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[mr.maroonsalty]

Salarias fasciatus

I couldn't remember the "fasciatus" and needed a quik trip to wetwebmedia for help. You can actually spell all those names the first time?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11151411#post11151411 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mr.maroonsalty
Salarias fasciatus

I couldn't remember the "fasciatus" and needed a quik trip to wetwebmedia for help. You can actually spell all those names the first time?

Sonofagun!!!!!!! Thanks.

Yes, I spelled everything from memeory. I'm sure I got the names right but I didn't have time to check spellings as I was in a hurry. Looking back at the post it appears I spelled everything correctly. Spellchecker doesn't work on certain words

How on earth could I forget Salarias fasciatus ?????

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11146831#post11146831 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by magdelan
Gary, how would you feel about giving us a walk through (with pictures) of your plumbling and equipment from your drains down to your basement. I know that you showed off your drains and a bit of your downstairs setup right after you set up your new tank, but I would love to see your sump, skimmer, pump, rodi unit, top off system, water change "area", etc.

Thanks!!!

recall the pic of my drains posted earlier in this thread

my sump is located in the basement directly beneath the aquarium

the two drains enter my 75 gallon sump on the left side and pass through a mechanical filtration basket that's sitting on top of a small cryptic zone consisting of a minimal amount of liverock. In front of that liverock is a powerhead that feeds my Ca reactor which is located to the left of my sump. All Ca reactor effluent drips into my 10 gallon refugium which is located inside the 75 gallon sump. (This refugium consists of a 4" deep remote sand bed with macroalgae growing on top of it.) Water in the sump travels to my circulation and skimmer pumps (located on the right) through a baffle and some eggcrate. Processed water discharged by the skimmer gets returned back to the left side of the sump where 1/4 of it spills into the refugium. The other 3/4 goes back into circulation through the sump. (See pic below.)
Skimmate (the bad stuff!) drains through the collection cup into a plumbing line that runs behind the sump and directly to the wash basin on the left. All top off is done manually- for safety's sake I have no auto top off.
My RO water storage container is the blue 55 gallon drum on the far left. For water changes I attach a hose to the submersible pump (located at the bottom of that barrel) and run it to the hose dangling down on the right side of my sump. New water can then be pumped into the chamber on the right side of the sump and into the aquarium via the main circulation pump (Iwaki 100RLT).
I remove dirty tank water via an extended wet skim- more on that later.

here's a top down shot of the right side of my sump. (Pay attention- I've not seen this anywhere else!) The blue square thing is a plastic funnel that catches food dumped by my auto feeder (located above it). Food directed into the intake of my circulation pump is discharged into the aquarium and fishes go nuts. Water processed by my two reactors (one containing carbon and one containing a PO4 remover) discharge into the funnel and assist in washing any food that might get stuck down it. (I also use the funnel when I manually feed the aquarium.)
The white PVC at the bottom of this pic is discharging water that's been skimmed. You can see how a small amount of the skimmed water is getting fed into my refugium. The Ca reactor effluent line can be seen just above the refugium. By feeding only clean water to my refugium I'm helping to prevent the accumulation of detritus in it. Since many types of Ca reactor media release phosphates, the macroalgae in my refugium also acts as a PO4 remover. Macroalgae growth has been very vigorous since setting the system up this way.

 

[tmz]

Plenty of ideas to work on. Thanks

 

[mr.maroonsalty]

Can you explain the overflows pleeeease? What size bulkheads are fed by the two; what kind of noise dampening,...?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

my two drain lines are 2" diameter schedule 40. I'm pretty sure they required 3.25" holes drilled into the glass. (I saved a round glass piece but I can't find it right now.) I used a 2" to 3" reducer bushing at the top of each 2" drain line, so water spilling into the drain lines travels over the edges of a 3" diameter bushing. Each bushing is covered with nylon window screen which acts as noise dampening. I replace each screen roughly once every month.

 

[mr.maroonsalty]

I see, I thought the suface skimmers were much larger. Now I see the five mj's, above that is the return from the sump or a cl?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

I don't have a closed loop. Those are the main returns

 

[KurtsReef]

Gary, how does water go into your skimmer...and exit, looks like it has to go up over the 75g tank without a pump of any sort

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

one picture is worth a thousand words.
The skimmer pump is a Gen-X PCX 40 (blue).
The main circulation pump is an Iwaki 100RLT (green).
My sump has bulkheads installed for the two pump intakes.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

 

[Conesus_Kid]

Incredible, as usual, Gary!

Is that coral towards the top center/right a porites?

 

[dreaminmel]

Pimpin' the P.imp eh Gary...

I can never get enough of these update pics. It's so nice to watch the things progress in tanks. Thanks for sharin'!

 

[crp]

Beautiful pictures.

 

[otiso777]

Great picture! That birdsnest is huge!

 

[magdelan]

Gary, those pictures are just alright. I think you can do better. Let's see more

 

[KurtsReef]

Looking great.

 

[melev]

Did your angel eat those huge aiptasia? I can't see a single one. :thumbsup:

 

[Kent E]

Stunning picture! I vote tank of the month (in a few months).

Your angel seems to be way ahead of mine coloring wise.


Do you still have any pavona in the tank?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11313726#post11313726 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kent E
Stunning picture! I vote tank of the month (in a few months).
Your angel seems to be way ahead of mine coloring wise.
Do you still have any pavona in the tank?

thanks Kent but no Pavona now- it was lost during the move.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11313651#post11313651 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by melev
Did your angel eat those huge aiptasia? I can't see a single one. :thumbsup:

Aiptasia have been getting nibbled away very slowly.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11307528#post11307528 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Conesus_Kid
Incredible, as usual, Gary!
Is that coral towards the top center/right a porites?

good eye. That Porites was one of the few corals that survived the move.