You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

Slocke · Nov 23, 2023

Well I couldn’t find it yesterday evening but happily she’s out and about again this morning. Looks healthy but I wonder how long it will be before I can try it in the main tank. It’s just too small even for my acclimation box.

Slocke · Nov 24, 2023

Uggh
Just about to go to bed and find I somehow knocked the ato pipe out of the tank and it is flooding my floors. Luckily only a couple gallons but still.
Some definitely got under the boards…

Miami Reef · Nov 24, 2023

Slocke said:
Uggh
Just about to go to bed and find I somehow knocked the ato pipe out of the tank and it is flooding my floors. Luckily only a couple gallons but still.
Some definitely got under the boards…

Oh no! How can we prevent this from happening in the future? What type of pipe setup is this?

Slocke · Nov 24, 2023

Miami Reef said:
Oh no! How can we prevent this from happening in the future? What type of pipe setup is this?

Just a simple rubber pipe that snakes over the back of the sump.
Mopped up as much as I can and got a few fans going. Not going to worry about it tonight anymore.

Miami Reef · Nov 24, 2023

Slocke said:
Just a simple rubber pipe that snakes over the back of the sump.
Mopped up as much as I can and got a few fans going. Not going to worry about it tonight anymore.

Evaporation is your friend. I hope you have a good rest. I’m dozing off right now myself.

Slocke · Nov 25, 2023

Miami Reef said:
Evaporation is your friend. I hope you have a good rest. I’m dozing off right now myself.

Thanks!

Slocke · Nov 25, 2023

Got some new corals.
A second acropora frag as my first is going so well (new one on the right)

A yellow octospawn which should do well to contrast all the green and red corals:

And some cheap and boring mushrooms for the eel tank:

Miami Reef · Nov 25, 2023

Love it!!

Slocke · Nov 27, 2023

I was joking with my friend that I’d nominate her for reef of the month. Not a bad tank though.

Miami Reef · Nov 27, 2023

Wow! What a large aquarium!

Slocke · Nov 27, 2023

Miami Reef said:
Wow! What a large aquarium!

A 164,000 gallon reef tank gives you a bit more room for corals.

Slocke · Dec 1, 2023

Back home again. I’ve been traveling every week for work since getting back from Maui and I’m getting a bit burned out and have been neglecting my tanks a bit. Luckily they seem to have hit a happy stability and everything actually seems to be doing well despite my negligence.

Well except the clam which keeps getting knocked over…

Slocke · Dec 2, 2023

@Miami Reef any way I can safely stick it to the rock? Just so it has time to get its foot secure. Or is its foot maybe damaged and that’s why it’s struggling?

Miami Reef · Dec 2, 2023

Use epoxy to make a guard for it.

This new clam fell to the left, so I made a wall out of epoxy. You can see the pink epoxy beside the clam.

Here are more of my epoxy walls. I put a red arrow and a green dot on the epoxy.

Slocke · Dec 2, 2023

Miami Reef said:
Use epoxy to make a guard for it.

This new clam fell to the left, so I made a wall out of epoxy. You can see the pink epoxy beside the clam.

Here are more of my epoxy walls. I put a red arrow and a green dot on the epoxy.

Thank you!! In lieu of tangs I use big snails and urchins so things get knocked off a lot.

Miami Reef · Dec 2, 2023

Slocke said:
Thank you!! In lieu of tangs I use big snails and urchins so things get knocked off a lot.

Urchins are a PITA. I had to remove mine because they kept knocking off my acropora frags.

JoJosReef · Dec 2, 2023

Miami Reef said:
Use epoxy to make a guard for it.

This new clam fell to the left, so I made a wall out of epoxy. You can see the pink epoxy beside the clam.

Here are more of my epoxy walls. I put a red arrow and a green dot on the epoxy.

I really like your epoxy walls! Much better than my epoxy cradles. I thought my crocea didn't like the epoxy cradles, maybe because the surface is so different from live rock, but it stopped moving when I found a corner between two pieces of live rock and happily stuck its byssal threads onto the live rock. Epoxy walls seems like a good way to keep them in place on a flatter section of rocks.