"Seems" like it's time for a new build....

[ReeferMaddness843]

Lowes has a bunch of magnets as does Home Depot

 

[Marlon2024]

I think Velcro after a while will wear out I'm going to assume you will be removing it daily at first

 

[Marlon2024]

Can you post a pic of your plumbing set up? All the lines?

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Simple and easy. Overflow into sump, return pump with ball valve to return.

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Adding filter sock. Heater in return section now.

 

[Marlon2024]

So what are you doing in terms of safety

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Sump holds the water volume in case of power outage, tank holds the water volume in case of overflow clogging. Switching outlet for GFCI, grounding probe, etc. not sure what else would be needed.

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Added a American DJ power strip to make life easy for powering items off and on. Still need to wire in all the sources, but that's enough for today.....

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Update shot. more to come tomorrow during peak light hours

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Finally got the messy frag rack off the front and onto a "custom" lol frag rack in the back.

 

[optibob]

Finally got the messy frag rack off the front and onto a "custom" lol frag rack in the back.

Well done!!

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Thank you! I am sooooo happy with the reboot! Fixed and accounted for almost all the issues I was kicking myself about on my first build.

 

[Reefrookie220]

From listening to Joey on king of diy

This dude is dangerous, I can spout off the first thing that pips up when googling a topic. That doesn't make me the king of anything lol.

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Side shot. The view from my couch

 

[Reefrookie220]

Glad to see the restart went well.

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Thanks! Way better than I expected honestly. Only a few concerns, but I'm looking to up the lighting a good bit here in near future. When I moved from the 90, I pulled the t5 lights for aesthetic reasons and lost 216 watts of lighting and upped the intensity of my kessils to compensate. I figured it'd be a shallower setup so the light would suffice. Just not enough for a couple of my sps. The Garf bansai has gone brown, but still kicking and has good PE in the evening. And I can see where some shadowing has caused a few to be gorgeous on top, but shading issues have the lower/shaded portion of the frag a bit blah in color. Weighing the SB Reef, ReefBreeder 48 photon v2, or a 6-8 bulb t5 as options at the moment.

 

[Reefrookie220]

Out of those, I'd rock the photon v2. I had a v1 and loved it.

 

[Reefrookie220]

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/kessil-ap700-685.299109/

This is a steal!

For 50 bucks over the RB , the ability to use it on a bigger tank in future, and it's a kessil , it's a win in my book.

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

I've seen that one. Just not in my grasp to afford anything yet. If available when I can that'd be a super score.

 

[Seth Goldberg]

Following this looks grate so far