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Shadow1 · Post by **Shadow1** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:12 pm

Forgot how expensive mistakes are in this hobby so after several weeks of issues my own fault...
Lost All but 2 of our Acros but no fish sometimes you have choices....
Worked this weekend on electrical

one of two 30 AMP GFI tied to Radions Pharoes and battery backups

A few tank shots

Blue Stag, Thanks Jarrod

Redfish · Post by **Redfish** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:08 pm

Bout time you gave us an

update The electrical is looking good, nice and neat, not

like mine, I need to redo mine. I thought I had this nice plan thought

out before I set my tank up, didn't turn out the way I had it envisioned though, but its nothing that can't be fixed, I just need to figure out where I am going to get a little bit more space. I figured I would buy a 4ft. tank put it on a 6ft. stand and I would have

plenty of space. Is that a UV Sterilizer I see in the first pic, that thing looks like a beast. What is that thing sitting on the floor in front of your chiller? Just wondering, how often does your chiller kick on? Not trying to be nosy here, we all lose corals and fish in this hobby, have certainly lost my fair share, just lost one of my new Yuma corals, not the pretty one though

yet and you don't have to answer this if you would rather not. What did you do to lose those acro's, we learn by others errors so you might be helping someone else if you did answer. Anyway, keep up the good work.

Shadow1 · Post by **Shadow1** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 8:46 pm

I have a small tower fan to help with air movement on the chiller. What started as a small ich problem created by a 4 or more degree temp swing. I did not have the Chiller running and the A/C was off in the house. I then dropped the salinity over about 4 days to 1.018 the LPS started to look peaked so I brought it back up to 1.020 hooked up a second UV what you see are 2 sterilizers mounted on the bottom of the tank. At day 7 of the lowered salinity we noticed some bleaching of one of the Acros, I was dosing ich attack with the low salinity and not running the skimmer. At day 9 we had lost the first peice total bleached out, started an 8 day increase to bring salt back up to 1.026 but in the interium the massive changes I put the tank thru got the ACRO's everything else has survived. The Chiller comes on at 80 heaters at 78.5 so I now have a 1.5 degree temp swing max. temp seems to stay around 79 - 79.5 most of the time. Seems to kick on and off thru the day I am trying to figure out how to graph the temp thru 72 hours or so so I can see what is going on. Yes the 2 UV's are hugh but I flowing 600GPH thru 2 of them to keep the system clean and with 300 or so gallons of water everything has to be big. I am going to take a pic of the skeletons and post it as a reminder. As Scott Allen says "GO SLOW LET IT GROW" More to come on the saga of the Shadow.......

bluwtr · Post by **bluwtr** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:35 pm

Looking good Richard. Glad to hear things are starting to look up for you. Would be great to see a FTS with the very side edges being at the edge of the camera frame. I don't think I remember seeing you post one straight on like that.

Keep up the fight!

Shadow1 · Post by **Shadow1** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 6:34 pm

Couple more pics #1 the shadow 180lb Great DAne he chases the fish and slobs the glass

Full Front at a little angle

Room with a view..

Still a long work in progress but getting there watching the couple new frags from this weekend doing good so far.

bluwtr · Post by **bluwtr** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:11 pm

Great pics Richard! The number of fish you have is amazing. That much motion must make you feel like you've got the scuba tanks strapped on.

The visual of your "puppy" licking the glass cracks me up!

Shadow1 · Post by **Shadow1** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 9:23 am

He chases the fish and tries to eat them thru the glass it is crazy funny when he gets started just has some powerful slobber glue it is a PITA to clean off the glass especially if you let it dry.

bluwtr · Post by **bluwtr** » Wed Jul 25, 2012 3:49 pm

LOL!!!! Like some kind of industrial lubricant!

Shadow1 · Post by **Shadow1** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 4:53 pm

Back in the Hobby one year this week
the original 125 August 2011

The new and improved 300DD this week

A couple new aquisitions after the fiasco....

3 foot looking down 6 foot

Shadow1 · Post by **Shadow1** » Thu Aug 09, 2012 4:54 pm

The Shadow in his glory

nuf said

bluwtr · Post by **bluwtr** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:44 am

The new Acro is beautiful! Which one is it?

Shadow1 · Post by **Shadow1** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:13 pm

Just coming up after a serious remodel, Thanks to Jarrod and Pete your help was invaluable.

And to Scott, What can I say......

bluwtr · Post by **bluwtr** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:38 pm

Tank is looking great Richard. Would love to see some macro shots if you can get them. Just FYI, even if you don't have a high end camera, most point and shoots have a macro setting usually denoted by a "flower" on the dial. If you've never shot in macro, you will need to make it very steady otherwise it will blur. Before I had access to a high end, I would put the P&S on a tripod, and set the timer for the short delay. That way I could press the shutter release and remove my hand. Actually worked pretty well.

Shadow1 · Post by **Shadow1** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 4:54 pm

Owned a portrait studio for close to 25 years till Katrina took it out. Just use an Olympus Pen now don't ever pull out the big stuff anymore. There are over 12 full boxes of coral in the tank anything in particular you want to see? Colors are fading too little flow and chemistry changes till I can get everything stable.

Scott Allen · Post by **Scott Allen** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:01 pm

Shadow1 wrote:Owned a portrait studio for close to 25 years till Katrina took it out. Just use an Olympus Pen now don't ever pull out the big stuff anymore. There are over 12 full boxes of coral in the tank anything in particular you want to see? Colors are fading too little flow and chemistry changes till I can get everything stable.

They are going to shock. They should come back with a vengeance though.

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