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kody72 
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 Posted: March 21 2011 at 4:48pm |
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bob turn down the pumps theres a little knob in one of the end of the blue box on each of the power head cords i ran them on 1 and 3 setting on the controller
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BobC63
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Posted: March 23 2011 at 10:39am |
I'll check it out Kody... pretty sure when I plugged the 2nd pump into the #3 outlet it wasn't responding.
I actually ended up taking out 1 pf the pumps for now (see my next post). For now, 1 is plenty... maybe awhile down the road, when there are more corals blocking the flow and the sandbed is not as "loose", then maybe I'll go back to using the 2 pumps.
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Posted: March 23 2011 at 11:16am |
So, last night when I got home from work I did a few things...
First, I removed 1 of the Tunzes and placed the remaining pump in the center of the tank. Right now there is still plenty of flow generated with just the 1 Tunze; and having it in the middle seems to have eliminated the sandbed getting rearranged and the associated cloudiness...
I have the Tunze 7094 Controller set to alternate flow rates between 60% (aprrox 1,900 gph) and 100% (3,175 gph), alternating about every 15 seconds. Looks just about right for now.
Next, I went out and did a little shopping 
Picked up another Purple Firefish and a pair of Red Firefish from Shawn over at Aquatica, and a pair of Orange Tail Blue Damsels and a Lubbock's Fairy Wrasse from John over at Reefrunners...
Lastly, I charged up the battery on my new DSLR camera and spent a few minutes taking pictures 
Much more representative of how the tank really looks to the eye than those overly blue shots using the point-and-shoot digital. It was already dark (maybe 9 PM?) when I shot these photos; amazing how much difference the flash made...
W/ Flash
W/O Flash
The firefish tend to stay together as pairs, but sometimes all 4 hang out in the same area
The 2 Torch Corals have opened up nicely so far
The BM Cone is still pulling out mostly silt and dust; that should change now that I have some bioload in there...
I messed around with the camera settings a bit, just to see the effect on the end result.
Definitely still learning this camera - I haven't even read the manual yet 
To be fair, though, the bloody instruction manual is 157 pages long (seriously!)
And I still need to organize my power cords within the sump, install my ACIII Controller (probably will need some help with the programming - another lengthy instruction manual that I haven't even read yet  ), mount the Tunze Controller (it's laying on the floor beside the setup right now) and then eventually add in the Ca reactor.
Oh, and I need to get a carbon reactor, too...
But we are definitely getting somewhere now
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Posted: March 23 2011 at 11:18am |
Bob, have you ever thought about trying to use one of your pumps to try to get a circular flow going in the cube, and then maybe turning it off and turning on the other pump to try to reverse the flow direction simulating the tide in the ocean? Ive always thought that would be cool to do and would be pretty easy in a cube.
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Posted: March 23 2011 at 11:26am |
 Jeffs_little_ocean wrote:
Bob, have you ever thought about trying to use one of your pumps to try to get a circular flow going in the cube, and then maybe turning it off and turning on the other pump to try to reverse the flow direction simulating the tide in the ocean? Ive always thought that would be cool to do and would be pretty easy in a cube. |
If I decide to add the 2nd pump back in later, maybe I will try to put 1 pump on each side partition of the overflow - one facing to the right and one to the left... then alternate them to simulate a gyre or tidal movements..?
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Posted: March 23 2011 at 11:32am |
BobC63 wrote:
Jeffs_little_ocean wrote:
Bob, have you ever thought about trying to use one of your pumps to try to get a circular flow going in the cube, and then maybe turning it off and turning on the other pump to try to reverse the flow direction simulating the tide in the ocean? Ive always thought that would be cool to do and would be pretty easy in a cube. |
If I decide to add the 2nd pump back in later, maybe I will try to put 1 pump on each side partition of the overflow - one facing to the right and one to the left... then alternate them to simulate a gyre or tidal movements..?
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Yeah exactly. I would think if you put them down low on the partition of the overflow, and aimed them up, it would eliminate the sandstorm issue as well.
