Jason's 240g Miracles

[jduck]

Since there are no longer any fish in display. I am going to focus on some of the corals.
I had taken the pictures shortly after the last swap when I mounted all the frags in display. I put together a spreadsheet of all the corals and who I got them from and date. This will help keep track of growth, and let me tell them apart. Although I did somehow manage to misplace a frag of aussie gold somewhere. It could be one of the smaller frags in frag tank and just not big enough to show its characteristics.

Left Island




Middle Island


Right Island


1 Original Mummy Eye
2 ATL Pearl Berry
3 Pokerstar
4 Green Fuzzy Unknown
5 Blue Pearlberry
6 Raspberry Limeade
7 Bonsai
8 Loripes
9 Ora Miami Orchid
10 Purple Unknown colony
11 Ora Hawkins
12 Fruity Pebbles
13 Hot Tamalie Milli
14 Rose Milli
15 Green Slimer/yellow H
16 Palmer Blue Milli
17 Strawberry Shortcake
18 Yellow with red Polyp acro
19 Beaker Bob Mountain Dew
20 Miami Hurricane
21 Reef Raft Monti
22 Tyree Pink Sand Dollar
23 Red Dragon
24 Pink Lemonade
25 Steve Elias Stag
26 Blue Donkey
27 ATL Strawberry Fields
28 Purple Haze Monti
29 Orenji Monti
30 ORA Red Planet
31 Sunset Monti
32 Fruits of Eden
33 Strawberry Shortcake Acro
34 Ora Pearlberry
35 Superman Monti
36 Ora Cali Tort
37 ORA Tri Color Valida
38 Large Purple Chalice
39 Orange Cap
40 Chili Pepper Monti
41 Tyree Neon Green Toadstool

[jduck]

Been a month since last update. Yesterday was the end of week 6 on being fallow. Corals are looking good. Algae did make a small comeback on some of the rocks in display tank. A little vacuuming and addition of more snails seems to have it at bay. Phosphates have been under .09 for the last month. Last night I started running another 5 ml dose of LaCl. I believe that once tangs are added back they will keep most of it knocked down.
Had some issues with the Reef Dynamics Bio Pellet 135 reactor. The seal on the syncra 1.0 pump was leaking a little bit. Caused some salt creep which I think helped slow the leak. Took it apart yesterday and cleaned it. Now its more of a constant drip. So I've taken it off line waiting on a $5 O ring to see if that takes care of the problem. I've also went ahead and ordered the bigger 250 pellet reactor.

For some reason the dotty back, wrasses and algae blennie disappeared over the last 4 weeks in rubbermaid tub.
I ordered another yellow wrasse and a couple flame wrasses from LA. They started QT on 4/5 and then I'll get another shipment in when they are done. I will return all fish to DT after May 1st end of week 9.
Considering 5 anthias lyretail or dispar, 3 Bartlett's, 2 more flame wrasses, pair of Lineatus or Labout's, blue spot jaw fish, midas blenny, Catalina Goby, Dartfish

[binford4000]

Been a month since last update. Yesterday was the end of week 6 on being fallow. Corals are looking good. Algae did make a small comeback on some of the rocks in display tank. A little vacuuming and addition of more snails seems to have it at bay. Phosphates have been under .09 for the last month. Last night I started running another 5 ml dose of LaCl. I believe that once tangs are added back they will keep most of it knocked down.
Had some issues with the Reef Dynamics Bio Pellet 135 reactor. The seal on the syncra 1.0 pump was leaking a little bit. Caused some salt creep which I think helped slow the leak. Took it apart yesterday and cleaned it. Now its more of a constant drip. So I've taken it off line waiting on a $5 O ring to see if that takes care of the problem. I've also went ahead and ordered the bigger 250 pellet reactor.

