Restarting an old 280 build

To be honest I am not sure if I have recovered completely from the OM problem. I have left it for the back burner while I cycle the tanks and get some of the peripheral devices on line. I think we'll get it working but worse case scenario is I have a very expensive 8 port manifold on my closed loop.

I have to build the QT area off to the left side of the tank and have it fully enclosed before my son comes home for spring break in three week. It's just a very small 54"x40" room that juts into his room just a bit, but I do not want the noise from the fishroom to bother him when he is trying to sleep. Since I figure at least 8 or 9 more weeks for the tanks to finish their cycle now is a good time to get that done.

Also time to break out some of the old gear. Hoping I can get my Tunzes back on line after a good cleaning. One each for the Seahorse tank and clown tank I think.
 
So today I started with this:

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stopping tonight with this

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The future QT room. Hope to have Sheetrock on tomorrow and build the bench for the tanks. If all goes well QT tanks up next weekend.
 
Thanks guys. Tried to get the inside of the QT room done today but was distracted by the USPS so this is as far as I got tonight.

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just the mounting for the shelves and two of the Shelves in. It is going to be tight in there. How tight? I cannot be in the room and close the door without going on a serious diet :).

The distraction? My plants came in from Liveplants.com a day earlier than I thought they would so I had to get them planted in the seahorse tank. Really impressed with the quantity these guys give. I just started sticking plant anywhere I could find a spot for them.

The water is kind of cloudy from stirring up the sand but here are a few shots. I do not have all of the lights in place for these I am waiting on the Kessil to show up. The fixture in the shot is the Rapid LED Onyx. I like the way it looks a lot. but not controllable. But I am fine with that, I have a plan :) So finally something living in at least one of the tanks.

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It's just an empty tank. But I figured I would post a pick anyhow for the grins.

This is the QT tank for coral

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Future QT tank for fish. I still need to clean it up a bit and I am also still waiting on the missing filter parts.

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The room is also going to be where the RKE is located and the Tunze ATO system. I am waiting on the ATO tank to be made and I'll set that up.
The Coral QT tank will double as a frag tank some day so I put a little more into it. The powerheads will be controlled by the RKE. I would have probably had the ATO controlled off of it too but I bought the Tunze quite awhile ago and may as well use it. I am going to use the RKE to control the ATO for the two QT tanks in there they each have their own sump of course. So that's pretty much it. The main tank is still cycling (so is the QT tank) so there is not much to do on it right now.

The macro I added to the seahorse tank for the most part is doing well. Some of the plants hated it in there and died (or got pulled out before they could wilt and pollute). Others are growing like weeds I will post an update on that at sometime.

Also I should try to get a shot of the Cheato I threw up in one of the upper refugiums. It is growing really well with no additional light other than the light that is coming down the light tunnel. so is the Ulva I added. I have not even put the powerheads in there yet because I still need to add the nylon netting I plan to use on the drain pipes so I don't plug them up with macro algae. So I am pretty happy about that.

That's all I got. it's moving a bit slower now while I wait for the cycle to complete.
 
Needed to change the name of the QT room lol since I started mounting all of the controls on the wall

here's is a pic of the newly dubbed control room. Looks like I will be busy while I wait for the tank to finish its cycle. I just ordered the lunar mod from Bulk Reef since they're having a 10% off sale. I had to order the 5 switch module to be used for the two QT tanks ATO from Premium though since Bulk does not have it on their website.

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Looking better every time I see your new update. Looks like the bugs are all worked out and cannot wait to see the fianal pistures withth your livestock and corals all florishing.
 
Thanks guys.

all I did this weekend was to carpet the fishroom lol so nothing to update unless you want to see a fishroom with freshly installed carpet :)

I will say it went a lot better than I thought it would since I only wanted to carpet around the three tanks. I grabbed a roll of paper from work (3' wide) and I laid the whole room out using the paper as a template. Tapped it all up so I had an exact cutout of the floor area I was going to carpet. Laid that paper over the carpet and cut it out. The carpet laid in the room and around the tanks perfectly.

Nitrites are finally falling, so I will be waiting on the next spike Nitrates. I am guessing another 3 weeks or so I can add some micro fauna to the system. So nothing going on as I putz around on this thing.
 
Northside Reef said:
Finished the mix station today :)

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First off great thread! Quite the undertaking. I have been researching for my own WC station and I have noticed people recommending to have the ability to circulate the fresh RODI water, as well as installing an inline UV filter to keep bacteria in check in the top off reservoir. I see in your picture you have the fresh on the left (correct?) and it looks like you can only pull from it, not circulate back? Maybe think about mirroring your top setup on the salt side so you can circulate the fresh every once and a while. All the unions make it easy to plumb in a UV if desired.

Keep up the awesome work!
 
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