Planet Aquarium 96x24x21 work in progress!

[mforde]

I just read back through your posts. Great project, looking forward to seeing the progress.

 

[Adrift]

Had to go do my semi annual blood work today, because all the bad choices I made in my life. So I decided to take the day off.

Installed AFS with Neptune food. Took about three tries to get it dialed in for two baby clowns. I know the goby won’t venture out. They completely ignored the pellets. So I fed them I still have to tie in aquabus cable, but I need to get more black tie straps.

So last last night while I was swapping RO bucket underneath tank I noticed a drip. After all of the extensive leaking testing I did for weeks on end. My RH cor-20’s FS-200 has a sprung a leak!!! Is a small drip coming from 1 1/14” barbed spigot male thread to 2” to 1 1/4” reducer bushing slip to female thread. I thought applying the recto seal 5 would of done the trick. Guess not! So I had to tell the wife I need to order pieces to remake that end. I got the sigh and the look. Y’all know which one I’m talking about. I’m not going to make the same mistake twice, going to use all slip to slip. I order one set which came to around 30 bucks from BRS. I replace the one for now to see if the 2 inch cepex connector will work on the FS-200. I saw a post here that it does for FS-100. So we shall see. Either way if this works I will order three more sets to just replace the rest. Better safe then sorry.

Lastly I was wonder everyone to shut down my pumps for feed mode that my salinity would sky rocket to > 37 ppt then slowly fall down closer to 35-36 ppt. I’m getting micro bubbles collecting underneath the probes. The picture below shows the micro bubbles but I steady removed the large one the collected there. So I find this slightly weird as this is the protein skimmer section and the tideline 48 sump has a premanfactured probe holder bracket in there… why would I have this issue. Is it possible skimmer is still breaking in? It has been up and running for two weeks now. I would hate to move the probes over to the Refugium section. Because this where my 1000w helio ptc heater is installed. I want the temp probe up stream of the heater.

 

[Mjl714]

Even considering the wife’s slight aggravation, your tank and setup is looking great.
Goby and pellets, bummer. My pink spot goby will eat the slight larger pellets, but will not put forth any effort on the smaller pellets.
Salinity, any chance your ATO is adding freshwater near your salinity measurements?
Again nice work and good luck with that drip.

 

[Adrift]

Even considering the wife’s slight aggravation, your tank and setup is looking great.
Goby and pellets, bummer. My pink spot goby will eat the slight larger pellets, but will not put forth any effort on the smaller pellets.
Salinity, any chance your ATO is adding freshwater near your salinity measurements?
Again nice work and good luck with that drip.

No it’s not located near the probes. I have the ATO going directly into the return pump chamber. I don’t know if it’s best there however. The first chamber from filter socks I have the skimmer, Neptune probes, and helio probe, Refugium area I have some rock and two 500w heaters at the moment. I don’t know if I want to do chaeto or alage scrubber? Return pump chamber, have the two COR’s and ATO valve. I haven’t set up the DOS yet for 2 part. Was considering return chamber, but don’t know what’s best. There are so many opinions out there lol.

 

[Adrift]

When it rains it pours! Last weekend I ordered and egg crate and it came in Tuesday. However I didn’t install it since I needed to rinse it off

Last night I tested my water parameters. ALK was still low and CAL high from test I did earlier this week at 7.4 dKH and 485 PPM. PH at 7.59. All Hanna test. I have not started a dosing regiment. So I decided to dose only ALK 4.28 FL OZ. I did some reading that suggested the new carib sea dry rock is probably leaching off CAL. It was stated to ride it out for a week and do a water change. with the intent of doing a 50 gallon water change on Saturday. I figured okay my two brutes are on standby with RODI water already.
So I woke up this morning to find my wheeler goby on the ground. I was completely beside myself. R.I.P. “Cheech”, still can find “Chong” yet I still hear that clicking lol.

Sad day!!! Worst part it could have been prevented.
So after this I decided to prep the 50 gallon water change to help level out the calcium. I opened the brute trash cans and smelled a faint mildew smell. Facepalm I forgot to bleach both brutes after my last water change from 11/28. That day I got so caught up with adding the wheeler goby and pistol shrimp I forgot. So now I have both brutes bathing in bleach water with two each maxi jets agitating the water. I will let that set till this evening since I have errands to run. So much for the water change this weekend though, since I need the buckets to completely dry to make the bleach inert.
So I finished rinsing off the egg crate and have it placed on top of the rim. It was such a good buy I fits my tanks i beautifully. I will only need to trim at the end a bit for the cords and for the AFS. It did create some shadows sadly. But this can be fixed down the line. I plan on adding 2 ea Kessil 360x that are IOTA capable in between the sky’s. It also created a shimmer which I absolutely adore that sky’s don’t do.

I took off my Apple Watch and dropped it. It cracked both the screen protector and the glass underneath. I redid my water test today. All Hana checkers:
Temp- 77.7
Salt- 35.5
ALK- 8.3
CAL- 476
PH- 8.0
PO4- .04
Nitrate- .7
Calcium still a bit high. My cat pumpkin patch was making sure I was doing it right.

