Had two questions: 1) ATO placement, and 2) aquascaping thoughts.
I recently set up a Red Sea Peninsula 500 (3 ReefLED 90's, 2 Reefwave 45's, Vectra M2 return pump, Red Sea 600 Skimmer) and had a question on ATO placement--the tank is currently cycling. I have a Tunze 3155 top off system and it's working perfectly--it's pulling from a 26 gallon reservoir and pumping water into a gallon tank that comes with the system that sits on top of the sump. The design is pretty slick and it's relatively easy to slide this 6 gallon tank back-and-forth on the glass rails for access to the filter socks, skimmer, etc. With that said, the 6 gallon tank is a little clunky and takes up space in the sump compartment, plus it's not visually pleasing and I'm thinking about moving the ATO sensor to the return chamber in the sump and removing the 6 gallon reservoir tank.
The benefit of my current set-up is that because the optical sensor and the float valve redundancy is sitting in the 6 gallon fresh water reservoir, I never have to worry about salt built-up and maintenance. The con is that I don't have ready, easy access to the full sump without sliding the 6 gallon reservoir back and forth. My main question is gaining anyone's experience with placing the Tunze ATO sensor into the main sump and how gunked up it gets with salt vs. maintaining the system.
My other question is what the group thinks about my aquascape. I'm planning for a mixed reef and 10+/- fish, ultimately including a couple of clowns, small school of chromis, lawnmower blenny, a couple of tangs (likely a sailfin and a gem--a birthday present to myself), cleaner wrasse, engineer goby, and goby/pistol shrimp combo. I cannot take a pic from the third, short side the tank because there is a column in the way, but there are spaces on the rocks to place corals at different elevation, plus a ton of room in various places on the sand to place corals that like a sand bed.
Really appreciate any thoughts!!
I recently set up a Red Sea Peninsula 500 (3 ReefLED 90's, 2 Reefwave 45's, Vectra M2 return pump, Red Sea 600 Skimmer) and had a question on ATO placement--the tank is currently cycling. I have a Tunze 3155 top off system and it's working perfectly--it's pulling from a 26 gallon reservoir and pumping water into a gallon tank that comes with the system that sits on top of the sump. The design is pretty slick and it's relatively easy to slide this 6 gallon tank back-and-forth on the glass rails for access to the filter socks, skimmer, etc. With that said, the 6 gallon tank is a little clunky and takes up space in the sump compartment, plus it's not visually pleasing and I'm thinking about moving the ATO sensor to the return chamber in the sump and removing the 6 gallon reservoir tank.
The benefit of my current set-up is that because the optical sensor and the float valve redundancy is sitting in the 6 gallon fresh water reservoir, I never have to worry about salt built-up and maintenance. The con is that I don't have ready, easy access to the full sump without sliding the 6 gallon reservoir back and forth. My main question is gaining anyone's experience with placing the Tunze ATO sensor into the main sump and how gunked up it gets with salt vs. maintaining the system.
My other question is what the group thinks about my aquascape. I'm planning for a mixed reef and 10+/- fish, ultimately including a couple of clowns, small school of chromis, lawnmower blenny, a couple of tangs (likely a sailfin and a gem--a birthday present to myself), cleaner wrasse, engineer goby, and goby/pistol shrimp combo. I cannot take a pic from the third, short side the tank because there is a column in the way, but there are spaces on the rocks to place corals at different elevation, plus a ton of room in various places on the sand to place corals that like a sand bed.
Really appreciate any thoughts!!
