Cade Chaos Grimoire

danieyella · Oct 15, 2024

Reefering1 said:
Sounds like it's ready!
Sounds like you're ready!!
Can almost feel the anticipation.
Let's see some pics, all the sponges, Marco, and corals still alive and looking good?

Yes, still all looking good. I was worried I lost the weird red and white colonial tunicates, but I saw clusters of the spread out again last night when I phyto'd the tank.

danieyella · Oct 15, 2024

Found a place to stop tomorrow, we'll see what ends up in the tank as testers

Projects with Sam · Oct 15, 2024

doh. guess I was racy with the definition. sorry!

danieyella · Oct 15, 2024

Lid shipped!!

F i s h y · Oct 15, 2024

danieyella said:
Lid shipped!!

Seems like a much better experience than the last one

danieyella · Oct 15, 2024

F i s h y said:
Seems like a much better experience than the last one

100% for sure

MrsBugmaster · Oct 15, 2024

danieyella said:
Yes, still all looking good. I was worried I lost the weird red and white colonial tunicates, but I saw clusters of the spread out again last night when I phyto'd the tank.

That’s so cool. Hopefully it will stay alive in the tank

danieyella · Oct 16, 2024

Wednesday morning update:

Peninsula looking good.

Pico looking good - Beelzebub eats like a champ. I need to do a waterchange on his tank though because he also pumps out filth and algae is growing like crazy.

Cube looking good. Currently watching my foxface try to squeeze between the cabbage leather and the glass.... He's not the brightest.

Broke down and bought the Tunze osmolator, should be here Saturday.

danieyella · Oct 16, 2024

As I mentioned yesterday, I got the tracking number for my lid. Still waiting on UPS to update to give estimated delivery. Wrasse can't move until the lid is here.

I've purchased lids from 4 companies over the years.

Kraken: Great experience, but they don't do custom or larger tanks. Definitely recommend them if you can get something from them. Got my old pico tank lid from them.
Reefinainteasy: Did my lid for the Cade 1200 and it was great. A little slower than advertised but they were quality and pretty good at communication. Would order from them again, but they appeared to have gone out of business around covid.
Toplids: Terrible experience, zero communication (advertised consistent communication "every step of the way" or some garbage like that), extremely behind schedule, didn't follow measurements that were sent over by a longshot (this is why we double check instead of just approving when we get the design specs, they were offended when I told them they were wildly wrong). I know a lot of people have had success with them, maybe I caught them in a bad few months, I don't know. I absolutely would not order from them again though. The lid came out fine in the long run - no complaints there, but the experience itself was horrible.
Clearview: Currently shipping out my peninsula lid. Communication was great, they're on schedule, no concerns yet. We'll see what the lid looks like upon arrival. I'm not concerned though, they've been wonderful to work with so far.

Anyway:

Planning on putting something in the peninsula today, and picking up a small urchin if possible. If I add fish today and they're all doing well come Friday/Saturday, I'll start moving the existing crew.