Well, technically it isn't fully set up yet. But we are a couple bulkheads and 10-15 gallons away from "fully running". For now it is mostly running. Anyways...
Before.
About 4 hours later...this.
A little organizing to the rocks...
A little bit more organizing to the rocks...
And there we go.
The new LTA refuses to accept anywhere but that spot. If I try to move it more out in the open (like the fiancee wants) it tumbles in the current and starts to float. After the experience with the Condies...I'll let it live wherever prevents it from getting into the water column. :laugh:
Most of the fish made it through the upgrade. We lost the Lawnmower Blenny and Rusty Angel unfortunately. I think the upgrade just took too long and stressed them too much. We were shooting for a couple hours and ended up with double that before we went with the "screw waiting for it to clear up, just dump em in" approach. Probably saved at least the Eibli and the Sharpnose Puffer since they were looking very bad in the holding buckets. The Puffer sulked for the rest of the night. The Eibli recovered very quickly.
Refugium is currently half up. It has it's rock and sand but only half of it's water. We have the pump and everything ready but two of the bulkheads insist on a slow-drip leak. The store replaced one for us today but didn't have the other. They offered some advice on hopefully fixing it ourselves. If that doesn't work then the tanks will remain separate systems until the weekend. :irked:
I don't think this is a Micro-Brittle Star. A smaller version got thrown in the main tank but I think I'll have this one stay in the refugium.
I currently have a small powerhead in there to keep everything alive. Looks like most of Micro Stars, bristleworms, snails and ghost shrimp made it through the transfer.
Hopefully tonight we'll have the whole system up and running. Will be doing the bulkhead test again and if it passes then that is the last step and the remaining water gets poured in. :thm:
Stocking so far;
Corals - Display
Green Florida Ricordea
Orange Florida Ricordea
Green Umbrella Mushroom
Zoanthis
Kenya Tree
Branching Frogspawn
Octopus Frogspawn
Unknown Frogspawn (still new to the tank)
Duncan
Finger Leather
Corals - Refugium
Green Star Polyps
Xenia (if they survived the transfer...rock sort of got lost in the muck)
Livestock - Display
Eibli Dwarf Angel
Valentini Puffer
Sharpnose Puffer
3 Whitebelly Damsels
2 Golden Damsels
Starry Blenny
Eyelash Blenny (I think this is the same as a Lawnmower but it is so small it is hard to tell right now)
2 Engineer Gobies
2 Frillfin Gobies
2 Crested Gobies
3 Zebra Dartfish
Golden-Head Goby
2 Sergeant-Major Damsels (1/2" in size right now)
Green Long-Tentacle Anemone
Sea Hare
Crown Conch
3 Pincushion Urchins (Purple, Green, Pink)
Before.
About 4 hours later...this.
A little organizing to the rocks...
A little bit more organizing to the rocks...
And there we go.
The new LTA refuses to accept anywhere but that spot. If I try to move it more out in the open (like the fiancee wants) it tumbles in the current and starts to float. After the experience with the Condies...I'll let it live wherever prevents it from getting into the water column. :laugh:
Most of the fish made it through the upgrade. We lost the Lawnmower Blenny and Rusty Angel unfortunately. I think the upgrade just took too long and stressed them too much. We were shooting for a couple hours and ended up with double that before we went with the "screw waiting for it to clear up, just dump em in" approach. Probably saved at least the Eibli and the Sharpnose Puffer since they were looking very bad in the holding buckets. The Puffer sulked for the rest of the night. The Eibli recovered very quickly.
Refugium is currently half up. It has it's rock and sand but only half of it's water. We have the pump and everything ready but two of the bulkheads insist on a slow-drip leak. The store replaced one for us today but didn't have the other. They offered some advice on hopefully fixing it ourselves. If that doesn't work then the tanks will remain separate systems until the weekend. :irked:
I don't think this is a Micro-Brittle Star. A smaller version got thrown in the main tank but I think I'll have this one stay in the refugium.
I currently have a small powerhead in there to keep everything alive. Looks like most of Micro Stars, bristleworms, snails and ghost shrimp made it through the transfer.
Hopefully tonight we'll have the whole system up and running. Will be doing the bulkhead test again and if it passes then that is the last step and the remaining water gets poured in. :thm:
Stocking so far;
Corals - Display
Green Florida Ricordea
Orange Florida Ricordea
Green Umbrella Mushroom
Zoanthis
Kenya Tree
Branching Frogspawn
Octopus Frogspawn
Unknown Frogspawn (still new to the tank)
Duncan
Finger Leather
Corals - Refugium
Green Star Polyps
Xenia (if they survived the transfer...rock sort of got lost in the muck)
Livestock - Display
Eibli Dwarf Angel
Valentini Puffer
Sharpnose Puffer
3 Whitebelly Damsels
2 Golden Damsels
Starry Blenny
Eyelash Blenny (I think this is the same as a Lawnmower but it is so small it is hard to tell right now)
2 Engineer Gobies
2 Frillfin Gobies
2 Crested Gobies
3 Zebra Dartfish
Golden-Head Goby
2 Sergeant-Major Damsels (1/2" in size right now)
Green Long-Tentacle Anemone
Sea Hare
Crown Conch
3 Pincushion Urchins (Purple, Green, Pink)