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So i'm sick of looking at the aiptasia and blue clove taking over my tank. Tearing the whole thing down! Not me cause that ain't my thing, but ADG is going to handle all the logistics. The plan is, they will come out and inventory and tear everything down and haul the livestock and all the equipment back to ADG. There they will strip it down, clean everything up, re-plum it, design an ADG quality rock scape and rewire/label/hide all the wiring you see below.

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One thing that's going to be a major improvement is my friend @Cody is building me a new stand that will also have a large cabinet next to it that will hold all the components so that the only thing under my tank is the sump and all the wires and equipment is in the cabinet next to it. ADG will be re-wiring everything so its all nice and clean but i wanna see some ideas others have of how they organized all these many components. This is my chance to get this right so i want it to look great as well as be functional. Any suggestions?
 
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You're letting @Cody put something together?? I wouldn't let him make me a skimmer, CaRx or a secondary chamber if I had to pay that goon!

You still have the homewrecker?
i do still have a nice chuck of it.. it has no skin on it and is all white and sitting out on my back porch. You want a frag of it?
 
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Good choice…hard to enjoy something that…you really don’t enjoy.

You couldn’t have picked a better company to do business with. Highly recommend them. I wouldn’t hide everything though. It makes it painfully difficult to access the equipment for cleaning. Remember when I did that tank with electrical raceway duct. Big mistake!
 

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Good choice…hard to enjoy something that…you really don’t enjoy.

You couldn’t have picked a better company to do business with. Highly recommend them. I wouldn’t hide everything though. It makes it painfully difficult to access the equipment for cleaning. Remember when I did that tank with electrical raceway duct. Big mistake!
Good luck convincing him of that
 
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If you’re talking about tank issues, some can be handled, but others can so far out of control. At that point if you’re enjoyment is gone…it’s time to reboot. It’s always fun and exciting anyways! No more Aiptasia or blue Clove’s. Those two must be nuked at the time you see even one and nutrients dropped low…or it’s too late. It’s not impossible, but extremely difficult. Especially with the blue clove’s. The shear number of those little devil’s would drive you mad trying to kill each one. Or pulling out one rock at a time trying to kill them. Not to mention…once Aiptasia get to a certain size…even the Nudi’s and File fish seem to avoid them. Lol
 

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If you’re talking about tank issues, some can be handled, but others can so far out of control. At that point if you’re enjoyment is gone…it’s time to reboot. It’s always fun and exciting anyways! No more Aiptasia or blue Clove’s. Those two must be nuked at the time you see even one and nutrients dropped low…or it’s too late. It’s not impossible, but extremely difficult. Especially with the blue clove’s. The shear number of those little devil’s would drive you mad trying to kill each one. Or pulling out one rock at a time trying to kill them. Not to mention…once Aiptasia get to a certain size…even the Nudi’s and File fish seem to avoid them. Lol
Re: Aiptasia

Certainly very hard, but I've succeeded. Just took removing all the fish and substrate and throwing 50+ peppermints at it. Within the first week every visible aiptasia was gone, after two months there was only a few peppermints left and no aiptasia (going on a year later now, and still none have shown up without any creature in the tank that eats them. Then again I've never had giant ones.

Not easy, but not impossible.

I do agree though taking everything down and nuking is the easier way to go.

@gregg Nothing against ADG, but are they keeping a separate sterile environment for your current inhabitants, or are there none? That would be my concern, I've gone so far out of my way to ensure my tank is "clean" I would hate to have any disease introduced to my system in a "tear down" like this.
 

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Berghia works even on large aptasia, just takes a while. This last week the last aptasia I could find vanished. Just checked my email and my order was:
Placed on 04/15/2021 10:38:06

So.... They are not fast. Saw a baby one eating the last aptasia, have not seen them out and about during the day yet so they may still have a few aptasia they are eating.
 

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I did the same thing a few weeks ago. I cleaned up my sump and decided to keep it simple. No skimmer, calcium reactor, or roller mat. So far everything is good.
 

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Ya I was starting to get the red algae growth but it stabilized and going away slowly. Ya just never know on this hobby.
 

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....This is my chance to get this right so i want it to look great as well as be functional. Any suggestions?
Side cabinets are the bees knees. I get to keep all my reefing stuff hidden away, food, glue, meds, beakers, calibration fluids yada yada yada....all out of site. PLUS most of my controller hardware. 12 controlled outlets, various inputs (temp, ph, solenoids ets); co2 setup and kalk doser AND my Alkatronic unit. This makes it much tidier under the stand, less clutter. Also, make sure you put cable trays underneath the tank for cable management. I've got 4" trays, you can stuff some crazy things and hide it away in the cable trays. IMG_0878.JPG
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I did the same thing a few weeks ago. I cleaned up my sump and decided to keep it simple. No skimmer, calcium reactor, or roller mat. So far everything is good.
I can't imagine removing my rollermat ever. That thing picks up so much garbage. Probably the best thing thing I've bought for a tank as long as I can remember.

I did remove my media reactors last year though.
 
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