SPS Sitting Under The Sun
Update - July 2008
July 2008 - After the Rat incident in March 07, I was pretty devestated and kind of just walked away from the tank and ignored it. I finally started adding SPS in January of 2008. I still haven't gotten super motivated and back into the tank. I have been purchasing only damaged, dying or brown corals - a majority of them aquacultured to turn the tank around. Without doing any testing, the majority of corals have done well in the tank. In the next month I hope to get more involved with the addition of a 4th Lumenarc to the tank, playing with the new POLARIO pumps, and I will be testing the new Lighthouse Controller. I am hoping all the new features in the Lighthouse will intrigue my gadget personality and get me back into the tank. In the meantime the webcam is still on, I am working on a new Low Light webcam so you can see in the tank when the lights are off, and I sold my 240g Fish Only tank in anticipation of some home remodeling projects.
2007 Issues - On March 18, 2007 I returned from my sisters wedding to find my tank drained to within 4" of the bottom. My immediate response was that the tank had split a seam. However, after an hour of searching, the culprit was a rodent, that had knocked the top off the surge tank, fallen in and gotten stuck in the pipe, allowing the pump for the surge to pump all the water out of the tank. SPS loss was 260 out of 263 SPS colonies that I had grown out from frags or rescue in the past 18 months.
Due to health issues this past calendar year (2007), I was unable to do anything to rebuild the tank. I just left the tank running. Finally now at the end of August, thanks to the generosity of friends I have begun to add frags back to the tank.
As many people know I have been banned from Reef Central for 2 years now because I upset a staff member. In my explanation of my situation some people might have gotten the impression that I made insinuations about the morals or ethics of Kevin K aka Anemone on Reef Central. I apologize to Kevin for anything I posted which could have been interpreted in a negative manner against Kevin. Kevin and I were friends before I was banned from RC. Kevin has always been supportive of my frag swaps and support of the reefing community and I was banned because of other Staff / Moderators on RC.
My Tank details - Acrylic tank is 96x33x28 with an entirely open top. Lighting is (8) Helios 250DE 20K. 1500gph return pump, (4) Tunze 6200, (1) Tunze 6100, and a 33g surge tank 10' up (approx flow rate 18,000gph), Deltec 702 Skimmer. Custom Calc Reactor (hold 30lbs of media), Custom Kalk - Hold 7g. As always take a peek at the tank yourself - Use the webcam and see how well things are recovering (www.o2manyfish.com/camera.htm) - Lights are on from 5pm till 2am PST. Dave B
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