Some success - Some Failure

[Otherone]

All my fish are doin great - no disease has infected any of my 3 Tangs - Blue Hippo, Powder Brown, Scopus. Coral Beauty Angel ate 2 clusters Golden Rod Polyps but won't touch purple rods or green rods - go figure. I also suspect the Coral beauty ate the mantel off of a Derssa clam ( lil' bastard) obviously it died and was consumed in it's entirety. Cucumbers still hangin' tuff and coraline growth has been more prolific in the past month.

Most of the corals I added are doin well - Georgains like my tank, as does tooth coral, Colt and Kenya. Polyps not so much - the green rod as died back twice then restablished and purple star polyps have been slowly diappearing - my also be coral beauty. Not sure how many shrimps are left, every couple weeks we see one outta 4. We have a hitchiker sponge that's been growin' like crazy. Gave up on fancy hermits - the red legs always kill'm. Turbo snails and Margerita snails seem to be the only ones that live. I'm guessin' my tanks too cold @ 75 degrees.

Here in PA we've been in the grip of a god aweful endless heat and humidity wave. As a result the main pump has been runnin' so hot it's knocking out the breaker in the fish room. I've woke up/came home from work no less than 6x to find the tank not running.
Tore the pump out - cleaned it up and installed a fan under the tank to cool it off - so far so good but I gotta leave the door open. Soon I'll drill holes in the side of the stand for fresh air draw. Nothing died as a result of no circulation - I got lucky.

Water parameters are doin' well - vodkas been keepin' the nitrates to a min. but no real jump out and grab you results after 4 weeks. Skimmers filling up every 2 days now but not as dark as I was expecting - I'll give it a few more weeks - I want to see zero po4.

 

[Otherone]

Stock - Scopus Tang, Powder Brown Tang, Blue Hippo Tang, Coral Beauty Angel, Royal Gramma, Onyx Clown, Yellow Tail Damsel, 4 Peppermint Shrimp, Pink Cucumber, 4 Turbo Snails, 12 Atlantic Snails, 10 Red Leg Hermits

Corals - 2x Red Colt, 3x Kenya Tree, 2x yellow Georg., 1 Snow Rod Georg., 1 Purple Georg., 1 Purple Contorsion Georg, 1 Brown + white Georg, 7 Tooth coral, Purple Rod polyps, green polyps, purple star polyps.

 

[FLESHY]

Everything is looking, and sounding good man. You have an interesting selection of corals thus far.

I cant believe it is so hot there that your pump is failing. Its been over a hundred a couple times this summer and I havent had any issues...but my tank is in the basement.

Cool that you are having luck with the gorgonians, I could never do that in my vodka, ULN system.

 

[Otherone]

Everything is looking, and sounding good man. You have an interesting selection of corals thus far.

I cant believe it is so hot there that your pump is failing. Its been over a hundred a couple times this summer and I havent had any issues...but my tank is in the basement.

Cool that you are having luck with the gorgonians, I could never do that in my vodka, ULN system.

Thanks - I like the instant hieght of the gorgonians. Theres more to the pump over-heating than just summer months- old external pump, had no air circulation in a humid enviorment with hotter than normal current to an over shared line. Breaker needs dedicated to the salty.

Why can't gorg's live in your dosed tank? I'd have thought it would be a perfect senario as gorg's worse enemy isn't water quality or food source but macro algae build up, something that should disappear with carbon dosing due to lack of nitrate and phosphate food sources. I'm not real familiar w/ ultra low nutrient systems other than it's running a bunch of suppliment dosing and reactor media to improve water quality by removing dissolved solids for SPS dominant reefs. My intent is more LPS but need to see the elimination of diatoms in the DSB before investing. It's a dang slow process but sure keeps me on my toes.

 

[mos90]

i wouldnt think it would be too difficult to keep gorgonians in a ulns. i think weekly feeding should be enough.

i has the same problem kicking breakers, but it wasnt due to heat. i had to install a separate breaker just for my 125g tank.

the tank is looking good. have u had an aggression problems between the tangs? it was my understanding it was best to keep only 1 tang per tank. no?

 

[Otherone]

Nope no problems with Tang on Tang - had issues w/ Blue Tang and Blue Damsel but the Tang quickly outgrew the damsel. Every once in awhile one throws a hissy fit over 1st in line for veggie salad - but no real aggression so far. The tanks 180 gal and they are maybe 4-5" - this might change with age tho - we shall see.

 

[Bruce 1]

Good looking tank.