300 Mixed Reef Build

[1tyme]

Great seller, New friend

:bigsmile:Great build. Man when I grow up ! Thanks for all your support. Looking forward to learning how to post pictures. God Bless.

 

[Alkamist]

really cool build man its comeing along nicely

 

[orthokardia]

i love the shelving! HD or lowes. that is sweet

 

[New Wave]

i got them at lowes... this is what it is...
link: Shop enviro elements 55"H x 34"W x 16"D Plastic Freestanding Shelving Unit at Lowes.com=
they work perfect... plus theyre plastic... so they are easy to modify...

 

[orthokardia]

thx for the link

 

[wld1783]

Great build.

Good choice on using the iron braces. Its surprising the amount glass will flex with that much water pressure.

 

[Pandarian]

Looking good Mel. I'm ready to see the finished product.

 

[Zef004]

Same here.
Doing a goodjob and I'm sure this going to be awsome tank like your last one.

 

[New Wave]

Thank you, thank you, thank you, and thank you :) and everyone for your kind words!

I havent worked much on the tank the last couple of days.... I spent the time tearing down the temporary housing I had setup during the changing of the glass... The tank is full and running... Keeping an eye on the levels... So far just trace amounts of ammonia and NO2... Seeing a little diatoms.. But very little... Im dosing the microbactor 7 daily... So maybe... ? Hopefully I'll have a chance to work on the tank the next few days... And get some new updated photos :)

 

[islander84]

how much of the mb 7 are you dosing? i add about 10 drops every other day to 210 gal volume. if i dose too much i see a small amount of diatoms

 

[poolkeeper1]

Great build.

Good choice on using the iron braces. Its surprising the amount glass will flex with that much water pressure.

And it will be even better with the Reef Led Lights Custom Fixture By Poolkeeper1, We will be using their products for the Led Build for this System.
More to come as It's in the works and awaiting Parts.
Bill

 

[New Wave]

ok... got a few more things going over the last week or so... not as much as i wanted... but... i did get 2 of the reactors inline...
i love these things... they are built very well... im running carbon and GFO right now... im going to run one more reactor custom built by rick with ecobak... see how that works for me...

so... this is the placement...

i run the reactor drains to the filter socks... here you can see for the first time what the custom shelf looks like with the pieces in place...

i have the RODI up and running... this is the absolute max i can run off the pressure to my home... its 9 stage...
1 prefilter
2 carbon
3 RO membranes
3 DI cartridges
it makes a ton of water... which helps with keeping up with the top off and 50gal weekly water changes.

yay... one more thing done :)

 

[1tyme]

:bigsmile:Looking good.

 

[gmoney243]

Sweet mel looking good .. is 9 stages really nescesary lol mel has -60 tds water :P

 

[AJ92124]

Can we get a full sump shot?

 

[Jennifier615]

Mel, I got to wondering...the old 240 was it ever anything but a reef tank? I was thinking could the redbugs have come as a symbiotic fish parasite that exploded when corals were introduced into the same system? Something that is from the realm of puffers and triggers?

For those of you reefers about to "rock"- we salute you ;)

 

[poolkeeper1]

Your next buddy! Shine Down Lighting By poolkeeper1

 

[New Wave]

how much of the mb 7 are you dosing? i add about 10 drops every other day to 210 gal volume. if i dose too much i see a small amount of diatoms

As directed... 60 ml / day for startup (6 caps) interesting fact.. The bottle says the cap is 5ml... However the cap is 10ml on the bottle that I have.

 

[New Wave]

Sweet mel looking good .. is 9 stages really nescesary lol mel has -60 tds water :P

I wish i could add more... I talked with spectrapure... They said this is the most I could put in my home based on the water pressure... This puppy cranks out 250g of 0ppm rodi water in one day... (I don't like waiting around) ;)

 

[New Wave]

Mel, I got to wondering...the old 240 was it ever anything but a reef tank? I was thinking could the redbugs have come as a symbiotic fish parasite that exploded when corals were introduced into the same system? Something that is from the realm of puffers and triggers?

Yea... It was FO for a while... As far as where the worms came from... Or wether they were even the problem... I still don't know with certainty