Mike that is looking great man, what type of lights are those anyways

aquarium illuminations LED full ProfiLux controllable

So how full is it now? :razz:

Beautiful set up! It almost looks too good to use.

WHat about now???!!!:razz:

Ha patience dear friends, there is a splash of water in the bottom as i am still fine tuning things as below

So i spent the day in and out of hardware stores, and came up with this, it is a work in progress as you can see the lamps need to come forward by about 1 1/4" but that is eaily resolved.

Chris at Ai said the lamps need to be 6-8" above the surface for a 24" tank so will adjust these up once I have water in the tank

here are the prototype pics

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...t/IMG_4638.jpg

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...IMG_4637-1.jpg

Maybe that will give some other users some ideas :)

Busy weekend,

Water in - Check
sand in - Check
GHL fully set up - Check
creation of worlds largest wiring tangle - Check (hey gimme time i will clean it up :) )
Premium Fiji in Place - Check - Thanks Ottawa Inverts for the cleanest LR I have ever seen

I am awaiting a new prob bracket from Chris, then the sump will not look like a bowl of string :)

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...t/IMG_4645.jpg

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...t/IMG_4643.jpg

pH - 8.08
Salinity - 51.8mS and rising
Redox - 177mV (target = 300mV)
Temp - 28 degrees C

Rest not worth measuring yet, let the tank settle a bit ;)

No Salt :twised:

Ya missed reading the bottom of the thread :lol:

no i saw it but... yea just buggin ya

Looking impressive :) Like the rock work, is cemented/glued together ? What are your stocking plans in case I missed it ?

Nope I never glue rock together, make a nightmare for re scaping if required, I build using "dry walling" no not the stuff that lines your house ;) Wedging each piece together and making sure it is stable, never failed me yet.

The tank will be mainly SPS and a few LPS, fish wise, only small fish, and a center piece, which i am not sure of yet.

First dose of Fauna marin Ultra Bio and Ultra Bak just gone in :)

Love the tank with the exception of the light hanging system. I think you can do better. Gotta be a slicker way to hand those lights then those chains and the huge pieces of pipe or are those just temporary?

Oh you're building a canopy, but a 18" one?

the chains were temorary and have now gone, replaced with custom hanging wires.

No canopy, I cant stand tanks with boxes on top :twised: Personal taste ;)

Same here, but I am considering a "Halo" or something to eliminate/reduce light spill. Tired of being blinded by 750W while watching TV LOL

So here is the latest dilemma.

I thought my little aqua bee was not cutting the pace so upscaled to a Tunze silence 700GHP (ok not so silent compared to the aqua bee)

My dilemma is this

The sump is about 10 gallon, so would you

A, High flow.
Or
B slow is best?

I am leaning towards slow as if nothing else the tank seems calmer in terms of noise.

i have like 350 GPH going through my 5G sump

Is there a right or wrong though? Does a skimmer perform better with higher flow than lower flow?

My skimmer seems to be performing better at high flow, but could just be me LOL.

Interested to know if there is a right or wrong or just, whatever you prefer.

Mike IMO and IME slow flow through a sump is alot better in getting the crap out faster and heating the water too.

But how slow is slow?

I was pulling about 25 gals an hour through the 10 gallon sump before

well that is pretty slow then so i would keep it at that .

Sweet, tank, tagging along:biggrin:

Thanks, hope to get the lights up and first livestock in tomorrow.

So the flow rate, are you basing this slow is best on having bio filtration in the sump or just a sump with skimmer and maybe phos reactor etc?

25 gal an hour seems low. Personally I would prefer to go back to this as the whole tank is quieter at that.

if your having a fuge in the sump i would slow it down, but if its reactors and a skimmer, try to match what they can handle

Is just a skimmer and phos reactor.

I just preffered the quiet running of the tank at the slowe rate so getting mega confused what is best :(

Mike the slow rate threw the sump is just allowing for the more skimmer time to clean the water and heat the water faster that is all. before a lot of reefer's believed in the ultra fast speed of water through their sump. because they had huge return pumps on there tanks for the turn over rates. Hence the better options for turn overs in the power-heads now

That makes sense, for me the reason more to switch back is that the return is like Viagra, sorry i mean Niagra :redface:

So one x 4 hour old Tunze Silence 1073.040 up for grabs if anyone wants a bargain ;)

$149.00 shipped all in ;)

http://www.tunze.com/149.html?&L=1&C...-infoxunter051

http://www.jlaquatics.com/product/tz...+1073.040.html

With my 45g corner w 10g sump. I built the sump with a back and forth style baffles along with the verticles, to effectively double it's length and the time for the microbubbes to escape. Return pump was a Mag 350. And I even found I had to throttle that back to keep the microbubbles out of the display.

So I vote for slow, just because of physical sump size

Interesting ;)

The bubble magus even at 300GPH over spec is not producing micros but I am for sure goign to go back to a trickle of a flow and see how the tank performs as the Tunze is way over driving the skimmer if nothing else

Wahoo :mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:

The main build is pretty much finished ;)

As you can see below the lights are in place and fully programmed to the GHL, in fact the Profilux has pretty much full control of every aspect of the tank. This weekend I will do a review of what is controlled, how it is controlled and screen shots of programmed software pages.

The hanging kit was custom made by Chris (Boboxx) I have to thank him for the amazing job he did of this and also of course the quality stand.

The pump debate actually produced a huge oversight on my part, I guess running a business and also trying to do a tank build made me lose my head. I forgot the most important element and that was to at least have a flow rate to match the skimmers requirements and I was WAY short of that, this has lead to not enough draw from the surface of the water to stop bio film, so i now have a suitable balanced tunze coming that will draw 500L and hour at 1.5 meters, perfect for the skimmer and tank, thanks to Phil at Xenia for shipping it so fast :)

The photos below show the lights are on about 60% at this time as they are slowly dimming for the evening. As you can see they are mega bright and need to be throttled right back. If you are looking for ultimate light control then seriously get these units :) The ProfiLux cloud simulation is amazing also, I have it set to 25% and 50% dimming at random.

Here are some pics

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...t/IMG_4649.jpg

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...t/IMG_4651.jpg

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...t/IMG_4655.jpg

Looking good. Anyway you can run the cords inside the tubing?

one of the cleanest looking nano's out there

Thanks ;)

Yes the wires will be rooted once i am happy with the height of the lamps, I still think they may have to go up by 3" which means raising the bars.

The back will be Black by Monday also, so no wires ;)

NOOOO! The height of the lights looks good how it is, but I guess you gotta do what you gotta do

LED by nature can create "spotting" where the two colours do not blend, to account for this you have to adjust the height. At present they are as high as I wish to go but am still seeing some blue/white seperation. I will test today what height is required to get the ultimate blend ;)

Just planning the auto water change now and then in April the balling chambers ;) The AWC programmed and controlled by the profilux will be as follows

1/4 Ro line gravity drained from sump to basement about 12' below direct to drain, this will be controlled by a solenoid. The ATO sensor will be switched to dual mode ATO/AWC and a second low sensor for the AWC lower limit draw off.

In the coat closet behind the tank will be a large (ish) vat, this will at present plans feed the tank with new water via a tiny power head. The tank will drain and replace 1L twice a day so approx 10% a week.

Due to only draining off 1L at a time the tank will not have to have any equipment down time making the water change process and programming very simple.

Hanging wire tails now hidden ;)

so you have two vats in the closet? one for new salt water and one for fresh?

Looks great! That standpipe needs a painting really bad though...