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Great update... Love the new pump I want one so bad. Is there any other pumps you were looking at or were you set on the abyzz.
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JB NY
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I looked at everything that was out there. I really wanted the ecotech pump to work out but the specs were on the border of what I wanted and I couldn't get anyone to respond to emails or return a phone call so I ended up scratching them from the list. In the end, none of the DC pumps handled head pressure as well as the Abyzz, and had a warranty as good. So even though it was more money I felt it was the best investment. My last pump was in service for over 10 years so I know how long a good pump can last.
maxxII
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I dont know what's more impressive to me....the pump or the vinyl in the background!
All jokes aside, pump failure is the reason I've been buying a spare for awhile.
My system is much smaller than yours and I just use a Pan World 100PX-X to run mine, but I have a spare 100PX-X on the shelf on standby. I trade them out about every 6 months for cleaning, but should something go wrong, I've got a spare I can swap out in just a few minutes.
I've been thinking of going to a DC pump to replace them, but was unsure which pump I want to go with. Doing that would allow me to run the ARID off a manifold vs a dedicated powerhead in the sump...
Tank looks great Joe!
All jokes aside, pump failure is the reason I've been buying a spare for awhile.
My system is much smaller than yours and I just use a Pan World 100PX-X to run mine, but I have a spare 100PX-X on the shelf on standby. I trade them out about every 6 months for cleaning, but should something go wrong, I've got a spare I can swap out in just a few minutes.
I've been thinking of going to a DC pump to replace them, but was unsure which pump I want to go with. Doing that would allow me to run the ARID off a manifold vs a dedicated powerhead in the sump...
Tank looks great Joe!
It all depends on water flow and head height you want
I dont know what's more impressive to me....the pump or the vinyl in the background!
All jokes aside, pump failure is the reason I've been buying a spare for awhile.
My system is much smaller than yours and I just use a Pan World 100PX-X to run mine, but I have a spare 100PX-X on the shelf on standby. I trade them out about every 6 months for cleaning, but should something go wrong, I've got a spare I can swap out in just a few minutes.
I've been thinking of going to a DC pump to replace them, but was unsure which pump I want to go with. Doing that would allow me to run the ARID off a manifold vs a dedicated powerhead in the sump...
Tank looks great Joe!
JB NY
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Yeah lots of records still spinning at my house, I have about 800 of them.
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I used to have a spare. I had a reeflow hammerhead that I first put on the tank about 8 years ago and it failed in 6 months, so I put the Sequence back on and never got around to getting another pump. The Sequence is not a cheap pump either but you do get what you pay for, in this case 10+ years of flawless service.
In the DC market there is not a lot of options if you need high head pressure. The Abyzz is pricey, but I have been keeping tanks for a long time and tend to not replace things until I absolutely must.
reefmutt
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Greg, you know there is! Well there are actually a lot of updates, so I'll give them in order of appearance.
First a FTS for Matt.
I know it looks like not much is going on since everything is still small frags, but a few have started to grow into small tennis ball sized colonies. Tank still looks empty but it is on the right path now.
Next up earlier this week I added some more fish to the tank from liveaquaria.
I added
(3) Female Blue Star Leopard Wrasse
(1) Potter's Angelfish
(2) Bicolor Blenny
(2) Wheeler's Shrimp Goby
The blenny's and goby's went into the tank and disappeared into the rock work and I have only had a few glimpses of them since. I have the Potters Angel in QT tank to get him eating before I put him in the main tank as I already have 5 dwarf angles and they tend to beat up newcomers. But the leopard wrasses were just fine.
I already had 3 Leopard wrasses but wanted to have a few more. Here is a pic of the leopards meeting the existing male.
A little video of them getting acclimated to the tank, at this point they are in the tank for about 5 minutes. I had the lights out when I added them to the tank, but is seems half the fish wanted to check out the new additions.
While I was getting the fish acclimated I was down in the sump room. I noticed water on the floor down near the sump, at first I though I knocked over something but on a closer look, the seal on my main pump was leaking.
