THE Tank Build By Aqua Digital

[Aqua-Digital]

Wahoo

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

[superduperwesman]

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

[bauder1986]

one of the cleanest looking nano's out there

[Aqua-Digital]

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

[superduperwesman]

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

[Aqua-Digital]

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

[Aqua-Digital]

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.

[Aqua-Digital]

Hanging wire tails now hidden

[Chase31]

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

[lastlight]

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