Saltwater & Reef

leftyfish · 05-20-2011, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Purevil21

But they don't give a useful shelf life if I am not mistaken.

It looks like 3-5 years from what they told that person. Why can't they just put an expiration on it and make it easy!

Purevil21 · 05-20-2011, 08:26 PM

All I know, is when that stuff goes out, it is BAD. lol My nitrate kits was off by 95ppm.

leftyfish · 05-22-2011, 11:12 AM

Yesterday I found "Fish," the pistol shrimp, in the rock that he and Chips (the goby) lived under. Put the whole rock in the new tank, and hoped for the best.

Chips was still by himself this am. I did my pwc and decided while I was at it I would remove some bioballs. There was the shrimp, on top of the filter floss in the sump. I went to pick him up, thinking he was dead and he snapped his ferocious claw (lol) at me. I immediately got a small container and put him in it and put him back in the dt. Hoping they meet back up today/tonight, as re-entry did not go as planned, he ended up on a rock and hid in it again

leftyfish · 05-22-2011, 09:19 PM

A few pics.

leftyfish · 05-24-2011, 08:23 PM

One of my emerald crabs...

Some corals and a feather duster...

leftyfish · 05-26-2011, 11:23 AM

Numbers still great, ammonia and trites are zero, trates still present, around 5-10. My AI SOLs arrive today....sweeeet! I can't wait to set them up!

Also been taking out a handfull of bioballs every few days. Added pods to tank and refugium, made post about that. Not sure how best to get pods from refugium to tank, going to just move LR back and forth?

leftyfish · 05-27-2011, 09:57 PM

Okay, some issue with the AI Sol mounting kit that is standard with the lights, so I had to improvise, went to home depot and got some mounting brackets and wire, and made my own mounting kit to hang from the wall. Looks bad with wires all about but I'll fix that soon enough.

Waiting on the controller, so I can only run them a little bit each day, still using the small 24" T5 over the tank for now. But for a 48" tank, mounting these 90degrees from how the manufacturer wants them mounted I think I will be fine with 2 fixtures and not 4. The bottom of the light is 8" from the top of the tank.

It's night time, so that is the tank with the light from the leds and a little room light. Seems pretty even, with some space on the ends for low light things.

Jason7894561230 · 05-27-2011, 10:04 PM

Looks awesome! I am just wondering how the Manderin is going. I have heard they need a good colony of pods?

leftyfish · 05-27-2011, 10:06 PM

I'm so lucky this mandarin eats shrimp, but I do have pods, just trying to figure how to best get them from sump to DT, I think I'm going to switch rocks out back and forth.

Jason7894561230 · 05-28-2011, 06:36 AM

Ok thats good because they are so beautiful i would hate to see it die from starvation

leftyfish · 05-28-2011, 06:47 AM

I would go broke buying pods before that. Even when she eats the shrimp it has to glide over the rock in a certain way like it is alive, she is such a hunter!

Jason7894561230 · 05-28-2011, 07:52 AM

I love them so much thier colours are amazing!

leftyfish · 05-28-2011, 09:02 AM

I think they should cost $150 USD not $14 USD, then people would buy them less often. They seem to starve a lot, such a shame for a beautiful creature.

Jason7894561230 · 05-28-2011, 10:35 PM

Yeah i agree, in Australia they are around $120

sean112280 · 05-29-2011, 10:12 PM

Looking good Lefty!

leftyfish · 05-30-2011, 12:56 PM

Thanks Sean.

Update:

Well, 2 weeks since Buying and moving the tank.

Ammonia, nitrites, phosphates 0 ppm
Nitrates still 5-10 ppm
Calcium 500 ppm (curious so I tested this am).

Mixing water to increase the water volume in the sump. Previous owner kept it at about 4", I have it around 7" and want it about 5 more inches higher to reduce the water trickle and add remaining live rock from the 29, once I get the clowns sold.

Spent an hour placing and gluing down the corals that have been falling all over since I moved them from the 29.

Awaiting the controller for the lights, then I will be able to use them, been doing only 2 hours a day around noon as they are 100% with no controller.