Rostatos Reefer 450 and Reefer 170
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Coral reefer
Past President
People inside or cooking or what?
Rostato
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both
You know if you just gave that dragon soul to me you wouldn't have that problem. Just saying.
The_Lazy_Reefer
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Yep it’s a thing. Not an always will type of thing but Aussie and Indo can definitely not play nice so I always keep mine separated.
Rostato
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Thanks. I guess the indo is going to be for sale
Coral reefer
Past President
Sucker!
Rostato
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Big update
The 450 is doing well. I haven’t done a water change in almost two months and everything came back in the green (minus lithium again) from the triton ICP test. A few things like strontium are a bit low, so I will probably do one nice 15-20% water change to bring that back up.
I added some mag pellets to my dastaco (shh don’t tell them...) and mag has been stable for the most part.
I am killing zoas like crazy in my 450. It’s really frustrating. I have done every trick I know as far as dipping and looking for pests. As far as I can see, nothing is wrong with them. My nitrates are at 5ppm and po4 is around .04. So, this is why I’m setting up the reefer 170. I’m curious if one of the fish in my 450 is nipping at the zoas. I haven’t seen anything.
I waited until Black Friday to take advantage of sales to get new pumps for the 450. I was running varios 4’s on it and it wasn’t quite enough. So I got some varios 6’s instead.
From everything I read online the 4 and 6 pumps were exactly the same. Well; when it came in, I realized the 6 had a larger output. So my hopes for not having to re-plumb the 450 were killed tonight. I’m waiting the 2 hours for the glue to dry. I have a hair dryer on a cool setting blowing over the pipes to hopefully cure it in those two hours
Started putting together the reefer 170. Should I start a new build or keep just one With both tanks?
Reefer 170 equipment (mostly spare parts I had laying around)
radion xr30 g3 pro with diffuser and a mount that is like 4 different leftovers but it’ll work
mp40qd powerhead
varios 4 return pump
Cobalt 150w heater
vertex 130 protein skimmer
apex jr controller
tunze ATO (still need to get a custom container built)
BRS doser with tropic marine all for reef (looking for a DOS)
I just finished putting together my “manifold” for the 170. Waiting for that to dry. I plan on having some sort of gfo reactor, so I set the “manifold“ up to have a 1/2” outlet.
the reefer 170 should have coral in it this weekend! I’ll probably pick up my first fish as well. All the rock is fully cycled from the reefer 450, so there “should” be no ammonia. I of course will test, but zoas and stuff can handle a bit of ammonia just fine.
The 450 is doing well. I haven’t done a water change in almost two months and everything came back in the green (minus lithium again) from the triton ICP test. A few things like strontium are a bit low, so I will probably do one nice 15-20% water change to bring that back up.
I added some mag pellets to my dastaco (shh don’t tell them...) and mag has been stable for the most part.
I am killing zoas like crazy in my 450. It’s really frustrating. I have done every trick I know as far as dipping and looking for pests. As far as I can see, nothing is wrong with them. My nitrates are at 5ppm and po4 is around .04. So, this is why I’m setting up the reefer 170. I’m curious if one of the fish in my 450 is nipping at the zoas. I haven’t seen anything.
I waited until Black Friday to take advantage of sales to get new pumps for the 450. I was running varios 4’s on it and it wasn’t quite enough. So I got some varios 6’s instead.
From everything I read online the 4 and 6 pumps were exactly the same. Well; when it came in, I realized the 6 had a larger output. So my hopes for not having to re-plumb the 450 were killed tonight. I’m waiting the 2 hours for the glue to dry. I have a hair dryer on a cool setting blowing over the pipes to hopefully cure it in those two hours
Started putting together the reefer 170. Should I start a new build or keep just one With both tanks?
Reefer 170 equipment (mostly spare parts I had laying around)
radion xr30 g3 pro with diffuser and a mount that is like 4 different leftovers but it’ll work
mp40qd powerhead
varios 4 return pump
Cobalt 150w heater
vertex 130 protein skimmer
apex jr controller
tunze ATO (still need to get a custom container built)
BRS doser with tropic marine all for reef (looking for a DOS)
I just finished putting together my “manifold” for the 170. Waiting for that to dry. I plan on having some sort of gfo reactor, so I set the “manifold“ up to have a 1/2” outlet.
the reefer 170 should have coral in it this weekend! I’ll probably pick up my first fish as well. All the rock is fully cycled from the reefer 450, so there “should” be no ammonia. I of course will test, but zoas and stuff can handle a bit of ammonia just fine.
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Rostato
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Yup. Had to move some things around and do some improvising to make it work