My 560 Gallon Acro Oasis
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I was running a barracuda pump, connected to an oceans motions 4 way. It delivered it to 5- 1" returns along the back wall, so they could flow across the bottom and stir things up. I just switched that pump out to a vectra l1 though. Now I will be running that pump to the oceans motions 4 way, with just 3 returns across the back, the other 2 holes will become intakes for another vectra l1 that I will return to the top front corners on sea swirls.....
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My new saltwater holding tank arrived the other day! I got it into the room pretty easily, now I just need a mixing pump, and I have to choose a pump to do the water changes with. I plan to change 5 gallons a day..... The resivore is 150 gallons so I'll only have to fill it about every 30 days!
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My old favorite.... My palmers blue Millie colony
Wow that is such a beauty, and a nice size colony. Loving your setup and corals. Keep the updates and pictures coming
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It actually ended up being 4- 1.5 " drains.... I feel like it's perfect.... I don't feel like I'm even maxing them out, and with four, there's no way they will all get clogged so I won't have to worry about that.... I would have added 2 intakes for closed loop pumps instead of 1, but I'm totally happy .... ill post up a video of the back of the tank and plumbing in the am.....
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Actually They only put tempered glass on the panels with drilled holes.
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I believe they temper the bottom panel as well.... But yes I was aware... I appreciate it! I personally have no experience with the gyre systems yet, I'm a fan of no cords in the display... I hear the provide excellent flow though.... I would really consider a closed loop on a tank of that size, even if it's just helping with circulation and indirect flow... I'll have 2 l1 pumps on my closed loop soon. One will run the 3 returns on the bottom of back panel, the other will run 4 returns on top, I also have 5 returns from main return pump, I have 2 mp 60 in there as well, I plan for 4 in the future... But I plan on keeping 90% sps so u know how that flows....
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After all my years I finally setup a qt.... It's a 29 gallon from petco . Now I just have to see if I can dig up my old mp 20 and hope it still works! Also need to add some pvc and egg crate.... Black background and bottom coming soon..... Off to the store for now here's a pic....
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Very nice. I have the same setup from petco (maybe it is a little bigger, a 39gal?) that I bought a few years ago to use as a QT. Well, I never did use it but now that I finally want to buy a fish from my LFS (borbonius anthias), I thought I'd set it up. When I got home to tell my wife, she had something to show me: she was jogging and found a baby painter turtle on the trail, which she took home to care for and to show our two year old daughter (my daughter fell in love with it right away and named him "chocolate milk"). Of course, out of all the spare tanks i have in the garage, she picks the QT petco tank I planned on using years ago and now finally wanted to use again. Looks like I'm in the market for a new QT...
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