150 gal corner build *Long overdue update*

Ich: 1
Aquarist: 0

Lost the Kole tang today...

 

Sorry. :-/

 

I'm sorry for your loss. Hopefully, the tang will be it....I just got a kole tang and he only lasted about a week and didn't appear to even be sick

 

Thank you.

Hopefully you're right, but the hippo and orchid dottyback have it the worst.

Yeah, he went really fast. From very healthy to gone in about a week. Never stopped eating, but got very thin, very fast.

 

Growth updates

Just some growth updates

Purple Stylo (Bottom branch is splitting into 3)


Bird's Nest


Spongodes (encrusting quite a bit)


Acan Lord


Fungia

 

Sorry about the fish and the ich outbreak..

Corals look happy and awesome tho!

 

Thanks.

I haven't had the heart to tear it all down yet, and will use that as a last resort. The corals are doing well, and I don't want to disturb everything trying to catch fish.

Soooo, I used the 2-liter pop bottle trap idea. Have caught the blenny and the chalk bass so far. The others are pretty skittish, but are getting closer to it. I hope to have them all in a day or two.

 

Vinnyboombatz Inspired Horizontal ATS

Installed a horizontal ATS after seeing Vinny's success with it. It's been up and running around 10 days, and I'm starting to see growth on it. Nothing that's green, but looks like a lot of cyano. Lots of bubbles forming on the plastic canvas. Not sure if that's a good thing or not.

The shape of the corner tank makes working in the stand difficult at best. My current sump layout is Fuge --> Return <--Skimmer, and I have a return pump to the display and a pump feeding the fuge. There's not any room to do a vertical ATS, but I thought I could hang a small horizontal one over the fuge section of my sump and feed it with the fuge pump.

I picked up a shallow WalMart storage tote (roughly 16" x 12" x 6") and put a bulk head in each end of it. I built a little feed header to even out the flow. It has 1/4" holes drilled along it on the bottom. I also picked up some plastic canvas, attached it to some egg crate with zip ties, and roughed it up with a hole saw. Here's the assembled picture. I have a union on the feed end for easy removal and cleaning. I have it sitting on some frag plug doughnuts to keep it off the bottom so there's good flow underneath it as well.



I have a 6,500K CFL that I'm using for a light and it sits pretty close to the water surface. I'm guessing 3-4" above it and to one end. I have another 6,500K CFL that is off to the side and is the light for my chaeto in the fuge.

Here's about 10 days into it. Already seeing quite a few pods living under it.





So far, so good. I'm not seeing a bit of cyano in the DT now. I'll qualify that by saying I was travelling quite a bit during this 10 day period, and I'm not sure how well my daughter did with daily feedings. I'll see how it goes and will post updates periodically.

 

Awesome!Yes I too saw lots of bubbles at the start and cyano formed rather quickly.It took approximately 2 weeks before I saw significant growth.After the first cleaning it took less then a week for the growth to reform.I am currently cleaning the screen once every two weeks and it is yucky!!lol How many gph are you running through it? I have approximately 700 gph running across the screen.You may also want to consider a 2700k bulb usually listed as warm white.Good luck.Subscribed.;D8)

 

I see some of the setups here at 3reef and it makes me want to tear mine down and start over! Im sorry to hear of your ich problem but everything looks so well put together!!