Designed and 3D printed an adapter to 1/4 inch loc line which works great and was sent to @Vivid Creative Aquatics for the community to benefit from soon.
I also added 100ml of matrix by seachem, a cycled sponge from my tank, a filter pad all in the 3d printed media basket.
I added one single onyx clownfish to cycle the system as well as one Nuclear Green Paly frag from my tank.
. Any chance I could pay you to print one for me?
Designed and 3D printed an adapter to 1/4 inch loc line which works great and was sent to @Vivid Creative Aquatics for the community to benefit from soon.
I also installed the new sicce pump and Random Flow Generator from @Vivid Creative Aquatics and now have the best most random flow on the aquarium. I may have gone overkill as it is a 44x turn over with the 110 GPH pump on a 2.5 actual gallon of water tank not to mention the additional flow the REG draws in from the eductors in the back.
I also added 100ml of matrix by seachem, a cycled sponge from my tank, a filter pad all in the 3d printed media basket.
I added one single onyx clownfish to cycle the system as well as one Nuclear Green Paly frag from my tank.
we do - it's standard loc-line part
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we do - it's standard loc-line part
1/4in Loc-line | Vivid Creative Aquatics
Look for the 1/2in to 1/4in reducer. We also have a 1/2in to 1/4in Y reducer and a 1/4in loc-Line as well.
Perfect - glad you found what you where looking for.
What is the spacing like in the return chamber for aftermarket pumps ? Mainly jusy concerned about L x W.Received the tank and light today.
The tank is super nice and fits prefictly where I wanted it however upon arrival the back had 2 scratches of about 3/4-1 inch long and pretty deep. The back divider in the filter compartment also had a chip missing. I decided not to complain as it had no scratches on panels for viewing and it wasn't amazon's fault. I may try to complain to the seller directly.
I filled it with water and immediately realized the pump was super weak. I checked out the tubing and found a restrictor plate inside of the fitting going into the pump. I removed this fitting and used one of my own and it was faster but still slow. I let it pump into a 1-gallon bucket and it showed 72GPH even though the pump was rated for 84GPH.
I purchased a new Sicce Syncra Nano pump which should do 110GPH.
I also bought a floating algae scraper with a blade as it is evident that I will not be putting my hand in the tank ever as I have very large hands like as large as the side of the aquarium lol.
I purchased rocks exactly 3.8 pounds by accident. and then I decided to use 3.8 pounds of sand as well.
The Fluval light seems nice and bring however the arm is not long enough to hang from the back as well as how hot this beast gets. I ran it for an hour and saw 130+ temps on the top of it. Not sure about the safety of that. The heat on the bottom of the light is so hot that at the minimum distance to the tank it heated the water severally.
Light with white off and all other channels max is mostly blue with a hint of pink or purple but the camera screwed it up.
Unfortunately, the lock line is absolutely not even close to the standard 1/2 inch so I guess I will be 3d printing some sort of adapter as I need to get to 1/4 inch from whatever this is...
I also need to 3d print an in-tank media basket knockoff
Tank with water to max capacity after rock and sand is 2.5 Gallons
Sem sliek 158 might be a bit much for the 2-gallon , but if youre goign for mini-mixed reef, it might be just the right flow with the RFG nozzle.
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