Smitty's Reef

[Smitty]

Nice pickup! That's a great addition! He looks like a little fatty too haha. Is he trained on frozen? Or Pods only? Either way, suuuupppeeer jealous. Just another addition to your already amazing tank lol :p

Thanks Anthony... I'm not sure if he's trained or not on frozen foods, but he'll learn to eat them in my tank. If not, I have a million+ pods in my system.

 

[Smitty]

ewww pretty!!! Mandarin's are awesome

Thank you... Yes, he has some gorgeous colors on him.

 

[Smitty]

I just bought and installed my new jbj chiller.

 

[Smitty]

 

[kbuser92]

Heat issues recently?

 

[Smitty]

Heat issues recently?

Yep... Last week when the temps hit 80°, my tank was at 83°....And last summer, I had to run my ac continuously to try to keep my temp at 79-80°, so I figured I'd invest in a chiller this time to keep temps perfectly stable.

 

[kbuser92]

Gotchya.

 

[ZyberGoby]

Awesome that's one thing I've been thinking of getting myself before it gets insane here during the summer

 

[Smitty]

Awesome that's one thing I've been thinking of getting myself before it gets insane here during the summer

The piece of mind I have now is priceless...no more worrying during our heat waves.

 

[AnthonyTheNewbie]

Unless of course the power goes out :grumble:

 

[Smitty]

Unless of course the power goes out :grumble:

That is true. :frustrat:

 

[ErinCahir]

Someone better be knocking on wood.

 

[Smitty]

Someone better be knocking on wood.

Hahaha, I try not to worry about stuff that's out of my control( while knocking on wood)... in that event, I still have 2 battery operated pumps and a bunch of frozen water bottles. :)

 

[AnthonyTheNewbie]

Well, I was looking at the main page, and saw your FTS as the POTM! So, I figured I'd see how things were going for ya! That's a awesome FTS by the way :)

 

[Smitty]

Thanks Anthony...my tank hasn't been too happy lately, but it's recovering back.

 

[AnthonyTheNewbie]

Well, I'm glad things are getting better..... what happened? :shock:

 

[Smitty]

Thanks bro...my salinity got up to 1.030 which killed every invert, including pods, which then caused a spike in nitrates and phosphates...which then lead to cyno and hair algae. I've done many water changes now and lowered the salinity back down to 1.025, and purchased a few crabs. I've also started running gfo and carbon in my dual reactor again. I've lost 4 sps corals, but everything else is doing much better.

 

[AnthonyTheNewbie]

Oh wow, sorry to hear that man. Glad most of your corals are okay. Any idea how it happened? Must of been a pretty fast swing to 1.030 though. When I first started my 55 up my SG was at 1.029 for like a month and my inverts were all right (At least at the time I thought they were. Then again, I knew next to nothing back then)

 

[noy]

Thanks bro...my salinity got up to 1.030 which killed every invert, including pods, which then caused a spike in nitrates and phosphates...which then lead to cyno and hair algae. I've done many water changes now and lowered the salinity back down to 1.025, and purchased a few crabs. I've also started running gfo and carbon in my dual reactor again. I've lost 4 sps corals, but everything else is doing much better.

Sorry to hear that. Hope the sps coral weren't the expensive/exotic kind.

 

[Smitty]

Thanks fellas...I believe it happened when I started using a new bucket of salt mix. And they weren't expensive, but they were nice sized colonies. But, they can be replaced or grown out again.