Rygh's 250 gallon upgrade

[gimmito]

Mine was 82...I need to pull out a fan also.

 

[rygh]

On the plus side, I am saving money on electricity.
Heater has not run much this week.
(There is actually a smaller heater not shown that runs a bit though)

 

[Kensington Reefer]

I turned my lights off this morning.

 

[aqua-nut]

Warm up here. Suppose to be 100 today. We have no AC! Lighting is LED so no heat transfer there.

This was the tank temp yesterday:

 

[Coral reefer]

No big deal there. Much more swing might becom an issue for sps tho. Use a fan if needed

 

[tankguy]

I'm doing ok with mine

 

[gimmito]

A fan blowing air across the halides brought down (3) 250 watt halides from a high of 83 to 78-80. Woot !

 

[tankguy]

Today seems much better

 

[rygh]

Augh, I hate Majanos!
They are everywhere. And so much else to do as well.

I had knee surgery, so have been doing a bit less than bare minimum maintenance
for a few weeks now. It shows.
So now that I am doing better, this weekend has been pretty busy.
The usual cleaning of course.
Skimmer, scrubber, carbon, water change.
Plus a power head was jammed.
And a ton of coraline on the front of the tank to scrape off.

But dang, a ton of Majanos, everywhere.
And a couple of Aptasia of course.
I think I might buy that electronic Majano wand.
Or more peppermint shrimp. But they could end up just being Wrasse food.

 

[Kensington Reefer]

I hate majano nems too!!

 

[rygh]

Some new arrivals.
I really like the green one. It is really finely variegated. But so hard to capture on the camera.

 

[rygh]

Some other random pictures since I had the camera out.

 

[DeeAnnMG]

Some other random pictures since I had the camera out.

Wow! Love these two. What are they called?

 

[rygh]

Wow! Love these two. What are they called?

Not sure. I am lousy on ID'ing coral.
Some sort of Green Zoa, and some sort of Acropora. Maybe Acropora Loripes.
I bought the hard coral from a BAR member a while ago.

 

[Lawrence Yang]

tagging along! great tank rygh! love the mystery wrasse!

 

[rygh]

tagging along! great tank rygh! love the mystery wrasse!

Thanks.
Funny story behind that Mystery Wrasse. Got it from a BAR friend.
Most expensive fish I ever received for free .....

 

[Lawrence Yang]

Thanks.
Funny story behind that Mystery Wrasse. Got it from a BAR friend.
Most expensive fish I ever received for free .....

lucky lucky! I could never have one or my expansive clean up crew would get picked off haha

 

[rygh]

lucky lucky! I could never have one or my expansive clean up crew would get picked off haha

Hmm, I worded that wrong.
Perhaps better would be to say the most money I ever spent on a free fish.

At any rate, great fish. It does not eat fully grown cleaner or peppermint shrimp.
But when I added some new peppermint shrimp, they seemed to disappear mysteriously.

 

[rygh]

Why are fish better than dogs for pets???
Because fish do not get sprayed by skunks!!!!!
Augh!
The dog, the house, and a fair bit of the neighborhood reeks.

 

[Kensington Reefer]

M
Fish look gooood!
Corals too