Cprowler's 120

[Midknight]

Those are some beautiful zoo's you have there.
Now if any fall off the rock you will let me know right.

[cprowler]

Actually I will be fraging a bunch of the blue/orange ones tonight along with the caps, pm me if your interested.

[cprowler]

Not sure when but back when my D70 was not working I changed the sump/fuge, return pump, skimmer feed, ATO, and phosban rector feeds.


This pic is what I had before, A 40g long. You can see the float valve I had for ATO fed by my Kalk reactor. That's my old ASM G2 but my new skimmer was feed by a Mag 5 and my phosban reactors that were not in this shot were both fed by a MJ900.





A old shot of the mess it had become


In these shots I took today you can see I now have a 75g and took out the fuge and baffles and now have a open sump. I could not keep any macro's alive in the fuge since using ReefResh and didn't like how the light from the fuge would grow coroline on the skimmer and other equipment so I took it out.

I plumbed in a manifold to get rid of all the pumps I had in the sump to feed the skimmer and PB reactors. The sump has a two inch bulkhead in the bottom right that feeds a Dart in the crawl space, then it comes up and feeds the manifold that feeds the tank, skimmer, PB reactors and soon to be Ozone reactor. I left two open ports on the manifold incase I want to add something later.

Canon SD550


Nikon D80


Nikon D80


I'm off to siphon the detritus out of the sump that you can see and scrape the glass that I have neglected for a week.

[Jason McK]

Great Idea Bill. I love the manifold

When did you do all that

J

[cprowler]

It was after my D70 broke and before my D80 and SD55 so around February I guess, since I didn't have a working camera and didn't document it and now I forget. Some where in there, I have many more upgrades that I have to update here but I'm leaving town in the morning so it will have to wait some more.

[fkshiu]

Nice work on the manifold. I've always found them to be quite finicky. Adjusting one outlet always requires some re-adjusting of all the other ones - water will always choose the path of least resistance. Have you found this to be the case with yours?

[cprowler]

Sorry for the late reply fkshiu, I have been out of town for a few days. I have not found it to be a problem yet, I have the skimmer feed and the return feeds wide open and adjust the phosban reactors.

[cprowler]

Here is a FTS from a few minutes ago, MH's are off so just under T5's. It's not very good and the tank needs cleaning and pruning...but hey...it's the middle of August.

[christyf5]

WoW! Great colors! Those caps and that anemone are gorgeous

[cprowler]

I'm going to be moving the sump into the garage soon and start using a fuge again and also a frag/prop tank so I can keep the sandbed clear of frags. The biggest thing I'm not liking is I will have to loose my control panel but I guess I can have something similar in the garage.