Lito's 120 build

[fishuntbike]

good question, potentiometer is optional, you can just connect the driver wire directly to the VDM. I use the potentiometer to have manual control if I want to.

 

[nvladik]

thanks everyone, I use Krylon paint on the pipes.

Krylon Fusion? How easy was it? I was thinking of doing it also and make the PVC components black.

 

[fishuntbike]

The blue went easy but in any case I did two coats each color

 

[fishuntbike]

Dry fitted plumbing, I will cut the drain side less than 1 inch below water level, and ooops I realized the sump baffles got switch in the skimmer section. Anyway...can be fixed later. All drain are 1.5 inches in size while the return is 1 inch. I am just tired and crappy now

 

[fishuntbike]

Tank has water with dry rock and this is a bare bottom tank. I will introduce ammonia via ghost feed and maybe the use of ACE Ammonia. Everything goes smoothly as there is no leak and overflow is quiet. Still need to adjust the return locline and install the flow eductor from my old 40 which is running too to keep my corals and fish until the 120 is ready.

 

[fishuntbike]

For the meantime, I put my RO water system in the basement together with my new 20 long quarantine tank.

 

[fishuntbike]

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