Peter's Garage Tank
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Wlachnit
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RandyC
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Looks like a meteor shower cyphastrea.
Edgar Sandoval
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Aggressive coral. This was mine, It grew super fast. Sold the whole rock a few weeks ago
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Coral reefer
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Fast grower, but aggressive? It doesn't sting or nothin does it?
Edgar Sandoval
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It actually does sting. I had to move the sps away from it
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Kremis
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same here
Coral reefer
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Never had it in my tank. Good to know.
daddio
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Thanks for the heads up! It has about 5 inches to its nearest neighbor - a Joker Favia
daddio
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At our house, it is all you can eat pods
daddio
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We have been adding 20ml of live Phyto to our tank everyday for 6 weeks. While everything looks real happy, I have noticed that most of the Coralline algae has disappeared. It has been replaced with a bit of brown algae. Its not a bloom, just a slight accumulation. My guess is that the live Phyto is out competing the Coralline and at 20ml per day, we are adding more than is consumed. I think I am going to cut our dose of live phyto in half. We don't have gha anymore, which is a positive. The other thing I noticed it that the brown algae seems to be growing better in the frag tank than the DT, even though they are plumbed together.
Cheers!
Cheers!
daddio
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So I started a thread about our building a sump/refugium and I thought I would just move it over here to the tank journals. Anyway, we are going to add a 55 gallon tank to our garage system. Have not really figured out what will be in it but there is a lot of work to do before that time comes. Got off work a little early today and had time to run 2 new dedicated 15 amp circuits from the panel to the aquarium wall. I have the first 2 GFCI outlets installed (one for each circuit) I installed one white and one light almond. I plan to run more conduit and outlets and I figure if one circuit is white and the other almond, I will quickly be able to see what is what . Next on the schedule is building a permanent stand on the left side of the display for the frag tank.
Cheers! Mark
Cheers! Mark
daddio
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Doing a little planning here and we are going to start running a skimmer in our new sump. My question as I ponder the first baffle: does it touch the bottom? how tall should it be? Any input would be very helpful. Here is a pic. of the skimmer we have. Do I need to worry about water level?
xcaret
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You need to search for the recommended water level of that skimmer, Is it an ASM?
You can always build a stand for the skimmer if it sits too deep in the sump.
AFA baffles, I've used a piece of wood under the bubble trap, a 3/4" just to keep the glass/acrylic piece in place and constant gap.
An old school mod for those skimmers is ditching the outlet wedge pipe and use a gate valve to control the water level and flow inside the skimmer
You can always build a stand for the skimmer if it sits too deep in the sump.
AFA baffles, I've used a piece of wood under the bubble trap, a 3/4" just to keep the glass/acrylic piece in place and constant gap.
An old school mod for those skimmers is ditching the outlet wedge pipe and use a gate valve to control the water level and flow inside the skimmer
Coral reefer
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Baffle out if skimmer section is usually two pieces. First under(gap at bottom) then second over for reduction of micro bubbles I think.
daddio
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Okay, skimmer looks to be a ASM G2. It is 21" tall 6 1/2" dia. body with a 3,500 pump. I read that it typically likes approx. 9" of water. I will set the first baffle up 3/4" and leave 3/4" space at the top for overflow issue? Second baffle is flush to bottom of tank and how tall?
Thanks guys!
Thanks guys!