d2mini's "Essential Focus" Mixed Reef Build

[VJV]

d2mini's "Essential Focus" Mixed Reef Build

d2mini's "Essential Focus" Mixed Reef Build

Thanks! And good luck. It will be interesting to see if this time you do not run into the same issues. It should give some food for thought to the Triton people.




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[Ucantwin]

Are you still quarantining?

 

[d2mini]

Are you still quarantining?

Usually observing for a couple weeks.

 

[Elricsfate]

Didn't mean to offend you tough guy :lolspin::love1::lolspin:

See no cords? :wave::lolspin:

btw, no need to white knight. I just made a comment about the cords, at the end of the day you still will wake up with a birthday to look forward to! No need to get hostile and chippy. I just wondered why he didn't hide cords when he went through such effort to make a very clean setup in this build and his old.

That is a lovely setup!

 

[Elricsfate]

Sadly, I don't have the time to skim thru 76 pages. About where should I start to find out what happened to the original setup and why this restart was necessary?

 

[saf1]

Sadly, I don't have the time to skim thru 76 pages. About where should I start to find out what happened to the original setup and why this restart was necessary?

Around page 60 - 63 Mini is starting to look into various stuff. Water flow and what not. It is a good thread in general to read over time from the beginning but if you want to see about when things started maybe start 60'ish.

 

[saf1]

Nice photos. I like purple tangs but not the price I remember picking one up back in 2000 for 40 bucks. Sadly I needed to return him because he or she didn't get along with my Kole. Probably better off because the tank crashed in 2001 due to Ca's constant brown outs and Enron - he could still be alive!

Looks like a nice size too. Good find.

 

[liverock]

Nice photos. I like purple tangs but not the price I remember picking one up back in 2000 for 40 bucks. Sadly I needed to return him because he or she didn't get along with my Kole. Probably better off because the tank crashed in 2001 due to Ca's constant brown outs and Enron - he could still be alive!

Looks like a nice size too. Good find.

Yup they were $20 each at the wholesaler back in the day....

 

[saf1]

Yup they were $20 each at the wholesaler back in the day....

I bet. Another fish on my "wish list" is the blue tip longfin. Almost looks like something I'd expect out your way but I don't believe so. Price is a bit high for me but nice colors has it matures.

Sort of reminds me of the Toad fish someone banished

 

[d2mini]

A few new random pics.
The colors are almost 100% back on my older corals that survived the whole tear down and restart process.
I'm seeing some growth on both new and old.

 

[saf1]

Looks good D2. I was going to ask how the leopard does but I recall you had a screen.

 

[BigBlueTang]

d2mini's "Essential Focus" Mixed Reef Build

d2mini's "Essential Focus" Mixed Reef Build

Woah!!! That M. Lapillus looks sweet!!

Edit: I was looking at your caption and I don't think that's a Blue Star Leopard. Pretty sure it's an M. Lapillus or Jeweled Leopard Wrasse.

 

[d2mini]

Woah!!! That M. Lapillus looks sweet!!

Edit: I was looking at your caption and I don't think that's a Blue Star Leopard. Pretty sure it's an M. Lapillus or Jeweled Leopard Wrasse.

I'm 99.9% sure it's a female blue star leopard wrasse.

 

[Yogre]

Beautiful restart, Dennis. Sorry you had "the troubles". It's a challenging hobby to be sure.

I'm jealous of your Part 2. I think it might be time for a color-up order from Richard!

 

[BigBlueTang]

I'm 99.9% sure it's a female blue star leopard wrasse.

Yup. I'm an idiot


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[d2mini]

Made some updates under the hood over the past couple weeks.

The most obvious is a whole new sump from LifeReef.
It's their CLF1 Berlin Sump with the add-on Refugium.
My old 200g had a big custom LR sump and I always thought it was designed well with just the necessities and with none of the gimmicks.
The big one is no filter socks. Instead there is a large tray for mechanical filter material of your choosing. The water enters the sump into this section with the skimmer and then flows over the filter material.
Then the return section has the Accessory Rack which holds probes, 1/4" water/dosing lines, and filter canisters which I'm still waiting on.
On the right is the refugium. Water gets pumped from a tee on the return line into the fuge, through a spray bar in front and then back into the return section from the drain along the back. The fuge has a built in emergency drain, too (the upturned 90 elbow).

