TheFishTeen
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Just spent some time going through your thread from the beginning and I must admit I'm extremely impressed. Everything is well thought out and smartly placed.
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My plan of a 125 gallon build
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drukkosz
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Thats cool that she doesnt bother any of your corals. I am thiniking about geting one myself after upgrating to 125g
I use B-Ionic, but i dose alk, cal and mag. I have a dosing pump that take care al that and my alk is always 9.
SimonSKL
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TheFishTeen, thanks for the compliment! I just want to share my experience as well as documenting my build.
drukkosz, I have another 92 gallon corner tank which I am dosing with alk, Ca, and Mg using dosing pumps. I used to run the calcium reactor in that tank until my pH kept dropping to what I considered to be too low. I don't have any pH problem with this tank on the calcium reactor so far. I will keep bumping up the alkalinity and hopefully it will stabilize at around 9-10.
drukkosz, I have another 92 gallon corner tank which I am dosing with alk, Ca, and Mg using dosing pumps. I used to run the calcium reactor in that tank until my pH kept dropping to what I considered to be too low. I don't have any pH problem with this tank on the calcium reactor so far. I will keep bumping up the alkalinity and hopefully it will stabilize at around 9-10.
SimonSKL
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Clint, This is in reference to your PM asking me what would I change about my plumbing if I have to do it over again.
I set out to design my plumbing to be as quiet as possible since this tank is in my small home office. I like the Bean Animal system the best and tried to have a modified version in my existing dual overflow system. The original Bean system requires all 3 drain pipes in the same body of water and is often associate with a long or coast-to-coast weir overflow for best surface skimming. Each Cornerflo of the Marineland 125g tank has two 1" holes designed for one drain and one return. There is simply no room to have a third pipe in the Cornerflo.
The Bean system has 3 drain pipes: Primary drain controlled by a gate valve, an open channel with an airline, and an emergency drain. While I can have the primary and open channel in one Cornerflo, the emergency drain has to be in the other Cornerflo. The emergency drain pipe must stand higher than the primary and open channel and is dry most of the time.
The above set up essentially shuts down one Cornerflo of the tank which I worry will not provide adequate surface skimming for the tank with only one overflow.
The purchase of the tank also includes two overflow plumbing kits, one for each Cornerflo. Each plumbing kit has one 1.5" drain pipe with double 90 degree elbows and one 1" return pipe. Each pipe is glued to a 1" bulkhead. I think the reason for gluing the pipe to the bulkhead so no water from the Cornerflo will get into the sump once the water level in the Cornerflo is below the pipe openings. If you don't glue the pipe to the bulkhead, all the water in the cornerflo, approx 3.5 gallons, will eventually leak into the sump below. Depending on your sump, it may not handle an additional 7 gal of water. The 1.5" drain pipe has an airline tubing at the top as well as two holes drilled on each side which introduce air into the drain to avoid a full siphon. If water level rises above the airline opening, full siphon will be triggered. This is a good safety feature to prevent overflowing the display tank as a full siphon of a 1" PVC pipe can drain 1700 gph. This is similar to the open channel in the Bean system. In normal operation, you don't want full siphon to occur as it creates a lot of noise like flushing your toilet.:lol2:
My current set up is not a true Bean system. In my right Cornerflo I replaced the 90 degree elbow (the one with holes and airline tubing) with a solid elbow so I can have full siphon but regulated by a gate valve below. I also remove the 90 degree return elbow from the 1" return pipe to serve as a backup drain. Since the 1.5" is my primary drain and at full siphon at all times, there is only a small amount of water getting into the 1" pipe. This side of the Cornerflo is completely silent.
Because I don't want to give up the skimming capacity of the other overflow, I simply install the factory plumbing kit as designed. It is still very quiet as long as I don't exceed 700 gph. Once exceeded, the 1.5" drain will go in and out of full siphon making a lot of noise.
I have two ways to control the flow rate to my display tank: 1) by diverting some of the return water back to the sump, and 2) reduce the speed on my adjustable BlowHole 1450 pump.
I hope this long explanation answers your question. I know you are new to the hobby and I tried to make it as clear as possible. There is nothing wrong to install the factory provided plumbing kits as they are designed. As long as you don't exceed the max flowrate each Cornerflo is rated for, you still have a reasonably quiet system with no fear of flooding your floor, assuming you have an adequate size sump to hold all water when power is out. Good luck with your 125g build.
SimonSKL
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For sale: Half Black Angel
I traded my Auriga Butterfly fish for this Half Black Angel because the store labelled this fish on the tank as "Coral Safe". Well it is nothing but coral safe. Many of my monti dig were contracted because this angel fish kept nipping on them. $20 to a good home who can keep it. I need this picked up this week as I am leaving on vacation. The store refused to take it back.
I traded my Auriga Butterfly fish for this Half Black Angel because the store labelled this fish on the tank as "Coral Safe". Well it is nothing but coral safe. Many of my monti dig were contracted because this angel fish kept nipping on them. $20 to a good home who can keep it. I need this picked up this week as I am leaving on vacation. The store refused to take it back.
DrewPalmer04
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Trade it into sailfin if no one buys it. Get yourself a coral from it. Yeah you don't get much back out of the original retail price but I feel bad for it being in the little box that it is in. It's just doing what it does best in the wild
DrewPalmer04
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Exactly. John is as fair as he can be to keep his doors open. Never had an issue
SimonSKL
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Short video of my tank this morning. The turbo snails are doing a great job keeping my back glass clean! Notice the Flaming Scallop sitting in the middle of the rocks in the early portion of the video. I got some cyanobacteria going on in the tank. mostly on the right island.
logan 12
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:lolspin:
SimonSKL
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I didn't notice those on the dinner menu last time I was at Red Lobster:lmao:
Yeah, I learned my lesson the hard way. PSP actually labelled the Half Black Angel as coral safe. They refused to take it back when I tried to return it.
some dwarf angels do well in reef tanks of differing kinds- especially mature tanks with so much coral the picking is distributed over a wide area. The half black,eliibli and a few others seldom will leave corals alone though. Best bets are flames and goldens-sometimes lemonpeels- but all have to be watched carefully, and I wouldnt keep them around frags and things that are easily damaged.
SimonSKL
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Good question. Knowing the high intensity of the red led compare with the blue now, no, I would not order 4 red, 2 will be adequate. I don't know enough about uv led to say if I would need any. I am running a 27W Aqua UV right now but I doubt uv LED can perform as the 27W UV lamp.
SimonSKL
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I just returned from a 16-day vacation. All fish and corals survived while we were gone. I noticed not too many posts in the CIMA in the last few days. I thought I would post a few pictures of my tank as of this afternoon.
FTS
Half TS
Coral shots
I am ready to buy or trade corals if anyone is interested. Please PM me.
FTS
Half TS
Coral shots
I am ready to buy or trade corals if anyone is interested. Please PM me.
