JR Aquatics 180 Gallon Nano Reef

[Shawn D]

Great tank, what is your fish list?

 

[JRaquatics]

BucNtears sorry I didn't get a chance to measure out my sump last night. I will post something by this weekend.

Thanks ShawnD, My current list is
Spotted Cheek tang
Sailfin Tang
Blue Tang (regal)
Yellow eyed Kole Tang
5 green chromis
twin spot hog sm
2 orange spotted gobies
fire fish
mandarin
melanurus wrasse

I plan on getting a lot more fish mainly wrasses.

 

[JRaquatics]

No up-to-date photo yet. If I get a chance to clean the tank this weekend I will take a pic.

 

[JRaquatics]

Here is the basics of my sump

 

[tas5tas]

I wonder how many critters you are killing from your refugium having your skimmer section placed after it?? I thought it was always a good rule of thumb that your skimmer section come before your refugium so that pods and other benificial organisms are left to travel to the display? Just wondering how this setup has been working for you. Where are the updated pics of your tank??? We want to see progress shots.

 

[JRaquatics]

It doesn't make a Difference IMO. The Turn over rate is way too high. The skimmer is only being fed 3-400 gallons per hour. The only way I could effciently feed the skimmer before the fuge is to feed it raw water from one of the drains. My fuge is used as a Romote DSB only at the moment.

 

[BucNtears]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12480952#post12480952 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JRaquatics
Here is the basics of my sump

So its 1"{or 1.5} as the feed to the manifold then reducing down to3/4 for the returns

 

[ConcreteReefer]

What is the "bleed" in the manifold for?

 

[BucNtears]

I believe it was put there to pump the excess flow back into the sump till everything gets broke in..
please correct if I'm mistaken

 

[nickts40]

I will post a picture of mine when the tank is running but the manifold and sump is identical to JRs. Only question I have is why did you reduce the intake to the Dart from 2 to 1.5 inches? The problem I am forseeing is that I am using 2 inch spaflex which is not that flexible due to the 2 inch diameter. To make matters worse in my design I only have 6 inches of tubing between the pump and sump. Hope that doesn't put to much stress on the glass sump.

 

[JRaquatics]

The manifold is 1.5 inch pipe and valves. I reduced each output after the valve. Like Bucntears mentioned the bleed is used to relieve excess flow when the pipes and pump was breaking in. Now I use it when I need to service the skimmer so that the main system can stay running and I can take it off line. Actually I think I have it mislabeled. There is a 1.5 bulk head for the main pump input. I may have reduced it for the pump, I really can't remember.

 

[BucNtears]

JRaquatics, I finished my sump. This is the layout I went with.
The far left side is the drain
The middle is the fuge
Far right is the return
The back shows the channel that feeds into the return

This shows the back channel better.

thanks for letting me borrowing your thread

 

[JRaquatics]

Looks like it should work fine. My only worry would be the channel with the baffles, you will have to be careful about the turn over rate with this setup. If you have too high of a turnover rate, the baffles will be too turbulant to be functional.

 

[BucNtears]

I thought about that and figured Ild throw some rock in to help slow it down.

 

[nickts40]

I have not taken off the padding from the Lumen Bright reflectors yet, but I'll ask the question anyway. How do you attach them to the wood beam that is supporting them?

 

[JRaquatics]

There's a small hole in the top of the reflector, just zip the reflector into the wood. one screw will hold it.

 

[Reeftanks6]

This is a great tank. Love everything in it. Question for ya. Are you running a CA reactor? Also what was your fish list for your 90g?

 

[Reeftanks6]

Question for you. how much would i be spending if i were to buy a spotted cheek tang? If you dont mind telling.

 

[JRaquatics]

Thanks. Yes, I am running a calcium reactor. When I had the 90 gal I went from two part to two part with kalk dripping , to two part with kalk reactor, to kalk reactor and calcium reactor. I couldn't keep my calcium stable with two part alone. I am currently using a GEO 618 calcium reactor.
90 stock list:
Sailfin tang
blue tang
clown
fire fish
mandarin
2 orange spotted gobies

I have heard some people on RC able to get them for under $200. But the majority of the time they come in LG and cost importers 1-400 plus shipping to get them in. Then there is the markup the stores sell them at.

 

[laud]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12498220#post12498220 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JRaquatics
My only worry would be the channel with the baffles, you will have to be careful about the turn over rate with this setup. If you have too high of a turnover rate, the baffles will be too turbulant to be functional.

That is exactly where I screwed up. Now I am in a constant battle with microbubbles. baffled

BTW, is this the same tang... spotted cheeck tang