edandsandy
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gottcha 
just thinking out loud I guess
just thinking out loud I guess
375 g Reef/ 600 g System stuffed in my office
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Bax
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The 120 is no more. Tore it down Thursday. The coldest darn day in mid June I can remember. And the coldest day I can ever remember trying to move an active system and livestock. And, I have moved a lot of active FW & SW tanks over the years. It was stressful on the critters and me!
Fortunately, everyone seems OK. The clam and nem looked really bad at first but have perked up under some light and flow.
The fish look great! Hopefully they'll remain that way after all the trauma. The orchid dottybacks are happily together again after the female spent months in the overflow of the 120.
There is still much to do to get the shop and offices organized before I can turn my attention to even considering how to move the 375 into the office without demolition or disaster! That's OK, the critters can stay in the holding system as long as it takes. I want to do this right, and if I have to change the configuration because I can't use the 375, then so be it.
Fortunately, everyone seems OK. The clam and nem looked really bad at first but have perked up under some light and flow.
The fish look great! Hopefully they'll remain that way after all the trauma. The orchid dottybacks are happily together again after the female spent months in the overflow of the 120.
There is still much to do to get the shop and offices organized before I can turn my attention to even considering how to move the 375 into the office without demolition or disaster! That's OK, the critters can stay in the holding system as long as it takes. I want to do this right, and if I have to change the configuration because I can't use the 375, then so be it.
Bax
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It's just getting cleaned up and mothballed until I decide if it'll have a place in future propogation or filtration. I was at least the third owner, and it was in rough shape when I got it. Lot's of scratches in it which I didn't really mind at the time as I always looked at it as a stepping stone. But it's an old AGA and rock solid so it would make a fine, back of the house, component.
Bax
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Stopped in to feed the fish and check water levels today.
The fish still look OK. I need to mount some frags that fell off in transit and add another light over the holding tanks to keep all the corals happy.
I need to get all my timers and ATO hooked up to keep me happy.
And, I can see already, I need to get the chiller in line ASAP as I'll need on the first warm day .... if that ever happens this cool & rainy June
The fish still look OK. I need to mount some frags that fell off in transit and add another light over the holding tanks to keep all the corals happy.
I need to get all my timers and ATO hooked up to keep me happy.
And, I can see already, I need to get the chiller in line ASAP as I'll need on the first warm day .... if that ever happens this cool & rainy June
Bax
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Wow! Two weeks have gone by and I've just been sort of keeping things as stable as possible and not changing a lot except water. The screwy weather still has not required a chiller but I will have some time this week to sort out the plumbing.
So, until then, I am using two submersible pumps as returns, one to feed the 90 and another to feed the 75 while I figure out some more permanent plumbing scheme. Anyway, I walk in yesterday to both pumps sucking air! My 90 is not drilled and I am running a Life Reef overflow box on it. It has been flawless in every application I have ever used it in but now there's no siphon!
My first official, system based, water spill in the new location!
Took me quite a bit of head scratching, but eventually I figured out that the U-tube had cracked! Just a hair line, but that's all it needs to suck air and drop the siphon.
I whipped one up out of glued 1" PVC, that's more of a squared U tubish thingy, but it seems to be working! I'll bend one ASAP out of PVC.
I have a layout in mind for a Dart to do the return duty via a manifold, but I am just trying to think my way through it before I jump into gluing up too much plumbing.
My tenetti switched to his adult colors since the move, and has not shown his juvi colors since. I'll have to take some pics of him as he's real handsome. Also glad to say that the clam and RBTA look just fine too, and better every day.
So, until then, I am using two submersible pumps as returns, one to feed the 90 and another to feed the 75 while I figure out some more permanent plumbing scheme. Anyway, I walk in yesterday to both pumps sucking air! My 90 is not drilled and I am running a Life Reef overflow box on it. It has been flawless in every application I have ever used it in but now there's no siphon!
My first official, system based, water spill in the new location!
Took me quite a bit of head scratching, but eventually I figured out that the U-tube had cracked! Just a hair line, but that's all it needs to suck air and drop the siphon.
