Schnitzel's Shallow Leemar 250

solitude127 · Sep 8, 2014

Hey nick here's a what if. What if, good forbid your girl buys a new air freshener and uses it a few minutes before your skimmer cup drains. Your BK goes nuts a over fills your cup and your drain solenoid turns opens up and u start draining your tank. Then your auto top off kicks on and starts dumping fresh water into your tank. Then u get home to a brackish tank filled with dead corals and fish.

We all know if something bad is going to happen it's going to happen at the worse time. That's just this hobby.

That's a great "what if". Always good to think outside the box.

lurking · Sep 8, 2014

your frag tank is really looking good

SchnitzelReef · Sep 10, 2014

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Running my USB line for my apex EB8 in my shed, and running 4-1/4" lines.
2 for my auto water change
1 for auto top off
1 for auto skimmate drain

SchnitzelReef · Sep 10, 2014

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Emac909 · Sep 10, 2014

Nick u should put 3/8 or 1/2" for the skimmer drain. That would totally suck of the line got clogged with detritus and u had to blow the line out. With 1/2" u would have more then enough room so the line doesn't get clogged. I'm thinking someone will b tasting fish poo soon.

SchnitzelReef · Sep 10, 2014

Emac909 said:

Nick u should put 3/8 or 1/2" for the skimmer drain. That would totally suck of the line got clogged with detritus and u had to blow the line out. With 1/2" u would have more then enough room so the line doesn't get clogged. I'm thinking someone will b tasting fish poo soon.

Too late..

SchnitzelReef · Sep 10, 2014

Stupid Scr won't let me upload pics in decent quality.

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Ran the wires and all the lines out to my shed. Also hooked up my eb8. Works great, can drain my skimmer collection cup with a push of a button. Love technology!

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rmor · Sep 17, 2014

Sweet stuff! How is that aoa Triton doing? Is it still hanging onto the strong yellow color after having for a month?

SchnitzelReef · Sep 17, 2014

rmor said:

Yes. Still doing good, and still the same color as when I got it.

BeanMachine · Sep 18, 2014

SchnitzelReef said:

Can you explain the draining your skimmer cup a bit more? Is there a pump in the collection cup?

SchnitzelReef · Sep 18, 2014

BeanMachine said:

It drains by gravity. My house is a bit higher then my side yard. I have a 120v solenoid in my shed connected to my apex. I turn on the solenoid, and the skimmate drains out to my side yard and into a drain that goes out to the street. It works awesome! Been using it all week. Bought a new Wienerschnitzel, so I've been working open to close every day. No time to deal with emptying skimmate. Luckily my fianc is into it, so she feeds the fish and makes sure everything is going good.

Spinner · Sep 18, 2014

You are getting dialed that's long term reef building there

Really Nice!

SchnitzelReef · Sep 20, 2014

http://youtu.be/EGgj8FK4J0o

My fianc sent me a video, finally got my Borbonius anthia to eat pellets. So nice!!! I was feeding frozen food every other day, and it was getting old.

SchnitzelReef · Sep 24, 2014

My tank is looking so fresh right now.

I do A TON of maintenance to get this tank to look this way...
1)Feed my fish
2) drain my skimmer cup
3) clean my glass

And that's it. Hahaha. This tank is literally on cruise control. I don't touch it, and everything just grows and colors are looking insane on these acros!!!

SchnitzelReef · Sep 24, 2014

http://youtu.be/SDy1tmBzVuk

Little schnitzel vision video for fun

lowbudget · Sep 24, 2014

you need to get rid of that cyano.

turbonut · Sep 24, 2014

lowbudget said:

lmfao

SchnitzelReef · Sep 25, 2014

lowbudget said:

That's not cyano, those are encrusting acros. Something u know nothing of...oooohhhhhh lol

lurking · Sep 25, 2014

SchnitzelReef said:

encrusting? I just see a bunch of frags. Although I think I saw a large brain and colony of gold torch. super sweeeeet

SchnitzelReef · Sep 25, 2014

lurking said:

Bubble coral probably. Or scoly. But Yea they are all frags. Only got like a year or two before things fill in. Hahaga. Such a bummer.

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