Basement Remodel... Ohh & a 320+ Gallon - 96x30x26 In-Wall SPS Tank
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KniLLifer
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Online from a place that shipped out of Texas.
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War on PO4 with Lanthanum Chloride
War on PO4 with Lanthanum Chloride
Hey guys,
Well the rock has been soaking in RO water for 5 days. The water is started to turn yellow/brown and starting to smell. I put a bag of carbon in each of the 4 containers to reduce the smell. From day 2 I started to measure PO4 levels in each container. All (4) containers are measuring about the same +/- 3 ppm.
Here are the measured PO4 Levels: You can see a steady climb in the levels:
11/5 - 11:13AM 0.12 ppm
11/5 - 11:15PM 0.15 ppm
11/6 - 11:30AM 0.16 ppm
11/5 - 10:30PM 0.19 ppm
11/7 - 12:30PM 0.21 ppm
11/7 - 10:00PM 0.28 ppm
11/8 - 12:00PM 0.30 ppm
11/8 - 06:00PM 0.31 ppm --> Added 10mL of SeaKlear Lanthanum Chloride
11/8 - 9:00PM .016 ppm --> In 3 hrs. the PO4 was reduced by almost 50%
I will see where the PO4 levels is the morning. Regardless of the level I will be dumping all the water out, rinsing each rock in RO and start the process again. I will do this until my checker can no longer detect any PO4 or at max read .01. I hope that I can achieve this by Thanksgiving Weekend. If all goes well the tank will finally get aquascaped and filled!.
Have a good weekend and Roll Tide!!!
War on PO4 with Lanthanum Chloride
Hey guys,
Well the rock has been soaking in RO water for 5 days. The water is started to turn yellow/brown and starting to smell. I put a bag of carbon in each of the 4 containers to reduce the smell. From day 2 I started to measure PO4 levels in each container. All (4) containers are measuring about the same +/- 3 ppm.
Here are the measured PO4 Levels: You can see a steady climb in the levels:
11/5 - 11:13AM 0.12 ppm
11/5 - 11:15PM 0.15 ppm
11/6 - 11:30AM 0.16 ppm
11/5 - 10:30PM 0.19 ppm
11/7 - 12:30PM 0.21 ppm
11/7 - 10:00PM 0.28 ppm
11/8 - 12:00PM 0.30 ppm
11/8 - 06:00PM 0.31 ppm --> Added 10mL of SeaKlear Lanthanum Chloride
11/8 - 9:00PM .016 ppm --> In 3 hrs. the PO4 was reduced by almost 50%
I will see where the PO4 levels is the morning. Regardless of the level I will be dumping all the water out, rinsing each rock in RO and start the process again. I will do this until my checker can no longer detect any PO4 or at max read .01. I hope that I can achieve this by Thanksgiving Weekend. If all goes well the tank will finally get aquascaped and filled!.
Have a good weekend and Roll Tide!!!
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TChristman
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Great build thread. Have enjoyed it a lot.
reeftanknewbie
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Great build. I will be interested to see how the rock turns out after all this. I haven't found anyone who has posted any long term effects of treating rock this way and if it is all worth it.
Finland
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Hi guys, again its been a month since my last post but not much is happening in the basement. Anyone with 3 kids can understand that when you have a minute of peace the last thing you want to do is work.
To address some of the humidity control questions posted above; I will be adding a bathroom fan/vent in the fish room. The glass block window directly behind the tank already has provisions for adding an exhaust port. I hear good things about the Panasonic vents and I plan of buying one of them. I also have a de-humidifier in the basement already and may add a second just in the fish room. Time will tell.
Now.. on to the lights. I have been luck enough to meet some people in the Aluminum business and purchased some scrap aluminum extrusion typically used in the automation business. I had envisioned a light rack that would hold my 4 Reefbreeder LED fixtures and the whole assembly be mounted on a garage door track so that it can be moved in and out of the way.
I used (2) 7' extrusions and (2) 2' extrusions to make a rectangular frame. This was the exact dimensions needed to have each LED fixture center over each 24" section over the tank. I mounted aluminum angle brackets to each fixture so that they can slide side to side in the frame.
Finished assembly looks like this:
All 4 lights can be moved side to side with no effort.
I then mounted the whole assembly over the tank on garage door rollers and 8' of garage door rail so that it can be moved out from over the tank to a maintenance position. This allows me clear entry over the tank and easy access to service the lights.
That's all for now. I'll let this one digest with you guys because I have a few more updates. Let me know what you think.
You may have posted this already, but which reefbreeder fixtures are those? 24's or 32's? Nice build, too. That light rack is ingenious.
KniLLifer
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Funny you say that because I'm just gathering my pictures and about to do a long update.
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Way Past Do Upadate
Way Past Do Upadate
I know that ist been a while since I posted anything but you have to understand that I have 3 young boys, a wife that works and goes to school at night and SOMEONE has to work around here.... to support all this...LOL.
Lets catch up!
The tank has been filled and up and running since Dec 10, 2013.
As you know I Acid soaked my rock and used a Spa/Pool Phosphate remover to try to get rid of all the trapped PO4 trapped in the Pukani. Although it nocked the PO4 down quickly I was still reading 0.2 PO4 on my Hannah checker when I gave up and couldn't wait any longer to start filling the tank. It didn't seem to make any difference how much Seaklear I used the PO4 would not drop below 0.2 when the rocks were soaking in the vats.
I filled the tank which took 3 days (400 Gallons almost to a T) and had my wife aquascape the left side and I did the right side. She won!
Pictures look terrible by the way but better than nothing!
More detail to come!
Way Past Do Upadate
I know that ist been a while since I posted anything but you have to understand that I have 3 young boys, a wife that works and goes to school at night and SOMEONE has to work around here.... to support all this...LOL.
Lets catch up!
The tank has been filled and up and running since Dec 10, 2013.
As you know I Acid soaked my rock and used a Spa/Pool Phosphate remover to try to get rid of all the trapped PO4 trapped in the Pukani. Although it nocked the PO4 down quickly I was still reading 0.2 PO4 on my Hannah checker when I gave up and couldn't wait any longer to start filling the tank. It didn't seem to make any difference how much Seaklear I used the PO4 would not drop below 0.2 when the rocks were soaking in the vats.
I filled the tank which took 3 days (400 Gallons almost to a T) and had my wife aquascape the left side and I did the right side. She won!
Pictures look terrible by the way but better than nothing!
More detail to come!
