Enders Mid Life Crisis Build

[york1]

 

[enderg60]

So Mr. Pervert...if you're the black connecter and your wife is the rubber hose...who is the white coupling?

Obviously it's the ex fitting.You know the one that needs a zip tie to keep the rubber hose on.

 

[civics14]

its been 3 months now, I think we're all due for an update.

 

[Rainblood]

 

[enderg60]

its been 3 months now, I think we're all due for an update.

Life has been kicking my ass lately. Between the drama of getting my pool permitted (HOA trouble from an HOA I dont even live in!), traveling, auto feeder issues, bully fish I cant catch and the fact my last round of fish in QT were all taken out by a combo of ich and flukes Ive just kind of been taking a step back and letting the tank run and try to stabilize the parameters.

Ill get a real update soon, but here are some bullet points.
- Reworked the flow nozzles in the frag tank to eliminate dead spots. Results, its low profile but I still have a poo pile.
- Autofeeder issues continue. First the smell annoyed my wife so I had to find a sealed container. Then the food I made clogged it up and made a nice big stinky mess.
- A-hole fish. My Melinarus wrasse and twin spot hog have become horrible. I watched the Melinarus dive bomb my diamond goby and kill it, and the hogfish is systematically killing off other wrasses and anthias and they are evading capture.
- Parameters. Im still tuning the Ca reactor, I got it keeping the alk stable but it was dosing too much calc and mag so I had to back off and turn the soda ask dosing back up. I also had to lower my Kalk drip since my evaporation went down. All this lead to a few swings that killed off some corals.
- Screen tops, the never ending project. The screen went totally brittle bring under the halides in under 3 months resulting in rips, and fish being able to jump through it and land on top.

 

[project1004]

That auto feeding is very tricky. Make them in a nice size cubes and drop them in as needed maybe the best option.

Your tank being a such large size, I knew you are going to have many hiccups and take forever for it to stabilize.

But didnt expect that your fishes are killing each other in a such a large tank. Big tank big problems. Sheese

 

[Rainblood]

Life has been kicking my ass lately. Between the drama of getting my pool permitted (HOA trouble from an HOA I dont even live in!), traveling, auto feeder issues, bully fish I cant catch and the fact my last round of fish in QT were all taken out by a combo of ich and flukes Ive just kind of been taking a step back and letting the tank run and try to stabilize the parameters.

Ill get a real update soon, but here are some bullet points.
- Reworked the flow nozzles in the frag tank to eliminate dead spots. Results, its low profile but I still have a poo pile.
- Autofeeder issues continue. First the smell annoyed my wife so I had to find a sealed container. Then the food I made clogged it up and made a nice big stinky mess.
- A-hole fish. My Melinarus wrasse and twin spot hog have become horrible. I watched the Melinarus dive bomb my diamond goby and kill it, and the hogfish is systematically killing off other wrasses and anthias and they are evading capture.
- Parameters. Im still tuning the Ca reactor, I got it keeping the alk stable but it was dosing too much calc and mag so I had to back off and turn the soda ask dosing back up. I also had to lower my Kalk drip since my evaporation went down. All this lead to a few swings that killed off some corals.
- Screen tops, the never ending project. The screen went totally brittle bring under the halides in under 3 months resulting in rips, and fish being able to jump through it and land on top.

OMG...you are human after all...haha welcome to the suck