Reef Bruh's 600 Gallon Upgrade

now, I kind of like sexy ugly lol

 

Well once you go sexy ugly you don't go back......Maybe.

 

lol - I imagine not

 

Thanks! He'd be happy I was making them a bigger home.

 

I know he will.

 

Definitely, I gotta figure out how to fix the center brace on the 55 I am putting them in. It'll cost me $30 to ship a new frame, but I may try and diy it with a piece of acrylic. I just gotta decide what to do.....and I am building a stand for it. Lol, lots to do.

 

You could Weldon 16 a piece on to the original piece on the top and bottom. Im sure you can get a black piece to closely match the brace and clamp them together.

 

Update

Well some minor problems has been happening. I will try my best to keep them in order.

First off the calcium reactor has been running a while and for the most part the Alkalinity was averaging abou 7.6-7.8 dKh. Well after about 2 -3 WCs the alkalinity was rising about to 8.4 dKh, to 9.0 dKh, and now at 9.8 dKh. I mix my salt to 1.024 salinity and the parameters for that are calcium 390-410 ppm, dKh 7.3-7.7 dKh, and Magnesium at 1190-1210 ppm. Everything measured perfectly except for the dKh. My TDS meter(at least I thought) was reading zero and I had changed the filters approximately 2 months ago. Well I had my RO/DI water tested only to find out my actual TDS was around 65ppm. And on top of that the Alkalinity tested out at 2.5 dKh. Is that even remotely possible for fresh RO/DI water to test out like that.

Secondly, my phosphates which were around .08-.10 ppm(Hanna) were up at .19 ppm. I am going to take into consideration the TDS meter being off. But when I had my freshly mixed saltwater tested the phosphates were measured at .03 ppm. Its low but I also know its suppose to read zero so either my phosphates were higher than I thought and the water changes were bringing them down slowly, or that other reasoning I don't know what to think.

Thirdly, I picked up a few killer deals along the way as you can see in the 3 month anniversary video and in the upcoming video. I picked up a female blonde naso tang, convict tang, and a purple for $75 dollars and also got a 5" yellow belly hippo for $60.

So thats pretty much whats been going on with my tank. Enjoy the frag tank video.

 

No real update for the tank except i performed a small 100 gallon water change on my DT and a 40 gallon water change on my QT tank that I used from my DT. This is normally performed on Sundays but I waited until today as I will be going under the knife again tomorrow morning and I will be out of commision for about another month. I have members from my reef club coming through the following week to help with my water changes as I wont be able to lift anything for a while. I will be lurking during my recovery so I wish everyone well.

 

Lol just a "small" 100 gallon wc... Lol thats quite funny.

Hope all goes well with you and to a quick recovery! God bless.
Kudos to all those who are helping you're during recovery. If you were on the east coast id be one of them!

As for the tank, it's looking really nice and I'm sure with time it will get all leveled out. And nice adds with the tangs! I dream of a tank able to comfortably house the fish you have! You've earned every bit of it, that's for damn sure!