The Journey Continues - Mike & Terry's 280g Reef Savvy

[Txdragonslayer]

It has been a busy Father's Day weekend for Mike who single-handedly knocked a couple of projects off of our reef "To Do" list.

On Saturday, he replaced and tested the marine battery for our battery backup which runs our return pump and SRO 6000sss skimmer in the event of a power outage:




On Sunday, he tackled the Pax-Bellum A.R.I.D. C30 installation. We had originally planned to use a Pan World 40PX, but decided a direct feed from our chiller return (Pan World 150PS - 1100 gph) which also feeds our 60g frag tank made more sense.







We should also mention that we purchased the optional Ca Reactor Feed/Injection Assembly for the A.R.I.D. C30 which allows us to direct excess CO2 from our calcium reactor to the C30.


Now let the growing begin...

How are you liking the Carx feed to the reactor? I am curious if it has helped raise PH at all?

 

[Victoria M]

Mike, and Terry,
I know you have discussed the sand you use and reskimmimg the thread, I just can not find it again. Can you please tell me what sand you used? I am completely redoing my tank and would like to use the same sand.

 

[bubbaque]

Any updates?

 

[Terence]

I have been thinking of doing a battery system similar to what I saw in the pic a few pages back. I was contemplating using a bank or two of golf cart batteries and a RV Inverter/Converter(charger) with a built in ATS (automatic transfer switch).

What did you do exactly - can you outline the pieces, how you put it together, and how its working out for you?

 

[bubbaque]

Haven't seen you online in a while. I hope you guys are doing okay!

 

[Wrangy]

++1

Hope everything in your world and reef are doing well and you're just busy!

 

[s2nhle]

+3, time for new update. Hope you are doing well.

 

[the maverick]

An update please

 

[xaflatoonx]

Hope you guys are okay. Been MIA for a while.

 

[revhtree]

 

[prsnlty]

Is anyone here that is in their neighborhood that can go check on them? I've been wondering the same.... it has been since July for them to post which is not like them. I hope all is well

 

[bubbaque]

I'm sure they are fine. Their profile says they were online a week ago. Just for some reason they haven't updated anything.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

@Mike&Terry I've just been going back through this thread again and enjoying all of your beautiful photos. I hope you guys are doing well and that the reef is still growing and doing great. Miss seeing you guys around and reading your updates.

 

[Ortho281]

I'm sure they are just waiting to wow us again with some incredible update photos!

 

[kangadrew]

Updates? Would love to see this tank again, just read through the 300 build thread and this one as well.

 

[Robert Vacchiano]

I hope everything is ok have been waiting for a update for some time now

 

[BZOFIQ]

Just went through the whole thread and it looks awesome....but 6 month without a peep is little worrisome.

 

[BigJohnny]

crickets

 

[Robert Vacchiano]

Hope you are all ok

 

[markstubb]

Well, someone logged into their account recently:
Mike&Terry was last seen:
Apr 17, 2018