My 75gal coral addiction tank

[Reefing_addiction]

Found a picture of a wall I had near the beginning of my tank journey- until the tank crashed - very windexie picture @fishguy242

So and the new one - photo from this morning!

 

[Goaway]

I hate tank crashes, electrical failure, equipment breaking,

Get your dosing dialed in, doser gets clogged, heater wont turn off or on, power head shuts down.. i can make a list of bull

 

[Goaway]

Now, whos gunna call in for an edit? Because now i have no idea if im crossing "sensitive" lines....

 

[Reefing_addiction]

I think your fine @Goaway hopefully people are NOT that sensitive

 

[Reefing_addiction]

So apparently the last bump didn’t do shiitake mushrooms. So I bumped it 2.5 ml. Check again tomorrow

 

[Reefing_addiction]

Ok so a couple things
1st these nems foot measured close to 7inches when she stuck her self in the corner and stretched a bit. I recorded a time lapse hoping she would split. Yeah it’s like she knew - brat.

This is how I left her last night and how she currently is. I moved the heater out of the in hopes to keep her from looking for a different corner.

Rotated the stick so it couldn’t get stung by the nem. And here we have Mrs. Coffee defending her territory from me.

So at least all the nems are on the right side (literally and figuratively) of the tank. Which wasn’t the case the other day when the nem in the bottom right corner was trying to walk over to where the gonis live. Caught it mid walk on the overflow. A little bit of tickling its foot and I picked her up and plopped in a hole in the rock she is currently located. We shall see how long she stays.

As you can tell some new rocks were added. Spent my store credit at the LFS well lol. (There is more in the sump.

I made a, what I gonna deem a nem rock, which is currently occupied by the nem all the way to the left. She was located in the corner by the overflow last night but when I woke up she had a “toe” in the nem rock. I found a curved - almost bowl piece of rock at the LFS and then found to smooth flat pieces which I glued to the bowl piece leave one side opened. I made sure the inside of the bowl piece had no sharp spots. It’s large enough even for the monster in the right corner. Hopefully this will make for a happy nem. Pictures below. Of course I wasn’t thinking last night and didn’t take pictures of the rock before I put it in…oops
How she was a little bit ago

How she is now

 

[Reefing_addiction]

Ok. So I asked and yall said that I may end up out of room on the rock for the blastos, but this one gives them more room then they had so I did it anyway.

Old blasto rock

New blasto rock

Yummy spaghetti

 

[Reefing_addiction]

I should test…but I’m tired…up to late…not enough sleep…and a large late lunch/early dinner (mediterranean grilled chicken with cous cous) and I’m not sure if I want to go back down stairs. Currently located in a snuggle pile of fluff

 

[Reefing_addiction]

Yeah popped down stair and saw this I swear I’m gonna whoop its foot with a newspaper!!!

Since this one moved here it’s been happy I’m thinking this all has something to do with proper holes to bury their foot in

So I made another nem rock this one was a Frankenstein break apart and super glue back together

I moved the trouble maker back to the rocks while I worked …gonna stick in the tank and hopefully she will either A) find it on her own or B) I’ll move her the next time she goes walking

 

[Reefing_addiction]

Well I ordered a ton of manganese sodium monohydrate ….2lbs lol. Should be here this week.

I’ve decided to add another dosing pump just for it. Which means I also need another dosing container. Wondering if I should just buy one of those 3 or 4 chamber ones incase I decided to start dosing calcium and magnesium…..who knows…..

I also ordered 2 L lab grade plastic bottles for mixing the manganese and an extra one for when I mix my brightwell alk.

Fun stuff

 

[907_Reefer]

Wondering if I should just buy one of those 3 or 4 chamber ones incase I decided to start dosing calcium and magnesium…..who knows…..

With your coral habit I would look for like a 6 or 8 chamber..

 

[Reefing_addiction]

With your coral habit I would look for like a 6 or 8 chamber..

Maybe just oversized…. I should just go buy a 54 head dosing set up but there goes coral money lol… not like I really have the space….. I created my hammer garden rock today. Will be glue everything down tomorrow

Here’s the basic idea …… I wasn’t done attaching pieces of rock when I did the mockup EDIT DISSCLAIMER CORALS ARE NOT TO SIZE LOL

And here is the finished rock with blue tap notating where things go…I’ll probably do another mockup before I glue

 

[907_Reefer]

Love it!



But there is no FTS on this page yet? @tbrown ?!?!

 

[Reefing_addiction]

@907_Reefer now there is a full tank shot on this page. No need to run and tell on me dad!




PS will provide a FTS with the lights on when I get home from work.

 

[tbrown]

 

[Mschmidt]

Maybe just oversized…. I should just go buy a 54 head dosing set up but there goes coral money lol… not like I really have the space….. I created my hammer garden rock today. Will be glue everything down tomorrow

Here’s the basic idea …… I wasn’t done attaching pieces of rock when I did the mockup EDIT DISSCLAIMER CORALS ARE NOT TO SIZE LOL

And here is the finished rock with blue tap notating where things go…I’ll probably do another mockup before I glue

I'm a fan of kamoer f1. if you need 54 of them, you can daisy chain 8 to one plug and during black Friday 5 cost the same as the 4-head unit.

 

[Reefing_addiction]

I'm a fan of kamoer f1. if you need 54 of them, you can daisy chain 8 to one plug and during black Friday 5 cost the same as the 4-head unit.

54 seems excessive

But then

21 Goni might also be excessive

 

[Mschmidt]

54 seems excessive

But then

21 Goni might also be excessive

hey (wo)man, 54 is the number you gave. 21 may seem reasonable.

 

[Reefing_addiction]

Maybe just oversized…. I should just go buy a 54 head dosing set up but there goes coral money lol… not like I really have the space….. I created my hammer garden rock today. Will be glue everything down tomorrow

Here’s the basic idea …… I wasn’t done attaching pieces of rock when I did the mockup EDIT DISSCLAIMER CORALS ARE NOT TO SIZE LOL

And here is the finished rock with blue tap notating where things go…I’ll probably do another mockup before I glue

Ok so how that 5 got in there I’ll never know…but I’m not gonna edit it

Thank you for pointing that out @Mschmidt

Oh man where was my brain

Definitely meant a 4 head unit lol

 

[Reefing_addiction]

My dad sent this to me…..I wonder if that was him and then I they didn’t have cameras yet lol





Ok so he’s not that old - but he always says he’s older than dirt