425 gallon reef tank build

[Tristren]

Hooked up my pellet reactor the other day, I cut the dose down into probably 1/4 or a little less and almost everything died in the tank
So disappointed, so I emptied it out and made it a carbon reactor.

Pardon? What happened?

 

[StephenGlidden]

Pardon? What happened?

With a pellet reactor if you put too many pellets in at once it robs oxygen from the tank, unfortunately I didn’t catch it in time.

 

[StephenGlidden]

Bought a beautiful big torch colony today as well as one of my all time favorites, utter chaos zoas! I’ll get a better picture of the zoas

 

[StephenGlidden]

Played with my Kessil ap700s last night scheduled them and adjusted colors, I think the tank loves it!

 

[StephenGlidden]

I snagged a whole bunch of coral from Jason foxes live sale that will be here Tuesday! I’ll be posting a bunch of pictures from that

 

[DRT]

I hope you are still building, I am starting a tank and sump build from scratch. I have the material and should start gluing the tank in march. You have some great idea and I like what I see. I am trying to figure out my returns and whether one return system would be sufficient or if I should run two. My tank deminision are 96" L 24" D 36" H.

 

[StephenGlidden]

I hope you are still building, I am starting a tank and sump build from scratch. I have the material and should start gluing the tank in march. You have some great idea and I like what I see. I am trying to figure out my returns and whether one return system would be sufficient or if I should run two. My tank deminision are 96" L 24" D 36" H.

After work today I will post some big updates!

 

[Venzzla]

Would love to see pictures of this tank when its done.

 

[Errattiq]

I hope you are still building, I am starting a tank and sump build from scratch. I have the material and should start gluing the tank in march. You have some great idea and I like what I see. I am trying to figure out my returns and whether one return system would be sufficient or if I should run two. My tank deminision are 96" L 24" D 36" H.

I have a 96”Lx36”Dx24” high 350 gallon system with a singular, center mounted, synergy reef shadow overflow. The unit handles 2500gph and I’m not running close to that, maybe in the 1500-2000gph range at most. I’ve found over time the rate of flow through your sump should be just sufficient enough to maintain water temp in the main display and allow contact time with skimmers and other related filtration equipment. Use powerheads/wavemakers in the display for flow, I don’t even factor my returns for overall flow in the display anymore, I just point them toward the surface for additional surface agitation for gas exchange and that’s basically it.

 

[StephenGlidden]

So the tank itself is all plumbed in and has been running for roughly 5 months I think. The two customaquariums.com features are the overflows and returns the h2overflows are awesome they take up no room, you can barely see them and the are so easy to clean as they are removable. The siphon stoppers I haven’t been as impressed with because I haven’t really figured out how to make them break a siphon immediately, not saying they won’t but am saying they bleed a good amount of water back. I would highly recommend a tank from then if you are looking to buy one.

 

[StephenGlidden]

Couple pictures taken

 

[StephenGlidden]

Here are the H2overflows out and being cleaned I do it every 4-5 water changes, very simple

 

[McPuff]

Here are the H2overflows out and being cleaned I do it every 4-5 water changes, very simple

Would you show how these look installed from the top? Do you just go straight to the sump or is there an overflow box on the back? Assuming the latter so you can do a Herbie or Beananimal to minimize noise. They seem like a good option, especially compared to traditional overflow towers.

 

[DRT]

I have a 96”Lx36”Dx24” high 350 gallon system with a singular, center mounted, synergy reef shadow overflow. The unit handles 2500gph and I’m not running close to that, maybe in the 1500-2000gph range at most. I’ve found over time the rate of flow through your sump should be just sufficient enough to maintain water temp in the main display and allow contact time with skimmers and other related filtration equipment. Use powerheads/wavemakers in the display for flow, I don’t even factor my returns for overall flow in the display anymore, I just point them toward the surface for additional surface agitation for gas exchange and that’s basically it.

I looked at the external overflow but since I am building from the raw 3/4 sheet I was looking more of doing a internal overflow vice an external to reduce the tank to wall gap. If you have any pro's or cons pertaining to external or internals I would really like to hear them.

 

[DRT]

I looked at the external overflow but since I am building from the raw 3/4 sheet I was looking more of doing a internal overflow vice an external to reduce the tank to wall gap. If you have any pro's or cons pertaining to external or internals I would really like to hear them.

 

[DRT]

So the tank itself is all plumbed in and has been running for roughly 5 months I think. The two customaquariums.com features are the overflows and returns the h2overflows are awesome they take up no room, you can barely see them and the are so easy to clean as they are removable. The siphon stoppers I haven’t been as impressed with because I haven’t really figured out how to make them break a siphon immediately, not saying they won’t but am saying they bleed a good amount of water back. I would highly recommend a tank from then if you are looking to buy one.

I like the way they look but I was considering going with an internal BEANAMINAL overflow. Do you have any pro's or con's regarding internal over external overflows?