For some reason the dotty back, wrasses and algae blennie disappeared over the last 4 weeks in rubbermaid tub.
I ordered another yellow wrasse and a couple flame wrasses from LA. They started QT on 4/5 and then I'll get another shipment in when they are done. I will return all fish to DT after May 1st end of week 9.
Considering 5 anthias lyretail or dispar, 3 Bartlett's, 2 more flame wrasses, pair of Lineatus or Labout's, blue spot jaw fish, midas blenny, Catalina Goby, Dartfish

I have the same reactor,I found the pump could not pull enough water to properly keep the bacteria from dying off in the reactor. I am trying hard to be nice about reef dynamics here. I also have the 250. It also has the same flaw. Sorry. I finally had to install a small rio booster pump to ensure the reactor got suficant water to do the job. If you want to save some cash cancel your order I am not useing mine. I will give you a good deal. I also had issues with leaks too! Good luck and LMk.

[jduck]

I have the same reactor,I found the pump could not pull enough water to properly keep the bacteria from dying off in the reactor. I am trying hard to be nice about reef dynamics here. I also have the 250. It also has the same flaw. Sorry. I finally had to install a small rio booster pump to ensure the reactor got suficant water to do the job. If you want to save some cash cancel your order I am not useing mine. I will give you a good deal. I also had issues with leaks too! Good luck and LMk.

I found that the smaller one didn't like to suck the water up very far. Mine was sitting next to frag tank 10" deep. Think the feed tube acted like overflow u tube. It's also also sitting next to skimmer SRO XP 5000 ext. I feed the effluent into air intake stand tube, had no issues with the 2 feet. For now it's sitting in frag tank, received the replacement o ring yesterday. Going to see if that takes care of problem. Considered using it for a gfo reactor or selling once new one arrives.

I received a bunch of fish this last 2 days. They started QT today.
4 female Hawaiian flame wrasse
3 female golden rhomboid wrasse
7 female lyretail anthias

Also have some nice sps frags coming Friday.
Tierra De Fuego
Mr pacman
RR Multicolor Matrix
RR CJ's Pinky
Snipersps Pink dragon tails

[jduck]

Super excited, today is the last day of week 8 being fallow. Tomorrow all the fish will be returned to display tank. Hopefully the tangs will attack the little bit of algae that has sprung up in the rockwork.

Somehow some calpura had gotten into the rockwork on RT side island. I'm glad there was much going on over on that side. Pulled the rocks and treating with Chloroquine Phosphate. In addition to being a good treatment for ich, it is also an algaecide. There really is only one longer rock that I plan on putting back in display. I will use what rock is left in stock tank to rebuild the island base. Picking up a large RBTA this afternoon. After it goes through QT will reside there. I also need to transplant my Large tyree toadstool to the structure once finished.

[MizTanks]

YAHOOO fish in da tank!!


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[jduck]

After feeding tank this morning. I was working on dipping new corals and found this little guy peering up at me. Must of been some ride through overflow water slide. I see I'm going to have to overflow teeth back in.



Put the new corals into the tank did have to move some existing frags for better placement
# 8 Loripes was moved to different location
# 11 Ora Hawkins frag was exchanged with a larger colony
# 17 Strawberry Shortcake moved to different location
# 18 Yellow with red Polyp acro moved to different location
# 37 ORA Tri Color Valida moved to different location

# 40 Chili pepper monti was removed since I was trying to get the calpura off that rock. It will return once I get the right Island worked out.

9 new coral additions to display tank

11 ORA Hawkins - Larger colony where frag use to be
42 RR Avengers
43 Tierra Del Fuego
44 CC Rainbow Table - in previous # 17 location
45 CC Cherry Red
46 Tyree Setosa
47 Joe Knows Reef Golden Dragon
48 Tyree Mother of Pearl
49 Vivid's Rainbow Delight - in previous # 37 location

Frag Tank Additions:
Tierra Del Fuego
SniperSPS Mr pacman
RR Multicolor Matrix
RR CJ's Pinky
SniperSPS Pink dragon tails - some reason RTN with 24h

RR Vanilla Sky
RR Dare Devil - RTN 24 hrs
RR Red Bull
RR The Vinh
RR Stigma
RR Pink Floyd

[tdb320reef]

Wow this is a first class build. You should be proud. Very nice!