[Ęgir]

Update: first fish order has been in QT for a few weeks... and into the display today







Lyretail anthias
Purp tang
2 more yellow tangs
2 scopas tangs


Got some other fish coming soon
M/F pairs of Bluejaw Triggers and Naso Tangs
Clowns for the bottom tank

and lots of frags to start stocking corals finally...

[Ęgir]

New Corals include
* Blue Stylophora
* Hystrix Birdsnest
* Light green DW Acro
* Blue Staghorn
* Encrusting ranibow Montipora
* Red/blue, Green, Purple cap montis
* Orange Acan-lord
* Green Duncans

And some others I am spacing... It was a long day gluing frags in place! These were taken at "Dusk" so... hard to get colors to pop







Closed flowerpot... the two black spots are where it stung the sh*t out of my fingertips. WEAR GLOVES (on both hands)


Brain Coral with feeding tentacles out, moonlights only



Also "beefed up" the skimmer pump..... 2" intake, 1 1/2" output into the beckett. Big step up in flow from the old pump... just needs some tweaking. Prob going to lower the pump so its more efficent, as lifting water 3' is hard for a pump, vs pushing it. It was 1" into the beckett, and it took some customization to get the larger union in place. Did some "porting and polishing" with the dremel to help flow.


Got the Calcium Reactor plumbed in, and will be hooking up the bottle soon. Need to rebuild the feed manifold as 2 of the 4 crappy ball valves have a drip.

Uploading more pics now...

[Ęgir]

FTS, each of the light pieces of rubble are new frags








Terrible show of color, this piece is dark green with white polyps


Time for a better camera!

[Ęgir]

Skimmer pump finally on its stand



Some crappy camera phone pics

[Ęgir]

Went up for the first time in 2 months to do controller updates and figure out the problems with the manifold. The shitty SCH 40 ball valves dried out and leak, so I will be revamping the return. We ordered some trick little 3/4" SCH 80 gate valves to fix the problem... So In short I will be chopping the return apart, installing the new manifold with 5 gate valves, moving the 2 GFO and carbon reactors to beside the skimmer, Moving the UV horizontal above the reactors, and leaving the CaRx and effluent chamber in the same place. During that time we will move all of the controller modules under the stand (waterproof box??), and get all of the wiring out of sight. Also adding a 2" drain through the stand to the sump so we can tuck the discharge hoses and not have to run much vinyl tubing.

Tossing around the idea of updating to the new AI Vega fixtures

As for growth of corals... I am extremely impressed! The lights are still only at 60%W 65% blue, and still on the ramp up. I will post pics when I tear the thing apart and make some upgrades.

[scent troll]

you sir, are a god of saltwater
im still reading this thread but i had to post this really quick to give props. this is hands down mind blowing and very very educational.

[RedBellyCasanova]

This is a great thread aegir please lots of pics man i dont have salt yet but this is so interesting,pics pics

[Ęgir]

Some updated pics
























Things seem to be doing well... need to turn up the LEDs as they are only at 80%, and get ready to bring the calcium reactor online. Weekly water changes of 50 gals have been enough to keep things in check so far.

[Ariana_Grande]

looks good