Agreed. I was thinking we were getting a four headed peristaltic pump dubbed El CuatroNot as exciting as you hoped....
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I knew a new PMUP was due but I thought they would have been working on a continuous DOS like the Kamor for the CaRx people to pair with their new Tridents. Maybe in a year or so.
As for a 4 headed DOS I have no idea if they'd do it. It would probably be too large if they stayed with the larger more powerful pumps. You never know, people have been asking for it for awhile but they'd just tell you to get 2 DOSes
As for a 4 headed DOS I have no idea if they'd do it. It would probably be too large if they stayed with the larger more powerful pumps. You never know, people have been asking for it for awhile but they'd just tell you to get 2 DOSes
You ever hear anything about them beefing up the alarm capabilities, such as multiple alarm groups?
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A couple latest shots of the tank post saltwater expo.
The euphyllia rock looks killer
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That venustus is beautiful. How old is he/she now?
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Thanks
I’m kinda regretting not picking up a gold torch to put right in the middle but maybe by spring the price will go down a little
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I think I’ve had him for about 4 years. I’d have to look through my photos and time stamps to see when I got him. It was in the fall and I had my old tank so at least 3 years.
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Even the magazine was a Venustus
This has been the largest box I've ever received, let alone for a single fish. It was also at least sextuple bagged.
Fish is doing well but all the nights are off and hes hanging out under the overhanging so there wont be any nice pictures of him in the tank for a few days.
Until then here is another iPhone picture of the tank I took a few days ago of the fish hanging out.
11/3/2015 was when I got him
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Ah. makes sense
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Last main post was in early Nov... ouch
Anyway a bit has happened since then.
My tank took a turn for the worst and corals didn't do so well. A few coral deaths and many of the others were barely hanging on. Thin tissue, recession, color loss, etc. In the end I don't know exactly what the problem was but in the end I just stopped being lazy and took initiative to get the tank looking its best again. Salinity, and the major elements were all stable throughout winter but my temp swayed a bit here and there and my nitrate and phosphate was getting out of hand. Maxed out my Red Sea Nitrate test and Maxed out my P04 checker.
I started to get that under control with a couple back to back 50% water changes and Phosphate E (Used the BRS/WWC method as that seemed to be their go to choice for P04). This knocked those bad values down but it was only a bandaid. It also lead to a mishap with one of my large water changes. This was maybe my 3rd or 4th one that I did in Feb. One of the salt water jugs wasn't mixed well enough and when I went to dump it in the last couple cups of water that went into the tank were a white slushy of concentrated salt. It landed on a few on my corals and within a few minutes they bleached out and looked terrible. Luckily thats all it was and they still survived. A few more water changes and the water was kept stable enough for them to bounce back.
During all of these water changes I was more in tuned with the tank and this lead to a discovery that my NeoTherm heaters were starting to malfunction. Luckily I run two. One wasn't even turning on at all, and the other seemed to struggle to maintain 78 degrees. I tried to adjust it higher and in the end I screwed up that heater. It is now stuck on the max temp and won't adjust back down. By chance I had a backup heater that I planned to use for a saltwater mixing container that never got created. So this backup heater is now in the tank.
And then to add to the chaos my EB832 started to fail. The outlets were no longer switching on and off correctly. Some would stay stuck in the on position and others were stuck off. I put in an RMA and got the tank frankenstiened together until I got it back. So many of my items use 1Link that this meant I also needed to swap pumps and use other methods until I got it back.
The new powerbar showed up this week so on Thursday I took the challenge to get everything hooked back up. I even went the extra mile to disassemble everything and clean it top to bottom along with a massive water change.
Corals and Fish are all doing much better. That I will save for a new update shortly.
Anyway a bit has happened since then.
My tank took a turn for the worst and corals didn't do so well. A few coral deaths and many of the others were barely hanging on. Thin tissue, recession, color loss, etc. In the end I don't know exactly what the problem was but in the end I just stopped being lazy and took initiative to get the tank looking its best again. Salinity, and the major elements were all stable throughout winter but my temp swayed a bit here and there and my nitrate and phosphate was getting out of hand. Maxed out my Red Sea Nitrate test and Maxed out my P04 checker.
I started to get that under control with a couple back to back 50% water changes and Phosphate E (Used the BRS/WWC method as that seemed to be their go to choice for P04). This knocked those bad values down but it was only a bandaid. It also lead to a mishap with one of my large water changes. This was maybe my 3rd or 4th one that I did in Feb. One of the salt water jugs wasn't mixed well enough and when I went to dump it in the last couple cups of water that went into the tank were a white slushy of concentrated salt. It landed on a few on my corals and within a few minutes they bleached out and looked terrible. Luckily thats all it was and they still survived. A few more water changes and the water was kept stable enough for them to bounce back.
