Paddy's Ocean - 70 Gallon Mixed Reef **Phoenix Rebuild**

[paddyob]

Sooooo... after a long time looking and TRYING to find a good light... it looks like one is coming my way.

Sunlight Supply Tek Light 6 Bulb T5 Fixture (48 Inch, 6x54W).

Thanks Wes for hooking me up with your friend. 6 bulb T5 don't seem to come around very often on here so I committed to the purchase right away.

Although I do not have it in my hands yet.... it appears that John is willing to sell it to me. I am going to go see it Thursday... or so. He needs the light for about another 10 days as he is waiting for his new light to show up.

As I am still cycling... I can wait 10 more days for this.

My new check valves went in last night as well. Running great.


Thats todays update. Thanks for tuning in.

[paddyob]

70 Gallon display
40 gallon total sump volume - 30 gallons water
Euro-Reef RS80
Quiet One 3000 return pump
Finnex HMA-300 heater


60 pounds Aragamax™ Select sand
50-60 pounds live rock (at this time)

[Hawkaholic]

Nice set up...throwing two cents in. On the overflow box, put some eggcrate on the inside so it overlaps to make the holes smaller. I did that with my overflows...used acrylic glue to glue them together, works pretty ok...just a suggestion. Looks good so far though.

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by Hawkaholic

Nice set up...throwing two cents in. On the overflow box, put some eggcrate on the inside so it overlaps to make the holes smaller. I did that with my overflows...used acrylic glue to glue them together, works pretty ok...just a suggestion. Looks good so far though.

Good thought. I may also use some on the inside to raise the water level a little more.... its about 3/8" below trim and I would like it to the trim at least.

[paddyob]

I ordered powerheads from Reef Pefection today. He had a great deal on Koralia 3's and 2's. He only had one 3 left so I also took a Koralia 2.

I hope one Koralia 3 and one Koralia 2, in conjunction with my return lines, is enough flow.

The Koralia 3 was $31 and the Koralia 2 was $27.

Too good of a deal and fit my current budget.

[reefwars]

I just set up my 50g holding tank with nothing but 2 koralia2's alot more flow than I thought I need to swap one outfir something smaller they really do pack alot of flow glad to see the builds coming along did you order dry rock after?? If so from where abd happy with it???

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by reefwars

I just set up my 50g holding tank with nothing but 2 koralia2's alot more flow than I thought I need to swap one outfir something smaller they really do pack alot of flow glad to see the builds coming along did you order dry rock after?? If so from where abd happy with it???

I did not go the dry route. I bought 40 pounds of nice cured rock form Codfather and have about 20-25 of my own to add.

It would have saved me only $10 on 40lbs so why bother?

[reefwars]

Yeah true and codfather had some primo rock I have a few select pieces making it into my newset up I also want to do at least one side in tonga branch as well

[paddyob]

Todays test results (last test results beside)

Temp: 78F ... (78F)
SG: 1.027 ... (1.025 )
NH3: 0 ... (<.1)
NO2: 0 ... (0)
NO3: <5 mg/L ... (<5mg/L)
Ca: 540 ... (580)
Kh: 120 ... (180)
Ph: 7.9 ... (8.0)




I have still not dosed anything. My last tests were completed on 9/27/2010.... so with H2Ocean things seem pretty stable so far.


Anyhow thats an update.


****ALSO.... lights may be coming my way after all. I will know tomorrow when I can get the lights!****

[reefwars]

glad to see things are looking up, looks like your on the high side of calcium but its going down so thats good news