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08/16/2016, 11:23 AM | #26 |
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Looking good!! Love your plumbing and reactors.
What barb fitting did you use to connect the tubing to your Vectra M1? Having trouble sourcing one that will fit. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Thanks. I used a 3/4" slip to barb connector.
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08/19/2016, 07:10 AM | #28 |
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08/19/2016, 09:39 AM | #29 |
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I love that under tank set-up. Looks great.
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08/22/2016, 11:11 AM | #30 |
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Finished up the sump! Happy to finally put everything away and get my office cleaned up. Probably will get wet first week of September.
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08/22/2016, 02:08 PM | #31 |
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Very clean! Great job.
Did you drill the stock ATO yourself? What pump are you using to feed it? Is it on your manifold? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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The pump is the Vectra M1. The refugium flow will be very low so shouldn't take up much of the pump head. I also have two reactors off it which will be running GFO, carbon and zeo rocks. So they shouldn't take much flow either. |
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08/22/2016, 03:08 PM | #33 |
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That's great. I may borrow that idea! I'm running the same pump, so a simple tee should work.
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08/23/2016, 10:22 AM | #34 |
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Nice and clean excellent job
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08/25/2016, 02:19 PM | #35 |
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Very nice! I have the 525Xl as well. Out of curiosity do you think you get more noise/vibrations because you are running rigid piping? Where did you purchase the piping and valves?
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Jeff, beautiful as usual. I wouldn't expect anything less from you.
Looking forward to what the aquascaper in you comes up with. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Looks great! jealous.
Will you be able to remove your socks for cleaning? Looks like a snug fit to pull them out with the drain off the ATO reservoir
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Sump looks good!
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Jeff? Updates?
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09/16/2016, 01:38 PM | #42 |
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The tank is now wet and cycling. Relatively minor issues so far so Im quite pleased with the result.
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Also have my QT setup built and cycling. Left is for corals and right is for fish.
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Damn cant wait to see the final aquascape, Your previous tanks and the one above the quarantine look almost fake because they look so good haha
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09/19/2016, 03:55 PM | #46 |
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Display tank is cycling well. QT tanks arent cycling at all as there are 0 nitrites.
I have Seachem Matrix in the QT tanks in the sump area. Im using the fishless cycling method using ammonia hydroxide. Added 2 ppm to all 3 tanks to start. The two QT tanks are still 2 ppm and 0 ppm nitrite. The display tank is 0ppm ammonia and 1 ppm nitrite. Added the second does of ammonia of 1 ppm and see nitrites climbing to somewhere around 3 or 4ppm. Been adding the same bacteria daily to all the tanks. The display tank is doing well so Im pretty sure the bacteria solution is good. I have Seachem Matrix in the QT tanks sump area. Any suggestions to get this going? Couple under the hood shots. |
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Decided to get the Dr Tim's bacteria. Added it on Saturday and today the DT is done cycling, The QT for fish is showing Nitrite dropping. The coral QT is showing Nitrite rising.
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The rockwork looks terrific.
And I agree with the previous poster, the freshwater planted tank looks phenomenal! |
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Glad to hear a good review about Dr Tims! I just bought two bottles for my DT and QT. hope to kick off the cycle with them this weekend. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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That's a great turn around time on the cycle... How do you like the Caribsea?
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