My 315 upgrade / rebuild

[Rus]

They are actually still mounted on the side panel , but right up to front of it this way when it turns 90 deg. it covers right across the front of the reef . I have a couple pics , but hard to tell from them .Pump is located on on side of the sump from there piping goes up to a tee , one line continues straight up to the seaswirl , and the other goes under the stand and back up on the other side, make sure you use valve on each ( which I'm sure you would ) but they are neede to adjust flow to equal the output evenly from each one.

Here's a few early setup pics of it

[christyf5]

Great work!! Thanks for the pics, they totally help!!

[Rus]

Happy New year and Holidays to everyone.

I thought it might be high time to do a small update on the tank. Heading into January the the tank is in it's 40th week now ( or almost 10 months ) . I have gone thru a few learning curves on this tank as far as getting everything dialed in correctly .

I have had some decent growth on some of my corals and a few setbacks on others. I have been trying a few new things with this setup as well. I am dosing 3 or 4 types of zeovit additives to the tank for the past few months , mostly just color enhancers though , and have seen some improvment on a few corals . As of now still keeping a watch on wether it is making a large difference or not. Fish wise I am up to 28 now , and have only had a few issues with lost ones so far , unfourtantley one happened to be my Achilles .

I still am battling a low ph and mag. levels in this tank , so I am seriously considering switching over to a balling method soon. Just trying to decide on wether to purchase the stand alone Profilux , (or sell my AQ3 and Deltec Reactor ) and purchase a complete newcontroller setup and doser. I really like the direction that Profilux seems to going , and what they have to offer.

For those of you dosing in your larger tanks ( 300gal. and up ) Are you purchase premade products or making your own? Also do you find this method a lot more stable for you, in comparison to running a reactor?

Anyway a couple of newer (not so good ) pics as well, I will try to get a few more later on today .

[xtreme]

My system is ~350 gallons and I just picked up the 2 pump standalone profilux doser last weekend. I get my Calcium and magnesium from the Chemmaster and mix it myself. I have been dosing Randy's recipe manually for the past couple years with good results but having the doser will keep my system that much more stable. A good investment IMO but I don't have any experience with CA reactors so I can't make a comparison.

[Rus]

Thanks for the info , do you know if you can run the stand alone unit thru the Profilux Controller , if you decide to purchase one later on? Any idea on what your monthly costs are on this ? Are you able to premix more than a months supply at a time , if so does it need to be mixed up periodically?

[Rus]

Just passed the 1 year mark on this tank , and thought i would update a little . I have tried few new things over the past few months , latest is switching over to dosing from my calcium reactor setup. I went with the Profilux 3 pump stand alone unit , and so far am very pleased with my choice .It was extremly easy to setup for what you want to dose and to make adjustments along the way if needed.
I have been running it for almost 3 weeks now , and so far everything is staying steady as far as alk and calcium goes .PH has also climbed , and for the first time since setting up this tank it is over 8.00 .

here's a couple of decent pics and not so great videos of the tank lately:



Fish room



Feeding time

[Delphinus]

Wow, looks fantastic! Dig that aquascaping!