I've currently got it plumbed just to get it running, but once the filter canisters come in, I may replumb and run them off a manifold rather than a dedicated pump.

I also got a new SVS3-24" skimmer to match.

For the fuge, I'll be starting that up this week with some new Chaeto.
I decided the old Mars Hydro 300 LED was just too big for this smaller fuge so I replaced it with a smaller and slightly less powerful 216w UFO style grow light. Very similar spectrum.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MXIVY5V/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

This is a much smaller sump overall than the Triton sump I had. I'd say it's just big enough.
I did have Jeff add a couple inches to the width (front to back) measurement, but I also had him take a couple inches off the length of the fuge to get it to fit comfortably in my stand.
Now I have more room in the stand, like for an eventual calcium reactor.

And finally, the doser was upgraded to the GHL 2.1 and the old 2.0 will go to my office nano to replace the BRS dosers.

 

[FernandesReef]

Very nice, lifereef equipment, would you say that the fudge has to be taller than the rest of the sump?


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[martinphillip03]

Now thats a sump. Looking good! Your equipment list is quite impressive.

Marty

Made some updates under the hood over the past couple weeks.

The most obvious is a whole new sump from LifeReef.
It's their CLF1 Berlin Sump with the add-on Refugium.
My old 200g had a big custom LR sump and I always thought it was designed well with just the necessities and with none of the gimmicks.
The big one is no filter socks. Instead there is a large tray for mechanical filter material of your choosing. The water enters the sump into this section with the skimmer and then flows over the filter material.
Then the return section has the Accessory Rack which holds probes, 1/4" water/dosing lines, and filter canisters which I'm still waiting on.
On the right is the refugium. Water gets pumped from a tee on the return line into the fuge, through a spray bar in front and then back into the return section from the drain along the back. The fuge has a built in emergency drain, too (the upturned 90 elbow).

I've currently got it plumbed just to get it running, but once the filter canisters come in, I may replumb and run them off a manifold rather than a dedicated pump.

I also got a new SVS3-24" skimmer to match.

For the fuge, I'll be starting that up this week with some new Chaeto.
I decided the old Mars Hydro 300 LED was just too big for this smaller fuge so I replaced it with a smaller and slightly less powerful 216w UFO style grow light. Very similar spectrum.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MXIVY5V/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

This is a much smaller sump overall than the Triton sump I had. I'd say it's just big enough.
I did have Jeff add a couple inches to the width (front to back) measurement, but I also had him take a couple inches off the length of the fuge to get it to fit comfortably in my stand.
Now I have more room in the stand, like for an eventual calcium reactor.

And finally, the doser was upgraded to the GHL 2.1 and the old 2.0 will go to my office nano to replace the BRS dosers.

 

[choss]

Dennis,

Wow - you always manage exceed all expectations with your updates!. I was not expecting a whole new "under the hood" setup. Is the new sump to accommodate the eventual calcium reactor or were there other reasons. I loved the old sump and its seems like a huge expense to replace such a sweet setup. I do like the new fuge light you picked up. Did you look at the Kessil H80? I just picked one up for the build I'm about to start. Its a great small light - I'll have some feedback in a few weeks when my tank is up and running.

 

[d2mini]

Very nice, lifereef equipment, would you say that the fudge has to be taller than the rest of the sump?

In this case LifeReef designed the refugium to be taller than the sump.

Now thats a sump. Looking good! Your equipment list is quite impressive.

Marty

Thanks.
Nice to see Jeff expanding his offerings with some color, this being his new "Signature Series".

Dennis,

Wow - you always manage exceed all expectations with your updates!. I was not expecting a whole new "under the hood" setup. Is the new sump to accommodate the eventual calcium reactor or were there other reasons. I loved the old sump and its seems like a huge expense to replace such a sweet setup. I do like the new fuge light you picked up. Did you look at the Kessil H80? I just picked one up for the build I'm about to start. Its a great small light - I'll have some feedback in a few weeks when my tank is up and running.

Haha, thanks.
The Triton sump would have continued to work as far as providing additional water volume and giving me a place to shove misc equipment and grow a lot of macros. But it was designed for high flow, the fuge was massive, and was really meant to be used on a triton tank where you are draining directly into the fuge with no mechanical filtration. And yes, I did want additional room for things like a CaRx.

I always thought the Mars light performed really well and it's cheap. This guy is even cheaper at just $55.