Too much time - 90 gallon SPS "lab" build
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Decadence
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I'm still up in the air on the lights. I can't do too much right now because of Christmas but my first check afterwards will probably cover whatever I do decide on. As you can see, I have been losing a lot of color lately:
I'm going to certainly switch to Radion Pro lights.. I don't know if I am going to build my own or buy them. For the price of one Radion light, I can build four.. which is probably what I will end up doing.
I have finally got the lab stand stained and set up with the granite on it. I wish that I went a little lighter with the oak color stain or darker with the granite but I do like it over-all. I think it will look even better when the glass doors are on it because it will draw away from the stain color and the granite matches the floor tile really well.
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I won't be storing stuff on top of the dosing cabinet after I'm done adding shelfs to my equipment/chemicals closet in the room. You can also see the 12 gallon long tank on top of the granite which will be for LPS, lower light SPS and the few fish which are hard to feed.
Here is a picture of the current sump so that you can see how cramped it is even without half of the equipment that I will be running.
I should be building the new sump under the lab this week or over the weekend if the glass is all cut and polished quickly.
I'm going to certainly switch to Radion Pro lights.. I don't know if I am going to build my own or buy them. For the price of one Radion light, I can build four.. which is probably what I will end up doing.
I have finally got the lab stand stained and set up with the granite on it. I wish that I went a little lighter with the oak color stain or darker with the granite but I do like it over-all. I think it will look even better when the glass doors are on it because it will draw away from the stain color and the granite matches the floor tile really well.
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I won't be storing stuff on top of the dosing cabinet after I'm done adding shelfs to my equipment/chemicals closet in the room. You can also see the 12 gallon long tank on top of the granite which will be for LPS, lower light SPS and the few fish which are hard to feed.
Here is a picture of the current sump so that you can see how cramped it is even without half of the equipment that I will be running.
I should be building the new sump under the lab this week or over the weekend if the glass is all cut and polished quickly.
jimmy n
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Congrats! Became a recent fan of dosing myself. Will you still be running alk top off and the calcium reactor?
There is a thread in the large tank forums where the owner doses like you are trying to do and does no water changes. What that the thread impetus behind this decision?
I'm going to try continuous water changes myself and see how that turns out.
There is a thread in the large tank forums where the owner doses like you are trying to do and does no water changes. What that the thread impetus behind this decision?
I'm going to try continuous water changes myself and see how that turns out.
Decadence
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Thank you. I have enjoyed dosing so far but doing it for trace elements has taken a lot of tinkering over a long amount of time. For calcium and alkalinity, I am continuing with the kalk and adding the calcium reactor for PH stability and to add the safety factor of not losing all replenishment if one system fails.
I'm not familiar with that thread but I am curious now and will try to find it. This is all in preparation for the HUGE tank which can't go up until I buy a new house. I have a 730 sitting in the garage which will probably be chopped up to widen it by replacing the bottom and ends to make it 11x5x3 which is around 1250 gallons. I want to figure out the methods which will work the best for me to permanently set up with that new tank.
Continuous water changes seams to be working really well for a lot of people. I would probably do that if I wasn't planning for such a large tank.
Spyderturbo007
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Is that a GSXR I see in the background of that one picture? 
Decadence
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Is that a GSXR I see in the background of that one picture?
It is.:lol2: I have a small collection of sport bikes and a couple cafe racers. Can't just have one hobby! :dance:
Spyderturbo007
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My favorite toy is my 2011 CBR 600RR. I just picked it up back in August after getting tired of my Katana.
Decadence
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My favorite toy is my 2011 CBR 600RR. I just picked it up back in August after getting tired of my Katana.
Great minds think alike!
This one is a 2010. I also have a blue 2007 and used to have a white 2008 non-phoenix and a custom painted snakeskin green 2003. I like CBRs.
Decadence
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Thanks. :thumbsup:
Spyderturbo007
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Great minds think alike!
This one is a 2010. I also have a blue 2007 and used to have a white 2008 non-phoenix and a custom painted snakeskin green 2003. I like CBRs.
Gorgeous bike. I see your helmet is hanging on the passenger foot pegs. Probably because the helmet lock, cable thingy on the CBR sucks. I found this really nice Sato for the 600RR that bolts behind the foot peg. It is a little salty in price, but that cable just drove me up a wall.
Decadence
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Thanks. Yah, I can't stand the cable but I also usually don't leave my helmet on the bike unless it is somewhere that I can see it. I have known of people who had their helmets stolen by having the strap cut so I just take the helmet in with me if I'm going in to a store or something where the bike is out of my sight. The price for that thing isn't too bad for what you are getting compared to a lot of the other stuff we buy in the motorcycle and reef hobbies. :hmm4:
Decadence
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It has been a little while since I have made an update. My son wound up coming very early and we have spent a lot of time in the hospital since then.
The glass for my sump was complete early by Hutchison glass and mirror in Jessup, MD. All of the glass is 3/8" and every edge is polished, even on the baffles.
The cuts were so perfect that I could stand up glass without anything supporting it. It made everything much easier to build.
I decided to make it a long night because we are slow at work.
I have a lot of clean-up to do with the silicone tonight after I remove all of the tape. This weekend I am going to drill it for one of the 2" bulkheads that you see supporting the bubble trap baffles. The 2" pipe is going to be coming from the filter sock tub under the display which will just be a rubbermade for now.
The over-all dimensions of this sump are 34"x26"x12". The chamber to the left will be a frag tank.
The glass for my sump was complete early by Hutchison glass and mirror in Jessup, MD. All of the glass is 3/8" and every edge is polished, even on the baffles.
The cuts were so perfect that I could stand up glass without anything supporting it. It made everything much easier to build.
I decided to make it a long night because we are slow at work.
I have a lot of clean-up to do with the silicone tonight after I remove all of the tape. This weekend I am going to drill it for one of the 2" bulkheads that you see supporting the bubble trap baffles. The 2" pipe is going to be coming from the filter sock tub under the display which will just be a rubbermade for now.
The over-all dimensions of this sump are 34"x26"x12". The chamber to the left will be a frag tank.
Decadence
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Water test.. It has been a few days.
I also replaced all of my LED lights with AI hydra52s paired up with AI sols.. The actual amount of light is an extreme overkill but they look fantastic. I has first run the hydra52s with T5 supplementation but I replaced the T5s with sols yesterday. The sols added some much needed blue intensity.
Before the sols:
I also replaced all of my LED lights with AI hydra52s paired up with AI sols.. The actual amount of light is an extreme overkill but they look fantastic. I has first run the hydra52s with T5 supplementation but I replaced the T5s with sols yesterday. The sols added some much needed blue intensity.
Before the sols:
Decadence
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I have done baffles before but never a whole tank. I'm going to be building my new display next. The work actually came out better than the pictures show because that was before the silicone was cleaned up. I'll have to post up some edge pictures now that it is done.
Decadence
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It's amazing that a thread can get pushed back six pages in one day on this forum!
I finally got the wireless adapters today. I didn't realize that the sols could be daisy-chained together so I bought two where I only needed one. Since I have two, I'm probably going to run a sol on the frag tank instead of a hydra.
FTS, the lights are dimmed pretty far down and very biased to blue. I'm slowly ramping to 100% on the new lights.
I finally got the wireless adapters today. I didn't realize that the sols could be daisy-chained together so I bought two where I only needed one. Since I have two, I'm probably going to run a sol on the frag tank instead of a hydra.
FTS, the lights are dimmed pretty far down and very biased to blue. I'm slowly ramping to 100% on the new lights.
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