The my wife wanted to kill me 336 gallon
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jaxspsreef
Member
Very Nice setup!
that is my ghetto temporary bubble tip corral until i figure out what id like to do with them. All i do know is they are not going into the display ever again!
Tank is doing fantastic still, only problem ive run into so far is the pad fell off my magnavore little over a week ago and went way under back side of a rock i cant get behind. The velcro to attach a new pad also went behind the rock. So its been a week without cleaning the surface and its getting hard to see in..
As for the magnavore let me know if you'd like to borrow mine... I could swing by the shop and drop it off for a couple days.
marcus.breaux
New member
that's a nice setup
ill try and get back there for a pic, pretty cramped so you cant see much.
How it works, there is a long/shallow overflow box mounted externally to the tank. there is 3-1 1/2" drains and 2 of those have gate valves and are closed off just enough that a siphon is run. The 3rd drain is mounted in middle of tank and is higher up so if water level raises above that point then it drains any excess. I believe they called this the Herbie style of drains and is about the only purely silent way of draining water.
Blown76mav
Member
Nice Tank!!!! Did you build it? I'm going to try my had at a big homemade acrylic tank one of these days.
thanks for the compliments, yes i built it, but dont be fooled, its what i do for a living
everything is running nicely, still tweaking things here and there.
I did pick up a 300 gallon water tank that im going to use in the garage for pre mixed salt water. Its almost 7feet tall and i built it a 4foot tall stand so i can just gravity feed into the house on a crawl space.
Sorry for no pics, ill be sure to get some new ones of everything by weekend
time for updates,
finally added the 4-48" t5 460 nm actinics, moon lights still need to be added.
Inherited a missile..... it holds 300 gallons, im going to use it for pre mixed salt, put it on top of 4' stand in garage so i can gravity feed the house on crawl space. Oh and the thing itself is almost 7' tall haha
Here you can see the water purification, and the feed that goes into the house, going to plumb the holding tank into this line and valve it so i can close off DI unit and feed salt into house all in same line.
ive been waiting for this guy to hook onto the rock so the wifey can get her bowl back...its been 2 months now, shes not happy hahaha
finally added the 4-48" t5 460 nm actinics, moon lights still need to be added.
Inherited a missile..... it holds 300 gallons, im going to use it for pre mixed salt, put it on top of 4' stand in garage so i can gravity feed the house on crawl space. Oh and the thing itself is almost 7' tall haha
Here you can see the water purification, and the feed that goes into the house, going to plumb the holding tank into this line and valve it so i can close off DI unit and feed salt into house all in same line.
ive been waiting for this guy to hook onto the rock so the wifey can get her bowl back...its been 2 months now, shes not happy hahaha
it was originally used as a pressurized system and has a bolt on top hatch where i can add the salt, it also has a recirc pump and 2 500 watt heaters mounted inside.
I still need to peel away a strip of the outer foam so i can see through the translucent body for the water level.
I still need to peel away a strip of the outer foam so i can see through the translucent body for the water level.
little update:
Still going strong with vodka dosing, been few months since ive tested any traceable amounts of nitrate, need to try out someones low range phosphate as my normal kit hasnt shown any amounts of phosphate in long time.
Tank has no refugium, no carbon, no filter socks, no media of any kind and no ozone, and ive been able to stabilize my ORP at 420 to 440.
My ORP was 200-220 at the beginning of vodka dosing. I do not know if this is directly the reason for such high ORP, but im not doing anything else to get it that high, and without Ozone i didnt even think it possible.
SO since everything was going great i figured why not screw it all up, so i gave the tank a does of Zeo Spur2 which is supposed to lighten up any SPS and bring out the brighter colors. Dosed a hair under the recommended amount and next morning had nothing but pasty SPS..... DOoh!
ANyone ever seen a nice superman monti with red polyps and white base.... not as great looking as the purple base. I didnt loose anything but i certainly set it back a ways.
Still going strong with vodka dosing, been few months since ive tested any traceable amounts of nitrate, need to try out someones low range phosphate as my normal kit hasnt shown any amounts of phosphate in long time.
Tank has no refugium, no carbon, no filter socks, no media of any kind and no ozone, and ive been able to stabilize my ORP at 420 to 440.
My ORP was 200-220 at the beginning of vodka dosing. I do not know if this is directly the reason for such high ORP, but im not doing anything else to get it that high, and without Ozone i didnt even think it possible.
SO since everything was going great i figured why not screw it all up, so i gave the tank a does of Zeo Spur2 which is supposed to lighten up any SPS and bring out the brighter colors. Dosed a hair under the recommended amount and next morning had nothing but pasty SPS..... DOoh!
ANyone ever seen a nice superman monti with red polyps and white base.... not as great looking as the purple base. I didnt loose anything but i certainly set it back a ways.
Dudester
Premium Member
Are you using other Zeovit products? Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Spur2 is a pretty touchy additive and is only recommended in well-established Zeo tanks. I'm sure the health of your corals will return, but you may want to bring up this issue on the Zeovit forum to see if there's anything else you should do.