I whipped one up out of glued 1" PVC, that's more of a squared U tubish thingy, but it seems to be working! I'll bend one ASAP out of PVC.
I have a layout in mind for a Dart to do the return duty via a manifold, but I am just trying to think my way through it before I jump into gluing up too much plumbing.
My tenetti switched to his adult colors since the move, and has not shown his juvi colors since. I'll have to take some pics of him as he's real handsome. Also glad to say that the clam and RBTA look just fine too, and better every day.
Bax
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The whole thing is still really rough around the edges as yet Ed.
The holding tanks under the stairs outside my office. The display will ultimately go in my office behind these stairs.
The sump, it's a 100 g. The ASM skimmer is pulling temporary duty until the MRC is back on line. I may run them both for a while.
The rock tube 4 more weeks or so and I'll tie this into the system.
The clam really took a beating on the very cold move day! Mid June! Who'd have thought that t he cold would be my biggest problem!?!? But it looks better every day.
I am still working on making temporary footing for all my SPS to keep them happy for the next 8 - 12 weeks or so till I sort out the display. Most are in good locations, but I am short on choice spots until I get more lighting hung and some temporary coral racks built.
Sooner then later I want to frame out a shell to make this area a fish room and run some venting.
One step at a time!
The holding tanks under the stairs outside my office. The display will ultimately go in my office behind these stairs.
The sump, it's a 100 g. The ASM skimmer is pulling temporary duty until the MRC is back on line. I may run them both for a while.
The rock tube 4 more weeks or so and I'll tie this into the system.
The clam really took a beating on the very cold move day! Mid June! Who'd have thought that t he cold would be my biggest problem!?!? But it looks better every day.
I am still working on making temporary footing for all my SPS to keep them happy for the next 8 - 12 weeks or so till I sort out the display. Most are in good locations, but I am short on choice spots until I get more lighting hung and some temporary coral racks built.
Sooner then later I want to frame out a shell to make this area a fish room and run some venting.
One step at a time!
Bax
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I had started to plumb in a Little Giant MD3 SQX with all 1" piping as a return from the sump. You can see the 1" plumbing going to no where in the pics above. That seemed wrong to me from the start . So, I just let it be and used the two submersibles for a while. Well after the U-tube cracked and I spent some time thinking about it while making up the replacement, I figured what the heck, I'll use a Dart.
SO yesterday I made up a 2" feed line to a Dart. I dug out & dusted off a manifold I'd made up for the intended upgrade of my fish room at the old office space. It seems as though it'll work just fine and offer lots of flexibility down the road. All I need to do today is make up a 1 1/2" riser detention from the pump to the manifold so it'll sit up on the edge of my rock tub to support its weight when full of water. Any luck, I'll have water flowing through the Dart, manifold & chiller by tomorrow.
Then I can focus on framing the fish room and running some dedicated circuits in there so I can clean up the electric spaghetti. We go on vacation week after next and I want my temps stable and the holding system rendered tank sitter ready before then.
SO yesterday I made up a 2" feed line to a Dart. I dug out & dusted off a manifold I'd made up for the intended upgrade of my fish room at the old office space. It seems as though it'll work just fine and offer lots of flexibility down the road. All I need to do today is make up a 1 1/2" riser detention from the pump to the manifold so it'll sit up on the edge of my rock tub to support its weight when full of water. Any luck, I'll have water flowing through the Dart, manifold & chiller by tomorrow.
Then I can focus on framing the fish room and running some dedicated circuits in there so I can clean up the electric spaghetti. We go on vacation week after next and I want my temps stable and the holding system rendered tank sitter ready before then.
edandsandy
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Sorry to hear about the crack in the the u-tube!
It also looks like you are about to start brainstorming the new system too!
It also looks like you are about to start brainstorming the new system too!
leslie hempel
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really cool system..
leslie hempel
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really cool system..
Bax
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Sandy
I am trying to implement measures now that will serve me flexibly in the future with what ever size display I go with. Not to say the 375 is out of the running, but if it is not to be, I don't want to have to redo a lot of the system.
... and I think the U tube must have developed a crack during the move and eventually it just started to suck air and loose the siphon.
