Tideline 62 lagoon build

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New build going up! Love this tank so far. Finally got around to adding a few coral.

Equipment:
○ Tank - tideline 62 gallon lagoon aio
○ Lights - 2x prime 16hd
○ Skimmers - 2x nero 3
○ Doser - simplicity doser (4 pumps)
○ Heater - x2 100w titanium brs w/ helio controller
○ ATO - Duetto
3d printed a few nem covers and some random flow generators for the returns. Future plans for equipment will be x2 fleece rollers, 1 pellet reactor, 1 skimmer.

Have a few torches and one rock nem that will be here in 3 weeks times. Excited to see how this goes! Current plan is to grow gsp on the bottom where for board is. I want a forest of hammers on the left and frogspawn on the right with mainly torches on the rock. Will send updates as more stuff goes in.

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Nice! Good luck on your adventure!!!
 
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Helios controller started throwing an e1 error at 3am. Spent about 2 hours doing everything I could to fix it with no luck. Have a warranty claim in with innovative marine now. Luckily I had 2 standby heaters for this exact situation. Got an inkbird controller overnighted for a temp replacement.


New additions:
Molly miller blenny
A few blue leg Hermits from my nano
Transfered my entire colony of orange rhodactis. They are a little small atm after the dip and transfer.
Added a 2 head orange frogspawn to the frogspawn forest.
Since bacteria seems to be decently stable now I've gone ahead and added my red sea activated carbon.
Added my 5 nems from my nano in a small containment bucket near the top. 4 rbas and 1 joker. No pics yet as they are all currently closed up.

Upcoming:
I have 5 torches inbound within the next two weeks - will start to place things on the main rock then.
Plan to add some sort of schooling fish (4) probably in 4 weeks or so once i know the tank can handle the bio load.

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beautiful, i just bought the same tank and cycling now, but im having a problem with the return chambers being uneven, right now i am using the AC pumps that were included, but would love to upgrade to dc ones later on, any thoughts on how to even them or best spot to put the ATO?
 
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beautiful, i just bought the same tank and cycling now, but im having a problem with the return chambers being uneven, right now i am using the AC pumps that were included, but would love to upgrade to dc ones later on, any thoughts on how to even them or best spot to put the ATO?
Hey Dan, the chambers' unevenness is totally normal. It's nearly impossible to have each baffle be perfectly symmetrical on both sides, so one side will always run a little lower than the other. You also want to make sure the chamber where the pump is located is running lower than the other chamber to ensure there are no stagnant spots in your rear chambers. You want to put your ATO sensor on the side that runs the lowest. For me, this is the right chamber (when looking directly at the front glass panel). I have my water level roughly 3 inches or so above the pump. Then my ATO input line is on the left chamber above the pump. I haven't had any issues with this setup so far. I'll replace the pumps with some DC pumps once they start to cause problems but so far they've been perfectly fine.
 

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Hey Dan, the chambers' unevenness is totally normal. It's nearly impossible to have each baffle be perfectly symmetrical on both sides, so one side will always run a little lower than the other. You also want to make sure the chamber where the pump is located is running lower than the other chamber to ensure there are no stagnant spots in your rear chambers. You want to put your ATO sensor on the side that runs the lowest. For me, this is the right chamber (when looking directly at the front glass panel). I have my water level roughly 3 inches or so above the pump. Then my ATO input line is on the left chamber above the pump. I haven't had any issues with this setup so far. I'll replace the pumps with some DC pumps once they start to cause problems but so far they've been perfectly fine.
ok sweet ty, yeah ill upgrade to dc returns when i catch back up money wise got about a grand it in already haha
 

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have u added a screen top yet? looking to build one this week, i just added my fuge light today
 
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have u added a screen top yet? looking to build one this week, i just added my fuge light today
I have a custom lid from top lids coming at the end of Feb. Currently just using a white egg crate as a temp. I was originally going to go the fuge route but it's just a lot of work with a lot of potential downsides so my local reef shop highly recommended going the reactor route to control nutrient levels. Going to be installing one in the near future. Just finished putting in my sicce shark 300 skimmer in.
 

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I have a custom lid from top lids coming at the end of Feb. Currently just using a white egg crate as a temp. I was originally going to go the fuge route but it's just a lot of work with a lot of potential downsides so my local reef shop highly recommended going the reactor route to control nutrient levels. Going to be installing one in the near future. Just finished putting in my sicce shark 300 skimmer in.
Nice I'm gonna try no skimmer route Just got these on amazon see how they do
 

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A few updates. Have had an unfortunate re-cycle after transferring my clowns. Went to my LFS and got some 8 year cycled bio media from their low boys along with some prime and stability dosing to bring things back in check. Placed some seachem matrix in the back chamber as well. Other then that everything's been good so far.

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A few updates. Have had an unfortunate re-cycle after transferring my clowns. Went to my LFS and got some 8 year cycled bio media from their low boys along with some prime and stability dosing to bring things back in check. Placed some seachem matrix in the back chamber as well. Other then that everything's been good so far.

Equipment additions:
Sicce shark 300 skimmer
Nice looking clowns!
 
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Got some new additions! Finally adding some more coral. Got a few torches and some hammers along with a rock nem.
 

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