Some Bad News & Some Good News
ROFL - seems like I'm always posting the not so good updates, so I'll compliment the bad with a couple of good things...
After the cracked Eurobrace mishap, and losing my tang...I had another issue. If you aren't familiar with it, you can read this thread. Basically, I hadn't cleaned the air intake on my skimmer and it spouted water out all night. I had to take the tank down to dry the subfloor, by moving the tank and stand. Tile was installed under the tank this time around. The immediate loss was my long spined urchin.
Disaster...again.
Here's the bad part....I've lost nearly all of my corals to RTN. I think it was a combination of the stress of moving things back and forth from the tanks during the tear down and set-up, a possible small cycle, and increased clarity in my water. I removed alot of my rock to cook and boil, and the rock put back in the tank was scrubbed, so I likely experienced a small short cycle. My water has really good clarity now after all of this, and I'm sure the lights had an impact with the other stresses mentioned, and my corals gave up. To read about my live rock...Here is a thread
Live Rock Saturation?.
On another note...some of you are probably wondering about my cracked eurobrace. Well, I never received the patches IAP said they'd send
, so I've decided to go with the angle iron top/bracing for it. My husband is going to get the material and put it together....it will be painted with marine topside, the same as was used for the frame on my stand.
So...the good news....I have a kalk reactor!!! Thanks BigT for making a great piece of equipment. It is officially installed as of Sunday night. I had enough things happening with my corals, I didn't want to stress them any more by doing something different with the tank. Since most of the corals are gone, I went ahead and put it on. I have the powerhead hooked up to my ACII, and I have it oscillate on and off (1min on/60 min off). Right now it is set up to go through my top off. My Tunze Osmolator feeds into the kalk reactor, which tops off the sump. I will be watching my parameters for awhile.
I suppose the other good news, I added another skimmer to the system....an AquaC 180. I was storing it for my brother while he is stationed in another country, so I thought I'd put it to good use. I'm still tweeking it a bit, but figure I'll find the sweet spot for both the Euro-reef and Aqua C. You can read more about it in this thread:
Dual Skimmers.
Hope to post some pics soon...
