Ricky Bobby’s waterbox 65.4 build

[Rickybobby]

More parts are starting to arrive daily today I’m going with two Eheim jaggers 150 watts

 

[Rickybobby]

It is time! Monday we start the build officially of the all new waterbox 65.4 all in one!

 

[Rickybobby]

Between the tank stand accessories and pallet fedex says this weighs 360lbs. Wow

 

[Rickybobby]

Here we go! Follow along the new 65.4

 

[MichaelGee]

Exciting stuff man! Will be following along!

 

[Rickybobby]

Now the waiting game I only had 40 gallons of rodi premade so now I have to wait patiently for the other 30 gallons this tank dimensions shows 71 gallons to the top. Minus substrate live rock and corals
Instead of doing a leak test with my well water I’m doing full rodi and I’m sure everything will be ok and tomorrow I will add salt when o can fire the pumps up

thanks for following along. Very pumped with this new model

 

[Rickybobby]

Ok update. Added fritz zyme 9 and brought over my 2 clowns and dottyback and there scape a few days ago. Everything looks abs doing great ! Side note it seems kraken reef wants to work with me on developing the lid! Which I’m very excited about

 

[Frogspon]

what kind of lid? mesh or glass/plexi?

 

[Rickybobby]

what kind of lid? mesh or glass/plexi?

Check out krakenreef.com to see the styles they offer.

 

[Rickybobby]

My basement during this time of year and with my wife only keeping the up stairs just over 70f. The basement temp is 68.9f. I added 2. Eheim 150watt heaters. One on each side of the filter chamber. I set the inkbird to 79 with it coming back on again at 78f. Too my surprise the heaters would run full time and only get to 78.5f. That’s not good. So I lowered the heaters to 78f - 77f. Which seems to work ok. The heaters do get a break. However I’m not happy with this so it looks like 250watt heaters will just fit the chamber height wise. So this week I will be going from 300watts to 500watts! And hopefully this system will do 79-78f with rest periods

 

[Frogspon]

following your youtube videos.

So you had no problems dosing Kanaplex full strength while running copper?

 

[Rickybobby]

following your youtube videos.

So you had no problems dosing Kanaplex full strength while running copper?

Copper for 30 days. Than removed the copper for a week. Than a week of prazipro. Removed it than kanaplex. Nothing was dosed together. All this happened over two months

 

[Frogspon]

Copper for 30 days. Than removed the copper for a week. Than a week of prazipro. Removed it than kanaplex. Nothing was dosed together. All this happened over two months

Gotcha. How did you remove the copper?

Did it take a week to remove, or did you just let it sit without meds for a week?

 

[Rickybobby]

Gotcha. How did you remove the copper?

Did it take a week to remove, or did you just let it sit without meds for a week?

I did a bunch of water changes and put carbon back in. By the end of the week zero copper on test kit. Which was good enough for me. Than started prazi

 

[Frogspon]

I did a bunch of water changes and put carbon back in. By the end of the week zero copper on test kit. Which was good enough for me. Than started prazi

Awesome. Everyone looks good. glad it's working out!

 

[Rickybobby]

Tank update
Zero ammonia nitrites. 2ppm nitrates. Phosphate .05 alk 9. Ph 8.0. Doing well.

 

[paradizecityz]

Following from another 65.4 owner

 

[Rickybobby]

Coraline growing after 3 weeks not bad installed a green killing machine uv sterilizer today

 

[Rickybobby]

I just wanted to do a 4 month update on this awesome tank. All inverts corals and fish went through qt

 

[newfly]

How do you like the green killing machine uv? I’m thinking about the same. Worry about cheap uv that use non uv proof plastic and leaching chemicals to the tank.