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Equipment:
30" PM Refugium
upgraded to a 36" Refugium Nov 2007
Mag drive 1200 return pump
Mini Pendant System - 2-250W 10000K HQI Ushio
14K Phoenix Bulbs
48"
Retrofit: 2-54W T5 HO Fluorescents with two ATI Blue Plus Bulbs
Precision Marine Bullet-1 Protein Skimmer with PM waste collector
Removed November 2007.
Gen-X PCX40 1190 GPH Water Pump replaced
with Pan World 100PX
Water pump
PM Kalkreactor
driven my the Typhoon-II and controlled by a Double Switch System from
AutoTopoff.com and
regulated ACII and pH probe. Removed reactor ~Feb 1st 2007 and replaced with
the LM3
Was using a Seio 820. Added an 1100 on Jan 14, 2006.
Ecotech marine vortech powerhead added 10/5/07
AirKing Deluxe Quiet Fan Model AK80-1 brings fresh air into the room
SpectraPureŽ LiterMeter III with extra pump for dosing 2-part (added 1/28/07)
Other:
3, 40 pound bags of CaribSea Seaflor Special Grade Reef Sand: 1 - 1.7mm diameter grain size (added 2 more bags after the leak for a total of 5)
Inhabitants:
Blue Velvet Nudibranch, Green Ricordea, Umbrella Mushroom, Orange Plate Coral,
Emerald
Crab, and Sally Lightfoot Crab
(purchased from
saltwaterfish.com for $95 3/31.05)
Torch coral (purchased on Jones Road for $39 4/2/05)
Red serpent star (purchased on Jones Road for $29 4/2/05)
Small Elegance and closed brain
(from Tropical Fish
Depot for $29 and $17)
Turquoise Blue Millepora, Pink
Birdsnest, Red Cocoa Worm
(From Frags N Crabs 4-23-05 for $13, $5,
$34)
ORA
Blue Tort, Orange Cap, ORA Blue Millipora, Blue Tip Stag
($125 shipped from
Tom in NY)
Bali Green Slimmer and 1" Purple Formosa frag
(From
Patrick for $40 and
$50)
Gigas clam and sm red
digita frag (from City Pets for $30 and $10 5/391/05)
Neon Orange Scolymia and a candy cane and zoo frag (6/19/05 from City pets for $55 an $5 & $5)
Red Blasto and some zoos and mushrooms from the
Frags N Crabs frag swap ($70 for the blasto 7-23-05)
Purple bullseye mushrooms
($125 shipped 8-6-05 from
http://www.phishybusiness.com
)
Green
Millepora,
orange acan and green acan like thing from City Pets 8-11-05
Rose Millepora and some other small frags from
the swap. 10-1-05 ($35 from maggiesaquariumsupply)
Really
nice elegance coral and green ricordia rock (From VT
for ~$75 and ~$40 Oct. 22, 2005)
Red Montipora and Acan (from Global $40 and $110 Jan 2, 2006)
Powder Blue Tang and a small Pavona Coral from VT 1/8/2006
Huge 7.5"
Echinophyllia
aspera, Acropora nobilis frag, and Echinophyllia echinoporoides frag from
reefermadness.us 1/11/2006 (removed the big guy 1/10/07)
Sm bright green candy cane frag from City Pets
1/14/2006
Yellow leather from bluezoo.com 1/28/06
Nice yellow leather from City Pets
Sm Squamosa from TFD for $34 1/29/06
Large pipe organ from Global Feb, 2006
Red fan thing from TFD for $29 March 2006
ORA Green leather from Petco (several months before Jan 07, $35)
Cup coral, yellow leather, and green soft coral
from Josh in Katy on 12/28/06
Nice BALI AQUACULTURED TRICOLOR frag and stag frag from Chris V. 1/20/07
Got a Montipora nodosa from liveaquaria.com for $130 plus shipping 2/13/07
Gray acan and orange ricordia from Phishy Business 2/24/07
Purple slimmer frag From Chric V. 3/31/07
Montipora Confusa from live aquaria 8/23/07
Got two frags from James, Pink Polyp Cap and an ORA German Blue Polyp 10/13/07
Superman Montipora from Liveaquaria 11/8/07
Status:
9/1/05 was hell! I found my tank leaking along the bottom seal. I had to remove EVERYTHING from the tank and drain it to get it repaired.
9/11/05 Returned the live rock and most of the fish and corals to the tank.
9/15/05 Things look good other than the blue tang was lost at some point
10/01/05 Built the water change system stand and moved the flowerpot and meat coral back to the 120. Both BTA split, it may have been caused by the stress of the power outage caused by Rita. I ordered a Ozone generator and ORP probe. Should get them next week.
10/22//05 Removed clown pair and placed them in the automatic water change sump with a BTA.
11/12/2005 Added a 10,000 BTU/hr window AC unit to help keep the fish room comfortable
12/22/2005 Coco worm lost one of its heads today and has not been opening during the day. I have been having problems low pH and think it is due to poor air circulation in the room. I have purchased a new exhaust fan and will be installing it soon. I also unfortunately lost m nice green millepora that I got from City Pets. Within 3 days all of the tissue was lost to an infection. I removed the new elegance coral from the main tank after the flame angle had been picking on him. Hopefully it will recover in the refugium.
1/2/2006 Sold the 37 Gallon setup.
3/1/2006 got the Tunze magnet holder and attached my Seio 820 to it.
6/3/2006 Well my Turquoise Blue Millepora from FragsNCrabs decided to RTN on me today. I removed the colony and treat it for 6 minutes with Kent TechD. In related bad news I found the skeleton of my small tuxedo urchin and have not seen my larger (older one in a long time). Added about 30 oz more sand to the front of the tank.
6/16/06 It looks like I saved the millepora, and I saw the large tuxedo urchin so things are going better than I thought!
4/1/2007 I won the March MARSH TOTM!! Unfortunately my tank didn't seem to respond very positively to the fame. I added a 150w MH and bleached a very large portion of the purple digitata. I went ahead and removed most the the colony. Another loss that I had was the pink birdnest that I got from Frags N Crabs back in 4-23-05 for $5. It had grown so much that it came un attached from the rock I mounted it to and then became unhappy and slowly began to die.
I had bought two really nice hairy ORA frags from T&T several weeks ago. They never extended their polyps in my tank and I removed the brow one from my tank on 4/4/07.
Removed the red donut coral from the refugium.. It had been slowly dying for several months. 9/9/07
For the past week and a half I have had bacteria problems with my yellow torch coral. I have just been cutting the "bad" stalks off. 12/10/07
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