Greg's 75g

[gregzz4]

Well wouldn't ya know it. I wasn't planning on SPS any time soon, but I was talked into some as they are easy
Now I'm gonna have to test regularly
Thanks for the Montis tang daddy

[lockrookie]

i keep forgetting a person should test from time to time i think my last test was 6 months ago...maybe.. well congrats on the corals filler up

[Coralgurl]

Great build, love the scaping! Hard to resist corals! Like Doug said, filler up!

[Nano]

yay! CORAL!

[tang daddy]

Hey Greg it was nice meeting you yesterday and seeing your clinical set up, very pristine.... Also redundancy redundancy redundancy!!

The montis we traded are lime green montipora capricromis, red cap, and green cap with blue polyps which is alittle colored down ATM but will definitely colour up with the Ati blasting them!

[gregzz4]

Thanks, Chris, it was great meeting you and having you over
I'm off to solve the readings issue

[Bblinks]

Don't know how I have missed this thread...Very nice build Greg. I am loving your attention to details which I really lack... I would love to come over and check out the tank if you are ever available. I would love to see you over my place for the same reason. I know you are coming out to the frag swap and let me tell you its gonna be a blast.

keep up the good work!
BTW We love pictures.

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by Bblinks

Don't know how I have missed this thread...Very nice build Greg. I am loving your attention to details which I really lack... I would love to come over and check out the tank if you are ever available. I would love to see you over my place for the same reason. I know you are coming out to the frag swap and let me tell you its gonna be a blast.

keep up the good work!
BTW We love pictures.

Thanks Rich
You're welcome anytime, just give me a call

[gregzz4]

Where am I now, sump v4.0 ? Or is it v5.0 ?

Here's what I did today ...
I hot-plumbed a swing check valve into the return .. gotta tell ya, no better way to increase your blood-pressure - no spare parts and just have at 'er
Put a heater in the DT, the Vortechs kept the flow goin' and the soon-to-be-removed sump 1262 kept the sump active enough that the Ranco never kicked on with the back-up heaters
So, I waited about an hour for the PVC stuff to air-out with some air flow and back into the system it goes


Turned out just fine, and now the return is actually quiet
No more humming through the lines, nor the wall from the sump room
I extended some lines so nothing would touch the wall anymore. Poor fishies though as the sound is still in the tank

It may mean nothing to some of you, but I'll tell ya, it means the world to me when I can make it quieter for the wife
She never complained, but I know that if it was enough to bother me, she was only being 'nice' about it

So, once that was done, I knew I had to remove the sump circuit stuff from the wall clamps ....
I ran an eheim 1000 for the chaeto and an eheim 2000 for the UV/Chiller and I'll be dammed, it's SUPER quiet

New check valve, but it's only there to stop the splashing when the pump restarts ...



Before the sump re-plumb



After the re-config












I have temporarily hooked up a Maxi 600 for the GFO ( last pic ), and it has a T
I may do this permanently for the GFO and Carbon ( I don't have the Carbon reactor running yet as I see no need to )

It's just a T near the valve that came with the TLF Reactors and it dumps back into the sump, so it doesn't matter what size of pump I use

SUPER happy with the new setup

Now I'll have to sell an Eheim 1262 that I bought brand new last month as I already have a spare

[Paigee]

Your scape is ingenious!