Project 105

Big day today, removed sump to take out the refugium. Used the same fuge on this tank that was on my 40b, and it was causing all kinds of hell in my tank. Now I am running my sump with only water, and normal equipment, will build a new remote fuge this time.

Just curious, what problems was the fugue causing?

the fuge seems to have died. it was fine and doing great, but since it has warmed up outside and we have had the windows open it got the most rancid smell and all life in it has disappeared. It was almost 1 yr old and had chaeto in it, 4-6" bed and live rock. flow has never change since it was started, all tests in tank seem to be acceptable. The only other issue I have been having is a very small bit of red slime on a piece of rock in the display. All livestock is doing great corals look happy, fish all seem to be comfortable. Also my controller has not alarmed due to PH spikes , so not sure what went wrong. So I have removed the fuge until I can figure it out.

4-6" bed

I would say the sand bed went toxic, I have seen this happen over and over again to deep sand beds but yet people keep using them and wonder what happened to their sytem when it crashes. In my opinion over 3/4" sand bed is a disaster waiting to happen.

thats what I am thinking, oh well, you live you learn. Just gald i caught it before it spoiled the whole tank.

I have 3-4 in sand bed in my tank but all live rock in my sump havnt had a problem with it yet I have heard if the sand bed is too deep you have a toxic build up. I have also seen systems crash when the person is using tap and treating it with prime for top offs eventually you get heavy metals build up

I have a 100gpd ro/di system, so no tap in my tank or whoever added it dies.


My DSB was in my fuge only, my display is only about 1" deep

couple of updates before my camera gives out


acid drop acan (finally adding heads)


Tube Nem


Wrasse


FTS

Very nice. That is a big ol torch coral! :-)

Whenever you're sick of looking at that tube nem let me know. I know a guy....

I will keep that "guy" in mind

Man! That's nice.

Ok I getting really tired of my CUC not working as fast as I feel they should, so I have made a battle plan of my own. Over the next week I will be gathering the Items needed to do the work my self, I will be scraping rox one by one to remove any unwanted algae. Then it will be on to doing a massive 100% water change (yes 100%) and a total re-scape . Then I will be pulling my sump and adding my refugium back, I never had any algae problems until I removed it so its coming back. From then on out I will be performing my regular 30g WC's like I used too before I got LAZY.

If this doesn't work to kill it off the a nice stick of dynamite will be added next. Hope to have good news soon.

-Bryan

Cool plan bud. For the safety of your anemone I think you should find it a new home... :-)

The nem will be fine , and no you cant have it.

the water changes will not be all at one it will be staged out but all done in one day

Bryan
Man I'm gonna tell you how to elliminate that algae! Its called algae burn, I don't know if you know about it or not but if you are going to take the rocks out of the tank, get you a mini propane torch and when you take the rock out you burn the algae with the torch and its a 95% bet it won't come back. If you have corals attached to rocks you can burn up pretty close to the corals, I promise man I'm not crazy, it works, I've seen it done. Don't take but a second to kill it off. I would brush off what you can then burn the holdfasts or roots whichever that are down in the pores of the rock that scrubbing wont remove. .

TANK CRACKED ALONG THE BOTTOM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Noooooo! Did something happen or did the tank just give out?

Stank-tastic! He was headed to pick up the replacement, it was under warranty. Good luck!

Great looking stuff Bryan. You will not find anything of any real quality out here. I go to Bossier or Dallas for the nice stuff. Again great looking pieces. Let me know when you get here and maybe we could swap some frags. I may have something you would be interested in. Let me know if your interested and I will send you a list of what I have I can frag.

Well its been a VERY long night, its 5:56 am and I am finally at a stopping point. Now for shower and a bit of sleep, then back at it in a few hours.


-Bryan

Nice build. I have some SPS I can frag if interested when you come. Let me know and I will get it ready.

Here is a quick list of things I can frag right now.

Green slimmer
ORA bird of paradise birds nest
Elk horn
Purple procillapora
Pink procillapora
Green procillapora
Pink birds nest
Hyacynths bird nest
Dark green deepwater acro
Peach tabling acro with green accents
Green capricornis
Purple rimmed capricornis
Deep red with purple specks capricornis
Blue polyped digitata
Sour apple birds nest
Green polyped birds nest
Electric green cats paw
Nice BLUE acro with Green polyps
Blueberry Snowflake Acro

Let me know if anything interests you.

Hey Grim. I really appreciate the offer, but I think there may be a misunderstanding as to what happened. My tank split on the bottom glass and I had to replace the tan itself, I didnt lose any livestock. Luckily the crack was contained inside the overflow box and I was able to go back to whereI got the tank here in DFW to get my replacement. I didnt come out to the East Texas area, but I will be coming out there in July and would like to possibly get with you then and maybe take a few things off of your hands. Let me know what you would like to get for frags and I will start saving my shopping spree money. Again it is really awsome of you to offer up some things to get me going, but right now I was more concerend about even having a tank to put coral in. I will get you a list of a few things I may want so you can figure out what you want for them.


-Bryan

Not biggie seriously. Just let me know when you decide to come.

Sad thing is I JUST realized there was 7 pages on this thread and was wondering why my posts were not showing up, so I apoligse for any multiple posts. lol

Im a little slow.

New pics :