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Bobby finally had a little time to come over and I put him to work. I needed a number of things resolved or completed.

Two outlets in my home were flakey with bad connections, so he swapped those out.

The AquaController 3 had stopped communicating with all the x-10 modules in the sump area, and he had the tool to replace the phone jack connectors on the wiring to the kind that fit the sockets correctly. All four were replaced to get a good connection, and now the x-10s ...

Finally after months of delay the build continues with some changes:
-Tank volume was upgraded to 390G for the display after a friends suggestion to increase the length 20 cm more.
-Final dimensions are 220x85x75 (88"x34"x30")
-Starphire on front and side panels.
-Minimalistic Scape
-External side overflow.
-Additional 1000L 265G in Sump fuges and additional sump and fuges in fishroom and connected water change tank so around 2400L 655 G total ...

Today it was 'cooking for my fishies' time :-)

Last week I bought a fresh seafood pack at the market then froze it for a few days to kill pathogens. I unfroze it in the fridge from yesterday to today, and tonight ground it to a paste with some Cyclop-eeze, nori and some gelatin.

Pictures of the 'cooking':


My kid helping ...

A few update pictures for this evening:

Full Tank Shot

Full Tank Shot 2

2.5 Year old hitchhiker (Seems to be a LPS as it has a skeleton, unlike a mushroom or anemone)

Sun Coral on the road to recovery. I picked it up a a LFS for a deal as it was wasting away. I have been feeding it 5 days a week and it is starting to make a comeback.
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For the past two weeks, I was thinking about modifying my Euroreef protein skimmer so it could work in conjunction with my NextReef biopellet reactor. I was considering drilling a hole in the body of the skimmer, inserting a uniseal and then pumping the effluent of the reactor into the reaction chamber of the skimmer. In this way, it would definitely export dead or dying bacteria exiting the reactor. Perhaps that stuff was causing the dinoflagellates in my tank, I really don't know.
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