The pump I have is a MDM Sequence 1000 series 6100seq23. It's a beast of a pump. I've had it almost 12 years and has been in continuous operation almost the entire time. The Sequence looks similar but it should not to be confused with the reeflo pumps. MDM are really well made pumps and it puts out 3000GPH at 20ft head pressure. I use it to power everything, main tank, skimmer, ARID, and the chiller. Earlier in the year I started to realize that the pump would need to be replaced soon, 12 years is a long time for a pump to last. So I had been looking at alternate pumps for the last few months.
Upon examining the leak, I go into a little of a panic mode as I determined there was a fair amount of water leaking. I originally put a sponge under it and in a couple of hours it was soaked, so I rigged up this hi tech means to funnel water away from the pump.
Using an old section of kids racetrack I was able to channel the water into a bucket. At least now water was not getting on the sump stand and was at least contained. OK now I need to get a new pump to the house ASAP, because if this pump fails or starts to leak even more I am screwed as this is the heart of the tank. Next up replace the pump.
Hey Joe, thanks for the fts! It's an awesome canvas to work with. In a year, it's going to look shockingly different.
How are all the wrasses doing? Was there a change in nutrients after adding all those fish? How's the cheato growth in the pax bellum, these days?
It's quite funny seeing the abyzz next to the sequence..
You must have found it oddly quiet at first.. I bet now, there's a whole new group of sounds you are attuned to when you walk into the fish room.
JB NY
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Yeah hopefully next year this tank should looks great. Until you see the FTS, I feel that it's hard to really grasp how problematic the last two years have been. I had been adding corals and losing them so often and there had been hardly any growth until the last few months, the tank still looks like I just started.
Almost all the wrasses are doing well. One leopard wrasse is being harassed anytime she comes out of hiding, I'm not sure what is going, on the other two are doing just fine, eating already, and out in the open all day. That one female though, every time she pops up the male chases her something awful.
I haven't notice any change in nutrients yet. I just did a full round of tests and my N was at 5 ppm and P at 0.06 ppm, just as they were a few weeks ago. Hopefully I can get enough fish in the tank that I no longer have to dose nitrates, but I am up to almost 40 fish and I still dose about 0.18 ppm of N a day. Not a ton, but if I stop I notice that N will slowly start to creep down.
Cheato growth is good. I cleaned out the ARID over the weekend and all chambers had good growth in them.
I really was shocked at how small the abyzz pump is compared to my sequence pump, but it works great! And you're not kidding about being able to hear a whole bunch of other sounds in the fish room now, mostly it is how loud the exhaust fan and the dehumidifier is that I use in the room. I didn't really notice them at all because the room noise pretty much drowned them out, but now they are really noticeable. The other was how quiet the Beckett skimmer is. I built a muffler for it like 10 years ago, and other than a slight fizzing sound of the bubbles it is silent.
FloformAustria
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really like your tank!!
your frag rag looks great
and the size difference between old and new is insane :bigeyes:
keep those updates coming ^^
Flo
your frag rag looks great
and the size difference between old and new is insane :bigeyes:
keep those updates coming ^^
Flo
JB NY
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really like your tank!!
your frag rag looks great
and the size difference between old and new is insane :bigeyes:
keep those updates coming ^^
Flo
Thanks Flo!
FloformAustria
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Wow now that is what I call growth!!
Good job!!
Good job!!
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
This was a coral that was recovering. Here you can see the difference in less than 2 months. This coral was almost unchanged in the year I had it in my tank. The growth spurt it has show is really incredible.
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That's awesome Joe! I've been experiencing a similar growth spurt lately. Are you still dosing Zinc at double prescribed rate?
JB NY
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Thanks Flo. I am happy with the progress that I am getting now.
It is definitely the Triton base elementz supplementation that is driving al this. I dosed trace elements and tried everything I can think of and was still having the worst time keeping things going. The week a switch to Triton base elements all the problems went away.
My zinc dosing has been all over the place, I stopped the 2x dose and went back to normal dose, the I mixed the wrong amount and dosed that, which was like 3x the amount.
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
Hmmm. I've been dosing about 1.5 X the target and my tank is doing really well. I think you are right that the trace element replenishment is the key to your success. A few of those missing elements seem to be super important.
JB NY
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JB NY
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As of now I am dosing
Zn 0.0008 mg/l daily
Mn 0.0006 mg/l daily
I have been dosing this for about 5 day as of now. Right now coloration looks really good. But I am watching things daily as I know this is higher than normal dosing.
