EvilVOG's Red Sea Reefer 250 build

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The pallet:

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I went with The Red Sea 300 skimmer

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Algae Barn refugarium starter kit, Octo Varios-6 DC pump, currently 40lbs of CaribSea Ocean Direct, Custom plumbing


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Neptune Apex w/Salinity, PH, Temp and ORP probes and ATK Top off. Probably not going to be able to use the ATK as seen here.

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Innovative Marine Aqua Gadget Cheatomax. That's about a week's worth of building, got more coming, real fill up tomorrow. I'm kind of a beginner, so help and advice would be great.
 

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The pallet:

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I went with The Red Sea 300 skimmer

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Algae Barn refugarium starter kit, Octo Varios-6 DC pump, currently 40lbs of CaribSea Ocean Direct, Custom plumbing


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Neptune Apex w/Salinity, PH, Temp and ORP probes and ATK Top off. Probably not going to be able to use the ATK as seen here.

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Innovative Marine Aqua Gadget Cheatomax. That's about a week's worth of building, got more coming, real fill up tomorrow. I'm kind of a beginner, so help and advice would be great.
Looking great! Can't wait to see this with some rock in there!

The ATK is mounted too high, the water level should be below the last baffle in the return chamber. The water should flow over the black adjustable baffle and under the glass one. The way you have it mounted the water would go over all the baffles in the sump.
I mounted mine under the black triangle where the stock ATO float valve would normally go with the magnet under the foam bubble trap (had to cut this a little to make it fit).
 
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Looking great! Can't wait to see this with some rock in there!

The ATK is mounted too high, the water level should be below the last baffle in the return chamber. The water should flow over the black adjustable baffle and under the glass one. The way you have it mounted the water would go over all the baffles in the sump.
I mounted mine under the black triangle where the stock ATO float valve would normally go with the magnet under the foam bubble trap (had to cut this a little to make it fit).
Absolutely right. It's already been moved, it's off the back of the return chamber with the float over the pump. Only just got it to work today though.

Got the sump filled, tank running +36 hours since i dropped in 60% of the Turbo Start bacteria. Test at 24hrs showed all perimeters in spec, but will keep watching, i have more bacteria going in with the rocks.

Probes are calibrated on the apex, although the salinity doesn't Jive with the old junk floaty arm hydrometers i have. Or maybe it does? Apex reads 26 and floaty thing says 28. I'm not sure the numbers are similar between specific gravity vs. conductivity.

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Wow I'm behind on my updates. Phosban reactor kit arrived, but set aside. Have been reading my salt wrong for years, so getting that in line, pretty close to 34ppt now. Orp is low but steady. Probes are calibrated and in a rack now. Rocks have been in for a week, pods and cheato came and went in on Friday. Talked to the store about my missing lights. Red Sea is holding them because the app isn't ready to work with the wave pump yet. Shop is going to try to get at least the lights to me in a couple days. For a temporary solution I have the led hood from my 24g cube which has working dawn/dusk and moonlight, so maybe I can drop my coraline algae in before it expires. All tests still zero or perfect. Have not had any spikes of any kind.
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Always behind lol. First fish went in, 3 engineer gobies. Will have to check out my Youtube videos for that, they don't hold still. The Reefled 50's, brackets and Reefwave 25's have arrived and are now in, and I've turned the skimmer on today.

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how is the 1 reefwave working? Considering picking one up.
Following. Nice build. So how do you like the 2 x Reefwave 25's ? I just bought 1 for my 250 build, but was thinking I might need a 2nd.
How does the one handle the tank?
 

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how is the 1 reefwave working? Considering picking one up.

How does the one handle the tank?
I'm still in the middle of my build. My custom sump arrives Wednesday. To be honest I was leaning towards just picking up a second reef wave 25 in the next week. That and an algae turf scrubber. Still haven't decided on which brand/model yet. Leaning towards the clear water 50 ATS
 

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