It's funny, I actually had really good experience with a sulphur reactor on my last tank, and am entertaining the idea of going that route in the future, but as this is still such a very young system (just hit 3 months), I'm going to let it ride a bit before changing too many things.
Peter and I worked on the system on Saturday until the early hours of the morning and made what I think are some great upgrades.
We drilled out the sump with a 6" hole saw, which on a side note was insane loud, and added 5 spots for 7" filter socks. Even though I know some people find it crazy tedious to swap out socks once or twice a week, I find they are some of the most efficient mechanical filtration, and don't really mind changing them. Now, instead of the water simply leaving the spray bar in all directions onto the floss tray, we made a new "manifold" to direct the water into the socks. This includes the refugium and chiller outlet. I plan on running a larger maybe 300 micron (or larger) sock for the fuge drain so it will allow for critters to make it back into the system but contain algae or larger organics. The addition of the socks also helped with the noise level, as well as some the microbubbles we were experiencing.
The next mod was the addition of an iwaki to the reservoir to complete the salt water mixing station, I know it's such a simple thing, but after having used a drop in sump pump connected a garden hose, I can really appreciate the value in this system...I love it. The pic reminds me I need to finish painting the frag tank stand and cover it with pvc board for...well, looks really.
Here are some pics:
Im not sure why the iPhone makes it look so much more blue in the pics, but it's not too much. Also, that chandelier is on the way out, it was the old dining area before we remodeled once moving in.
Peter and I worked on the system on Saturday until the early hours of the morning and made what I think are some great upgrades.
We drilled out the sump with a 6" hole saw, which on a side note was insane loud, and added 5 spots for 7" filter socks. Even though I know some people find it crazy tedious to swap out socks once or twice a week, I find they are some of the most efficient mechanical filtration, and don't really mind changing them. Now, instead of the water simply leaving the spray bar in all directions onto the floss tray, we made a new "manifold" to direct the water into the socks. This includes the refugium and chiller outlet. I plan on running a larger maybe 300 micron (or larger) sock for the fuge drain so it will allow for critters to make it back into the system but contain algae or larger organics. The addition of the socks also helped with the noise level, as well as some the microbubbles we were experiencing.
The next mod was the addition of an iwaki to the reservoir to complete the salt water mixing station, I know it's such a simple thing, but after having used a drop in sump pump connected a garden hose, I can really appreciate the value in this system...I love it. The pic reminds me I need to finish painting the frag tank stand and cover it with pvc board for...well, looks really.
Here are some pics:
Im not sure why the iPhone makes it look so much more blue in the pics, but it's not too much. Also, that chandelier is on the way out, it was the old dining area before we remodeled once moving in.
