Casey and Sarah's brand new tank!

[FishyReef]

I think adding salt directly to your sump would be pretty risky - hard to control salinity increases that way, and that stuff is pretty nasty if it hasn't had time to really sit for 24hrs. I personally would make up a slightly stronger batch of saltwater the next time you do a water change and slowly add the stronger batch, measuring your salinity as you go. You really don't want more than 0.001 change in salinity per day!

 

[little_fish]

I would just top off with salt until it gets to 1.025. Ocean water runs from 1.024-1.026

 

[R3verb]

thanks guys. Is topping off going to mess with my pump at all? I have the Tunze ossimolater (SP?) ATO and I'm using that pump.

 

[little_fish]

Just unhook the ATO and top off manually for a few days

 

[R3verb]

Top off MANUALLY?! But that takes so much effort! (lol jk) Ok manual top off this week it is.

 

[fishsticks]

me personally I would aim for 1.025-1.026, the ocean hangs around 24-26 like little fish mentioned. when I run into stuff like this I either let the salt climb on its own as water evaporates and then I top off with water that has salt levels that i desire. example top off with saltwater that is at 1.026....or if u wanna speed things up make a really strong mix of salt one gallon that has a really high salinity level an pour it in. try an avoid putting pure salt in unless you have a good spot somewhere.

 

[R3verb]

ok cool sounds good. So 1.025 is my goal and I'll just manually top off this week with water at 1.025. Thanks guys!

 

[jr7168]

watch the thanks guys/dudes....cause the girls will remind you they are girls haha

 

[R3verb]

We got more corals today! Thanks Little_Fish! I'll put up picks when I get them settled in the tank :-D

 

[Smitty]

I wish you the best...good luck.

 

[little_fish]

Glad to hear that they made it to their new home!

I hope the interview went well

 

[R3verb]

The interview went awesome! I will let you all know tomorrow if got the job. In the meantime, 50lbs of MaroRocks are on the way! Time to get this tank looking AWESOME.

 

[R3verb]

Me related news: I GOT THE JOB! I am now a TSE1 at VMWare in Broomfield! I start in the summer and we may move down that way this winter but for now, I'm just happy I got it! This may mean a 220 is in my very near future!

Tank related news: I got some putty and some corafix today and got my corals (at least the ones that are going to stay where they are) glued to my rockwork. I am really hoping my toadstool is ok, he is still kinda shriveled up and I think my CUC has been bothering him so I moved him. I attached the frogspawn to a rock, the digi to a rock and the GSP to a rock. Everything else is still just sitting on the rocks because it is all going on the other side of the tank next week when I get my new rock. It all seems like it is doing ok so we will see. Thanks again LF!

 

[ErinCahir]

Congrats!!

 

[Smitty]

Congratulations!!!

 

[kevdogg]

Congrats!

 

[little_fish]

That is great news!!!

 

[chichimom79]

Congrats!! :D

 

[R3verb]

Ok so I'm getting my tax rebate soon and I want to get something cool for my tank. I was thinking about getting a reefkeeper elite but when I started thinking about it, I don't really need one. My lights are already getting controlled by the AI contoller, my powerhead is on the MP40 controller, I have a really nice heater with a digital thermometer and a digital readout on the thermometer. Is there really any reason to get a reefkeeper?? Could I put that money towards something much more beneficial like a calcium reactor or maybe 2 mp10s for the back of the tank? I just want to spend my money in a good way. I am guessing ill get about $400 this year (after putting some in savings and after my wife buys clothing). I could also get some really cool coral or maybe a HUGE red planet to replace the dead one that I have in the tank. Thoughts?

 

[R3verb]

Ok pictures! Here are the new corals we got! (ID's would be great!)

So this is the brain coral we have had for a while. He is getting BIG. This was right after feeding so his feelers are all out.

I think Little Fish said this was a purple digi?

Some polips

The free mushroom from the LFS (he's TRIPPLED in size in 3 weeks)

Frogspawn

Cool pic of the clow fish Herbert

and a nice pic of one of my 2 urchins

I also have some GSP that opened up but then got knocked off the rock and curled back up. I glued him down and now I'm just waiting for it to open back up. I also have a little blue mushroom that I didn't get a pick of, a toadstool that hasn't opened up (I don't think he is happy) and a little polyp that fell behind the rocks that I have to retrieve next week when I get my new rock and move stuff around.