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Nice... what will you use for backup? Sucks I don’t really have a backup if my chiller fails which has caused some issues.
I turned off the feed from the house for now. If the unit fails, then I can open it up, which will buy me time. Plus, I have a much larger window unit for my home if my hvac were to fail. I can always use that in a pinch, but I’d have to cut a properly sized piece of plywood to house it.
 
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Cool, looking good Cody. How’s the tanks in the room looking?
Not done with them yet. Once I get them finished then I’ll post pics. Too embarrassed at the moment haha
 
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So I hadn’t seen my female lyretail anthea for a while, and decided I wanted to try a pair of them with male and female. Turns out, maybe I just didn’t notice her. I put the two new anthems in and she went wild. She’s bigger than the two new ones and immediately went to work on them. I made a fish trap real quick on the cnc router and caught the older female. She went into the fish room for now. I want to see how this pair does in the display.

Making the trap
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Caught her later in the day yesterday and dumped her into a holding tank plumbed into the same system until I can figure out what I want to do.
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Nice! Quick thinking!
Yeah that was actually Dennis @fjwaquarium recommendation. Get the old female out. That worked well because the two new ones were hiding for dear life and she was all over the place trying to bully literally everything in the tank. It was crazy how a light switch turned in her brain and she went from happy community fish to local bully.
 
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Glad you got her out. That trap looks very professional, especially considering it was put together quickly.
Thanks bud. I already had the design laid out from the trap I made for the Christmas party. Just had to grab some acrylic that was lying around, plug in my computer, and hit “go”. Well, I took the “GO IN HERE” caption with an arrow pointing down off of the door, but the dimensions were the same haha
 
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It looks like a brand new tank now! I took all the euphyllia and put them in their own tank. I’m tired of them stinging sps and I’ve got too little space to place them so that they’re not directly under something that would die if they fell. Excuse the mess. I just threw them in for now. Ill arrange them later
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And here’s the display. The glass is kind of dirty but you get the idea. So much naked!
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Here are some of the dozen or so frags I put in. I’ll list them from left to right as best as I can.
Top left, down, then to the right:
-Some unknown milli that’s pretty
-RR Marvin The Marshian
-An OLA frag, can’t remember the name
-JF Frankies tabling red
-JF Yellow Saber
-Orange Passion
-JF Blue Milli
-JF Weeble Wobble
-Insane Milli from LesD
-An unknown from @reeftopia
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The left side has a lot more room for frags. Both the red are PC rainbows that I grew. I probably don’t need two but we will see. Also, the blue one is JF Papa Smurf. It’s one of my favorites!
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The ASD rainbow milli still isn’t as colored up or has as many polyps as it used to. I just decreased the photoperiod for my t5s recently. My coloration is a little light on some of the corals so I want to see if this helps. Adding a lot more fish and feeding more would help, but they’re hard to come by these days. I’m also dosing nitrates to keep them above 2-4ppm
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Also, you’ll notice the big rock on top on the right side of the tank is new. I ended up giving away a wonderful rock with the large green Elkhorn colony that went so I had to find a replacement. This rock is one of those AF manufactured rocks. I paid about $35-40 for that one rock, but it fit perfectly and gave me a lot of new space for sps, so I can’t complain.
 

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Looking good Cody. I'm also dealing with some light coloration in certain corals. Not all just about 3 of them. I started running my T5HO again for 4 hrs a day, and cut the LED's to 10 hrs a day on acclimation mode so cut power by 30%. I also started to feed more heavily, dose potassium, and trace. As I had low potassium from my ICP test. Hopefully ill notice a change. Let me know how it goes for you. I'm trying not to change to much at once.
 
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Looking good Cody. I'm also dealing with some light coloration in certain corals. Not all just about 3 of them. I started running my T5HO again for 4 hrs a day, and cut the LED's to 10 hrs a day on acclimation mode so cut power by 30%. I also started to feed more heavily, dose potassium, and trace. As I had low potassium from my ICP test. Hopefully ill notice a change. Let me know how it goes for you. I'm trying not to change to much at once.
The last time I had this issue was in my 60 cube. I added 10 blue chromis, damn near doubled my feeding, and everything looked gorgeous within a week. The other option is the way you went. I only cut one hour back on my t5s but I think I might cut one or two more out.
 
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I just hope these new frags aren’t like the papa smurf. That papa smurf sat there for damn near a year and did nothing. Then, it went from a 1” unecruated frag to what I have now in a matter of a month or two. Very frustrating.
 

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Yeah I’ve had some like that. My pink tips have been in the tank for almost a year and in the last two months just exploded with many tips idk what changed really haha
 
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Looking good. If you don't want two red PC rainbows, put one in much lower light and it will turn green.
Oh yeah? Run that experience yourself?
 

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Oh yeah? Run that experience yourself?

Yes. When I got mine from Voooooo, it was red. After a while on my sand bed, it turned totally green, a real pretty shade of almost emerald green. Now that it's mounted a little ways up, it is mostly green with some hints of yellow/orange. With the right fine tuning, you could probably have five colonies of this coral in various places and they'd all look different.
 
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Yes. When I got mine from Voooooo, it was red. After a while on my sand bed, it turned totally green, a real pretty shade of almost emerald green. Now that it's mounted a little ways up, it is mostly green with some hints of yellow/orange. With the right fine tuning, you could probably have five colonies of this coral in various places and they'd all look different.
I might have to try that. I know under heavy lighting it turns very red. Maybe it should be placed a little lower in the tank to bring out some other colors.
 
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