DevonM
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Awesome, I wish we still had ours.
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Awesome, I wish we still had ours.
I had a 'different' experience with my tank maintenance last night; So picture me up on the 2-step ladder up to my armpit gettin' after the coralline algae on the very bottom edge of one of the ends, sort of watching TV with a beer on the table. The power went out. Total darkness, like that only found when you're spelunking, and utter silence like in a long snow cave....then the giant sucking sound as the display partially emptied into the sump. And the power did not just jump back on like it usually does. So I'm perched up there balancing on one foot....well crap! So I thought about the bucket at the foot of the ladder with various algae-slop and fragged coral cast offs, and made my plan to get to the floor w/ out hurting myself... and it worked! I dried off & found one of the night-time viewing LED head lamps we keep next to the tank and I had light; found the beer and finished it, I was done cleaning for the evening I figured. Power on in about 15 minutes. It was funny weird!
Kevin............................. the most important thing out of all of this is that you did find your beer and that you finished it. 
Kevin............................. the most important thing out of all of this is that you did find your beer and that you finished it.
I knew you would pick up on that important detail! :bounce:
LOL................. well yeah .
Isn't the suction sound the best thing you have ever heard when the power goes out tho?
.Isn't the suction sound the best thing you have ever heard when the power goes out tho?
And you wait to see if the sump will overflow....it happened once to me...just a bit though.
Such a good feeling when things work like they should tho. I remember the first time my power went out and I was down there with a flashlight just watching the sump fill up. When it didn't overflow I went to the fridge and grabbed............................ a beer........................................lol.
Perfect! Like I said!
DevonM
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Oh I would NEVER put the beer up on the tank....might upset the pH or make the fish drunk or the coral spawn or whatever in the eventuality I knocked it it! Heaven forbid!
I have heard of people dosing vodka before .
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That would all be dependent on how many beers said owner has had before he sticks his hands in the tank .
.Just the huge size of some of my SPS corals limits use of some of my 'prime' real-estate on the top and sides of my rock piles. I also have multiple-multiples of 2 kinds of green mushrooms (Rhodactis sp I think) that can easily be thinned/removed saved for somebody else(?) which will really free up some space. Doing both will reduce algae traps in my tank and WAY improve my water flow overall...I will post this over on my thread, too.
This just seems like a good time to get this clean-up done as I've been wanting to for a long time, never worked up the gumption to do it. I have fragged the Acropora on the right side of the tank (medium brown base w/ blue tips leaning out on the side of the tank). The difference with frags originating in your own tank and frags acquired from friends-fish store-internet, is the fact that the home-fragged large coral in my tank already is acclimated to my water and they just keep on-a-growin' like nothing ever happened....not the usual 2 - 3 month wait and see what happens, that I'm used to. I think.
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LOL, isn't growth a wonderful thing? Good luck
I think so! I just need to manage it a bit better! surprise I'm over 300 posts! (unlike Charlie at a mere 7003 post!)
Kevin, your tank is providing good conditions for the corals, you should be proud of what has been accomplished.
I am taking some current pictures and figuring out photobucket. This the display and I'm getting readyto do/doing some algae clean-up.
Before I get going, Full Tank:
WOW I like Photobucket! Thanks so much Charlie for walking me through it for the umteenth time!
Right end:
Left end:
Just plugging away at things. Maybe I'll measure some water parameters, too! :jaw:
Before I get going, Full Tank:
WOW I like Photobucket! Thanks so much Charlie for walking me through it for the umteenth time!
Right end:
Left end:
Just plugging away at things. Maybe I'll measure some water parameters, too! :jaw:
Are those actual pictures that I see? Wow......................... what a novel concept .
You are welcome Kevin. Tank looks really good by the way.................. you learn well...........................lol.
.You are welcome Kevin. Tank looks really good by the way.................. you learn well...........................lol.
