Isaac's CADE 1500s2/ Peninsula Reef Build

[Isaac Alves]

Parameters this evening:

The phosphates and nitrates have risen since I cut back the carbon dosing to help ease back the dinos. I need to start supplementing magnesium automatically.

 

[Widdlyscudds]

do you intentionally keep your alk at 7 or is that just where it ended up over time?

 

[Isaac Alves]

do you intentionally keep your alk at 7 or is that just where it ended up over time?

I use TMPro so it’s at that 7 dkh mark at mix. But I target 7.5 usually. I need to increase the kalk drip. I think my ph is a bit higher recently so the corals are growing a bit.

 

[Isaac Alves]

Coral Snow dosing this evening before bedtime:

 

[Isaac Alves]

Did some maintenance today and siphoned up a bunch of the “golden” algae chrysophytes (or dinos) from the front half of the tank into a filter sock.

Stuff seems odd.

Outside to rinse them out:

 

[Isaac Alves]

Still have more in the back half and on the sand bed.

 

[bpetty13]

Thanks for the recommendation on the Octo Aquatics Nori Clip! Mine was delivered today and I just used it for the first time. It works great and is so much better than the old school suction cup design I had been using.

 

[Isaac Alves]

Cost Reduction Potential

Stumbling onto a potentially huge cost reduction resource for my RedSea ReefMat 1200 fleece roll through a 3rd party manufacturer.

Following up today and tomorrow. I will document the process here as it progresses to an order.

Stay tuned.

 

[Isaac Alves]

Golden” algae chrysophytes Battle

Did some more rock cleaning and sand vacuuming just now.

This stuff grows back so fast. Tomorrow I install the UV system.

The haul:

 

[lubeck]

Curious to see how the UV does with the Dino’s.

 

[Isaac Alves]

Install:
Lifegard Pro-Max High Output UV Sterilizer 40 watt


Ok. Time to check the components:

Plumbing kit from marine and reef…seems to be an AquaUV brand kit. Hopefully it fits.

…and seems images aren’t uploading to Reef2Reef….

 

[Isaac Alves]

 

[Isaac Alves]

1/2” to 3/4” hose barb adaptor:

Wall clamps:

3/4” black vinyl hose:

 

[Isaac Alves]

The unit itself from @ChampionLighting :

Box in a box is good…

Uh…that’s not good…

…and the quartz tube is loose:

 

[Isaac Alves]

Ok no damage to quartz sleeve or bulb:

 

[Isaac Alves]

Looking at the main contents

Bit of a beast…

 

[Isaac Alves]

Well, the AquaUV brand plumbing kit fits perfect:

And now the 3D printed wall mount…
And that’s we’ll need some wood blocking…

Or maybe use the mount already on the unit:

 

[Isaac Alves]

Argggh.. the feet aren’t even straight…

I don’t want to adjust these…I’m lazy and worried I’ll break something…

 

[Isaac Alves]

Base seated piece with o-ring look good:

Top connections and o-ring look good, albeit some dust.

 

[Isaac Alves]

Hookup directions and mystery box (guessing it’s the ballast and cord.