I like to keep future disassembly in mind when i put piping together. Its the old engineering training in me. some day, somehow you will have to take it apart, and you need places to break joints, or unions, and have enough access room to move it out of place. its rule number one of design layout. So i like to just use silicone to fasten some horizontal joints. like going into the bulkhead. that way with a little twist and a pull, it comes apart easy in the future. but never leaks . and then i can take out the bulkhead too if needed. we dont have to make every joint a permanant bond with pvc glue. make some non pressure pipe horizontal joints with silcone, or with a section of flexible tubing clamped between hard pipes for a union. easy to take apart for maintenance, modification or cleaning.
If you got nothing but glued hard pipe you cant break, you cant clean it when it gets grown closed with tube worms and other hard shell and sponge material. Always build with maitenance and cleaning and mods in mind. Break points and room to back them out.
Ya, well im happy with it, and i have to give a big thanks to jon. I expect this tank to be completely broken down in 4-6 years
SO i come back after my week away, to find a working tank full of light green hair algae, and the midas blenny gone. I turned the phosban reactor and the carbon off before i left. So im thinking the blenny caused nitrates to rise higher than what they were after the minicycle. Im wondering what they are at but to tired to go check. 12 hours in a car is no fun…
ugh so much work to do tomorrow.
It happens John, not to worry too much. Are the rest of the animals(fish and coral) seemingly healthy? Do you have a tang in there? Consider adding a money cowrie and an orange turbo to the clean up crew if you can find them. Tuxedo urchin would also be a great addition, cool looking and will eat some hair algae without requiring too much algae at a later date.(unfortunately they will pick up smaller frags and move them around if they are not well attached)
No tangs, i cannot find one i like for the tank. Might have to order a few things online it seems. Ill check out TFP, frazer, and ECA this weekend…
It seems to be dying down a bit. Everything else is fine, just ticked the rics off and almost melted them.
How long is your photoperiod again? You can always ask a LFS to special order one. Be more picky then you are and more aggressive at the same time. Instead of just randomly finding one you think you will work and then counting on the one book they have at the store to tell you if it will work in your particular tank, pick one out ahead of time. Once you decide on a species and size then speak with LFS owners and see if they can order one in for you.
it’s 14 hours now but I’m reducing it to 10 to 11houra . I just don’t want run of the mill yellow tangs. I dunno wat I want now. Midas died. I picked up a banggai but I don’t know wat else to get…I have these damsels for u btw…,