Hemmdog’s 90gal Seaciety and 40gal Vale of Shadows

[crusso1993]

Many of us feel the same way about our tanks and inhabitants.

BTW - I'm sure you've heard this one a million times but maybe one more won't hurt!

 

[Hemmdog]

My yellow tang won’t eat I think he misses his tang gang
The tank is looking much clearer today by the way.

 

[Hemmdog]

The coral loss wasn’t as bad as I was expecting.

Austera rtn but WD , PC Superman and others nearby were fine.

Purple stag stn but slowed down now. I think it might live.

Birdsnest stn on the tips, but it’s already recovering. This coral grows so quick.

Things could be much worse. Thankful for what I have.

 

[Hemmdog]

40b going strong

 

[NY_Caveman]

Nice to see the lights on, brother.

 

[RichtheReefer21]

Ups and downs man... the tang will eat once things calm down. Its stressed to max and confused I'm sure. The appetite will come back.

Happy to see the corals pulled through ok. I lost 30% of my 52 species during the upgrade. U are fairing much better

 

[Philipgonzales3]

Sorry to read about your power issues bro. This will pass! Your corals are looking impressive still!

 

[Hemmdog]

Sorry to read about your power issues bro. This will pass! Your corals are looking impressive still!

Thanks man! Hope all is well with you !

 

[Philipgonzales3]

Thanks man! Hope all is well with you !

Yes for the most part all good in the neighborhood. I need to take more pics and post more but I'm always busy washing the truck now lol. That and of course all the other things in life. All good though, nothing too eventufull going on here thankfully.

 

[Hemmdog]

Yes for the most part all good in the neighborhood. I need to take more pics and post more but I'm always busy washing the truck now lol. That and of course all the other things in life. All good though, nothing too eventufull going on here thankfully.

Nice nice, that’s good to hear.

 

[Rakie]

Yeah power issues suck. Since you're using EcoTech pumps I would seriously consider getting their power thingy

 

[Hemmdog]

Yeah power issues suck. Since you're using EcoTech pumps I would seriously consider getting their power thingy

I have maxspect gyres and mp’s. I have the battery backup it just doesn’t last long. It lasted me 5 hours

 

[Rakie]

I have maxspect gyres and mp’s. I have the battery backup it just doesn’t last long. It lasted me 5 hours

I thought the EcoTech battery backup lasted about 12-20 hours with an mp10, and about 10-12 with an mp40 -- I'm guessing that's not accurate?

 

[Hemmdog]

I thought the EcoTech battery backup lasted about 12-20 hours with an mp10, and about 10-12 with an mp40 -- I'm guessing that's not accurate?

I have the icecap one. They are all just capacitors essentially right? I’m not sure if the run times are different, most likely, the ecotech one is more expensive.

 

[Rakie]

The EcoTech one is supposed to be much longer I believe.

 

[Hemmdog]

The EcoTech one is supposed to be much longer I believe.

Ah. Good to know lol. Wish I would of looked into that a little more when I was setting up lol.

 

[Rakie]

Well now you know, which is good for your future more expensive coral purchases !

 

[Hemmdog]

Well now you know, which is good for your future more expensive coral purchases !

True. I’m starting to recall the mental conversation I had with myself of why I didn’t get the ecotech over the icecap backup. Something along the lines of, well if I have an extended power outage my tank is f’ed anyways.

Who knew things were so resilient.

I’m just going to cover all my bases and go with the generator. Not rely on capacitors and AA battery bubble makers, helpful short term but long term will run out of juice.

 

[Hemmdog]

Now what the hobby needs to figure out is how to make a generator that runs on skimmate .

 

[najer]

Sort of mentioned above, look at Sochting Oxydators, I would never run a tank without one.
My temp dropped during the powercut and I lost a lot of sps but the first thing I did was put the oxydators in the display.