I am trying to implement measures now that will serve me flexibly in the future with what ever size display I go with. Not to say the 375 is out of the running, but if it is not to be, I don't want to have to redo a lot of the system.
... and I think the U tube must have developed a crack during the move and eventually it just started to suck air and loose the siphon.
Bax
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Getting a few things going, mostly just laying out and choosing equipment positions and roughing out plumbing.
Just to prove the 375 made it to the new shop, that's it wrapped in pink styrofoam and piled up with equipment!
Here are the holding tanks, don't flame me for the cords. Once the equipment is all located and I frame the enclosure, & I'll run 2 or 3 dedicated circuts in.
Been test fitting the equipment, but some spots are still temporary. The ballasts & chiller will be on top of the enclosure when it's done to keep the heat outside the equipment room.
The ASM with the sicci mesh mod doesn't pull tons of skim, but it is quality skim, very dark, I am also running a filter sock in the first section of the sump.
I was trying to fit in the manifold I made for the old fish room as it is, but I was going to have to mod it, which I wasn't ready to do. Then, I realized, the first section could be used with a random piece of plumbing I had as the unions just happened to match up and will give me enough valved outlets to run this setup.
Which alowed me to begin work on setting up the MRC 4R skimmer. Just sizing up the location in this pic. Later, I roughed out the plumbing for it returning to the sump for now. After the rock tub comes on line, the MRC will feed the rock tub which will be a big criptic fuge that will return to the sump.
The way I am going with this, I think I'll be able to run the entire system with the one Dart!
Just to prove the 375 made it to the new shop, that's it wrapped in pink styrofoam and piled up with equipment!
Here are the holding tanks, don't flame me for the cords. Once the equipment is all located and I frame the enclosure, & I'll run 2 or 3 dedicated circuts in.
Been test fitting the equipment, but some spots are still temporary. The ballasts & chiller will be on top of the enclosure when it's done to keep the heat outside the equipment room.
The ASM with the sicci mesh mod doesn't pull tons of skim, but it is quality skim, very dark, I am also running a filter sock in the first section of the sump.
I was trying to fit in the manifold I made for the old fish room as it is, but I was going to have to mod it, which I wasn't ready to do. Then, I realized, the first section could be used with a random piece of plumbing I had as the unions just happened to match up and will give me enough valved outlets to run this setup.
Which alowed me to begin work on setting up the MRC 4R skimmer. Just sizing up the location in this pic. Later, I roughed out the plumbing for it returning to the sump for now. After the rock tub comes on line, the MRC will feed the rock tub which will be a big criptic fuge that will return to the sump.
The way I am going with this, I think I'll be able to run the entire system with the one Dart!
edandsandy
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Now your making progress!
Looks great so far!
Well except all the electrical cords :lol:
Looks great so far!
Well except all the electrical cords :lol:
edandsandy
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:lol:
Bax
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I got the MRC plumbed, I don't have the Dart plumed through the chiller yet, so I haven't run the MRC yet. But, I need to soon, as the dependable little Sedra on my ER 5-3 I was running on my live rock finally gave up the ghost, so, I need to move the ASM to the rock tub! : It's always something! This is the final resting place of the MRC.
I have the feed side of the chiller run, but I am still running the discharge side to the 90 & 75. This is the MRC discharge into the sump (black pipe).
I put together some frag racks these are in the "high light" 90, I need one more in here.
Here's a random shot in the 75, this egg crate rack is going for more acrylic racks. I am done with egg crate! Too great a surface for bad algae
The Sun coral luv'n the low light section
The Trumpets too like'n the low light areas of the 75
....
It's always something! This is the final resting place of the MRC.
I have the feed side of the chiller run, but I am still running the discharge side to the 90 & 75. This is the MRC discharge into the sump (black pipe).
I put together some frag racks these are in the "high light" 90, I need one more in here.
Here's a random shot in the 75, this egg crate rack is going for more acrylic racks. I am done with egg crate! Too great a surface for bad algae
The Sun coral luv'n the low light section
The Trumpets too like'n the low light areas of the 75
....
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