OM’s 260 gallon SPS dominant build

[Om84]

This is a work in progress and far from done. We had similar ideas. 72x30x25. I am leaving the rear of the rock work 4" from the glass.

That looks awesome. Will you mortar them together? In the past I could never get the same scape I would practice when placing in the tank.

 

[danreef55]

That looks awesome. Will you mortar them together? In the past I could never get the same scape I would practice when placing in the tank.

There are three separate structures that interlace. Most is already cemented.

 

[Om84]

Here is my acrylic canopy with the lights.

 

[danreef55]

AWESOME!!!!!!!
I will have basement sump. Display tank will be in my office.
Planning on having a hood that can be raise with linear actuators. I have to speak to the people at AluFab regarding the T-slot stand can handle the weight of a suspended canopy.
QM84 love what you have done thus far.

 

[Om84]

It’s 1/2023 and we went to Europe for 10 days. I was following the tank parameters with my trusty Apex and Trident. Mid vacation I started to notice my Alk dropping quite a bit. I typically keep my Alk around 8 and it had dropped quite a bit. At this time since my corals were still frags I was having DOS dose 2 part. Because of the alk drop I had the doser dose more alk. By day 9 of vacation I was dosing more than double the amount I had prior to the vacation. I came home to find many frags bleached, dead, or dying.


Vivid’s Confetti

JF Homewrecker

Frag Rack

I checked my parameters with Hanna and my Alk was 12! I had a Alk spike. This is when I realized Trident is a great tool but it is not to be relied upon completely. I should not have made such huge dosing changes when I knew the rhythm of my dosing requirements. Lesson learned (I hope).

 

[Om84]

AWESOME!!!!!!!
I will have basement sump. Display tank will be in my office.
Planning on having a hood that can be raise with linear actuators. I have to speak to the people at AluFab regarding the T-slot stand can handle the weight of a suspended canopy.
QM84 love what you have done thus far.

I need to hear more about this. Would love to do something like that with a future build.

 

[danreef55]

Geez that is horrible. I have a friend that was watching my tank years ago. He crashed the entire tank. Do you like the Apex. I am leaning towards Hydros

 

[Om84]

Don’t be too depressed, fast forward my JF Homewrecker made a comeback and looks like this today!

 

[Om84]

Geez that is horrible. I have a friend that was watching my tank years ago. He crashed the entire tank. Do you like the Apex. I am leaning towards Hydros

I do love my apex but definitely have a love and hate relationship. As I narrate this story I will tell you about the time it left my Avast Plank on for hours which dumped all the food into the tank over probably a day. I still don’t know how that happened and if it truly was the Apex’s fault. Looking at logs that apex saves I must have had a power outage at the time the plank was on and then it came back on and didn’t stop? I’m still not sure. There are other minor failures I have had with the apex but I have tried to build redundancy which has helped me on multiple occasions.

I do think I will go with Hydros on my next build and am already eying the Maven!

 

[Om84]

It’s time to get more fish into the tank. I love tangs! Here is a trio of Biota Yellow Tangs in QT. They arrived super pale but they ate well and didn’t have any disease.

 

[danreef55]

I watched a Maven video done by Coral Vue. It has rinse cycles, runs a bunch of tests and what appears to be quality construction. I went to Reefapaloosa NY and saw their product firsthand. They appear to be a more industrial type units.

 

[danreef55]

What are you feeding. Those little guys are grazing machines

 

[Om84]

I watched a Maven video done by Coral Vue. It has rinse cycles, runs a bunch of tests and what appears to be quality construction. I went to Reefapaloosa NY and saw their product firsthand. They appear to be a more industrial type units.

That’s exciting! I was waiting for the Trident NP and it looks like the same toy product the Trident is lol. Competition is great. There was a long period of time Neptune has not had any competition. I am from the time when we had Digital Aquatics. After they left, Neptune really had no competition. I’m hopeful Neptune will wake up with all this fierce competition from Hydros.

 

[danreef55]

Om84 signing off for the night. I will be watching your thread.

Be well and happy reefing
Dan

 

[Om84]

What are you feeding. Those little guys are grazing machines

They are pigs. PE pellets, mysis, algae, pizza. They would eat anything you throw in there even as babies.

 

[Om84]

It’s 2/2023. A friend of mine breeds clownfish and I was able to acquire these Rod’s line (same guy who makes Rod’s Food) Onyx percula clownfish. I don’t know why they are no longer famous but back in the day they were desired. I was able to get a Chicago sunburst anemone to host this new pair!

 

[danreef55]

Outstanding. Is that a starboard bottom?

 

[Om84]

Outstanding. Is that a starboard bottom?

Yep hdpe

 

[danreef55]

We are tuned to very similar wavelengths

 

[Om84]

I have always wanted a blonde Naso tang and for some reason quality has been subpar no matter the vendor. Something has been off with collection where specimens unfortunately do poorly. I was able to find one at my LFS. He was very difficult to get to eat in quarantine. He went through TTM and observed for over a month in QT before he went into the display. Here he is shortly before going into the display. Say hi to George. He is currently the king of my tank and my favorite.