Sawdonkey’s 210 Rebuild / Redo

[sawdonkey]

Nothing anything different with lower levels?

My BTAs look to be dying? But I’m not sure it’s related? Corals are coloring up better.

 

[mfollen]

Perhaps a more grumpy huma?

 

[sawdonkey]

Perhaps a more grumpy huma?

Dude! That goldfire ingot from you is coloring up real nice!

 

[Fudsey]

Tank is looking fantastic ! ! !

 

[mfollen]

Wow!! you’re not kidding. That’s some serious potential. Whatever you’re doing... keep doing it!

 

[Deezill]

@sawdonkey looking great.

 

[Mjl714]

Calcium reactor Improvement and success?

 

[sawdonkey]

Calcium reactor Improvement and success?

I wish. Gonna abandon it and get something more standard with a peristaltic pump.

 

[jp_75]

your tank looks really good! whatever you do it’s working.
corals i got from you doing great in my tank!

 

[Mjl714]

I wish. Gonna abandon it and get something more standard with a peristaltic pump.

Bummer, better luck with your next choice. Reliable performance without the peristaltic pump would have been nice. Tank is looking great.

 

[sawdonkey]

Things are looking good. My BTAs are back to normal after a few month of looking like they were dying. SPS is growing well.

Quick mid-maintenance cell phone shot.

 

[Mjl714]

Things are looking good. My BTAs are back to normal after a few month of looking like they were dying. SPS is growing well.

Quick mid-maintenance cell phone shot.

Looks fantastic. Who would know from this view that those lights are a lot of work, how have they been operating?

 

[sawdonkey]

Looks fantastic. Who would know from this view that those lights are a lot of work, how have they been operating?

Thanks. The lights have been rock solid since changing out the boards on November. The on on the left is a new improved board and the one on the right is a replacement board that I got before they upgraded the boards. So far so good. I do love these lights when they are working.

 

[sawdonkey]

Spent a lot of time on the tank over the last few days. Sucked out all of the gravel and replaced it with new. I did two 45 gallon water changes. Here are a few pics:

 

[mfollen]

Glad to see that the tank is looking great! Coras have nice color.

huma looking fat and happy as usual haha

 

[sawdonkey]

A few more:

 

[sawdonkey]

I got a new square 15 gallon vertical ATO tank. My old one was round had a wasteful footprint. I needed the real estate for the new cal reactor.

 

[sawdonkey]

New cal reactor and ATO tank are in!

 

[sawdonkey]

Sometimes the bag is cheaper than the box.

 

[sawdonkey]

Well, as expected, I can’t get the effluent drip rate on the new calcium reactor to be stable. It just keeps decreasing over time.

I bought a Watson Marlow 101U/R off of eBay for $100. It maxes at 53 ml per min. This should be sufficient, no? Some of the reviews on the Kamoers scared me, so I thought this old piece of lab equipment should be reliable? We’ll see......