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Starting a build thread today to document the ups and downs of my system
I have had a number of issues - one of which nearly caused me to take down the tank entirely
I will be adding some more details in subsequent posts, but here is an overview:
-Tank: Red Sea Max E-170 (~45 gallons with sump)
-Sump: Red Sea sump upgrade kit pluming kit however using an eshopps RS-75 sump instead of the glass Red Sea sump as I didn’t want the sump to take up the entire area under the stand. Made some diy adjustments to replace the standard Red Sea valve with a gate valve
-Light: Red Sea reef led 90
-Skimmer: reef octopus 110sss skimmer (space saver)
-Flow: Nero 5 and tunze 7095 for flow
-Return: Sicce 2.0
-Dosing: Ecotech versa - dosing 12ml of tropic Marin all for reef daily (mixing this stuff DIY)
-UV: Aqua advantage 8w HOB
-Control: APEX EL
-Co2 Scrubber: just the simple BRS co2 scrubber feeding directly into my skimmer air intake. I bought a 5 gallon container of media from Amazon. I get about 2 weeks between refills and this keeps my PH from about 8.1-8.25+ through a 24hr cycle. (Previously my PH never reached above 7.8 due to me living in a new apt that is tightly sealed - low O2 inside)
Tank as of April 2020 — all blues (to much blue...). This shot is post recovery of a coralline algae mass die off event that started in Dec. 2020. I lost 80% of my LPS and had a horrible outbreak of cladophoropsis algae (I’ll provide more details in a subsequent update). I just started adding some frags again in early April ‘21 after trying to get the system stabilized from Dec. ‘21 to Mar. ‘21
I have had a number of issues - one of which nearly caused me to take down the tank entirely
I will be adding some more details in subsequent posts, but here is an overview:
-Tank: Red Sea Max E-170 (~45 gallons with sump)
-Sump: Red Sea sump upgrade kit pluming kit however using an eshopps RS-75 sump instead of the glass Red Sea sump as I didn’t want the sump to take up the entire area under the stand. Made some diy adjustments to replace the standard Red Sea valve with a gate valve
-Light: Red Sea reef led 90
-Skimmer: reef octopus 110sss skimmer (space saver)
-Flow: Nero 5 and tunze 7095 for flow
-Return: Sicce 2.0
-Dosing: Ecotech versa - dosing 12ml of tropic Marin all for reef daily (mixing this stuff DIY)
-UV: Aqua advantage 8w HOB
-Control: APEX EL
-Co2 Scrubber: just the simple BRS co2 scrubber feeding directly into my skimmer air intake. I bought a 5 gallon container of media from Amazon. I get about 2 weeks between refills and this keeps my PH from about 8.1-8.25+ through a 24hr cycle. (Previously my PH never reached above 7.8 due to me living in a new apt that is tightly sealed - low O2 inside)
Tank as of April 2020 — all blues (to much blue...). This shot is post recovery of a coralline algae mass die off event that started in Dec. 2020. I lost 80% of my LPS and had a horrible outbreak of cladophoropsis algae (I’ll provide more details in a subsequent update). I just started adding some frags again in early April ‘21 after trying to get the system stabilized from Dec. ‘21 to Mar. ‘21
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