Jarrett Sharks New 220gal Office Tank

[paintballe48]

Just bought the same calcium reactor as you. Got a few questions lol. Do you use any ph probes with it or in it? I know theres no holders but did you modify it or anything? Also how did you tune it to start it up please let me know new to the whole calc reactor thing and still trying to get it set up =)

 

[paintballe48]

congrats on the tank btw awsome job it looks great... looking to do a basement setup like that soon as well.

 

[kaOzGrUnT]

Lokks Great so far,,,, I'm a little worried about that doorknob hitting the tank. I would hate to see someone open that door too hard....... SMASH

That was a great observation!!

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

Update- lost all my coral!!!

Well its been a very hard 4months since I set up the tank. I had a tank crash that I could not figure out? I lost all my corals from my 75gal I tranfered into the 210gal and all coral I bought at the swap. I first thought it was the lighting so I down graded, then i thought it was my alk/calcuim was out of balance.Then I was doing water changes 2x a week. I was at the point were I would lose a coral after 24 hrs. Xenia would melt away, SPS would bleach, RBTA,mushrooms would melt. Zoas/polyps close all up,clams die away. Whats crazy is I have not lost a fish or shrimp and hermit crabs!!!
So I sent my water to a lab and it came back almost perfect?So I thought this was it, I will break the tank down and start all over or get out of the hobby

Well here is what gets me. My copper test came back good from the lab so I light ran in my head and I decided to put a polyfilter in the tank to see what was going on maybe some metal floating around that can't be traced or picked up. So after 24hrs the pad was blue (blue=copper). what drove me crazy was the lab showed no copper and I added a polyfilter pads 2months ago with Seachem Corbson and no color change.
So what I found out was that I bought a skimmer and chiller on ebay that was leaking out copper that was killing all the coral the whole time.Only equipment that was not from a reef set up.
" So never buy any equipment from someone you don't know or you must see there tank because everyone is a lier "

So after 2weeks and 10 polyfilter pad my zoas/polps are open again. Mushroom are back from the dead an other coral is alive again. Thanks to everyone who has tried to help and gave me free frags to help me stay with this hobby. Right now I am buying cheap and getting donated frags from MR members just to get this tank going. See updated pics and frags from the last 2 weeks.
I WILL BE BACK!!!!

 

[bruce922]

Good looking tank. I need to get a bigger tank.

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

Thanks bruce922, yes you need to go bigger

 

[ryangrieder]

wow man thats is crazy. thats real good thinking on your part about the polyfiber. im real glad everything is turning out for the best now. good luck. i cant wait to see this thing packed!

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

thanks ryan, I will post new pics of coral tomorrow

 

[anthony27]

welcome back where are those candy canes

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

update

some new coral I bought
its going to take a long time to fill this tank

 

[nyfynest22]

sorry to hear that jarret, glad you figured it out, good luck sure everything will be good from here on out.

 

[tomtoothdoc]

some new coral I bought
its going to take a long time to fill this tank

dude.... but that's best/most fun part......lol.

 

[anthony27]

lol but tom it is also alot of money to fill the tank buy small frags and let them grow out that way you can say see waht it started from

 

[CancerverO]

Is that my yellow wrasse?? how is he doing?
great tank man...

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

yeah javier thats him but I dont see him today?? Hope he stayed away from this huge RTBA. Maybe he is hiding,LOL

 

[tomtoothdoc]

lol but tom it is also alot of money to fill the tank buy small frags and let them grow out that way you can say see waht it started from

that is so very true.....this hobby has been the most addicting for me....not the most expensive but probably the most time consuming and labor intensive....lol

but when you have a big tank like jarrett's, you need some decent size things to look at.....i love growing things from a frag but i also bought a few colonies/mini colonies so i can see them from the couch and not with my nose against the glass.....lol

 

[CancerverO]

yeah javier thats him but I dont see him today?? Hope he stayed away from this huge RTBA. Maybe he is hiding,LOL

He loves to sleep..LOL.. he used to come out 1 or 2 hrs after my lights kicked in and the first one to go sleep ( in the sand) ...LOL Im glad he has more space to swim!!! :biggrinpa

 

[tomtoothdoc]

yeah javier thats him but I dont see him today?? Hope he stayed away from this huge RTBA. Maybe he is hiding,LOL

wrasses are too quick for a nem to catch....unless they sleeps near it....then who knows.
the yellow coris always buries...when i used to have a sand bed, some times i wouldn't see it for days.

 

[CancerverO]

wrasses are too quick for a nem to catch.....

tell me about it. to catch was an adventure.. LOL I did while he was sleeping.. I have a nem too.. never a prob...I think he is just sleeping.. :splitspin

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

its been 4hrs since the light are and no sign of him. I just feed and no sign of him??
he was a pig in my frag tank and was in my DT for one day and eat yesterday but today no sign of him. I do have a deep sand bed so maybe he is playing like a little kid,LOL