270 Gallon SPS tank for JBNY
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12860858#post12860858 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JB NY
They keep breaking. I actually still had one in the back of the tank, but it stoped working this morning.
I thought it was because your flow was set up for a gyre motion.
How long did they last before they went bad?
JB NY
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Well that is one reason
. The first one died on me at 14 months. Jay at Wavyseas told me it is because the unit gets wet, but my wavysea is hooked up like yours, through the eurobracing, so it not getting wet. The second one died 2 months later at 16 months. So now I'll probably have to go through another two weeks of calling and emailing till Jay answers me and then charges me $100 to fix it. 
are the wavysea's the plus or reg? how many GPH are you running in them? I have 2 and have not had problems yet.
Zoom
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I have forced hot air, so even in the winter I have a humidifier going. If I can get a little extra humidity in the winter that is fine with me.
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I have forced hot air also but i think because the heater don't come on is much i get extra humidity build up in the house all my widows get all steamed up all winter.
I have forced hot air, so even in the winter I have a humidifier going. If I can get a little extra humidity in the winter that is fine with me.
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I have forced hot air also but i think because the heater don't come on is much i get extra humidity build up in the house all my widows get all steamed up all winter.
Zuluman100
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Joe, curious as to why you went with a fixture vs. a hood.
I am planning a build to take place in 12 months time when I move back to Raleigh NC. The exact tank i am thinking about is what you have, 6ft x 3ft x 2 ft with starphire 3-sided, so it was a pleasant surprise to find your build thread.
Anyways, i'll be keeping track of your thread as I plan mine out. I will have some questions in the future re. external overflows etc.
Brandon
I am planning a build to take place in 12 months time when I move back to Raleigh NC. The exact tank i am thinking about is what you have, 6ft x 3ft x 2 ft with starphire 3-sided, so it was a pleasant surprise to find your build thread.
Anyways, i'll be keeping track of your thread as I plan mine out. I will have some questions in the future re. external overflows etc.
Brandon
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13165215#post13165215 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by melev
JB NY
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The short version is the tank is doing good.
But reef gods have been testing me this summer. So far everything is holding on tight, but I had two big system failures that if I were not home would have wiped out the tank.
The first one being the day before I leave for a week on vacation. I am in the living room watching TV and hear a sucking noise, I look at the tank and notice a lot of bubbles in the display. I think that's strange, maybe my skimmer filled up and is dumping bubbles into the sump. So I go downstairs to investigate, as I walk up to the fish room I notice that the carpet, outside the door to the fish room, is soaking wet. Now, the floor in my fish room is vinyl and the base molding is vinyl that is siliconed to the floor so the only place for water to go is to the front of the room, were the door is, about 15 feet from the sump. So I think oh no, that can not be good.
Run into the room and find that water is pouring out of my refugium on to the floor. I try to not panic and trace the problem before I cut the power to the main pump. A few weeks ago I threw a purigen sock into the overflow of the refugium and it had got itself stuck in the intake and blocked the drain. I lost about 20 gallons of water onto the floor.
Thanks god I was home, as well as I was planning on doing a water change later that day so I had 40 gallons of made up salt water. 2 hours later I had the mess cleaned up and new water in the tank. But that would have been a disaster if it happened a day later.
Then last Friday, I just got home again from being away for a week. I had been home maybe 5 hours, when a bad storm rolled through the area and the area took a lighting strike. My aquacontroller3 and two of my controllers got fried. The MH and VHO stayed on, but all the other things with the exception of the main pump were off. Good thing I was home to manually fix everything or else the tank would have either bleached itself from 24/7 lights of fried from the chiller never turning on.
The one good thing is the coloration of my acros is awesome!
I have family in this weekend but I will try and post some pictures as soon as I have some time.
But reef gods have been testing me this summer. So far everything is holding on tight, but I had two big system failures that if I were not home would have wiped out the tank.
The first one being the day before I leave for a week on vacation. I am in the living room watching TV and hear a sucking noise, I look at the tank and notice a lot of bubbles in the display. I think that's strange, maybe my skimmer filled up and is dumping bubbles into the sump. So I go downstairs to investigate, as I walk up to the fish room I notice that the carpet, outside the door to the fish room, is soaking wet. Now, the floor in my fish room is vinyl and the base molding is vinyl that is siliconed to the floor so the only place for water to go is to the front of the room, were the door is, about 15 feet from the sump. So I think oh no, that can not be good.
Run into the room and find that water is pouring out of my refugium on to the floor. I try to not panic and trace the problem before I cut the power to the main pump. A few weeks ago I threw a purigen sock into the overflow of the refugium and it had got itself stuck in the intake and blocked the drain. I lost about 20 gallons of water onto the floor.
Thanks god I was home, as well as I was planning on doing a water change later that day so I had 40 gallons of made up salt water. 2 hours later I had the mess cleaned up and new water in the tank. But that would have been a disaster if it happened a day later.
Then last Friday, I just got home again from being away for a week. I had been home maybe 5 hours, when a bad storm rolled through the area and the area took a lighting strike. My aquacontroller3 and two of my controllers got fried. The MH and VHO stayed on, but all the other things with the exception of the main pump were off. Good thing I was home to manually fix everything or else the tank would have either bleached itself from 24/7 lights of fried from the chiller never turning on.
The one good thing is the coloration of my acros is awesome!
I have family in this weekend but I will try and post some pictures as soon as I have some time.
bleedingthought
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Crazy! Glad to hear things are OK.
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