side so it would slide into the channel. I could have probably went with a number 5 washer that might have fit but wanted as much surface area as possible.

 

[MarcosD]

I still went with toggle bolts just alot smaller ones then I planned on using. I'm kind of upset with myself because I should have used the bigger ones because they are just better quality and don't feel as cheap. The ones i got are still rated for 75 pounds. Then I went with the wire style like the one pictured that uses a screw to run in the rms channel to hold the bar. I bought stainless machine screws with a number 6 washer what I grinded down on each side so it would slide into the channel. I could have probably went with a number 5 washer that might have fit but wanted as much surface area as possible.

Just to make sure- because if you asked me a year ago I’d have no idea lol… you screwed that into a stud in your ceiling? I used hooks that had a little wing to hang the wire because I realized where I wanted the lights there wasn’t a stud