Red Sea 525 - Full send! build thread

[slingfox]

Here’s where I ended up. New on bottom. Angle is tough but +3” or more for sure.

The updated version looks great! I hope you don't have a huge battle with the uglies starting in month 3 or 4 like I did. If i could do it again I would start with a mix of dry and live rock.

 

[Bartanto]

The updated version looks great! I hope you don't have a huge battle with the uglies starting in month 3 or 4 like I did. If i could do it again I would start with a mix of dry and live rock.

Thank you. I was on the fence on using LFS live rock, at least in the sump. Didn’t do it. I’m leaning on a slow light ramp up, UV, and getting the turf scrubber fully online to give an early upper hand…but that’s all only on paper. We’ll see soon (or hopefully not)!

 

[smitten with ocean life]

like your scape!! everything looks really nice!

 

[Bartanto]

Screw mount line holder > magnetic for AWC and dos lines for me

 

[Bartanto]

Slowly ramping up the scrubber. It’s seeded and starting to balance and gently pull down N and P.

 

[Bartanto]

Recirculating CO2 scrubber with adjustable ambient air mix and overall air volume to skimmer up and running.

 

[Bartanto]

Clowns, Springeri, Grammas…and just a little bit of probably diatoms and algae

 

[Bartanto]

 

[Bartanto]

Took CO2 scrubber offline ~ 2 weeks ago. pH swings have stabilized.

 

[Bartanto]

Watanabei! (Marine Collectors).

 

[Bartanto]

Fall cleaning…

 

[Bartanto]

 

[Bartanto]

Nov FTS

 

[smitten with ocean life]

nice!

 

[Bartanto]

Happy little torches

 

[Bartanto]

The Axis of Evil

 

[Bartanto]

CW-100 turf scrubber working well at 7 months. Now that it’s established I’m going to reduce the photo period just a bit (maybe less 30-60 minutes) to make sure I’ve got detectable phosphate.

this is a ~two week haul…

 

[Hemmbone20]

Just curious, what do you run you RS90’s at? Mind sharing your schedule?

 

[Bartanto]

Just curious, what do you run you RS90’s at? Mind sharing your schedule?

not full tilt. This is where I am right now. The bulk of my SPS are >375 PAR-ish according to my apogee.

 

[Bartanto]