Rafaelpadro24
Community Member
Hello and thanks for allowing me to join. I picked up and used 180 gallon Glasscages rimless and reef ready tank. This set up was sitting for a while with some good equipment as although they where in poor condition due to lack of cleaning and maintenance. Equipment consists of a lifereef berlin sump and refugium, 3 radion xr30 pro with light bar, 2 MP 40, 1 lifereef calcium reactor with CO2 tank, lifereef 5 gallon ATO tank and a corallife turbo twist 12x ultraviolet light.
Well ended going through cleaning all of the equipment used diluted murstic acid to get rid of the calcium build up with made the task easier. Tank and sump turned out nice and clean. Radion lights torn apart and cleaned heavy build up of dust on fans and cooling fins. Noted few led bulbs not working and in the process of sending for repairs. MP40 dismantled and cleaned from build up and unfortunately dry sides where noisy so working on replacing the bearings. All pumps where taken apart found dead snails in the impeller housing cleaned and ran all good there. Everything else is in stand by while waiting for electrician to run a dedicated 30 amp line to the tank for all to be powered and doing cosmetic repairs to the stand. I will be posting pics of my progress.
Here is what I did this past weekend with some coral rock I picked up locally. Please give feedback on the rock placement or any feedback of my build.
PS. I want to give cudos to Jeff from "Lifereef.com" I contacted him about the sump,refugium and calcium reactor and he's been great with the support and information.
Also to Joe from "Glasscages.com" for taking the time on talking and even video chatting and looking over the tank construction to verify the tank integrity.
Well ended going through cleaning all of the equipment used diluted murstic acid to get rid of the calcium build up with made the task easier. Tank and sump turned out nice and clean. Radion lights torn apart and cleaned heavy build up of dust on fans and cooling fins. Noted few led bulbs not working and in the process of sending for repairs. MP40 dismantled and cleaned from build up and unfortunately dry sides where noisy so working on replacing the bearings. All pumps where taken apart found dead snails in the impeller housing cleaned and ran all good there. Everything else is in stand by while waiting for electrician to run a dedicated 30 amp line to the tank for all to be powered and doing cosmetic repairs to the stand. I will be posting pics of my progress.
Here is what I did this past weekend with some coral rock I picked up locally. Please give feedback on the rock placement or any feedback of my build.
PS. I want to give cudos to Jeff from "Lifereef.com" I contacted him about the sump,refugium and calcium reactor and he's been great with the support and information.
Also to Joe from "Glasscages.com" for taking the time on talking and even video chatting and looking over the tank construction to verify the tank integrity.
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