AF OceanGuard 605 Build
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Maybe the drain isnt dialed in? Is the overflow going up and down also? If so then just open it up a 1/4 turn. I did have that when i first started until i got it dialed in.
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gmoney243
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He might not be dialed in on the drain. I had slight fluctuations in overflow box level but Ive had no issues since i started and got it dialed in first few days.
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Hit 8 weeks with copperband butterfly this past Saturday. I put him in the DT after 5 weeks and treated for flukes and he had lympho for anout 3 weeks in QT. All better now and still eating frozen foods. He eats anything stuffed into rock crevices which i think was a big part of the success to get him eating. I mix foods like PE mysis with some other meaty treats , put them into small rocks and put in freezer and put one in tank when its feeding time. He doesnt even wait for it to thaw out before he runs over picking at it.
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Current livestock is 1 copperband, 5 female anthias, 6 pajama cardinals, 4 banggai cardinals, 1 Clown, 1 royal gramma, 1 Chromis. I bought a total of 27 Chromis and only 1 survived…. So many came in with Uronema tried to treat with rally reef pro. 5 were DOA and the others in that batch all looked rough. Normally dont have issues with live aquaria fish but these chromis have been super rough. Luckily they give money back guarantee!
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Bought some Aquaforest Stone Fix and changed up the aqua scape. I also drilled holes in my rockwork for easier acro placement and movement if needed. No more trying to glue or epoxy underwater
GDiaz
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Nice build! I’m waiting for a restock on this bad boy myself. Nice to finally see a build thread on this.Hi All,
I have been in and out of the hobby for around 10 years now, check my posts for some previous builds. I Just moved and have been itching to get back into the hobby so I bought a new setup. I went with the AF OceanGuard 605 as it had really good reviews and all build quality looks top notch. I should have gotten some pictures of it crated but this was definitely the way to ship a tank. The freight delivery guy noticed from the pictures on the sides that it was a fish tank and he was shocked and said he delivers to the local LFS and has never seen a fish tank shipped that well.
I ordered the tank from BRS on June 24th and this tank arrived on July 1st. Pretty quick IMO. Everything was excellently wrapped and covered in plastic and flawless. No chips or scratches
I also went with this tank because all the stuff that came with it. Rocks, sand , sump, salt, plumbing etc... was basically everything but a skimmer , return pump and heater.
So far its only been setup with just saltwater and rocks for a couple weeks now cycling and fish are in QT before going into the DT. I also just added a bottle of pods from Algae Barn to seed the tank today.
So far this tank is the best built ones I have owned and this is basically a dream build where I'm buying all the goodies I want. Ended up going with Neptune Sky LED over the Radion Gen6 Pros due to reviews about shadowing effect is better on Neptune Sky and easy of setup to Apex. I wanted a 2 source solution that could replace T5 LED combo. If i had to do a combo it would be T5 and Kessil A360x since i had a similar combo previously with T5+AP700.
This will probably end up being mostly SPS and Clams with a few Zoas, Chalices and LPS added in. Really just depends on what catches my eye and glows under blues and isn't to crazy priced, although looking around corals have definitely gone up since I had a tank last in 2020.
Equipment list so far
AF OceanGuard 605
AF Reactor with Carbon and GFO
ApexEL Controller with Trident and Salinity Probe
Neptune COR return pump
Reef Octopus INT150 Skimmer
Tunze ATO
2x MP40w Quiet Drive
2x Neptune Sky LED with Radion Mounts
Milwaukee Digital Refractometer
Hannah Po4 and Copper Checker( will add others as needed )
5 stage RO/DI with Brute cans for Fresh and Mixed Saltwater
once I add corals I will be using either Neptune DOS with AF 2 part or doing a Calcium Reactor
Salt Mix: AF Reef Salt Currently since it came with 264g worth in this kit. Normally in past I used Red Sea Blue Bucket.
80lbs AF Rock
40lbs AF Bio Sand
CoralCrete to hold some rocks in place
The boxes of rocks came with a lot of shelf pieces so came up with one I am happy with given the pieces I had to work with and how bad I am at scaping. Normally I think all my past Aquascapes took a lot longer to get right and many many times of redoing the rocks and still didn't look as good as I was able to get with these rocks in just a couple hours. I've used all the normal Marco and Pukani etc rocks in past and these to me seemed easier to come up with a good scape. It must look good because even my wife said hey the rocks look good, in past her response when asked was always "it looks like rocks".
Current Fish in QT (Ordered from LiveAquaria)
3 Banggai Cardinals
2 Clarki Clowns
Blue Tang
Firefish
Royal Gramma
Fish are being treated with Ruby Reef Rally Pro, Copper Power , Prazi and Metro
Its a rats nest right now, need to clean the wires up.
MB1227
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would you mind posting more pics of the sump from above and the panel in between the filter socks and skimmer chamber
Gumbies R Us
Another Fish in the Sea
Those Frags look great!!!Tank update pics and some fire frags from WWC i got on black Friday flash sale
Jason_K
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Anything equipment wise you would do different if you started over ? I am starting a 605 and been going back and forth on the equipment but thinkin mpw 40 for sure and sicce sd6 pump possibly the elite octo 150 skimmer. Going to run apex to control everything.
fishski13
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I like all my aquaforest products and dont have anything bad to say about any of them, but have to say if I was redoing my big tank, I wouldnt use aquaforest sand. I dont think I will use anything else other than caribsea special grade from now on
MB1227
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Right now I just have the IM helio system for the heaters, sicce 6.0 pump, and my kessil light from my previous tank. I’ve narrowed down which skimmer I want but haven’t got one yet. Overall I’m very happy with the tank so far and wouldn’t change the set up. Sorry for the delay I was away.
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