my Deep Sea Neo Nano waterfall tank

[Borderjumper]

Today I spent most of the day rearranging my fish room so I could put this new tank against the back wall. Jeeze I have acculmulated lots of crap!

The plumbing was very straight forward.


I'm using an eheim return pump I had instead of the one that came with the tank. It was more of a pond pump rated at 800GPH. The Eheim is rated at a tad less than 700 GPH. I like Eheims and never had one fail

Filling the tower with fresh water for a test run... all these little holes are supposed to move the water around the tank.


I really like the waterfall! Ive seen some people complain that it has to be wiped down every few days or algae will grow.. guess I will just have to deal with that, or learn to embrace my algae slide.


Im going to make a few changes. I went to Rona on Bay and bought some elbows. Im going to put them into the overflow boxs so that I can put a strainer in there to keep the snails out. I need to cut the elbows down a 1/2" tho, as they break the surface screwing up the skimming effect of the overflow boxs. Oh! Rona has their $20 petunia baskets on sale for $4.99!!


Also Im not happy with the amount of water that drains back down to the sump when i do an emergency pump shut down. All those little holes in the bottom of the waterfall box tend to keep refilling the box, even after the level goes down past the bulkhead. It drains down a good 2" before it pressurizes enough to stop the back flow.. and when your tank is ony 12" to start whats way too low. I put an elbow into the waterfall box too, and add a standpipe of about 3-4". This keeps the box fuller, which increases the down pressure so the water from the little holes doesnt push back up.

Going to let it run tonight with fresh water, then tomorrow drain it and put in new crushed coral and arrange my dried out branch rock. Then prolly fill it again with fresh water to rinse everything one last time. Hopefully i have the umph left to drain the freshwater, salt er up, and fill up the sump with liverock to get the cycle going.

[reefgirl189]

Originally Posted by Borderjumper

Also Im not happy with the amount of water that drains back down to the sump when i do an emergency pump shut down. All those little holes in the bottom of the waterfall box tend to keep refilling the box, even after the level goes down past the bulkhead. It drains down a good 2" before it pressurizes enough to stop the back flow.. and when your tank is ony 12" to start whats way too low. I put an elbow into the waterfall box too, and add a standpipe of about 3-4". This keeps the box fuller, which increases the down pressure so the water from the little holes doesnt push back up.

Are you thinking about installing a check valve to stop the problem? We ended up having to put one on ours because of the position of the bulkheads draining too much into the sump and found it was a nice, easy, cheap and quick solution.

I'm very excited to see how this tank turns out.

[fishytime]

Originally Posted by Borderjumper

I really like the waterfall! Ive seen some people complain that it has to be wiped down every few days or algae will grow.. guess I will just have to deal with that, or learn to embrace my algae slide.

think of it as a built in ATS

very cool lookin little tanks......got any updates for us Shelly?

[Borderjumper]

Originally Posted by fishytime

think of it as a built in ATS

very cool lookin little tanks......got any updates for us Shelly?

It's in it's boring stage right now..even tho I filled the sump with established live rock I want to let it run a couple of weeks before I switch every thing over.
( or maybe Sunday)

[mseepman]

I've seen a couple of these running for quite a while now and the only thing you have to be aware of is that the material they used for the waterfall gathers all the algae in a similar fashion to an Algae scrubber. It will require really regular maintenance. Otherwise, I loved the look of it as a frag tank or look-down tank.

[windcoast reefs]

Where are the pics!? It was pretty amazing last time I saw it!

[Leah]

Awe Geez! Thought it was an update. Look and no go.

[christyf5]

I can't believe I missed this! Moar pics! Moar pics!!