700 Gallon ReBoot of My Dream Tank

cumbeje · Aug 25, 2017

You will see no fish in this tank. I decided to let the new tank go fallow for 3 months with no fish. I had a bout of ich in old tank 1 year ago and lost a few fish. I haven't seen it on any of the surviving fish but I didn't want to take any chances. So I decided to go fish less while my remaining fish went though QT to be safe.

cumbeje · Aug 25, 2017

My QT tank setup is a 40 gallon tank I picked up cheap from a Petco. Decorations is a 3 in pvc pipe. Pretty simple setup. Just heater, aquaclear hang on filter with just foam filter. I keep a a seachem Ammonia Alert hanging in tank for safety. These things work great no need to do tests for Ammonia.

cumbeje · Aug 25, 2017

On my old tank I had an apex but did not use all it features. In the new tank I wanted to be able to see an issues from where no matter I am. Being able to setup email warnings was a life saver.

Ryan@ShelteredReef · Aug 25, 2017

Loving the progression shots! There's nothing like watching someone's tank go from an empty glass box to an artfully put together in-home reef.

cumbeje · Aug 25, 2017

For Calcium and Alkalinity add I use a CR836 calcium reactor with a SMC618 secondary chamber. I control this with apex to C02 regulator on at 6.70 pH and off at 6.50 pH. It does a great job of keeping stable Alk. What is also nice is I have a warning setup to send me email if pH rises above 7.0. Than I know that C02 bottle needs changed.

cumbeje · Aug 25, 2017

The reactor is run off of my manifold and I use a graduated cylinder anytime I need to change ALk. I never mess with the c02 bubble count. I just take the graduated cylinder and collect a sample for 10 seconds. Right now I run 22 mls per 10 seconds through reactor.

cumbeje · Aug 25, 2017

I know there is a ton of debate out there about water changes. Should you do them ect.. I always figure they can not hurt so I added a DOS to my Apex to do continuous automatic water changes. I use DOS to remove and replace 2.5 gallons daily saltwater. The only time this is not running is when I need to mix more saltwater. I use FMM module with light sensor to stop DOS when level of fresh saltwater gets to bottom of container. Here is some pics of my saltwater and top off containers. I use float valve to keep autotop off container full which I use a tunze osmolator 3155. I also have a light sensor if float valve fails. T

here is a solenoid tied into RODI to shutoff flow as backup.

cumbeje · Aug 25, 2017

I wanted to give you a screen shoot of my lighting plan with my Kessil 360's. I use Apex to control them.

cumbeje · Aug 25, 2017

Since I use a calcium reactor my pH tends to stay at the low end but is very stable. Does not seem to have any effect on coral growth.

cumbeje · Aug 25, 2017

Want to give you a total list of equipment that I use:

Tank: Planet aquarium 120 x 36 x 36 with starphire front panel
Sump: Tideline sump 72 x 22
Stand: steel

Pumps: 2 x hammerhead/barracuda Reeflo Golf pumps
Heater: Aqua logic 2kw titanium inline
Union and valves: schedule 80 CPEX Ball valve
Chiller: Aqua logic Delta star 1/3 hp ds-4 (never runs)
Sand: (10) 20 lbs CaribSea Arag-Alive special Grade reef Sand

Water Motion:
2 x Maxspects Gyre XF250
4 x Tunze 6255 (controlled by Apex)

Lighting LED:
16 x Kessil A360NE

Media reactors:
2 x BRS Jumbo reactors running BRS GFO 24 hours off of manifold

Calcium Reactors:
Geo reef CR836
Geo Reef SM618 secondary reactor

Apex Controller:
Neptune PMK PAR monitoring Kit
Neptune DOS
3 x Neptune optical level Sensors
2 x Fluid Monitoring Module
1 x flow sensor

Skimmer:
RK25PE RK2 Systems

Quarantine Tank:
40 gallon glass tank

RODI:
BRS 6 stage Plus System 75 gallons per day

Salt:
Red Sea Coral Pro Mix

Auto top off:
Tunze Osmilator 3155

I think that is it!!

RUNVS · Aug 25, 2017

Great Build tanks looks great looking forward to seeing how this progresses over the next few years!!!

revhtree · Aug 25, 2017

Super awesome build!

Slayvoff · Aug 25, 2017

So what made you choose the Kessils over, say, Radions? I saw you said they were responsive to emails and you can control with Apex..can you not control Radions with Apex? (Trying to decide what lights I want to get for my first tank)

cumbeje · Aug 25, 2017

Slayvoff said:
So what made you choose the Kessils over, say, Radions? I saw you said they were responsive to emails and you can control with Apex..can you not control Radions with Apex? (Trying to decide what lights I want to get for my first tank)

No I do not believe you can control Radions with apex.