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[wetcoast]

Slowly my other ordered parts trickled in and I was able to complete the plumbing in the equipment room. One being an Ozone Reactor from Aquarium Life Support Systems.



I also built a big Air Dryer for it so that I didn't have to change beads so frequently:



A calcium reactor that I saved from my old 65 gallon made out of a very large Water container (will detail the build of that once I can find those pictures), and a Kalkwasser Reactor were put in place beside the refugium and QT tank. The Kalk reactor lasted two weeks and pee'd water all over the floor so a new one is being built.

The final piece I was missing was my skimmer. I originally had a Euro Reef CS400, but realized it was far too big for my plans and sold it. I ordered an ATI Bubble Master 250 Skimmer in July and in January just got fed up and purchased a Bubble King Mini 180 as I was starting to get a wee bit frustrated. Since I hacked up my sump stand a few times it made it quite difficult to get a skimmer in and out without draining the sump and disconnecting all the plumbing parts, so this was holding me back. I ended up modifying the stand one more time to make it all work out.





I then finished off the rest of the plumbing for the return, drain, refugium and to feed all the other components. The Ozone Reactor outputs into a TLF Phosban Reactor filled with Carbon - Another reactor will go in line in the near future. This was during the first phase of testing to see if my ideas actually worked out. There were a few issues with noise, microbubbles, leaking Snapper return pumps, and a cracked Dart Closed Loop pump, but I kept drinking beer and everything worked out.

Took my RODI unit a couple days to end up filling the whole tank, so in celebration I dumped 8 bags of sugar sand into the Refugium and Display. I'm still on the fence whether this was a good idea or not - Atinic Stew:



After that sorted itself out, I picked up 260lb of really nice pieces of rock, and got chewed out by my girlfriend for taking up her counter space.




I arranged the rockwork in both the Refugium and Display tank and let it sit for a long while. While I was waiting, I grabbed a couple pounds of sand, a couple 1" 45 degree adapters, and spread hot glue on them, for my closed loop outputs..