brewercm
Thu, 11th Jan 2007, 04:14 PM
OK, this is my plan of attack on this beast. Give me any input as to what you think might and might not work out on this.
I've been fighting briopsys for quite a while and am tired of the battle (if you ever see anything getting it yank that little piece out right away before it spreads). I'm going to break down my 100 in the living room and salvage as much corals as I can into a 30 long that will be in the garage for the mean time attached to my sump/fuge that's already out there. I have a 1/3hp chiller attached along with plenty of heaters so that's not a problem. Along with those I'll save some crabs, snails, seahares etc. along with my blue tang, and CBB that is the first I've had that hasn't croaked on me. As far as the other corals attached to the rocks I will frag what I can and put them in the 30 long also, there isn't that much since I started with mostly frags anyways and several have gone south on me as of late. Here is where my concern lies and I guess I can deal with it as it happens in the 30 long. I want to chip away sections of the rock that have the algae growing on it but am worried that some may still come back. Any ideas on this and if it will work or is it best to just let the rock die and use it as base after several months of letting it dry out, or maybe do both, chip away what I can see and let the rest dry before puttin it back into a tank as base. In the mean time we'll be having someone remove the ugly carpet from the house and put tile in before putting up a new tank. This is where the fun comes in, the wife said I could get whatever I wanted once the tile was down as long as the stand and canopy are nice looking (Get ready Ace unless I find a good deal on a set).
I will be selling the existing 100gal with the VHO's in the canopy. I am debating the halides (two DE pendants) since I may change over to the luminarcs for the new system anyways.
Anybody's input that they may think is helpful would be great. I think I'm going to look at about a 135 since I like the 72 inch lenght and 18 width but it gives me a little more depth than a 125. Those are the max in length and depth that I'd want to go with do to placement, also if it has to be braced I'm hopein that it's a split braces for lighting purposes.
Thanks ahead for any input you may have towards this project.
I've been fighting briopsys for quite a while and am tired of the battle (if you ever see anything getting it yank that little piece out right away before it spreads). I'm going to break down my 100 in the living room and salvage as much corals as I can into a 30 long that will be in the garage for the mean time attached to my sump/fuge that's already out there. I have a 1/3hp chiller attached along with plenty of heaters so that's not a problem. Along with those I'll save some crabs, snails, seahares etc. along with my blue tang, and CBB that is the first I've had that hasn't croaked on me. As far as the other corals attached to the rocks I will frag what I can and put them in the 30 long also, there isn't that much since I started with mostly frags anyways and several have gone south on me as of late. Here is where my concern lies and I guess I can deal with it as it happens in the 30 long. I want to chip away sections of the rock that have the algae growing on it but am worried that some may still come back. Any ideas on this and if it will work or is it best to just let the rock die and use it as base after several months of letting it dry out, or maybe do both, chip away what I can see and let the rest dry before puttin it back into a tank as base. In the mean time we'll be having someone remove the ugly carpet from the house and put tile in before putting up a new tank. This is where the fun comes in, the wife said I could get whatever I wanted once the tile was down as long as the stand and canopy are nice looking (Get ready Ace unless I find a good deal on a set).
I will be selling the existing 100gal with the VHO's in the canopy. I am debating the halides (two DE pendants) since I may change over to the luminarcs for the new system anyways.
Anybody's input that they may think is helpful would be great. I think I'm going to look at about a 135 since I like the 72 inch lenght and 18 width but it gives me a little more depth than a 125. Those are the max in length and depth that I'd want to go with do to placement, also if it has to be braced I'm hopein that it's a split braces for lighting purposes.
Thanks ahead for any input you may have towards this project.