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your patience must be much better than mine. I really appreciate the response!Yes! I'm very happy with how my plumbing setup came out. Its extremely quiet and it easily allows for 10x flow through the sump which is recommended for the triton method.
I don't have any experience with combining the lines since thats not the direction that i went with it. If i had to guess, I wouldn't recommend doing the two syphon lines. Thats where most of your water flow is going to go through so I think it would be beneficial to keep them separate. Two that set the water level can probably be combined since there's only a trickle of water going through them.
In terms of helpful tips I would say it would be a good idea to dry fit everything. I did a full dry fit of my piping and then just left it that way for a week or two so I could look at it and really think about if it was exactly what I wanted, then I did the final setup. It was the first time I did pvc plumbing so having extra fittings on hand because I ended up wasting a bunch.
Great Build!
your patience must be much better than mine. I really appreciate the response!
Looking awesome.. I would just add the battle corals. I have never ordered from him, but I would hands down trust his corals and water to go right in the tank. The reason I say this is he may have some bacteria in his water that you may not have, and I would not be able to wait. LOL.
Great tank any updates
Do you mind if I ask where power heads are placed?It's time for my two year update!
Yesterday makes two years that the tank has been running with water. It's been a bumpy road to be honest but I think its really starting to turn around. I had pretty severe outbreak of dinos that took a very long time to get under control. I had tried black outs, bacterial dosing, raising nutrients, changing the lighting and patience but nothing worked long term. After over a year of dealing with it I purchased a microscope and identified them as being ostreopsis. Once I had determined this UV would work, I bought the tank one for Christmas and they were gone in about a week.
I was thrilled to have them be gone after such a long battle. Once they were gone a new nuisance showed itself. I had a pretty nasty outbreak of hair algae, bryopsis and bubble algae that went on for a few months. I think the dinos were using up all of the possible nutrients and stalling the rest of the ugly phase. I continued to try to be patient with the tank and not try to do too many things to upset the tank's balance.
I wasn't making any progress, so I decided to lower the intensity and photoperiod of my display lights and turned up my refugium lights to 100%. After a few weeks of this the algae really started to clear up with manual removal and die off. I have to say the tank is looking a lot better and I think it's time to start stocking it with coral again. The rock and back glass are almost completely covered in coralline and I only have a little bit of hair algae and cyano at this point. So I'm feeling really positive about the direction things are headed.
I think the thing that kept me going the past 18 months that the tank has struggled was that Bulk Reef had a lot of issues with their BRS WWC hybrid tank. I kept telling myself that if the pros could have struggles then its ok that I had them too. I think part of the situation was caused by using dry rock and dry sand. My last tank used live rock and live sand with a DSB. I didn't have most of the issues I had with this one and when I did, they sorted themselves out faster. I think this is an advantage of live rock and live sand but I still wouldn't do live rock again. I don't think its worth risking it because of the potential pests. Currently I have no aiptasia or other nuisance critters in my display. I credit this to luck, dry rock and the quarantine process I use for livestock.
Since things are going well again, I will probably start posting some more regular updates on the tank. This weekend I will try to upload some photos of my fish which have been doing great all this time.
Thanks for taking a look at my build!
Do you mind if I ask where power heads are placed?
Glad to hear you fought thru it all. Hows the livestock? Did it fight thru it all as well?