Canreef Aquatics Bulletin Board

Well after 7 or 8 months its all ready!

Thanks to the boyz (Wendell and Jack) at OceanAquatics for all the help! You guys are a credit to the addiction! I dont think anyone in canada could have a shop close to being as helpful as yours. Thanks guys!!!!

I will post some pics after i fix my sump and get rid of all the micro bubbles.

The tank is a 140g acrylic. It has rounded corners and a center overflow. The over flow is drilled with two 1" durso's

I desided to go with a closed loop. I drilled a 1 1/2" outtake that is fed into four 1" returns. The plumbing is all 1 1/2" to keep the flow up as much as possible. The pump i went with (after 3 tries. should have listened to Jack right out of the gate!!!) is a dolphin Ampmaster 3000. This pump is the master of all pumps. The flow is crazy and is almost totaly quiet! buy far the best pump i could have gotten.

I have a 20g acrylic sump. The skimmer pulls from it and returns to it. It feeds into the refugium by way of a 1 1/2" bulkhead.

The refugium is a 33g. I am adding two more baffles to it tonight as the micro bubbles are still getting past. I will be adding the sandbed from my 55g 1 yr tank after the new baffles are in. The return is a Quietone. Its pumping back at around 600gph. A little fater than i want but it will do.

My beckett was made by OA and after 3 days is pulling out some amazing gunk. I added a 3' peice of tube to the air intake so it no longer makes the sucking noise but still has the same foam. It is run off a Mak4 that give just the right flow. A great skimmer!!!

I also have an OA kalk reactor connected to my auto top off. i put in two electric flot switchs into the power cable of a powerhead. When the water drops it turns them on and refills lost water. I used tow in case one gets stuck in the on position the other will still kill the flow.

I have 2x 250w 10k MH and 1x 175w 10k MH. I think i will be upgrading the 175 to a 400 20 at some point and the 250's to 14k's. I will be adding hammertone to the canopy as soon at it gets here.

I also have 4x 110w VHO actinics. I think i will move two of these to 10k's when bulb replacement time comes. It does however make the colors come right out!!!!

right now i have about 120 lbs of LR but will be adding more shortly. I have a 1-2" sand bed. I like the look of sand (hate BB) but dont want to troubles of a 5-6" bed.

Well thats all i can think of right now. Its a very basic system but should work well.

once again thanks Jack, Wendell and Matt!!! Without you guys i would still be trying to figure out how to do this!!!!!