Potomac Reef 2 - 500 gallons of fun!

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Finally got my frag tank base, and my roller mat tray from MRC. The tray is much nice than the plastic tub I was using, and it’s nice to cover up the calcium reactor and drains. Frag tank is from Planet Aquariums. System is coming along Covid or no Covid!

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Do you know the maximum flow rate for the CADs filter?
 
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What rate do you run it at? I'm trying to figure my plumbing and turnover for my new build.
I’ve got an abyzz 400 running no more than 70 percent. It’s plemty to feed the skimmer and heater etc. higher and it just increases the flow noise over the overflows and through the piping to the basement. I have 2 mp40 and 2 MP60 so plenty of flow in the tank.


Rev 3 of the fishguard. Now I know why people put fences around swimming pools. Have to rescue my big wrasse from the overflow. Hoping my gymnastic fish slide back into the tank.

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First harvest of the refugium! Need to get photoperiod and volume to right values to stabilize nutrients.
 

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Your phosphates are around .03 and your Nitrates around 0.3?

Do you think that’s a little too close to zero for the Nitrates? Or did you mean 100x @ 3ppm Nitrates?
 
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Busy day today. Picked up some nice frags from a local reefer.
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Noticed that my personable blue spot Jawfish missed dinner. So went investigating the overflows.

it’s protected by this.
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found him by shooting video in the overflow.
Also found my missing red bar Anthias that I had given up hope on.
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the Jawfish swam up to the top of the overflow and begged me to net him. It literally took a minute.

no such luck with the Anthias. I sent him down the emergency drain to the basement. I had my 15 year old stationed at the pipe with a net. Voila!
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Corals are coming along. The Walt Disney is really growing now. Looking more colorful at higher PAR. Pics with iPhone and orange filter.
 

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Beautiful reef, how do you like the G5 blues? Not sure if going with pro or blue.
I like the blues because the spectrum is easy to set - all the same power to get AB+. You can achieve the same with the pros of course.

I think if you want AB+ the blues are good, particularly if you are going to need max power.

Here is my one year update Video.
 

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Awesome build. Definitely saving this one and taking notes. Really big fan of the organization and the attention to detail.
 

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