Elos system 70 (1 Viewer)

[flexrac]

yeah, i've been meaning to hit him up, but was waiting since i need more hardware, hope fully the sales will continue in 2011.

 

[DMAX]

Amazing tank!!!

 

[soymilk]

Thanks a lot.......but sadly, this tank might be taken down soon.

Just found some mold in my apt. Maintance crew is gonna fix it, I don't know if they are going to spray any kinda mold inhibitor, so .... Sigh. I hope I don't have to tear it down. But I rather someone babysit all my stuff than risk losing it all if some funky chemicals get in my tank.

Elos 70, I hardly knew ye.

 

[Ranakalea]

What do you think about the light coverage using the single unit on the tank.

How does it do being hung so high?

 

[soymilk]

Light coverage is ok. It was just the massive shadows. A lot of the corals didn't get much even light. Might need a motorized rail. I ended up putting both units on.

 

[soymilk]

I hate anemones. Mines decided to go for a walk today. Right into my vortech. I left for about an hour and came back to a cloudy tank. Bits of anemone everywhere. The anemone was a goner. No foot left. Just bits of a mouth.

I lucky has about 10 gallons premix on hand, did a quick water change (about 25%) Changed the carbon. Added extra polyfilter.

So.... I had to go to work. What are my chances? Will I come home to a lovely seafood gumbo? Or will it be ok with the things I did. All the fish retreated to the rockwork. One snail looked like it fell off the glass....prognosis doesn't look good.

I might leave early today. Crappy crappy week. I just bought like 20 new frags. I hope everything makes it. Sps were sliming up pretty bad. My skimmer is going nuts.

 

[padanky]

Man, that sucks. Hope everything turns out alright.

 

[soymilk]

seems all is well so far. I noticed some of my corals have burnt tips now. A little bit of necrosis in the ends.... hopefully they get better. Pictures in a few.

 

[Copingsaw]

Happened to me in March. Small anemone did the same thing into my MP10 on my 15-gallon nano. I did a water change and took out what remains I could find. The tank came through just fine. Hope yours does the same.

 

[soymilk]

Tank seems ok. I've been meaning to take pictures but didn't get the chance. Nitrates jumped up a lil, prob anemone related.

Took my gfo offline in preparation for zeovit

 

[soymilk]

So I've been really lazy with my tank. I bought a bunch of liner so I can reline the inside of my tank. But I got lazy.

I did take out my biopellets, gfo and skimmer out. Kinda stirred up the bottom of the sump. Gosh that junk was dirty. I guess I have to go back to filter socks. I guess all the rods food makes it down the sump and into the empty fuge area and gets trap there.

I switched out the skimmer to a new super reef octopus xp1000, installed my vertex zeovit reactor.

Everything looks great. Until. One Sps I just got recently has been turning brown. Upon closer examination. I see white spots. ......... Time to dip....

 

[soymilk]

After my first night of zeovit.... I have to say i am utterly impressed. My jaw dropped when I looked at some of my Sps. My purple plasma had it's polyps extended out so much I didn't even recognize it at first.

90% of my Sps had full extended p e. A small few closed up. A few were kinda iffy.

But so far I like it. Getting the hang of dosing.

 

[Guest]

I don't see no pictures foo.

 

[soymilk]

dang haha... alright. I was meaning to take more pictures but got lazy. Just finished uploading these 3 pictures.

I'm not having much luck with wild/mariculture sps. These 2 have been on a downwards trend. I'll stick to the small frags for now.

Here's a pic of the new skimmer compared to the new one. I bought the new one because of the better pump, and also I thought it was smaller than the nac7. its bigger .. duh'oh

I dunno but it seems like colors are getting richer with the zeovit. Its starting to branch out now.

Ora Purple Plasma, notice the crazy PE. I have never seen anything like that. Its crazy. I don't know if its the new skimmer, me cleaning the bottom of my sump, or zeovit. But i like it!

Same coral a 2 months back. This is how its been looking every since I got it.

 

[RR-MAN]

Nice toy. I have read good reviews on the bubble blaster pumps. Why did you change the skimmer just curious? Looking at your tank, I don't see a big fish load plus BMs are good skimmers IMO.

 

[soymilk]

I changed it mainly due to ease of cleaning. my sump was small and i kept making a huge mess taking the skimmer out. I wanted to get something smaller yet still powerful so i bought the super reef octopus xp1000sss. lol too bad its bigger than i thought.

I played with the idea of selling the nac 7 but its such a great skimmer, i might just hold on to it for backup or when I get a bigger tank. I paid 260 for it but i can't get any offers for more than 150. Imo not worth selling.


Well, i'm a little overstocked with fish for the size of my tank.

1 Yellow tank
1 mystery wrasse
1 yellow watchman
1 randall goby
1 target mandarin
1 lawnmower blenny
2 clown fish

 

[Guest]

Man, my MB3 can't touch BM7's skimmate production.

I hope it still breaking in.....

 

[soymilk]

I have the nac7 just sittiv here if you wanna try it out lol.

I just put it in a weak vinegar bath. Should be spotless pretty soon.

 

[Guest]

Too lazy.

Stuffing the BM7 means I have to remove all my LR in there.

If the BM7 goes on the market, hit me with a text first.

 

[soymilk]

I just updated my AI lights to the new 3.0 fireware. As I type this, the lightning storm is going off.

Yes it is gimmicky. But I love it lol. I am freaking out the fish! lol.