SaM's 40 Breeder
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lps1212
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Great lookin thread I'm glad to see you had success replacing the glass I'm suprised a 40 breeder cost so much by you I have seen them for as litttle as 45 bucs around my way. I love the way the led's came out along with the tank had a clean modern look great job can't wait to see this tank stocked and full of life
SaM
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Some new pics of what I did today
Starboard bottom glued in place
pump plumbing (I noticed I installed the ball valve/union the wrong way dangit)
Can't wait to get out of work to continue plumbing tonight!
The drain is also done, forgot to take pics. Now just need to work on the return and manifod for reactors and chiller
Starboard bottom glued in place
pump plumbing (I noticed I installed the ball valve/union the wrong way dangit)
Can't wait to get out of work to continue plumbing tonight!
The drain is also done, forgot to take pics. Now just need to work on the return and manifod for reactors and chiller
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SaM
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More progress pics!
Installed the hangers for the lamp. Wanted to leave everything ready in its place for when the time comes. Lamp is currently over my 20g cube
Again sorry for the bad quality pics from phone. I'm so lazy to take the nikon and snap pictures! Haha once I have this running i promise to take nice pictures
Installed the hangers for the lamp. Wanted to leave everything ready in its place for when the time comes. Lamp is currently over my 20g cube
Again sorry for the bad quality pics from phone. I'm so lazy to take the nikon and snap pictures! Haha once I have this running i promise to take nice pictures
Nice tank really clean setup.
SaM
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Thanks :) cant wait either
Well i hope my 40b enjoyed her dry time as much as i did even though i had nightmares with it cause tonight she's gonna get wet!
Here some pics after the final touches
Last dry moment :P
Here's my RO unit. Yesterday i changed all its cartriges. I removes the dual Di it had on top of the membrane and decided to replace one of the carbon stages cause it had two for a Di resing cartridge which is more efficient than the horizontal tubes it had before. My tap water is just 40 TDS which is not bad so my resing lasts enough.
And it began!
Of course i had to try the new lamp to see the coverage :P
And a short run around the system
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c216/nightmare_star/New 40 breeder/23020cb2.mp4
Sorry for the wires mess in the cabinet. It is from the lamp and i was just testing
Well i hope my 40b enjoyed her dry time as much as i did even though i had nightmares with it cause tonight she's gonna get wet!
Here some pics after the final touches
Last dry moment :P
Here's my RO unit. Yesterday i changed all its cartriges. I removes the dual Di it had on top of the membrane and decided to replace one of the carbon stages cause it had two for a Di resing cartridge which is more efficient than the horizontal tubes it had before. My tap water is just 40 TDS which is not bad so my resing lasts enough.
And it began!
Of course i had to try the new lamp to see the coverage :P
And a short run around the system
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c216/nightmare_star/New 40 breeder/23020cb2.mp4
Sorry for the wires mess in the cabinet. It is from the lamp and i was just testing
The SUSPENSE, I could never fill a tank like that, I need to make all the saltwater then add it on top of the sand or the wait will kill me. Great job, one of the cleanest setups I have seen. I want that nice of a stand, but I never spend on stands, just livestock and equipment.
SaM
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Thanks guys
Actually this is the first time I fill a tank like this. I figured I dont have a large container to to all at one and i didnt want go run with buckets back and forth so i'mgoing with R/O, do a quick run to re check everything's alright and then I'll do a couple of very heavy salty mix so I dont add the mix straight from the bag.
Stand was very cheap. The frame was built with recycled tubing. It barely cost me $60 for all
Here another pic. My RO is in turbo mode today! Water presure is over 60psi so its going faster than expected
Actually this is the first time I fill a tank like this. I figured I dont have a large container to to all at one and i didnt want go run with buckets back and forth so i'mgoing with R/O, do a quick run to re check everything's alright and then I'll do a couple of very heavy salty mix so I dont add the mix straight from the bag.
Stand was very cheap. The frame was built with recycled tubing. It barely cost me $60 for all
Here another pic. My RO is in turbo mode today! Water presure is over 60psi so its going faster than expected
SaM
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Well the tank is finally running with salt water. I had to change the pump from 3MDQX to a 2MDQ that a friend had. This new pump is 800gph and runs very well. Got a pretty decent flown in my display and enough to feed the chiller and reactors. I started cycling with some shrimp decomposing in and adding MB7. Will get a few quality pics once I got my computer back from repairing :)
Lynnmw1208
Active Member
Wow what a build! That sucks about the cracked glass and everything but it seems you did a great job repairing it! I gotta admit, I would've just bought a new one lol. I just wouldn't trust myself resiliconing the tank. :crossedlips: I really like the way you did that light fixture! If you didn't know it that could be mistaken for an AI fixture!! I never thought about putting the LEDs into 3 like they do. Do you have different colors in the groups of 3? I assume 2 in the middle are the moonlights. Would this type of lighting set up work with a controller such as Apex do you think?
SaM
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Thanks ;) The lamp is basically an AI sol in steroids. I really like their design and the look of an exposed heatsink with the white plastic so I wanted to recreate that. The groups have 2 Royal Blue and 1 Neutral white but two of the clusters have a Cool Blue in the mix. The two in the center are two 3W LEDs as well but driven to 350mA. Now that true violet 420nm LEDs are available again, will swap a few RB's for TV's
The lamp is controlled by Arduino controller
SaM
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could it be possible? at just about a week that it started, threw 2 big unfrozen shrimps to decompose. One of them got sucked by the pump which was broken into a million pieces. The water was cloudy, stinky and ammonia was shoot a high level. Now water is crystal clear, currently running skimmer & biopellets from first day? Was also dosing MB7
This one looks darker than it actually was. Looked to me very close to the first color
I'm not in any hurry at all, just amazed of this results.
This one looks darker than it actually was. Looked to me very close to the first color
I'm not in any hurry at all, just amazed of this results.
SaM
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couple of pics
I still have a wire and tubing mess. Still waiting on setting up the chiller and organize everything. The space I had for the ATO reservoir will be used to house the lamp drivers and controllers. The Ato container cannot be up there because once the aqua lifter started to dose water, it kept feeding by gravity. Now the container is on the floor next to the tank.
View from couch
I still have a wire and tubing mess. Still waiting on setting up the chiller and organize everything. The space I had for the ATO reservoir will be used to house the lamp drivers and controllers. The Ato container cannot be up there because once the aqua lifter started to dose water, it kept feeding by gravity. Now the container is on the floor next to the tank.
View from couch
SaM
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I transferred 75% of my corals from my cube. I had my fish for a few days now. Feeding everyday to add some waste and increase bacteria. Been dosing a capful of MB7 every other day. Parameter seems to be right on the spot and last night I tried acans and frogspawn. They looked so happy right when I placed them in and today they were doing great. So started dipping corals and transferring and to my surprise almost all of them opened right away! Though it would take some more time due to the dip (did 50/50 peroxide/sea water for nuisance algae and then revive)
Took some macro shots and FTS. Processing and cropping now so stay tuned in the next few minutes
Took some macro shots and FTS. Processing and cropping now so stay tuned in the next few minutes
PR_Reefers
Reefer 4 Life!
Very nice...continues looking good!! wow I can't believe you were able to build the stand for around 60$ that's crazy!! I could have sworn it would have been at least 4x that!! Gotta let me in on where you get your supplies...;)lol.... also Looking forward to seeing how your the light works out, i'm building a breeder also (on hold at the moment though) and might look into your lights..... looks very professional btw!1smile1
