75gal Semi Cube Setup!!

Masterpiece Corals · Aug 31, 2013

You have some crazy nice coral!

Masterpiece Corals · Aug 31, 2013

And tank! I'm impressed!

Flameback Pair · Aug 31, 2013

How are you keeping such awesome livestock? Can we see a picture of your sump?

JMMJ13902 · Aug 31, 2013

Masterpiece Corals said:
And tank! I'm impressed!

Thanks for the kind words...I will have lot more corals to share, love taking pictures....especially top down picture using my macro.

Will post more pics soon :)

JMMJ13902 · Aug 31, 2013

powers2001 said:
How are you keeping such awesome livestock? Can we see a picture of your sump?

Thank you sir.

I work on my tank everyday from 1-2 hours. I used to do 30gal WC every 3 weeks but I just now find doing 10gal weekly is more effective.

I have 400lbs+ of live rocks in my 100gal Rubbermaid that help out alot, plus oversize Vertex skimmer that I run 24/7. I used to have chaetos and DSB tanks but don't find them much helpful so took them down and planning on making an algae scrubber.

I dosed BRS 2 parts (soda ash for DKH, Ca and Mag) to maintain an acceptable levels. Also, keeping a minimal fish will definitely help with the bioload.

Here is a pic of my sump. Thanks

JMMJ13902 · Sep 14, 2013

Got a chance to do a little video of my nems and clowns. Enjoy :)

http://youtu.be/SHPe_46fNis

nayrgaijin · Sep 14, 2013

Nice video Justin :)

Flameback Pair · Sep 14, 2013

I like the video, the nem is surrounded by large pieces of coral.

JMMJ13902 · Sep 14, 2013

nayrgaijin said:
Nice video Justin :)

Thanks Ryan :)

JMMJ13902 · Sep 14, 2013

powers2001 said:
I like the video, the nem is surrounded by large pieces of coral.

Thank you sir.

Yes, behind the nems are a couple of large hammerheads and frogspawn colonies......the nem's tentacles do touch the corals but don't see any affect from it so I left the way it is..:)

Ross · Sep 15, 2013

What kind of drain are you running? I have the 65g tank from DSA with a 1" durso and its too loud. Are you running a durso? What size bulkhead is your drain? Great looking tank btw. Love the purple tang!

JMMJ13902 · Sep 15, 2013

Ross said:
What kind of drain are you running? I have the 65g tank from DSA with a 1" durso and its too loud. Are you running a durso? What size bulkhead is your drain? Great looking tank btw. Love the purple tang!

Thanks.

My tank has one 1" drain and two 3/4 returns. And I've experienced the same issue as you described so I used one 3/4 return as my other drain.... Then I bought the "Y" loc-line to T-off from the other return to become two returns (one on each side as it was the original design) and everything seem to quiet down alot. But I agree, one 1" drain is very loud even if you have the first standpipe.

Hope my explanation make sense if not I can snap a quick pic for ya to see. Would love to see your tank build :)

Flameback Pair · Oct 5, 2013

If you put a gate valve on the end of your drain line and "flood" the pipe until it is full of water it will stop gurgling. Problem is you can flood your overflow that way. Best to have a second drain line in case the main one gets clogged. It's called the Herbie method and I'm doing it on the setup I'm currently building.