Brad's Reefer 350!!

[Clarksski]

Gotta love Red Sea customer support..Two of my doors had cracking on the corners and they sent a pack of new doors pronto!
I think you will end up with a cable rats nest if you mount apex and modules to chiller
compartment panels. So many usb cables and then the probes too!
I'll post a pic of my rats nest later when I get home.
My new 525 build is going to address this problem.. Somehow!

 

[BCRIBS]

Nice Build, I will be following along.

 

[Antics]

Any updates? Looking forward to seeing your build progress! :)

 

[Brian Kim]

would love to see how those lights are working for you

 

[Hobbesaurus]

Okay, I've been holding out on posting since I've been hitting a few hiccups along the way that are driving me nuts! BUT... the show must go on, hiccups or not.

So I finally got my tank up and running... Cloudy due to having just added the sand

Sump, plumbing, and all...

though I certainly effed up plumbing a number of times... newbie mistakes (dry fitting not the same as gluing, forgetting to put a union washer thingy on before gluing, gluing things crooked... I have a bag of PVC abominations and pretty much wasted $40-50 worth of supplies there alone :confused:)

*Note: the blue cap was off the top of my vectra :(... that required me to order a replacement directly from Ecotech*


The Apex arrived in the mail finally :cool:

So I began the process of cable management by mounting the controllers (work in progress)

*Note: I did forgo the idea of doing a door/additional panel design since I feel I can probably be crafty enough with the cables to hide them within the panduit... I've worked in Data Centers for the past 10 years so I've got a few tricks up my sleeve... I do appreciate your feedback but in the end wanted to take on the challenge (also I was lacking a saw to cut the boards with, so there's that)

And then on to the process of aquascaping... I wanted to stay with my idea of an arch and cove (while trying to avoid it looking too much like a McDonalds logo)

So when it was put all together, here's what I was left with...

So now we're left with the hiccups...
#1 - I have a couple slow drippy spots in my plumbing... One spot is where I completely forgot to glue :rolleyes: the other a spot where the metric Red Sea plumbing meets my manifold (did not use enough Teflon tape apparently)

#2 - My WiFi is not digging the amount of devices connected to it all the sudden or there's interference/loss of signal between my router (upstairs) and the tank goodies (downstairs)... I think I've fixed this with resetting defaults on the router but still a PITA

#3 - The Apex is behaving badly! At least two of my power outlets don't provide power at all and a third seems to randomly power on/off whatever is connected to it... I tried removing all plugs and just moving something simple (sump LED light strip) from outlet to outlet to identify where the problems are... Seems to be an issue on the Apex and not on the devices plugged in from all I can tell... I'm writing this up first but my next step is to run off to the Apex forums and possibly open a ticket if I don't find what I'm looking for as an existing topic.

My phone/email have been going nuts with notifications over the past couple days :(

But anyway, all is going pretty well in the grand scheme of things... I just got media into my reactors and those going, added my marinepure ceramic bio-spheres, and threw in some of Tim's One-and-Only to get my cycle going

To end this post on a chipper note, here's a picture of an urchin at my LFS with a spiffy hat

 

[Hobbesaurus]

So I figured out the issue with the Apex... the issue is that I'm an idiot and just now figured out that I was looking at the wrong outlet numbers in my control panel:oops:

 

[hybridazn]

Tank is looking really good! Man I wish these reefer series came in bigger sizes

 

[Hobbesaurus]

So I seem to be experiencing the same issue with my Nyos 120 that others have mentioned in the past... I'm trying to find the right skimmer height so I've built a 'table' from some pvc and that plastic lighting eggcrate stuff...

On the ~1.5" table it seems too high and bubbles cease to fall into the cup within a day

Off the table it fills the collection cup with water within 60 seconds :(

I'm trying to adjust the water height using the adjustment knobs and just can't seem to find the happy medium

Continuing my efforts at this point.

 

[Aaron Gustafson]

Any updates? I’m considering a Reefer 450 and a lot of the same goodies you’ve gone with. I’d love to see where you’ve gotten to.

 

[bdare]

Is this tank still alive?