295-gallon Peninsular ZEOVit SPS with Solaris I Series
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ReefingBuddha
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stand looks great, its always hard with a high ceiling but it looks very good. Good move on the lighter stain, black would have definitely darkened your room significantly. The modern look is well pulled off.
Tank is looking great, looking forward to a video of the water flow once you have it up and running. Can't wait for your aquascaping (my favorite part).
Hell of a RO unit...
Tank is looking great, looking forward to a video of the water flow once you have it up and running. Can't wait for your aquascaping (my favorite part).
Hell of a RO unit...
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Thanks djay...
Originally wanted to do a rimless so I don't have to cover all the way to the top but as I can't get those 3/4" low iron glass, here, have to made do with a eurobracing and made the canopy all the way...stand and canopy is same height to look good...
Once everything is hook up, will do a video on water movement. Yeah the RO unit is a beast.....
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OK, continue from yesterday's post...
Have to get some power food for the guys before starting off on aquascaping….
AQUASCAPING
Can’t find black starboard here (maybe it’s available but don’t think I can ever explain nor am I motivated to try with my limited Chinese) so I use 3 pieces of black plastic sheet instead as a base. :idea:
I decided to revised my initial mock set-up and reduce the amount of rocks in the tank and go with the ‘less is more’ look :lol2:
I just love the amount of open space it creates for my SPS to grow and my fishes to swim :inlove:
I’m quite please with the overall aquascaping mock-up and hopefully my SPS and fishes will too… :dance:
Once that’s done I glued some small pieces of rocks at the based of the PVC stand so it’s not visible… :artist:
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OK, continue from yesterday's post...
Have to get some power food for the guys before starting off on aquascaping….
AQUASCAPING
Can’t find black starboard here (maybe it’s available but don’t think I can ever explain nor am I motivated to try with my limited Chinese) so I use 3 pieces of black plastic sheet instead as a base. :idea:
I decided to revised my initial mock set-up and reduce the amount of rocks in the tank and go with the ‘less is more’ look :lol2:
I just love the amount of open space it creates for my SPS to grow and my fishes to swim :inlove:
I’m quite please with the overall aquascaping mock-up and hopefully my SPS and fishes will too… :dance:
Once that’s done I glued some small pieces of rocks at the based of the PVC stand so it’s not visible… :artist:
Ed Reef
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Next sand in place…..
I used about 2†of sand bed….
Follow by my 1000L RO water follow by about 1.5 bucket of 25kg TM Pro…..
This industrial RO unit takes only 8 hours to fill up my tank…not bad huh?? Of course the pre-mix 100-gallon SW and my own RO unit helps to speed up the process too !!
I already pre-mix my salt with RO water with a higher salinity in my Rubbermaid containers this morning so that I can use it to mix with the tank’s RO water.
Don’t mind the picture as the water is a little cloudy at this time but should clear up in a couple of hours….
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Next sand in place…..
I used about 2†of sand bed….
Follow by my 1000L RO water follow by about 1.5 bucket of 25kg TM Pro…..
This industrial RO unit takes only 8 hours to fill up my tank…not bad huh?? Of course the pre-mix 100-gallon SW and my own RO unit helps to speed up the process too !!
I already pre-mix my salt with RO water with a higher salinity in my Rubbermaid containers this morning so that I can use it to mix with the tank’s RO water.
Don’t mind the picture as the water is a little cloudy at this time but should clear up in a couple of hours….
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View from the veranda:
View from the front:
This is a friend, Andy that came along to help me with the set-up of this bad boy…!! He is also into marine and currently having a 24†x 24†cube.
I’m bad influence… !!
FTS - once the water clears up, I will post a new vs. old FTS for everyone’s comment
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View from the veranda:
View from the front:
This is a friend, Andy that came along to help me with the set-up of this bad boy…!! He is also into marine and currently having a 24†x 24†cube.
I’m bad influence… !!
FTS - once the water clears up, I will post a new vs. old FTS for everyone’s comment
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Ahhhaah…. almost forgot, I added about 100 pounds of fully cured LR and a few cups of LS from my current system to help with the seeding and get the cycle started.
Went to the LFS in the afternoon to handpick those pieces to blend into my aquascape…. I was very fortunate that the LFS so happen to have 5 tanks of ready-cured LR waiting for me to cherry pick.. :thumbsup:
You can see the difference between dead (bottom) and LR (top)
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Ahhhaah…. almost forgot, I added about 100 pounds of fully cured LR and a few cups of LS from my current system to help with the seeding and get the cycle started.
Went to the LFS in the afternoon to handpick those pieces to blend into my aquascape…. I was very fortunate that the LFS so happen to have 5 tanks of ready-cured LR waiting for me to cherry pick.. :thumbsup:
You can see the difference between dead (bottom) and LR (top)
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In place is my DYI filter box for my filter wool and filter socks and also my frag tank…..
One of my baffles after the filter wool section for my sump was too high, causing micro bubbles in my Zeovit reactor section so I decided to drill 2 x 40mm holes and hook on two 90 degree to lower the water level.
Also decided to make the return from my skimmer to a filter socks. Got those acyclic filter sock holder on-line locally
Whole sump view:
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In place is my DYI filter box for my filter wool and filter socks and also my frag tank…..
One of my baffles after the filter wool section for my sump was too high, causing micro bubbles in my Zeovit reactor section so I decided to drill 2 x 40mm holes and hook on two 90 degree to lower the water level.
Also decided to make the return from my skimmer to a filter socks. Got those acyclic filter sock holder on-line locally
Whole sump view:
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Multi-Purpose Tank aka MPT
Multi-Purpose Tank aka MPT
Not that I need these now but just set it up anyway to show the complete set-up and also you will notice I have additional stands made using coupling so that I can easily raise the height of each tray in accordance to my use.
Frag tank with frag trays:
Frag trays stands with adjustable height:
Raised 1 level:
Raised 2 level:
All new frags and fishes will be 1st place in this MPT until I’m confident they are doing fine before moving into the main tank….sort of an acclimation tank. :beer:
Multi-Purpose Tank aka MPT
Not that I need these now but just set it up anyway to show the complete set-up and also you will notice I have additional stands made using coupling so that I can easily raise the height of each tray in accordance to my use.
Frag tank with frag trays:
Frag trays stands with adjustable height:
Raised 1 level:
Raised 2 level:
All new frags and fishes will be 1st place in this MPT until I’m confident they are doing fine before moving into the main tank….sort of an acclimation tank. :beer:
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