During all of these water changes I was more in tuned with the tank and this lead to a discovery that my NeoTherm heaters were starting to malfunction. Luckily I run two. One wasn't even turning on at all, and the other seemed to struggle to maintain 78 degrees. I tried to adjust it higher and in the end I screwed up that heater. It is now stuck on the max temp and won't adjust back down. By chance I had a backup heater that I planned to use for a saltwater mixing container that never got created. So this backup heater is now in the tank.
And then to add to the chaos my EB832 started to fail. The outlets were no longer switching on and off correctly. Some would stay stuck in the on position and others were stuck off. I put in an RMA and got the tank frankenstiened together until I got it back. So many of my items use 1Link that this meant I also needed to swap pumps and use other methods until I got it back.
The new powerbar showed up this week so on Thursday I took the challenge to get everything hooked back up. I even went the extra mile to disassemble everything and clean it top to bottom along with a massive water change.
Corals and Fish are all doing much better. That I will save for a new update shortly.
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Frick... my heart skipped a bit at the idea of a powerbar glitching like that. I've always just thought about a single switch failing.
Do you know if there a way to catch a switch doing this as an alarm vs. a Chucky's surprise?
Are you/were you using Ben's method of alternating heaters? Guessing power monitoring is on now.
Do you know if there a way to catch a switch doing this as an alarm vs. a Chucky's surprise?
Are you/were you using Ben's method of alternating heaters? Guessing power monitoring is on now.
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The power bar was actually failing for awhile and I was just lazy. It originally was just one outlet that controlled a light or skimmer. I just kept it on all the time and switched the skimmer that I wanted control over to a new outlet. The others started to go when the heaters were failing. I’m not sure what caused any of them to fail. I wasn’t using the EB832 for main temp control so it would only turn on or off a couple times a day/week. (compared to when BRS was using the EB832 and it was turning on and off a hundred+ times a day)
Power monitoring probably could have caught the heater failure a bit sooner but the one that stopped completely was a low temp heater. If the water got super cold both would turn on to get the temp up faster. Once above 77 the low level one turned back off and the high level heater controlled the temp at 78-79 degrees.
So this shows a good reason to use Bens heater swapping code or something similar. That way each heater trades being the main heater and backup so one doesn’t burn out faster than the other. It’s just strange that my “backup” low temp heater was the one that failed.
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So I have started to collect Neptune System goodies for awhile but it's not hooked up and running yet ( have some fish room remodeling going on).
I've been running Digital Aquatics for everything for 11+ years with not 1 thing failing. Will I need to worry with the new system I wonder. Will have to look into all the Alarms
programming. This is going to be Fun
Hope all will level out for u Eric
I've been running Digital Aquatics for everything for 11+ years with not 1 thing failing. Will I need to worry with the new system I wonder. Will have to look into all the Alarms
programming. This is going to be Fun
Hope all will level out for u Eric
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Staying at home has given me some free time to get the tank looking nice. And without a frag swap I had to buy a few online frags and pickup a few things from New Wave.
New Frag of TNT Anacropora
New Frag of unnamed yellow acro
New Frag of TNT Anacropora
New Frag of unnamed yellow acro
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How are you liking the nanobox light?
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Its been great for coral color but the spread has been kind of unacceptable. Maybe thats the way with most cluster LEDs. I wish it was 36" long
The tops of all my coral have great color but the sides and front my tank are usually dim and the corals usually suffer. I'm actually re doing a bit of an experiment I dabbled with months ago. I ran 2 lights at the same time with the nanobox in front. My large 36" Light is on top to give a more diffuse light to the corals crevices. This LED fixture also has more purple and UV leds, and a few different shades of blue. The nanobox in the front is blasting the more intense light for the side of the corals from the dominant viewing angle.
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Been a long time since an update. Almost a year. Things weren't amazing so I didn't post. I was furloughed from my job during covid and eventually laid off. Lost a few corals and a fish or two, lost a bunch of money, got depressed, etc. Eventually I landed a director level job and now secretly laugh at my previous employer while giving them the middle finger because I make way more than they were ever going to pay me and they are out there posting jobs asking for help in areas I worked in. Got the tank and everything else turned around in life and things are now going well.
When we had the last speaker event with Marc Levenson and Terence Fugazzi in the Spring of 2019 I asked them both if they wanted to stop over to my place while they were in town. Marc took me up on the offer and stopped over to chat reef and shoot some video and photos of my tank. The footage went unseen for 2 year until he release a feature video on my tank in replacement of one of his Saturday Livestreams.
This video I had shot and uploaded a few weeks earlier but is more current than Marc's. I'm really liking how the tank and fish look and get happy just looking at it everyday.
When we had the last speaker event with Marc Levenson and Terence Fugazzi in the Spring of 2019 I asked them both if they wanted to stop over to my place while they were in town. Marc took me up on the offer and stopped over to chat reef and shoot some video and photos of my tank. The footage went unseen for 2 year until he release a feature video on my tank in replacement of one of his Saturday Livestreams.
This video I had shot and uploaded a few weeks earlier but is more current than Marc's. I'm really liking how the tank and fish look and get happy just looking at it everyday.