240Gal Reef of its own kind

[Dr. Reef]

Doesn't the renew storm system handle the ATO? Also you may want to turn the strainer on the 20g tank up a little. If you lose power a lot of water will dump into your 40g tank. Looking at the 40 I see it isn't full so it may not over flood the tank.

Thanks yes i tested it when i set it up and removed the strainer and placed the reversed the elbow (facing up). This way it only drains a hair into the 40.
ATO is controlled by genesis. instead of plugging a pump to STORM (ATO) i put the solenoid. so when genesis detects low water in sump it sends power to ATO outlet which turns the solenoid on letting water through to sump. solenoid stays in closed position until powered.
this setup reduces multiple pumps (lots of heat and electric)in ro/di bin for each tank.

 

[jcmelski]

Great point, I can picture it better now. You gave me a great idea to try with my set-up. Do you have a back-up float switch in the sump? Does your ATO come directly from your Ro/Di unit?

 

[Dr. Reef]

yes i have a backup float in sump jusy a hair above the main ATO float. the secondary fail float is monitored by RKE and in case the solenoid failed RKE will detect rise in water and kill the pump running the ro/di bin+solenoids. ATO comes from the 50gal bin controlled by Rvoc. revoc fills the 50gal bin when it runs low and tops it off at the level i set.

 

[Dr. Reef]

few more pics of the manifolds..

 

[Dr. Reef]

 

[Dr. Reef]

ro/di system controlled by Genesis Storm.

 

[Dr. Reef]

Genesis meters for water change..

 

[Dr. Reef]

The whole system.

 

[Dr. Reef]

QT's finally setup and running cycle.

 

[Dr. Reef]

A little Photo opportunity...... lol

 

[Aquatron]

Looking really good enjoyed seeing behind the curtain of your build!

 

[jcmelski]

You have two ro/di units for your tanks?

 

[Dr. Reef]

Yes I have 1 I bought few yrs back and was a chlorine unit from BRS. Then city switched to chloramine so bought a proper unit for it. At time I didn't know u could buy a replacement filters and make it chloramine unit. So I decided to keep both and double my water production.

 

[guric1van]

in the display tank, you have the return nozzles coming up from the sand.

hows that working for you? i was thinking of doing the same thing. Would you recommend it? do you have the control you need? do they look ok in person, do people ask about the (negatively)?

 

[Dr. Reef]

i have 10 outlets coming from the bottom of the sand. i have 5 on left side and 5 on the right side. i have a reeflo snapper 2600gph pump on it with a ocean motion so left side puts out about 1600gph for about 1 min then 1600gph from right side for about 1 min.
i dont have any bulkheads drilled in the bottom of the tank. i have a hang over the back suction side with a strainer 1" that HOB and comes down to the pump then returns to ocean motion and splits and goes over the tank back wall and over into the sand and spiders out.

 

[Dr. Reef]

in person they only stick out about 2" above the sand and honestly i have never noticed them. they are covered with coraline algae and some with corals growing over them so they are not noticeable any more. the good part is that they cause a wave like motion not much noticeable but they do. also they there is just enough flow that sweeps up any stuff on sand bed and flow then up into the drain so no debris stays on the sand.
here is a layout of the closed loop;

 

[Dr. Reef]

here are couple of pics and those closed loop returns are hardly noticeable.

 

[Dr. Reef]

today i added frag tank to the setup and installed the AI vega on it.
here is some updated pics.

 

[Dr. Reef]

 

[jcmelski]

Did you make the frag tank or did you buy it? I'm guessing it's tied into the main system somehow.