@david Sweet tank, I am on the fence to get one of these tanks or the reefer 525XL. Can you please post a pic of how the side of the tank looks which has the overflow ? I want to get the peninsula 500 but I want to place it like a rectangular tank.
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@david Sweet tank, I am on the fence to get one of these tanks or the reefer 525XL. Can you please post a pic of how the side of the tank looks which has the overflow ? I want to get the peninsula 500 but I want to place it like a rectangular tank.
@david Sweet tank, I am on the fence to get one of these tanks or the reefer 525XL. Can you please post a pic of how the side of the tank looks which has the overflow ? I want to get the peninsula 500 but I want to place it like a rectangular tank.
Update 18-Feb-2018
Tank has been up for 2 months now and I finally have something to show for all the work so far. There are approximately 35 corals, 4 anemones, and 15 fish in the tank. Pictures below.
Current Fish List:
3 Bartlett's Anthers
2 Ocellaris Clownfish
1 Tailspot Blenny
1 Mandarin Goby
1 Six-line Wrasse
1 Yellow Tang
1 Regal/Blue Tang
3 Blue/Green Chromis
2 Firefish
Successes:
Refugium, Refugium, Refugium. I can't say it enough. The refugium with the Kassil H380 is amazing. The chaetomorpha grows crazy fast and has a light green appearance. In combination with the snails and tangs, i have almost no algae in the display tank. The Bubble Magus skimmer is also working quite well. I am thoroughly pleased with it
Failures:
Luckily I haven't had any major problems in the tank aside from fish aggression from the large Bartlett's Anthias when the livestock count was low. That's not to say I haven't had a major problem outside of the tank. In fact, I made a pretty big mistake about a month ago. I made the classic RO/DI home flooding mistake. I kept putting off buying a float valve for my RO/DI system and my mixing bucket overflowed overnight because I forgot to turn it off before falling asleep. Lesson learned the hard way, I now have a float valve, an overflow drain line from the mixing bucket straight to the toilet, and I set a reminder for myself every time I make water.
Issues/Concerns:
Time. Time before I have to move to another city/state/country, that is. I work in the Oil and Gas industry and my biggest concern is that I will come across a job in a new location that I can't turn down. Moving a lot is just part of the job unfortunately.
Future Plans:
Aside from the addition of a dosing system, I hope the only things I need to do are Maintenance and Water changes. I hope to see everything grow in with little to no changes to the system. If you look through this build thread you will notice everything is pretty simple. Read: no controller. I had a controller on my last tank (IM Nano Fusion 20) and I think it made me more paranoid than helped keep things steady. Given the large water volume on the peninsula 500 I think it will do fine without a controller. At least for now......
Pictures as of 18-Feb-2018
Thanks. It's always nice to get positive feedback.Very nice. Good update. Good fish selection. Does your 6 line get aggressive with other fish?
& Did u try creating waves with the Jebao? They are powerful and If you run the Jebao's in Else mode, there should be a lot of flow for the tank.
I don't and it will be some time before I can take one. I just used a screw in hook. I taped off a drill bit so as to not exceed the thickness of the wood when drilling the pilot hole. From there I screwed in the hook and hung the light with a caribiner clip.have a pic of how you mounted your fuge light?
The whole cabinet goes together much like IKEA furniture. Out of the box, I don't think it's possible but I'm sure with some minor modifications it's possible.@David Taghehchian Hi David, thanks for sharing. Just wondering, when you were assembling the cabinet, if it'd be possible to swap the sump side (i.e. put the sump directly under the drain and put the dry side divider on the other side).
@David Taghehchian
Not sure if you have noticed, but your tank, the first pic from your thread and of course @Broadfield tanks were shows as snippets in the BRS Red Sea Reefer video. Here is a link @ 2.27sec!! If you haven't already, submit your tank for reeftank 365 and claim your build thread...
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/reef-tank-365-enter-your-tank-here.351475/
Love the light mount. Thanks for sharing. I'm getting ready to order a Reefer 650 peninsula in the next few months and have been going crazy looking at light options. I hate how hanging lights look.
How is the fuge treating you? I'm considering trying mine with all fuge and adding a skimmer if needed.
I'm tempted to grab an H380 as well, but I have a pretty high output DIY led fixture that provided plenty of light (21 3w LEDs) to my entire 29 cube until I went with the Kessil so I'll try that and hopefully save some cash. Form factor doesn't matter as much since it will be hidden in the stand. If I can also save that $500 by not buying a skimmer it will be gravy.Thanks for the kind words. I agree regarding the look of hanging lights which is what drove me to the 80/20 idea.
I think my fuge is too effective in conjunction with the skimmer. I have been having what I believe to be a Dinoflagelate problem for about 6 weeks now. My current best guess is that nutrient export is TOO efficient. No matter what I do, nitrate and phosphate consistently read 0. I tried dosing nitrate and that made dinos worse. My suspicion is that it was due to an imbalance with phosphate based in research. Before starting to also dose phosphate, I decided to try more than tripling my feeding in the past 2 weeks with no noticeable effect.
I'm sort of at a loss for now, but I plan to make a post once I figure out the issue/solution.
I'm planning on mounting the horizontal bar to the top of the vertical myself. I'm thinking it will give more support that way but I'm curious to see David's response.Hey David, I am admiring your light stand and am thinking of doing something similar. Did you mount the horizontal cantilevered piece to the top of the upright one or to the side? I don't know if it makes a difference or not but I am trying to measure out my aluminum bars and was curious which way you did yours. Any reason you chose the black bolts for the corner brace? (Aesthetics or a practical purpose?)