That's exactly what I wanted to know. I've got the flipper max rated up to 1". The inside piece doesn't hold very well. If I clean the glass at a normal pace, it will come apart. I have to go very VERY slow for it not to come off.
I see...you should not have that problem with Tunze scraper
Hey bud. How did the Apex setup go for you? Any updates for us?Its day 10 and Ammonia continues to check in at 0 and nitrate ranges between 5 and 10 daily. Last week I moved a baby "Tomini" tang from my Reefer 250 to 750 sump. He's only about 1" but a big eater. He snacks all sort of frozen food: mysis, baby brine shrimp, blood worm...and nori.
And today...buttterfly is in the house. Meet "Butter" my new copperband butterfly, a beautiful fish I have wanted for a while but had no room in 250. This guy loves mysis shrimp and he would chase after them every time I feed him.
Regal 250-INT has been running for 3 days as well. Making lots of bubbles and pulling out yellow-ish skimmage. I used 3 different skimmers from Bubble Margus, Skimz Monster and Eshopps for Reefer 250 but this Regal seems to be most quiet and broke in within hours.
No light so far as I have not installed Radion G5 Blue yet as I plan to keep tank dark for first 4 months to skip ugly phase (BRS recommended). The blue light in some of the pic is from Kessil A360X of nearby Reefer 250. Tomorrow is Apex setup, stay tuned for more updates fellow reefers
Sorry for the late update. I know it's overdue. I was busy with...live sales
and let gravity feed Kalkwasser into the sump. This seems to work well.. I continue to dose 40ml of MicroBacter7 bacteria daily. Love this product!
Really interesting! I’m running 2x Syncra 9.0 pumps and on my initial testing I found that somewhere around 55-65% the overflow can’t keep up even with the primary drain wide open. The emergency overflow was completely submerged. So now I’m running them about 24% each to try and find a flow/noise balance.After 2 weeks of planning, plumbing, patching leak and multiple rounds of leak testing I finally finished UV sterilizer installation. It has been running smoothly for 3 days without leaking. I used Home Depot 1" PVC pipe, 5 sets of unions, elbow fittings and BRS adapter spigot x barb, Kuri-tec vinyl tubing and 1" ratchet clamps to put everything together.
I decided to install UV sterilizer on the right side of the tank rather than in sump to make it easy for maintenance of quartz sleeve and UV lamp replacement. I installed it vertically to prevent trapped bubble and clamped sterilizer body to the wall using Neat Aquatics mounting clamps.
Currently I utilize 2 Sicce return pumps. Sicce Syncra 9.0 is plumped to UV Inlet and UV Outlet to Left Return line. Sicce Syncra 7.0 is plumped directly to Right Return line.
Initially I planned to install Neptune FMK to monitor the flow through UV sterilizer but after reading all bad reviews on BRS website I decided to just measure the flow manually. Currently I have both return pumps running at 81% capacity. For Algea control Pentair Aquatics recommends 934GPH. In order to meet this target I would need to crank up Syncra 9.0 to 100% capacity. This is a serious loss of flow output due to head pressure given Syncra 9.0 maximum output is 2500GPH. Anyway I am reluctant to run at 100% as the pump starts making loud humming noise and potentially shorten pump life time. So at 81% capacity I used 1-gal container to measure the flow and got 500~550GPH. Let's see how this can keep algae in check and how often I need to clean the glass.
It may be worth checking if something is restricting flow in your primary drain or plumbing. Try to remove R42320 (I think it's called silencer) and see if you can get higher flow rate. Maybe there was a mistake in the installation of R42320 that limits the flow through primary drain.
Hmmm, good point. Looking at the performance chart I’d say max is 2,000 GPH at 1.4m head height. So yeah, 2 at 50% is only 2,000 GPH total. I’ll have to try testing again this weekend. I actually did install the primary and secondary return pipes backwards the first time because Red Sea flips the picture all of a sudden in the directions! The silencer though just seems to just sit in there so I’m not sure how I could have done that wrong.It may be worth checking if something is restricting flow in your primary drain or plumbing. Try to remove R42320 (I think it's called silencer) and see if you can get higher flow rate. Maybe there was a mistake in the installation of R42320 that limits the flow through primary drain.
Did you try to manually measure flow rate for each return line? I am curious to see what you get. Recommended flow for 750 is 1850gph per BRS and I think RedSea recommendation is even higher ~2400gph if I remember correctly. If you are running 2 Syncra 9.0 at 55-65% capacity then total gph should be close to 2500 not counting head pressure loss. With head pressure loss my guess is you would only get 1200~1500gph.
Maybe you have a piece of styrofoam stuck somewhere in the plumbing
who know. Just another hypothesis. Let us know how it goes this weekend.
