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Always looking nice and tight. Where did you get your dosing tubing rack?UV Sterilizer plumbed in and set at 157 GPH. ATS is next!
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Always looking nice and tight. Where did you get your dosing tubing rack?UV Sterilizer plumbed in and set at 157 GPH. ATS is next!
Always looking nice and tight. Where did you get your dosing tubing rack?
I need to get this and will order asapIs that thing not the coolest thing ever?!?
It hit my email from Marine Depot as “new” and I just had to get one. It blows away every one I have ever owned.
AquaMaxx DTH-1
DTH-1 Pro Magnetic Dosing Tube Holder
Organizing your dosing lines just got easier with the DTH-1 Pro Dosing Tube Holder. The DTH-1 holds up to five lines which you can mix and match the fittings to accommodate 3/16" flexible dosing tubes or 1/4" RO tubing. With the magnetic mount, you can place the DTH-1 almost anywhere dosing is...www.marinedepot.com
Really nice looking set up! I had thought about doing something similar to you with respect to the Tongan rock on the aquarium bottom. I though wish I had seeing your result!
I'm also really liking your large refugium. How though are you finding keeping the skimmer in your return section? While the ATO should keep the water level fairly stable, are you finding any issues with performance?
As a fellow Orphek user, I like your choice of lights. If I may make one recommendation, you also have some room for some OR light bars. I highly recommend them. In Blue Plus they add a very subtle but very pleasant improvement in color versus the full spectrum Orphek.
@Whip I have a couple questions for you that I want your opinion on.
I am running my sump without the divider that comes with is as I will use it for frag grow out so my question is about your ato sensor placement. I see you put it in the return area and was wondering how that was working for you placing it there?
New update of something kind of cool...
So almost everyone has a Red Sea ATO container sitting around because they aren’t big enough and are in the way... I repurposed mine into a new shelf!
Great idea! Do you mind if I borrow your idea and do the same?
I was going to use mine as some sort of storage for things like my turkey baster, syringes, magic potions, etc. But I never thought to remove the walls and use it as shelf instead. Brilliant!
You have officially just blown my mind!!!;Jawdrop This could be the best mod EVER for anything;WootNew update of something kind of cool...
So almost everyone has a Red Sea ATO container sitting around because they aren’t big enough and are in the way... I repurposed mine into a new shelf! If will eventually hold my ATS, but here is the
finished product!
THE PLAN...
THE TOOLS...
THE FINISHED PRODUCT...
I am going to do this as you make some very valid points. I will not be running a skimmer as I am putting a Octo chaeto reactor over in the dry area normally for electronics and all my electronics will be in a separate cabinet next to the stand.Manose,
The ATK Level Sensor is doing great in the return section and it hasn’t given me any issues (will be a year in April). Because it is a section with a very small amount of volume, the water level does slightly vary throughout the day causing annoying high level alarms, but the alarm clears quickly. If I wasn’t lazy, I think I could input a delay on the alarm and it would clear itself.
I have my skimmer in the return section and it automatically shuts down for 20 minutes three times a day. That’ll cause a high level alarm, but it clears quickly. Again, a delay in the alarm will reduce the occurrence of the alarm.
My salinity stays steady at 1.026, so the slight variation in level has not caused my ATK to dilute the salinity of the tank.
There was ONE time that my low level sensor got covered in crud. This caused my ATK to NOT get a signal to replenish after evaporation. Now I clean the sensors with a toothbrush occasionally AND have a powerhead in my return chamber firing off three times a day keeping it clean. I believe this scenario (crud on the optical sensors) would play out no matter where you put the sensor.
I should tell you that I removed the float-switch from the ATK sensor and am just running off of the optical sensors. I installed the float switch on the Red Sea mounting bracket inside the return chamber. This was mainly because I ran out of room; space is a little tight in my return chamber. I have not ran my fresh water replenishment to that float switch yet, so I can’t tell you what effect it has on refill. I currently refill in my overflow section. I need to reroute my ATK tubing from the overflow section to the return section, but time to do so is hard to find.
What happened to your refugium light and chaeto?New update of something kind of cool...
So almost everyone has a Red Sea ATO container sitting around because they aren’t big enough and are in the way... I repurposed mine into a new shelf! If will eventually hold my ATS, but here is the
finished product!
THE PLAN...
THE TOOLS...
THE FINISHED PRODUCT...
ditto,What happened to your refugium light and chaeto?
What happened to your refugium light and chaeto?
Just read every page of this thread so far and I'm very impressed with the large amount of thought and effort you've put into it.
I'm taking delivery of an XL300 next week. You have made me realise that I need to take my time and get the initial set up and cycle nice and slowly!
How comes we never see the right hand side of your cabinet?
ditto,
also I just found this thread and finished reading through the whole thing. Love how the tank is going so far especially your plumbing and cable management.