Tideline 65 lagoon AIO build

[Briansreef]

3 AI prime HDs seem to be more then enough light as they are running about 70%. Annoyingly though one is a different color most notable at ramp and down. I will separate them on the app and play with the ramp down spectrum to get it to an acceptable level.

 

[Briansreef]

Underneath my top off and Kalk reservoirs are 10 and 5 gallon tanks with insulation cut to fit as a top. My good ole Jabeo Doser is still going strong so I will continue to use it.

 

[Briansreef]

Inkbird temp controller controlling 2 fans when summer gets here and a ehiem 175 watt heater for winter. When I go away for more then a day I add a three way plug to heater port and attach another heater incase one fails while I am away. It happened but luckily some was checking the tank so now I do this as a back up.
pump wise I’m running a Jabeo gyre scp 70 and 2 smaller ones on back glass, which I will be replacing with another gyre shortly, pumping vertically across back of tank for a flow I like Better and saving an outlet too.

 

[Briansreef]

And lastly, at least for now. One of the most convenient things I have done to other tanks and now this one is attach to little baskets in easy reach for often used small items like syringes etc. as well super gluing to large washers in place to hold my magnetic glass cleaner.

 

[McCarrick]

3 AI prime HDs seem to be more then enough light as they are running about 70%. Annoyingly though one is a different color most notable at ramp and down. I will separate them on the app and play with the ramp down spectrum to get it to an acceptable level.

Tank looks great so far! Keep posting

 

[Briansreef]

Protein skimmer is an aquamaxx ws1 in sump. This fits perfect in back sump. I had to raise it up about 2”. This was done by raiding my sons extra legos and building a snug fitting stand. So far it seems to work well but inconsistent. It has not been set and forget but rather I have to adjust the cup height regularly to achieve correct skimming.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Tank looks like is doing good so far!!

 

[Briansreef]

Tank looks like is doing good so far!!

Thanks! So far so good everything has survived transferring from my IM 20 Fusion. Just dealing with a bit of an ugly phase with some GHA as everything gets settled in. I did a 4 month cycle based on wwc brs hybrid as I did with my previous tank. Looking forward to nitrates settling down. All should be fine shortly just a bit more maturing of the tank needed.

 

[NTar11]

Changed out the shadow wave return nozzle because one never worked and the other hardly did. That being said I don’t think it’s necessary for them to spin at all and I really like them being flush to the tank so the return doesn’t shadow corals. So I have kept them and they might go back on. For now though I purchased 3/4” threaded bulkheads and a 3/4 to 1/2 loc line adapter. I reused my random flow outlet heads. One note the stock elbow that went into the back of the shadow wave bulkhead DID NOT fit fully in new bulkhead. I had to wrap it several time with plumbers tape and then all was fine.

Can you link the parts you purchased? I bought a few things to do this as well I just want to make sure I have everything needed. Thanks in advance!

 

[Briansreef]

Can you link the parts you purchased? I bought a few things to do this as well I just want to make sure I have everything needed. Thanks in advance!

I don’t have a link. I wanted to be sure I got this right so I went to WWC in Orlando and they helped me piece together the parts from their stock. They sell Tidelines so we could compare the parts to what was needed. I purchased 3/4 threaded bulkheads, threaded 3/4 loc line base, and a 3/4 to 1/2 loc line adapter. From there you can attach any loc line length and nozzle attachments.

 

[NTar11]

I don’t have a link. I wanted to be sure I got this right so I went to WWC in Orlando and they helped me piece together the parts from their stock. They sell Tidelines so we could compare the parts to what was needed. I purchased 3/4 threaded bulkheads, threaded 3/4 loc line base, and a 3/4 to 1/2 loc line adapter. From there you can attach any loc line length and nozzle attachments.

You didn’t have to modify the tank at all? Most 3/4 bulk head fittings fit 1.5 opening. The opening in the Tideline bulkhead is just shy of 1.25 I’m pretty sure.

 

[Briansreef]

You didn’t have to modify the tank at all? Most 3/4 bulk head fittings fit 1.5 opening. The opening in the Tideline bulkhead is just shy of 1.25 I’m pretty sure.

Indeed the opening measures that but the bulkhead that fit was sold as a 3/4” bulkhead as in the threaded center is 3/4 of an inch. It was direct replacement. I orders a 1 1/2” online first and it didn’t fit. That’s why I went into wwc to have them help and be sure it would fit.

 

[NTar11]

Understood well thanks for the info much appreciated.

 

[Briansreef]

Finished transferring over and setting up my back up power supply. This is a 100 Amh gel battery, pure sine wave converter wired to a power transfer switch. A trickle charger keeps it fully ready to work. This will run the reefs main life support for days.

 

[Briansreef]

1 year into the build..

 

[kevgib67]

It really came along well, beautiful!