60 Gallon - New To Reefs

monkE · #1 05-08-2013, 02:21 AM

thanks for the info guys.... the mods changed it up for me

here's some new coral pics!

monkE · #2 05-12-2013, 07:43 PM

Picked up a Reefkeeker Lite and after some tinkering I have the system all running and working. I've also set it up with an auto top off, which almost became a huge problem when I didn't think about the top off hose siphoning the 5 gallon bucket straight into the sump after the pump was shut off... luckily it stopped when the water level equalled out and i didn't move the salt content too far so nothing in the tank seemed to be adversely affected. at this point i'm only an RO/DI unit away from having this system right where i want it.... ok a higher end LED light also

monkE · #3 05-12-2013, 09:21 PM

downloaded the myreef 2.0 software from the Digital Aquatics website and started to play around with the controller. I'm going to need a phone line splitter because there are no open ports in the system but i just removed the temp probe and temporarily connected my laptop using the usb cable that was supplied in the box. The one draw back i have found with the reefkeepr is there was seemingly no way to change the name of each channel so you have to keep a map handy to remember which channel was which component, but when i connected and ran the software i found that i could customize the channel names so now instead of my display reading CH1 - ON it reads LEFT P/H - ON, or SKIMMER - ON... SOOOO much better.

monkE · #4 05-13-2013, 02:19 PM

i've been waiting around all day waiting for the leaf game to start... so i figured that i'd change my rock-scape up. I wasn't completely happy with it, and wanted something with a more natural look so i started moving things around. Here's some pics... most of the coral is ****ed in the picture because of all the moving around, but they will be fine in a couple days im sure.

BEFORE:

AND AFTER:

neoh · #5 05-13-2013, 05:33 PM

Much better scape. The other one drove me nuts!

kien · #6 05-14-2013, 04:17 PM

looking good! That's definitely an improvement! Less is more :-)

monkE · #7 05-21-2013, 10:19 PM

controller is great, the auto top off is working beautifully... can't belive how quickly it uses a 5 gallon bucket though! Today i went in to get a couple reactors. Up to this point i have been putting carbon and phos-guard in my filter socks, but they seem to be clogging up really quickly with that method so I have picked up two phosban 150s to run my carbon and some rowa-phos.

Also because i cant seem to leave JnL's without some kind of livestock i got a tube anemone and a yellow tang! lol