TL’s big boy peninsula 385 gal Sps build!

[Troylee]

Safe to say it’s a full recovery and growing like crazy again!

 

[Troylee]

Had these installed on my forklift and got my wheels spinning… there’s all different optics for these things and bright as a blue tuna with a very unique color… it’s gotta be blue and UV the way it glows. did I mention $30 a pop??? Lol

 

[Troylee]

Adding a second pair of clowns today.. see how this goes with my storms.. true perc and a Picasso.. I’m thinking it will be fine because my tank is large and my storms only use 6 square inches of it haha! They will not leave my gyre for nothing! Not to even eat they wait for the food to come to them…

 

[Troylee]

New clowns are in! They’re really small compared to my storms so we’ll see how it goes! They haven’t met yet! It’s only been a hour thou! Haha.. storms hide on one end the new combers are on the other where the csb is and hopefully they take to it! Then it will be fine for sure since none of the clown’s will wonder around.

 

[Troylee]

So far so good.. everyone has met and sniffed each other butts like a dog haha! The new female keeps wanting to hang with the bigger storms and they’re just minding their own business

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[Troylee]

Quick update.. storms have left their post and finally explore the tank lol.. put the little guys in check. The chasing lasted for about 4-5 hours but no violence really.. storms have went back home and staying in their little area and the new pair are good roaming the tank now… one of these 4 silly clowns need to take over that csb!

 

[Troylee]

Got a second tank in the works! Stay tuned!

 

[Troylee]

I got this dirt cheap! A third of what I charged him to build the stand lol.. it’s a 40 breeder with 20gal long sump.. I was gonna use it as quarantine but then me being my own worst enemy, already spun my wheels… gonna build me a lagoon to fit the stand and a new sump.. use all this equipment and lights I have sitting in my garage.. it will be lit by t5 and radium’s or possibly my 1 radion I have left.. new tank will be a low boy basically but fully acrylic with external overflow.. 24x48x12” tall.

 

[Troylee]

Got a par map done today! Gotta love them halides!! My rocks are all 12” down in a 24” deep tank.. we did just the reefbrites to see and crazy enough they hit 120-150 on top of the rocks and 40-70 in the sand! I can say I wasn’t expecting that.. with everything on I can hit over 1000 in the top few Inches.:

 

[Troylee]

Also wanted to mention all my torches sit in 250-375 par and they’re loving it! Haha.. hammers are about 200 par and acans around 120 which are thriving:

 

[Troylee]

So that’s fun! But no bueno! Lol.. got every Hannah checker today when I picked up my new set up! What a score! Sad to see people go but I got everything he had for $150…. My big display currently… ugh! Can’t get that po4 up! Zeo must be working lol..

 

[Troylee]

New garage set up! The top off alone cost more than I paid! Not to mention every Hannah checker out there.. and a stand I made I got back haha!

 

[MrsBugmaster]

Nice score!

 

[Troylee]

With a big top off comes a big mess… lol, this holds 40 gallons.

 

[Troylee]

Scared to see how this plays out! Uuuuugh…. Made some fresh kalk top off and my siphon break was clogged from kalk over the last few months.. needless to say it dumped about 5 gallons of super saturated kalk before I caught it.. my tank was getting cloudy and I saw my ph sky rocket! See how the sticks do over the next week rrrrrrrr… glad the lights were on and I caught it or it would have dumped 25 gallons of kalk in.. alk has jumped from 9 to 10.29 over night..

 

[fishguy242]

glad ya caught it, might want to manually bump up the cal and mag a little to help alk drop faster...

 

[Troylee]

glad ya caught it, might want to manually bump up the cal and mag a little to help alk drop faster...

Me too sheesh! Lol… yeah it’s weird my mag dropped from 1350 over night also.. I think the trident is getting wonky readings as it precipitates.. I’ll see how the tank looks when I get home today and manually test if it’s not cleared up yet.. the trident just tested and the alk has dropped .3 since midnight till 6 am so that’s good! I have tons of corraline not to mention a decent coral load so it should drop fast.. I shut my top off, off and will use straight rodi water till it settles down manually. I lose close to 1dkh daily so the spike wasn’t horrible but my sticks will tell me if I’m okay or not. I’m guessing by tomorrow morning it will be back to 9 where I keep it.

 

[Troylee]

Lights aren’t on yet but from what I can see the water looks to have cleared up really well.. fingers

crossed..

 

[Troylee]

So far so good! It’s going down steadily and didn’t get crazy high! Kinda crazy with 5 gallons of kalk pumped in the tank over 5 min or so… rrr

 

[Troylee]

Finally got my hands on a holy grail! Yay! Lol