My New Adventure - 34G Solana

[dagreatbadfinger]

Still have to tweak the height then I'll mount the light

 

[Tonyscoots84]

does that conduit fall towards the middle of the tank? ( i cant tell from the front pic) looks good so far. what exactly is the framing you used for your mesh top.

 

[CHEMCHEF]

Excuse me sir... The mp10 goes on the right side of a solana!!!! JK
Looks like you are off to a great start. Like the light tree.

 

[dagreatbadfinger]

does that conduit fall towards the middle of the tank? ( i cant tell from the front pic) looks good so far. what exactly is the framing you used for your mesh top.

Yes sir it does - it bends to the middle then sideways.

i'm going to mount my Ai SOL to it so its smack dab in the middle.

as for the top - its a white screen window kit purchased at home depot along with some mesh from there as well.

painted it black and bam!

i can give the measurements to cut if needed.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

thanks i will look for it next time im in home depot.

 

[dagreatbadfinger]

Just attached light.
Still need to hide wires better

 

[Tonyscoots84]

u can use black zip ties and zip tie it to the pipe and just hide the wires that way. what did you use to bolt the light to the pipe? looks great btw.

 

[rideit6578]

+1 on the zip tie, looks great otherwise.

 

[dagreatbadfinger]

yeah i thought i had zip ties but turns out i was out - plan on grabbing some from work today.

For the light - i used #10 - 2 1/2" screws - fit perfectly through 3/4" conduit.

Still need to get the AI Controller.....

 

[dagreatbadfinger]

Finally ordered the controller - but over the weekend something happened.

First - Woke up to my Midas Blenny....Dead
Next day my Fairy Wrasse look SUPER sick... Day after....Dead
Next day - one of my clown fish look sick....today MIA and now my watchmen goby is also MIA.

All i see left is 1 clown fish. no idea wtf happened. Did 2 - 5 gallon water changes after the blenny died. Only thing i can possibility think of was the light without the controller was WAY to strong and shocked them? the light as been unplugged until i receive the controller this week.

 

[James404]

Nice start, tank is looking good.

As far as the fish deaths, I highly doubt it was from too much light. Was one of these fish recently added? My first thought that comes to mind with such sudden losses would be marine velvet.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

How long ago was the tank switch?

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

I'm thinking maybe stray voltage from something.

 

[dagreatbadfinger]

The tank was a fresh setup - ive been slowly building it with quality parts.

everyone seemed absolutely fine. next day...BAM! all down hill

 

[rcharliesam]

Did you test your water? What is your ammonia at?

 

[strgazr27]

about 20 days from filling the tank to adding fish? Seems kinda fast for that bio-load. Did you use any live rock to help seed the tank? I'm on week 3 and I am JUST seeing my ammonia at zero, Nitrites are still greater than zero but they are dropping. This is with the tank cycled with 3 frozen shrimp and seeded with about70-80 lbs of established live rock.

 

[dagreatbadfinger]

i did the shrimp with the rocks to cycle back in nov

 

[James404]

Was one or any of the fish added recently?

 

[rcharliesam]

What are your test readings on the water?

 

[dagreatbadfinger]

i added the blenny last - he was in the tank for about a week or so and just when he was beginning to open up and stop being so shy

last i check the readings was 2 days before everything happened and everything was fine - phosphates was just a tad higher than i normally keep them once corals in there but still fine for F/O tanks. (it was alittle higher cause i was trying to get the blenny to eat from dry pellets over to frozen)