yes, solar panels, 10 Kw system.
and a 4x8 skylight over the tank and the shaft lined with the aluminum of reflectors.
just curious, didn't you already try an ATS and didn't you take it down?
and that's a lot of light and maintenance isnt it? didn't you have to clean the algae sheets quiet often?
(im lazy, so i don't know if a ATS would be my thing.....)
another thing, there is a guy in my local club that has a 415gal tank and installed a 1100 gal refugium. his tank was amazing, but he had a huge crash..... (he ran skimmerless for a long time.....)
he leads some of his devastation to his refugium taking too much of his essential elements out and starving his SPS of just about everything... (essentially, he claims that his water was too clean...)
im just saying that sometimes too much of a good thing is a bad thing.
keep us updated!
and love your build.
the new turf scrubbers from Santa Monica (banned here on RC) are easy to clean and very compact units. not like the unwieldy ones i had. they only need cleaning once a week or so for a few minutes.
maybe your friend wasn't feeding enough. i am skeptical about this idea of too clean water causing a crash.
about the overflows, yes there is an external one at the far end of the tank.
it has 3" teeth and 3 2" pipes to the sumps, a beananimal siphon overflow.
the center overflow has 2 2" overflows with one a siphon. i did think about removing it because i could probably get away with just having the end one now that there is no surge tanks putting up to 100 gallons into the tank in about 30 seconds. it was awesome but not without its downsides too. salt creep from the air bubbles, noise, and electric costs, humidity in the surge closet that had poor ventilation.
but i decided to leave it because that part of the overflow system gravity feed the carbon reactors, drip line and drain lines to wasted by turning a valve and draining into the sink and out.
i hope to more or less cover it with some live rock and make it mostly hidden.
Mark- i like having the stability and huge filtering capacity of the sumps, and the tanks over them can be used for different purposes too. right nbow the fish are mostly in one. the other is a DSB and has the few corals that i have.
and it's fun to watch strangers walk by the house when the garage door is open. i have given a mini talk about reefs to neighbor strangers.
i am very anxious about reaquascaping the tank but it will be fun too.
i am sure to buy something or other on thursday. first new additions to the tank in about a year since the crosshatch trigger.
i have the QT tank ready.
thank you all for your input.
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