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My Water Box 180
I have a 6 foot x 2 foot x 2 foot tank, With an addon 20 gal starfire frag cube.
My lighting is Frankensteined into a temporary hood. My upflow is a reeflow dart from a 30 gallon refugium sump with two 3 foot T5;s. My skimmer is meant for 900 gallons and is installed externally outside and above my tank. MR-4-Protein-Skimmer Photos are coming shortly. |
Hey, I saw you at Red Coral, that skimmer should be kick @#!#!SS
Looking forward to seeing pictures. |
Gonna tag along on this build.....looking forward to pictures as well.
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You should be happy with that skimmer. I have the MR-3 with two injectors, and I love it. What pump are you going to use with it?
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I have one injector but looking to order a 2nd one with ozone adaptor.
using an ocean runner 6500 (1625 gph) they recommend a reeflow barracuda but this is close to same output. here is my 1st pic. http://www.fragnplug.com/skimmer.jpg |
What does ozone do for fish tanks?
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Aw I was expecting to see a skimmer cup caked with crud:razz:... What a beast that skimmer is.
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ozone kills everything in the water column.
allows more oxygen and keeps the water clearer and free of debris. |
oh it will be, still breaking it in.
by morning i hope to have it running a nice dry ugly skim. |
We got skim, checked today and sure enuf i learned how to fine tune this baby.
http://www.fragnplug.com/tank/skim.jpg Sure its meant for 900 gallons but there is no reason it wont do a better job on a smaller tank. Added ozone myself with a nozzle from an old air stone. http://www.fragnplug.com/tank/ozone.jpg And the drain line from the skimmer goes right under my cube into a siliconed hole around the skim drain hose, and a siliconed 2 liter bottle in the center of the bucket filled to the top with carbon. http://www.fragnplug.com/tank/skimmer2.jpg This is done to strip the ozone from the air before it becomes hazardous to my heath, in my smaller apartment it doesn't take long for my eyes to start to burn and my throat get all sore. But the payoff so far in the last 30 days for the pros far out way the cons. I plumbed the skimmer to be a central point and easy to adjust, basically u cannot look at the reef without seeing the skimmer. The skimmer drain is a design by accident. I placed a T on top of my cubes drain pipe to start a durso style overflow since i was passing alot more water into the cube to quiet things down some. The level of this pipe before i shortened it from the skimmers out flow was just about the same so i made it fit into the top where the air vent hole should go. A full 1.5 inch air//water mix, then the durso heads elbow into the water. http://www.fragnplug.com/tank/pipe2.jpg Thats about all i have on the skimmer, next some non detailed pics of the cube. |
We need an FTS of the 180.... :mrgreen:
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Sweet skimmer. Can't wait to see the tank pics. Any worries about the strength of the floor?
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yeah man nice skimmer, its huge, cant wait to see pics of the full set up.
thanks again, for helpin me out |
pics coming shortly only a cell phone camera so i must take many shots to get half nice ones.
yah concrete floors, it is only really 2200 pnds what is that a tonne? |
Only 2200 pounds?!? :surprise: Is that with or without the water ?
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220 gallons plus rock and sand.
possibly its more i think it is 8pnds per gallon. alot but concrete. |
looks great man, i think that may be you should look into that skimmer being vented out side then you dont have to worry about the humid air and using carbon to take the smell away.
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thanks i will consider how to do just that.
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the tank looks dope
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:surprise: It does exist...I thought you were just pulling my leg:mrgreen: Kidding asside looks Good Garry (1 R or 2?)
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its here doug, but now im wanting to move it
wanna help? i think 10 or so more strong guys and we can just shove it onto a new stand. hehe all kidding aside, now the sump needs to be built. |
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Looks good Gary. |
Heres a my newest addition, for my clowns that never hosted my GBTA, they are hosting a Rose Bubble Tip I bought from redcoral last week, this is a better camera than what I had for all my other pics.
http://www.fragnplug.com/5.JPG |
Added 2 lumenmax 3 250W reflectors.
Added a Bluewave 7 dual 250W ballast. Added 2 new Ushio 250 watt 20K bulbs. Will post pics once its all setup. Also added a 1/4 hp chiller, 3L zeo reactor. That is all for the hardware updates. Added also 4 Lg Bartlett Anthias. Thanks Redcoral and scott!!!! |
A 300L Zeo reactor? Holy smokes, how many bags of zeolite to fill that thing up?
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Somehow i knew you would be the one to say something.
ill edit it to 3l |
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