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Not at the moment. Been just emptying into a cup when it gets full.
Thanks. I lost the cap to close that. Have to look at HD whether they have anything to close that outlet. Thanks
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Not at the moment. Been just emptying into a cup when it gets full.
Hopefully you can contact Bubble Magus customer service and see if they can send out a replacement.Thanks. I lost the cap to close that. Have to look at HD whether they have anything to close that outlet. Thanks
Hopefully you can contact Bubble Magus customer service and see if they can send out a replacement.
Awesome tank build. I am upgrade from a 250 to a 425xl, like your manifold, i will be doing that with my new build
Mjlash22. Hey, I was dosing nopox as well and heads up, my mesh socks filled with a bacterial slime. I stopped dosing as nitrates dropped quickly and I now have my algae reactor up and running. So, watch closely for slime!
Thanks for the tip! I don’t use filter socks so hopefully I’ll be ok in that aspect. I currently am only dosing 5ml a day. Skimmer was my biggest issue with the over skim but it has since calmed down after a few days of lowering the dose amount.
I will be doing exactly the same thing. My concern is my wal'sl in the basement are all floating walls. Under the area I want to put my tank is storage so I plan on putting water systems etc. great thread.Today’s update.
Got the two cabinet doors on for the sump compartment. My OCD kicked in so that took about an hour to get them as close to perfect as possible. I’m happy with the results, tiny difference in the gap from top to bottom of the two doors, but hardly noticeable.
Got the sump into its compartment. This may seem like common sense but I’m going to share it anyways. You have to install the doors before putting the sump in! You won’t be able to screw in the brackets once the sump is put in. Also included a pic of the acrylic filter socks. Huge shoutout to Anything Acrylic for these filter cups. Hit them up on Facebook if you want some for yourself!
Last project for today was installing the floor jacks in the basement. Those that have been following along know that I’ve been debating on whether or not I thought this was necessary or not. In the end, for about $150 in materials, I decided it was a cheap safe guard and went ahead with it. Did my best to measure it out so that each stand is 40” apart which leaves 10” of tank weight left and right. Based on how far is sticked out from the wall upstairs, I only needed to support 2 joists. Cut 2x4’s 20” long and married them together, two per stand. Stand is centered between the two posts. Happy with the results and loved these stands. Easy setup and also liked the fact that these came with a tightening rod vs other models where you have to use a wrench to tighten.
I'm thinking about the same. I would think I could put the lolly columns under lateral bracing and not have the 2x4's under the joists at all.Looks beautiful! And I think that's a great idea to reinforce the joists below. You'll have over 1,000 lbs sitting mid-span on those two joists. Much better to be safe than sorry.
As a bystander whose done some structural framing work, I would recommend bracing the two joists laterally. At this point, the likely failure mode would be the torsion of the two joists as they try to twist themselves out of being sandwiched between the weight of the tank above and the upward force of the lolly-columns, below. If you cut two pieces of 2x12 to the dimension of the spacing between the two joists (probably 14 1/2") and put them above your 2x4 spanning blocks and secured them to the top and bottom chords of your joists, it would keep the joists from twisting under the load. At that point I think you'd have every imaginable scenario covered.
Of course you'll probably never need this...
Where did you buy it? the blue I mean? Or could just buy all white and paint it up to match. You should put some blue led lights under the cabinetLove the color of the pvc!
I will be doing exactly the same thing. My concern is my wal'sl in the basement are all floating walls. Under the area I want to put my tank is storage so I plan on putting water systems etc. great thread.
I'm thinking about the same. I would think I could put the lolly columns under lateral bracing and not have the 2x4's under the joists at all.
Where did you buy it? the blue I mean? Or could just buy all white and paint it up to match. You should put some blue led lights under the cabinet
What did you lube your O-rings with?If you do then make sure you use abs pvc glue and not regular pvc glue to join the pvc to the overflow tubes. I had to dremel around the end of the pvc pipe to fit into the red sea overflow tubes but it is rock solid.
The only downside is it is permanent and if for some reason I ever had to take out the overflow tubes I would have to cut the pvc pipe and redo. So I made sure to lube the orings when I installed it and filled the overflow with water to test for leaks before gluing it to the schedule 40 pvc valve unions.
If I was to do it again though I would still do it the same way. There is zero chance of a leak at those connections. Even when I dry fitted them I almost couldn't get them back apart.
I'm also running my vectra m1 at 100% and couldn't take the chance of a failed connection.
Haven’t posted an update in a while. Tank has been up and down since it was started.
Equipment wise, the coral box doser is completely up and running.
Purchased some adhesive zip tie mounts off amazon to manage the tubing.
Dosing NoPox, calcium, KH, and magnesium daily. Depending on the mag level, may have to go to every other day or more for the dose, as I’m only doing 1ml/day and it rose a decent amount already. Replaced the tubing it came with with some Drew’s dosing tubing from BRS. Haven’t had any air bubbles yet and the calibration seems to be a lot better than the mini airline tubing I was using from PetsMart.
Also thinking about switching to BRS's new pharma pouches as I have also added Red Sea's coral colors program for trace element replenishment. I'm currently dosing all Red Sea products, but the foundation products are getting expensive to replenish. I feel the cost savings will far out way the actual product differences.
For livestock, can’t say things have been going well. My most recent purchase have almost all passed or gone missing, including my 2 year old peppermint shrimp. The watchmen goby and shrimp were found victims to the snails/crabs. Both pairs of chromis and fire fish have also gone missing. I felt I appropriately acclimated them so I’m not sure what went wrong. I know the fire fish made a small cave under or near the center rock, so maybe the snails/crabs got them and they couldn’t get away?
I’m going to lay off purchasing more livestock for the mean time.
I think this is part of the tank being new but I’m experiencing quite a bit of a brown hair like algae on all the rocks and most of the sand. Nitrates and phosphates are almost undetectable so I’m assuming just part of the tank maturing?
*I know it looks like a purple slime in the pic, but it's not, it is a brown hair like algae appearance, the blue lights don't do well with my iPhone camera*
Besides the stock barb, I do not have any O-Rings. Just a little bit of water to slip the stock barb into its housing did the trick.What did you lube your O-rings with?