Background: After settling into out new home here in beautiful Las Vegas Nv, my wife surprised me with a RSR 3XL 900 Deluxe, but due to work it has been sitting in my garage. (but no longer)
Well finally the past Thanksgiving holiday gave me a little time off work so I was finally able to move the RSR 3XL 900 from the garage to its resting spot inside of the home. I wasn't going to start this build thread until, I had all the parts I am looking for, but I changed my mind and so here I am. My goal is to make this tank as automated and maintenance friendly as possible so that wife can easily understand what is going on because I travel all the time.
During the black Friday weekend I was able to pick up a few equipment items
Apex
Ecotech Vectra M2
Red Sea wave 45 x2
Aquauv 45 watt sterilizer
Clariasea SK-5000
6ooW Titanium heaters x2
I have a few more things left to pick up, but they will have to wait till after the holidays. I got to make sure the family is taken care of first. I plan on making the additional sump area a nice size refugium. I am not in a rush so this will be a slow and detailed build for me, but I will try my best to add to this post as I progress.
I also was able to pick up a few pounds of dry rock. Hopefully I will start designing this weekend.
As for plumbing, I would like to plumb the sterilizer in-line with one of the returns. I am thinking about using 100% acetone to release the the 90 degree bend in the turn before it heads back to the tank. I would then extend the 25mm plumbing out a few more inches, connect a 25mm x 3/4 union and run 3/4 pvc into the sterilizer. For the output I would do the same but in reverse. Does this seems reasonable?
Well finally the past Thanksgiving holiday gave me a little time off work so I was finally able to move the RSR 3XL 900 from the garage to its resting spot inside of the home. I wasn't going to start this build thread until, I had all the parts I am looking for, but I changed my mind and so here I am. My goal is to make this tank as automated and maintenance friendly as possible so that wife can easily understand what is going on because I travel all the time.
During the black Friday weekend I was able to pick up a few equipment items
Apex
Ecotech Vectra M2
Red Sea wave 45 x2
Aquauv 45 watt sterilizer
Clariasea SK-5000
6ooW Titanium heaters x2
I have a few more things left to pick up, but they will have to wait till after the holidays. I got to make sure the family is taken care of first. I plan on making the additional sump area a nice size refugium. I am not in a rush so this will be a slow and detailed build for me, but I will try my best to add to this post as I progress.
I also was able to pick up a few pounds of dry rock. Hopefully I will start designing this weekend.
As for plumbing, I would like to plumb the sterilizer in-line with one of the returns. I am thinking about using 100% acetone to release the the 90 degree bend in the turn before it heads back to the tank. I would then extend the 25mm plumbing out a few more inches, connect a 25mm x 3/4 union and run 3/4 pvc into the sterilizer. For the output I would do the same but in reverse. Does this seems reasonable?
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