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Posted: March 31 2011 at 10:34pm |
Added a few more fish 
Getting a good patina of brown and green all over anything
Will put up some new photos maybe this weekend...
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Posted: April 10 2011 at 12:19pm |
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Looking good Bob!
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 1:12pm |
OK, so alot has progressed in the past 3 weeks since I posted to this Build.
Things are going.... pretty..... good ! 
The tank itself is looking better... still getting some green haze algae on the tank, but not as much as before...
Equipment-wise, I hooked up my Phosban reactor (although I am only running carbon in it, at least for now) but I still have not hooked up my ACIII or the Ca Reactor yet...
As of last night, here are my current parameters:
Temp = 75.5 - 76.5 (24 hr cycle)
SG = 1.0255
pH = 8.0 (IO)
dKH = 10.0 (Salifert)
nH3 = 0 (API)
nO2 = 0 (API)
nO3 = 5 ppm (API)
Ca = 460 ppm (Salifert)
Mg = 1400 ppm (Elos)
pO4 = 0 (API)
I have added alot of stuff since the last photos -
See if you can pick out all the new fish, corals, and inverts!
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 1:21pm |
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Can't wait for pics!
Pam
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 1:30pm |
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BobC63
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 1:34pm |
Forgot one of the Baby Maxima Clam and Zoas:
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 1:42pm |
Very nice!! 
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 2:01pm |
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Beautiful!
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BobC63
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 4:39pm |
Thanks for the compliments!
Here is a listing of the current livestock:
Fish
1- 3" Clown Tang (The Aquarium)
1 - 2" Yellow Eye Kole Tang (Aquatica)
1 - 1.75" Flame Angel (Aquatica)
1 - 1.75" Orange Tail Blue Damsel (Reef Runners)
1 - 1.5" Diadema Dottyback (Aquatica)
1 - 2" Purple Firefish (Petco)
1 - 2" Red Firefish (Reef Runners)
1 - 2" Lubbocks Fairy Wrasse (Aquatica)
Corals
2- head Gold Torch (ptronsp)
3 - head Green Torch (ptronsp)
4.5" Red Lobo (Aquatica)
6" Pagoda Cup Coral (Aquatica)
2" Red Montipora Setosa frag (jbutler / rockymountainreefs - Fragstock)
4" Purple / Green Fungia (06bug)
Some green palys on a frag plug (Jeremyhorton)
Purple / Red Zoa rock - about 25 heads (Gonzocorals - Fragstock)
Inverts
1 - 4" GBTA (Jeremyhorton)
1 - 7" Pink & Green LTA (off KSL)
3 - 5" RBTAs that have now split into a total of 6 RBTAs  ( Jeremyhorton, bfessler) 1 - 5" Orange Fire Sponge (Reef Runners)
1 - 2" Blue Maxima Clam (The Aquarium - Fragstock)
50 - sm. Red Leg Hermits (Reefers Anonymous / Art - Fragstock)
20 - sm. Cerith snails (Reefers Anonymous / Art - Fragstock)
20 - Astrea snails (Reefers Anonymous / Art - Fragstock)
1 - Tiger Conch (Oddquatica - Fragstock)
1 - Yellow Spiked Cucumber (Oddquatica - Fragstock)
I think that is everything...
Waiting on an order from Reefers Anonymous for a few Fire Shrimp and an Aussie Purple Goniopora
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 4:50pm |
"Under the hood" the sump is looking decent - and the BM NAC7 Cone with the tcfab built cup is kicking butt:
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BobC63
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 10:17pm |
My order from Reefers Anonymous came in 
Here are some pics -
3 new Fire Shrimp - acclimating in a sweet Elite Aquatics acclimation box
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 10:40pm |
And my Purple Gonipiora has a skeleton about the about the size of a tennis ball...
And is a little...
Ummm...
<whisper> ...green? 
I guess I'll have to wait and see what it looks like when it comes out 
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 10:51pm |
Here's some more random shots I took while taking pics of the new stuff:
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 11:02pm |
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A little "snap happy"? Looks good, that clown tang is awesome.
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