KissMyWrasse/Es355lucille 140g Tank Journal - Page 2

es355lucille · #11 04-22-2009, 07:19 PM

he he....it does look pretty bad! but it is shrink wrap that I just left on since the move as I have been working on and around the aquarium. I left it to protect it from clumsy me!

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Originally Posted by Canuckgod420

well i sure hope its shrink wrap......almost looks like someone used a sanding block as an algae scraper....lol

Otherwise, sweet setup

Rbacchiega · #12 04-22-2009, 08:46 PM

gonna be a looker for sure! Looking forward to the progress on this one. I heart peninsula tanks...and wall tanks...and normal tanks... and and....

anyways....

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you guys out!

es355lucille · #13 04-23-2009, 01:46 AM

Thanks Doug....I will be reviewing the use of the bioballs for sure. Raf says this unit is very quiet, but he used different ways to obtain this for sure. Now I checked the drain and its a straight pipe just waiting to be converted to a herbie.

I looked up Herbie on the RC to get an idea of how to do this......still not completely sure, but first look it appears to be a simple setup. Thanks I will be chatting to you about this.

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Originally Posted by fishytime

Dats gonna be saweeeeet guys. I would consider not using the bioballs... unless you religiously clean them they can become a nitrate factory. If the sump is noisy there are other ways of dampening the sound...sponges,filter sock,etc...something easy to remove and clean. Or it may be a design flaw with the plumbing or sump layout that is causing the noise. Is it a herbie style drain,....durso?

es355lucille · #14 04-04-2010, 10:45 PM

So I added the new NO3 & PO4 reducing pellet system. Reactor and pellets from Red Coral. As you can see I don't have much room so I hosed the unit in......everything (dosing unit etc) is spilling out into the kitchen.

This unit is sponsored by Heinz as they provided the stand. Also a piece of hardwood flooring as a base on top of the can.

I was using the Zeo system and finally got the nitrates to ~0.......but I was finding that as I am getting busier that I cannot keep up to the maintenance of the Zeo system. I will still dose some KZ products but I am hoping that with the long lasting pellets that my wife can maintain the system while I am on the road for a week at a time.

walloutlet · #15 04-04-2010, 11:27 PM

Great setup. I have the exact same stand only using it for my protein skimmer.

es355lucille · #16 04-04-2010, 11:35 PM

I am going to leave my phosban reactor running for a week while the pellets start to activate. But I will be removing it and just running one PBR150 with carbon.

es355lucille · #17 04-04-2010, 11:48 PM

Thanks, Sometimes it comes down to what you can find around the house! LOL!

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Originally Posted by walloutlet

Great setup. I have the exact same stand only using it for my protein skimmer.

fishytime · #18 04-09-2010, 02:21 AM

I recently had a chance to closely examine the this tank and all I can say is WOW!...... I really dig your aquascaping B&S....... was really hard concentrating on the job at hand with that tank in the background

if the stand fits huh?(for the reactor)......

would like to "jam" with yous two sometime

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es355lucille · #19 01-02-2011, 03:15 AM

I was playing around during the holidays and learned how to create movies with my Mac computer. I created this one in a short amount of time to document the system for 2010. I hope you like it.

Click the area below to see the video I created of our 140g reef tank.

Ps. My wife is a songwriter and we produce our own music at home....so enjoy.

viperfish · #20 01-02-2011, 03:24 AM

You might want to ease back on the flow in your Vertex reactor, having a bunch of pellets pinned to the top like that is a sign of too much flow. You just need to have enough flow to keep the pellets in motion but not so much that its pushing a bunch of them to the top.