Having taken a break from sps keeping, fragging & farming, I have finally started up my new system, been running for a week and a half.
Display Dimensions: 1.2L x 1W x 0.6mh (200mm is for the oveflow, so ctual viewing is 1mx1mx0.6m)
Overflow: coast to coast
Sump: 1st 160L plastic bin for skimmer, biological media and extra live rock, 2nd 60 L plastic bin for chemical filtration and return pump.
Filtration:
Skimmer: Currently housing a reef octo ts4, but will be replaced by a skimz sk 201 when it arrives. The ts4 will go to the frag farm.
Biological: In the skimmer chamber, I shall be using Orca Nitra-Guard Bio Cubes. Once this is in, I shall discontinue the use of zeostart and zeofood, but will more than likely carry on with spongepower. Still deciding whether I shall be dosing zeobac / stability / biodigest.
In tank liverock compromises of about 40Kg of mixed indo, kenya and wherever else liverock on a bare bottom.
Chemical: I am currently using 500ml of Orca Phospha-guard, 500ml of Seachem Matrix Carbon and 1 sachet of Seachem Purigen.
Flow: Contemplating getting a Vortech MP40, but until the budget (which has really been blown to smithereens by now) allows, using a Tunze 6201 on a single controller, two sus sun 102 pumps and a bouyo wm1 on intermittent switches (theyr'e cheap, so I dont mid breaking them
) a seio m1500 and m2600 and a resun waver. Return is a 4000 lph waterfall pump. Once I get the vortech, will quit using the seios, and hide the suns suns, resun waver and the tunze, which I reckon should give me enough flow.
Lighting: Diy unit with 3 x ATI Aqua Blue Spezial, 1 X ATI True Actinic, 1 x ATI Blue Plus and 1 x ATI Purple Plus each in its own gull wing reflector.
Calcium and Alk Replenisment: Reef Octo Calcium Reactor, which I desperately need to mod, as it has a design flaw which cause pumps to blow, so for the time being (not much of a demand atm) using Kalk in a diy auto top up.
Frag Farm: Have a huge Garden shed, so got a few plans to help out people with frags..... Will use my old sump from previous setup for a dsb and a few frag raceways all lit with T5's, alterntively, thinking of square raceways lit by a 250 halide each, as I already have two in Gull wing reflectors with elec ballasts.
I shall post pictures from time to time, AND: @viper357 yes, I have actually got water in it.... and even some coral already.
Display Dimensions: 1.2L x 1W x 0.6mh (200mm is for the oveflow, so ctual viewing is 1mx1mx0.6m)
Overflow: coast to coast
Sump: 1st 160L plastic bin for skimmer, biological media and extra live rock, 2nd 60 L plastic bin for chemical filtration and return pump.
Filtration:
Skimmer: Currently housing a reef octo ts4, but will be replaced by a skimz sk 201 when it arrives. The ts4 will go to the frag farm.
Biological: In the skimmer chamber, I shall be using Orca Nitra-Guard Bio Cubes. Once this is in, I shall discontinue the use of zeostart and zeofood, but will more than likely carry on with spongepower. Still deciding whether I shall be dosing zeobac / stability / biodigest.
In tank liverock compromises of about 40Kg of mixed indo, kenya and wherever else liverock on a bare bottom.
Chemical: I am currently using 500ml of Orca Phospha-guard, 500ml of Seachem Matrix Carbon and 1 sachet of Seachem Purigen.
Flow: Contemplating getting a Vortech MP40, but until the budget (which has really been blown to smithereens by now) allows, using a Tunze 6201 on a single controller, two sus sun 102 pumps and a bouyo wm1 on intermittent switches (theyr'e cheap, so I dont mid breaking them
) a seio m1500 and m2600 and a resun waver. Return is a 4000 lph waterfall pump. Once I get the vortech, will quit using the seios, and hide the suns suns, resun waver and the tunze, which I reckon should give me enough flow.Lighting: Diy unit with 3 x ATI Aqua Blue Spezial, 1 X ATI True Actinic, 1 x ATI Blue Plus and 1 x ATI Purple Plus each in its own gull wing reflector.
Calcium and Alk Replenisment: Reef Octo Calcium Reactor, which I desperately need to mod, as it has a design flaw which cause pumps to blow, so for the time being (not much of a demand atm) using Kalk in a diy auto top up.
Frag Farm: Have a huge Garden shed, so got a few plans to help out people with frags..... Will use my old sump from previous setup for a dsb and a few frag raceways all lit with T5's, alterntively, thinking of square raceways lit by a 250 halide each, as I already have two in Gull wing reflectors with elec ballasts.
I shall post pictures from time to time, AND: @viper357 yes, I have actually got water in it.... and even some coral already.
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