Alaska_Phil

As most of you know, after adding a sump to my existing tank, my only SPS is dying, and now my frogspawn is looking very unhappy. Someone just told me that I should have let my PVC glue joints cure for 48 hours before adding them to the system. Since I had to make several of the joints in place, I only gave them a couple hours. Could that be what's poisoning my corals?

At long last my tank has a sump!

the sump is a 20 tall tank, with 3 baffles forming a bubble trap. This gives me a 2 section sump, equipment and return. I'm not planning to use this for a refugium. My original plan was to add a refugium as a separate tank above the sump, but now I think I'll try a turf scrubber first and see if that does the trick. Now for pictures.

First I mocked up the system in the shop using an old 29 gal and stand. It ran like this for several ...

I'm getting ready to add a sump to my tank this weekend (I'll have a separate blog for that operation) and currently have the system mocked up in my shop using an old 29. The eshoppes nano overflow box is really noisy. If I run my pump wide open it burps and slurps. If I add the pre-filter sponge over the outlet that quiets things down considerably, but with the alage problems I've had I'm afraid it'll clog up frequently. There's no room for a Durso style overflow, the box isn't wide enough. ...

I may have an opportunity to visit Guam this year, so I did a little research on the place and found this great web site with lots of high quality photos of the reefs and reef life there. Lots of inspiration for future tanks.

www.guamreeflife.com

Enjoy!

Last month I decided my tank was mature enough at 4 years old that I'd try my hand at an SPS. Plus a fellow reef keeper in the office was placing an order to Blue Zoo. So after a couple hours of research (OK, I've been researching it for 4 years now), I decided on a Brown Monti Digitata. well, it was a rough start. Right off the bat I discovered my precious flame angle, who hadn't bothered any of my soft or LPS corals had a taste for monti polyps. So the Monti was uprooted after only ...