My Ultimate Multi Mantis System(s)

[Kharn]

Morrison, Colorado

 

[Kharn]

It's not like I can do anything with the HOBs right now anyway but I am concerned over the lack of communication with me having sent 2-3 emails...

I don't have the sumps yet maybe next week I hope but by then surely the HOBs should of arrived.

I know it is rather large cause he packs well so I don't know if that is slowing it but still the lack of communication is making me paranoid....

It will be 8 boxes about 2ft long x1ftx1ft each....

 

[Kharn]

All good Jeff JUST got back to me

March 2, 2014 , 7:14 am - Processed Through Sort Facility - AUSTRALIA

So the HOBs are in AUS

 

[Kharn]

Well I might of missed the pick up for the HOB overflows 4 of the large boxes are sitting at the post office waiting for me to pick up xD....

So much for my 1 and only message.... "CALL UPON ARRIVAL"....

Still seems strange that only half of them are actually here and the other half still in transit ...

 

[Kharn]

Ooo look Santa came again!!! HHHNNNGGG!!!
Albeit the fat old sod only left me half my presents for this lot...the other half must still be on his sleigh in transit



Let's open one up :3

 

[Kharn]

As you can see here clearly Jeff@LifeReef makes the best possible safe temporary home for stock he sends out even to the other side of the world ...I don't think you could fit 1 more noodle foam in this box...

Top Notch Stuff makes me confident stuff is safe.

 

[Kharn]

Well there may of been 4 large boxes but they certainly didn't contain much other then noodles xD....I'm not worried more amazed at how paranoid Jeff is about delivering things...

Either way....

The 6 PVC tubes are the 'silencers' that make the overflow completely quiet and the box things are the inner and outer boxes for the HOB overflows (inner is black). The pieces of cardboard have wedged between them the siphon U tube.

 

[Kharn]

As you can see I still have incoming...

2x Silencers
4x Inner & Outer Boxes
8x Siphon U Tubes.

 

[TundraGuy]

Hook up hook up hook them up!

 

[Kharn]

Hook up hook up hook them up!

Sssssssumps ?

I could do it but I also need to go buy some return hose for them

 

[Kharn]

More important things right now such as the 4 remaining DIY LED Fixture Racks .

 

[Kharn]

I'm thinking about converting the Middle Tank of STAND B into my "farm" tank or the beginning of it anyway...I'm still going to keep a Stomatopod within it but I'm going to have no substrate besides a few pebbles for the Stomatopod to block up the PVC burrow that I will give it.

Going to make Racks for inside the tank that I can place plugs on to grow out or small frags / mushrooms to grow larger going to put a standard no substrate PVC tunnel system within it but it will be intricate enough for there to be utter darkness and 1/2 small pumps attached to it for flow within it.

But I'll gut the tank take out everything so it's totally bare and then put the rack and PVC in as the only things in the tank beside Stomatopod & Frags.

 

[Kharn]

Just got an Update about the Sumps and they should be at mine on Friday

So hopefully this weekend I will get to loose all the FX5's, have operational Sumps, Skimmers, Reactors.......HHHNNNGGG!!!

That is if the other 4 boxes from LifeReef arrive tomorrow or at least friday xD.

EDIT: At the very least if the other 4 boxes don't turn up this week then I can at least get 1 stand totally done...that being Stand A .

 

[TundraGuy]

Popping corn. Going to enjoy this.

 

[Kharn]

Popping corn. Going to enjoy this.

So much is happening

The next few days are going to be huge :lol2:

Super Nice LED Fixtures getting put up
Smashing the overall flow problem for good (HOBs)
Sumps incoming for TRUE filtration!
Skimmers, Reactors, Returns....

HHHNNNGGG!!!! :frog:

I still have over 2weeks off work, so if I get all this done sooner rather then later I should have plenty of time left over to finish the very final piece to the puzzle!

The ATO Storage System!

Once i have that in place, hooked up and running....

EVERYTHING...will be done
EVERYTHING

 

[Kharn]

Then I'll take a sledge hammer to it all...

In a few years....

 

[TundraGuy]

Or sell it all and get another boat. Hehehe

 

[TundraGuy]

How can you resist filling a bucket and running one overflow on one of the rows? Its like Christmas down there

 

[Kharn]

How can you resist filling a bucket and running one overflow on one of the rows? Its like Christmas down there

I tested out the Return Plumbing just then and water certainly gets to all 3 exits on the vertical pipe, however as I thought, the Bottom/First exit is spray quite hard, whilst the Top/Last exit is coming out "nice"...

In order to overcome this and it won't be an issue anyway, I plan on having each Return Pipe to each Tank (the portion after the Ball Valve not yet attached), to have a "hook" shape, where it will hang over and into the tank running down the rear side and an inch or 2 off the bottom, the portion of pipe below the water line will have multiple holes throughout it to help reduce the input flow but...

ALL of this will be behind the DIY Fake Walls so you won't see any of it.

 

[Kharn]

All 5 of my new LED ReefBreed Photons are up hanging on their own individual DIY racks and running well they are so much brighter then my old lights...just no contest period and I don't see these lights having any trouble with SPS

I have mine set at 30% power and they are still slightly brighter then my old lights...not just that but because there is more colors in these LED fixtures then just the blue and whites of the old one that I am seeing things....differently for the first time .

Confidence in TRUE Reef Lighting.

Here is the jungle of cables that makes up the 5 old Led fixtures I removed from the system....these fixtures have 2 cables per light, whilst the new ReefBreeders have only 1 which is another bonus on space saving .