DangerDave’s 160 gallon reef in wall build

[DangerDave]

Love when the lights are ramping down and the blues are thick...

 

[DangerDave]

 

[DangerDave]

Update on the fish room. It’s taking shape. The second lowboy should be flowing tomorrow.

 

[Hallowhead]

It's .. so.... BEAUTIFUL !!

 

[DangerDave]

This guy chugging along with a broken shell...

 

[DangerDave]

Soon...

 

[DangerDave]

Two of the frag tanks...

 

[DangerDave]

 

[DangerDave]

Soon...

Still waiting for this thing. They keep telling me that it's shipping "this week". I may just ask for a refund and order something else.

 

[DangerDave]

Current reef stats

Alk 9.5-10
Calcium 500-520
Nitrates 5-10
Phosphates .02

daily maintenance:
5 gallons a day awc
5 gallons a day kalk
350ml ESV bionic (still waiting for that dang calcium reactor)
40ml a day ME corals nitrates
20ml a day seachem iodide

Two full reactors of rox carbon changes every 2-3 weeks.
1/3 reactor of gfo changed 3-4 weeks (this used to be a full reactor changed every two weeks. Once I started dosing nitrates, phosphates started being taken up at a much higher rate)

My favorite part of the trek is the fish room.

 

[dbraun15]

Really well done and thought out. Ive always wanted a true mixed Reef, but never took the time or had the patience to make it happen. Colors look amazing!! Only problem(good problem to have!) is it looks like you’re running out of room!

 

[DangerDave]

Really well done and thought out. Ive always wanted a true mixed Reef, but never took the time or had the patience to make it happen. Colors look amazing!! Only problem(good problem to have!) is it looks like you’re running out of room!

Thanks! And yeah, I have plans for one more low boy, and a 60 cube for a clown harem. It’s gonna cause me to lose a couple cabinets. I think the clown tank would be more fun to watch then a dosing pump for nitrates.

 

[DangerDave]

 

[DarthSimon]

Fire that baby up bro!!!!
Can’t wait to see this thing on action!

 

[DangerDave]

So the calcium reactor is doing great.

Next issue... picked up an Apex Neptune, and now I’m dealing with that not working out of the box. At least this is normal for what I expect from these guys. I put a support ticket in.

I shouldn’t be so annoyed, but I have a sinking suspicion they’re going to want me to send my one day old $600 piece of plastic in for repair. I have to replace at least one fmm each year. I’d have a hard time doing that for a $600 trident.

I may have a like new trident going up for sale cheap real soon! Needs work.

 

[DangerDave]

I spend too much on GFO. I’m using 5cups of high capacity per refill. I decided to go to an algae scrubber. The first scrubber I built spent over a decade in use, and was used at times on fresh, brackish, and salt water systems. It ran off the DT drain. I designed it off Floyd turbos algae scrubber threads.

The scrubber I’m building for this system is the same idea it’s just going to be supplied from my manifold, which I just re-did.

Left side and supply:

right side:

It was done in prep of the scrubber, and two new tanks I’ll be setting up.

The scrubber is running, but only partially completed. I still need to put up a shelf to hold it, and drill the proper drain on the bottom. It’s running off of the emergency drain for now.

Anyway, here is the new scrubber with almost a weeks worth of light on it. The lights are chaetomax 18watt refugium leds.

 

[revhtree]

Tank looks awesome Dave!

 

[DangerDave]

Haha I forgot to mention, I used a Wheaties cereal box display case as the base of the build.

 

[DangerDave]

Tank looks awesome Dave!

Thanks!

 

[DangerDave]

Algae scrubber in production location with main drain installed.

I received a new frag tank through a trade, it will be frag tank 4 ( em tank doesn’t count), and probably last one I can add.

Here’s the fish room before I move everything, again.