RIPTIDE AQUACULTURE 5th Year Anniversary Tax Madness LIVE SALE, GAMES, GIVEAWAYS, LIVESTREAMS

[RiptideAquaculture]

Good morning all. It's looking like I may miss most if not all of today's sale. I just wanted to say thanks to Mitch and Mason for another great sale. I can't wait to get my "Mystery Box" of gift card goodies along with what I was able to snag yesterday. I will be sure to post some pix. Good luck in the final drawings and may the odds be ever in you favor.

 

[Dreamscapesaquatics]

I'm so excited.

 

[Dreamscapesaquatics]

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[OrchidMiss]

I'm finishing my taxes and doing water changes today before the sale too.

 

[RiptideAquaculture]

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Make sur you check out page one! It’s not to late to join us for no Only the main giveaway but we also have a live stream today as well that we will be giving away a chance to spend the wheel

 

[PRock]

Good Morning, Reefers! Sunday is always my favorite day because IT'S WATER CHANGE DAYYYY.

How do you do it ? Pumps or just siphon

I just recently setup a DOS to do that for me every night... Originally I was doing it by hand with an AWC, 5g a time a few times a month on my ~100g system. Then I got sick and tired of replacing the dang ATO pumps which seem to have a MTF of months to "every other time I try to use it" and went old school back to using a python. But I became slack and a horrible reef keeper because I got lazy, and ended up doing guilt changes of 20-30% all at once every month or two. I finally just recently (like last month) setup a DOS to do it for me, plumbed RO tubing to my water mixing station, and my god the difference it's made. It's only been a few weeks, but I can already notice a difference in my tank vs the big water change every month or so. Should've done something like this from the start.

 

[RiptideAquaculture]

I just recently setup a DOS to do that for me every night... Originally I was doing it by hand with an AWC, 5g a time a few times a month on my ~100g system. Then I got sick and tired of replacing the dang ATO pumps which seem to have a MTF of months to "every other time I try to use it" and went old school back to using a python. But I became slack and a horrible reef keeper because I got lazy, and ended up doing guilt changes of 20-30% all at once every month or two. I finally just recently (like last month) setup a DOS to do it for me, plumbed RO tubing to my water mixing station, and my god the difference it's made. It's only been a few weeks, but I can already notice a difference in my tank vs the big water change every month or so. Should've done something like this from the start.

I understand the struggle! Auto water changes are always something we want to make happen! How much do you change a day?

 

[RiptideAquaculture]

I'm finishing my taxes and doing water changes today before the sale too.

 

[PRock]

QQ Riptide, what lights do you have over your tanks and what PAR levels are you keeping your "Acan" and wilsoni's under? The one's you've been showing in this sale are so dang pretty I might have to break down and pick one up.

 

[RiptideAquaculture]

QQ Riptide, what lights do you have over your tanks and what PAR levels are you keeping your "Acan" and wilsoni's under? The one's you've been showing in this sale are so dang pretty I might have to break down and pick one up.

That tank we run pretty low light. Last time I checked we were sitting around the 100 Par work at its peak day time . Mostly blue light as for lights we run raidions

 

[PRock]

I understand the struggle! Auto water changes are always something we want to make happen! How much do you change a day?

My system is ~100g, and I'm trying to change out around 10% a week, so I have it doing 1.5g a night over the course of about 6 hours. The DOS can do up to ~30g/24h, and I've already used it to do a 20g water change when I initially set it up because I hadn't done one in a while, but when it's doing something like that, it's noisy.

 

[RiptideAquaculture]

My system is ~100g, and I'm trying to change out around 10% a week, so I have it doing 1.5g a night over the course of about 6 hours. The DOS can do up to ~30g/24h, and I've already used it to do a 20g water change when I initially set it up because I hadn't done one in a while, but when it's doing something like that, it's noisy.

Good to know We’re always looking at options for water water changes because it’s so hard to get your hands on the other systems. At least it was six months ago not sure if availability has gone up yet

 

[PRock]

That tank we run pretty low light. Last time I checked we were sitting around the 100 Par work at its peak day time . Mostly blue light as for lights we run raidions

I'm running XR15G5's over my tank, but I haven't stuffed a par meter under them in a while... guess I should do that if 100 PAR is considered "low". I think my sand bed currently is seeing ~50-80 par, so that might not cut it.

 

[highest_tides]

How do you do it ? Pumps or just siphon

I siphon about 30 gallons bi-monthly out onto my driveway. I just have a measured line I drain to.

 

[PRock]

Good to know We’re always looking at options for water water changes because it’s so hard to get your hands on the other systems. At least it was six months ago not sure if availability has gone up yet

The original system I had came with these little micro pumps that you might find in desktop water fountains (in fact, I think I tracked one of the pump models to the manufacture and that's exactly what they made them for) and they were... not great. I think it was rated for like 30 inches of head pressure and couldn't come close to moving water between my tank and my water mixing station, which is why I was doing it using 5g buckets. I could've swapped them out for more powerful pumps (they had a replacement part that was a switch that sat between the power socket and the pump you wanted to use), but I never tried that route.

 

[Manicfish84]

 

[billyocean]

Water changes by siphon here. Do 20 by hand every week or so to keep the sand clean. Have a brute trash can I mix about 20 gallons in and pump in the freshy with that. I've thought about an auto w/c system. I'm not, nor is anyone else, positive on the exchange rate of new/old...new/new..etc. I could be just hard headed..but to me it feels like the new water should mix with the existing water to make what you have going on jive. Understandably in the ocean it switches out constantly...but theoretically it's still just one big tank. Mainly though it's just to siphon my sand.

 

[billyocean]

Some breakfast fodder

 

[LeeLoo Lola]

We have a 75 gallon tank and do a 1 gallon automatic water change daily. Every other week we do a 10 gallon siphon where we blow off/brush rock and siphon the sand bed. The tank is just about 5 months and has been very stable so far so it works for us!

 

[RiptideAquaculture]

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