240g + 300g in wall build

**glarior** · 02-20-2013, 08:06 PM

Originally Posted by ~firefly~

That eel is stunning! How long have you had it?

That grouper...is it a Coral Rock Cod? I think I saw these in the Maldives. Gorgeous.

I have had the eel for least a year... maybe a little longer. I really don't remember lol

Yes, the grouper is also known as the coral rock cod. I know it as a miniatus grouper. Cephalopholis miniatus

I am really liking larger fish then the smaller ones now lol. So cool to watch and feed them.

**Hardy85** · 02-20-2013, 08:20 PM

You had me lost talking about the scrubber lol, I don't know the SW stuff that well. But def liking it so far, I love lionfish. Are you done stocking that tank with those 3?

**glarior** · 02-20-2013, 09:23 PM

Originally Posted by Hardy85

You had me lost talking about the scrubber lol, I don't know the SW stuff that well. But def liking it so far, I love lionfish. Are you done stocking that tank with those 3?

I am waiting for a large gray bamboo shark and a cortez stingray then that is all. I will add some more to the reef tank because it only has a few little fish.

The scrubber is a cool way to keep the algae, phosphates and nitrates out of the system.

**Hardy85** · 03-11-2013, 11:56 AM

A guy on my local craigslist has a ton of SW stock that he's selling.. too bad your in texas lol

**glarior** · 03-14-2013, 05:01 PM

Update:

Tank is running great but I need lids on the tanks. I am losing ~3g of water a day.
Tank values are doing great. The K1 is converting everything to nitrates and the LR/scrubber are slowly decreasing them.
The scrubber has one screen with about 70% of coverage and the 2nd screen is starting to grow. I think I will modify the 2nd screen and make it like the first one that is the picture a above this post. I will take pics when I get a chance.

The eel, grouper and lion fish are doing very well. They are by far my favorite group of fish. I really like the bigger fish over the small ones now and honestly, I never thought I would.

I removed the black and white damsel from the reef tank. I did not know until I added a new anthias fish that the damsel was agressive and killed one of the weaker anthias. That and I was re-arranging my rocks and he kept attacking me. I thought everyone got along because none of the other fish ever had any signs being attacked. However, once I removed him the other fish hang out where I can see them! I thought they were human shy because they stayed at the old place for 6 months with very little interaction.

I had to put my flame angel to sleep last night. Something happened and its eye became infected but over a few days he just got worse. Then the fins were missing and I am pretty sure he is blind. I tried to feed him and he could not see the food.

The soft corals I have are growing like crazy.

That is about all for now... I will post up pics and some charts in the next few weeks.

**Hardy85** · 03-25-2013, 12:21 PM

Any updated pics of the build?

**glarior** · 03-25-2013, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by Hardy85

Any updated pics of the build?

I will try to get some pics of the scrubber tonight... its way over due for cleaning.

Land Speed Racing season just started so I have been focusing my time building my motorcycle in attempt to take some long standing records. The tanks have not been messed with because of that.

Still working on a small shark and ray.

**glarior** · 03-29-2013, 02:43 PM

Not sure why but my computer wont load AC forum. However, I am trying taptalk for the first time...

Here is the pics of the scrubber. The scrubber forum says I should double the leds and use less screen. Kind of baffled on that.

I'm going to add a sulphur reactor setup to the tank.

**Cliff** · 03-29-2013, 03:00 PM

The "scrubber form guys" are just likely trying to give you suggestions to increase the intensity of the lighting to help the algae become even more effective. In theory, a smaller screen with a lot more intense lighting can remove more nitrates and phosphates out of the water than a larger one with less intense lighting (all other things being equal).

As long as your parameters are good, no need to change a thing

**glarior** · 03-29-2013, 03:42 PM

Wish I would have read that before. I can chop up the aluminum and add all 60 leds to the left side screen with a 12 inch PVC slit and powered by a Rio 3100. That would work better then what I have now?

I based mine off feeding and I am feeding a lot! 10 silversides, shrimp, 3 cubes and every other day a small octopus. The silver sides alone come to 50 cubes per day. :-/

The reason to modify or add more filtering is the nitrates are slowly creeping up and I don't like that.