Okay what next?

[tony]

sorry about the salinity/sg mix up..i had a koraila 2 on my 29 but it just made too much flow for me..my fox coral wouldnt open up anymore..but with that light im guessing ur maybe gonna do more sps? not sure i just know those things work really well! i cant imagine what kind of turbulance two would have caused! :-)

i had 2 #4s in my 30 with no problems

[bigmoe21]

haha man thats a lot of flow.. i was just stating for that stubborn fox coral of mine that wont open anymore! not all corals like it right?

[atxchris1234]

Thanks again tony.
Hmmm, I guess you could give it to MissT, and I could go pick it up from River city At some point.

On saturday I'll be swamped running a race day.(joy) Btw Tony, if you get a chance you should swing by the track after your meeting. We should be there till late, and I'd be glad to let you take the wheel of the mugen for a while.

Wish I could make it to the meeting, but I'd just slow you guys down with newbie questions and im sure half the stuff you guys talk about would be jibberish to me anyways.
Next time will be more effective.

[tony]

haha man thats a lot of flow.. i was just stating for that stubborn fox coral of mine that wont open anymore! not all corals like it right?

correct, there are some that prefer lower flow

i took the #4s out and replaced them with 2 #1s and everything seems to be just as happy if not happier now

the only issue i had with too much flow was with a sand sifting goby. when he would sift it would cause a huge sand storm and cause my skimmer to go crazy

[tony]

Wish I could make it to the meeting, but I'd just slow you guys down with newbie questions and im sure half the stuff you guys talk about would be jibberish to me anyways.
Next time will be more effective.

i ASSURE you that would not be the case

swing by if you can

i dropped misst a line to see if she minded bringing your skimmer to you but she has been offline. if not i may find the track and give it to you myself. will the races be rain or shine? there is a 100% chance of rain with hail tomorrow for SA

[hobogato]

by all means - like tony said - please come to the meeting if you can. should be a great informative talk on reef pests - something we all deal with.

[atxchris1234]

Well, just found out that racing is officially cancelled for this weekend due to the 90% thunderstorms on saturday. Therefore, joining all you reef pro's might be a nice thing to do instead. I'll make sure to bring a notepad!

By the way, Is there a thread for this meet? Address? Time? Should I bring anything? Is it okay if I bring a guest?

[hobogato]

here ya go

http://www.maast.org/forums/announcement.php?f=&a=5

perfectly fine to bring a guest

[coraline79]

I have 1 Koralia 2 in my 30 long, and it creates the max amount of current I would want in my tank. I have built a 30 inch spraybar across the back of my tank for my sump return though, so that is creating some additional flow. I "cycled my tank" for 8 weeks w/ cured rock. I am new to the salt as well, and I understand that you can get a little paranoid, but as your tank matures it will become a little more stable. I do 10-12 day 10% water changes w/ ro/di water, and I top off a quart of ro/di water every 2 days. Only one of the fish I put in at 8 weeks lived, I didn't have any confidence in my tank until probably last month. My tank has been up since late August or early September. If your putting 2 Koralias in the tank put one low and one high. I did this with my first 2 small powerheads, and it seemed to help keep my rock free of substrate. PM me if you have any questions, as we have similar setups.

[atxchris1234]

Went ahead and added two cooling fans yesterday. I noticed as my light was on that my temps were getting all the way up to 82 degrees, now with the fans the temp stays much more constant at 78-80, and the fans automatically come on with the lights.
I also added another korailia 2 On the opposite side of the tank, so now there is a constant circular flow. I don't see any dead spots in the tank anymore, just good flow.And it doesn't seem like too much at this point. My clown seems happy.... But you guys have me afraid for his life. lol.






I also added another rock, this one has a massive green mushroom of some sort. Very pretty. Since last night it has opened up quite a bit, so I think its happy. I was originally going to add some zoas, but decided to get this for now because I knew that more rock was better, so rather than rush and start adding corals and whatnots I just decided to get this mushroom since it came with a good sized and fully cured liverock. Can't wait for zoas, but I want to get my rock stacked better so I don't have to keep stirring everything up. Hopefully I can get my last rock over the weekend and be done with my aquatecture for a while.



Between this and the protien skimmer hopefully I'll have a decent setup for the time being. Only thing to do now (according to missT) is gut the internals of my filter, and add live rock to that.

This is fun.