My dog! Zero help! Atticus is just sleeping away.

 

[Adrift]

So today I picked up so new fish today at Franks Tanks in Fort Worth.
I got a replacement wheeler goby for the one I lost. My Daughter him Cheech again. I think he went right in with Chong the pistol shrimp. I got a Blue Jaw Triggerfish who’s named blue steel. And a royal blue tang, obviously the kids named Dori! They all appear to be getting along with my two clowns Nemo and Cow Pow. Have the lights turned off and letting them rest until night time feeding.
No I didn’t quartine them, bash away! Frank treats all the fish. So hopefully that will suffice. I contacted owner of Corals Fish and beyond and my remaining wishlist of fish. I will probably pick them up last week of December or 1st week of January. I will need to get a QT tank going for them though.

 

[Adrift]

Not much going on since my last post on Dec 9th. Just letting my tank mature. I set up the additional Neptune leak detector sensor by the 40w Pentair UV and set up my AFS on the right side of the tank. I have that only set to the morning feeding the crossover diet at 10am. Just to give a little snack while I’m at work. I still need to secure the wiring for both.
below are some pictures of my my fish.

I added some more CUC; Cleaner shrimp, 5 blue legged hermit crabs, 4 Cerith Snails, 4 Nassarius snails, and 3 Peppermint shrimp. On DEC 12th. I already lost two Nassarius first day in tank hermits ate them. Also performed my first pump maintenance on Dec 17th using citric acid 2 COR’s, 4 WAV’s, and Nyos skimmer. Started ugly stage on DEC 21st. Have some brown hair algae growing.

 

[Adrift]

Hello everyone!!! Over the Christmas break I changed a few things on my tank and added a few more components.
First off, while the tank has been running for some time I had a problem with my FMM module named FMK. This module monitors my 2 FS-200’s, FS-100, and FS-50. It would randomly come up as module missing. The only way I was able to rest it was disconnect the aquabus and reconnect. It happened about 3 or 3 times over the week just prior to Christmas. I did some digging on the Neptune forums and found that it was RFI issue. The light bulb immediately turned on and thought to myself after 20+ years I should know better working in Avionics. So I spent the better part of 4 days completely rerouting my main runs. Added new routes to separate the power wires and data wires.
After this was completed I installed and/or finished installing some of the new items I got back during the Black Friday sales from an early post. I completed the routing and installation of the the additional leak sensor for the UV pentair 40w and connected to my FMM (LDK). I installed an additional optical eye for my return chamber to detect low water volume to trigger my 2 cor-20’s to run at a speed of 1% connected to FMM (ATK). I installed a power bar which I plugged in a 12 VDC plug to apex control head for power monitoring. I also located and installed two each DOS units. I have yet to route the tubing. As I have little need to actually DOS the tank. No corals yet a parameters are good at the moment. So below I took some pictures after completing the above tasks.

 

[Adrift]

Uploaded video of my Wheeler goby (Cheech) and Tiger pistol shrimp (Chong) They are finally together!!! Yay

 

[Adrift]

Started routing DOS tubing 3 pumps to be utilized for 2-Part and 4 dosing Phyto

 

[Adrift]

I received in my phyto tanks. Yea!!! I have one for copepods and phyto cultures. I ordered a third to dose the phyto.

I’m currently waiting for my cultures to come in from Poseidon Reef Systems.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Great build!! Excellent work all the way through!

 

[DrJoos]

All of your tenants look pretty happy, nice work!

 

[Adrift]

Great build!! Excellent work all the way through!

Thank you for the kind words!

 

[Hydrored]

Looking good!

 

[Adrift]

All of your tenants look pretty happy, nice work!

Looking good!

Thank you both!

 

[Adrift]

Not much to update. This is a current picture of my tank. I do believe my regal tang (Dori) has ich. None of my other fish have shown any signs. This outbreak on her was first seen in December. I started H202 dosing on 1/7/2022 per the following thread. https://humble.fish/community/index.php?threads/peroxide-h2o2-dosing-for-parasites-in-reef-tank.725/
I’m dosing 40 mLs @ 7:00, 12:00, 1700, & 2200. Then 3.4 mLs every 15 minutes for 6 hours between 22:30 - 5:30. Things started looking good after the third week but a couple days ago she broke out again.
I also have been cultivating phyto and copepods 1/12. I’m dosing phyto 85 mLs split in the morning and evening on M-W-F.

 

[Adrift]

Today I added a few more to the family!
I added a a One Spot Foxface named Banana. Then 2 fighting conchs both named Gary.

 

[Adrift]

Hello all is been awhile since posting. I have been mainly updating IG.

Updated plumbing from Pentair 40w UV to feed directly to the return utilizing 1 inch Tee. 3/4” from UV on June 25th.
I also added an Avast Davy Jones Skimmate Locker on May 13th wired to Neptune systems Breakout Box.

 

[Adrift]

On June 19th I added three more fish. Mr. Hanky a Two Spot Bristletooth tang and Marty/Marta 2 EA Bangaii Cardnialfish. Sadly one of the Cardinals disappeared through the night. So we are left with Marty as the loan survivor.