New set up, need advice

[Coral Hoarder]

Originally Posted by EquiReef

radions over kessils? This is the current debate.radions any day fully programmable kessils you can't even dim with out buying a dimer from IKEA lol



Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

j

[EquiReef]

Ok, I will have to try and test and see if it is tempered. The glass is thick with no bracing at all so I am assuming it is tempered for strength. There is a stick on the bottom of the tank with a bunch of warranty info but it doesn't say if it is tempered or not. It is a Miracles tank however so maybe they will be able to tell me. Taking the tank to NAFB is not an option, this tank is never leaving my basement again, we had to hire movers to get it in the house in the first place. So I am thinking we will need a HOB overflow kit.

Where is the best location to put the HOB over flow on the tank? In a corner or in the middle? Should I have two? Working on a sump design at the moment, will most that when I finish it.

[EquiReef]

So here is my idea for a sump/fuge. I want to run the 135gal and the 75 gal off the same sump This setup is going in an unfinished basement and the sump will be either beside the tanks or between them.

The sump will be 38 gallons with the fuge being 35 gallons. This drawing is horrible but you get the idea.

I want to run a phosban reactor and maybe a calcium reactor if needed but I dont know where I should run them from in the sump.

[freezetyle]

I would probably shoot to have a larger sump. In the case of a power failure you want the excess water from your display tanks to be able to run off and not overflow into your basement.

[hillegom]

I would switch your skimmer and return sections. Split the overflow water and have one of them go to the macro algae part. I would have this overflow empty into a filter sock on the right hand side of that refugium. Raise that tank so it is the same height as the other. This way, having a power outage, it would not spill onto the floor.
Add a ball valve onto one of your returns so that you could adjust the flow.

[EquiReef]

I have read mixed reviews on using filter socks. Some people say you have to change them very often (every three days??) or else you will have nitrate issues. What are your thoughts?

[hillegom]

Yes 3 days is good. Some people change them every week.
Some people can't be bothered.
Filter socks collect detrius among other solids, and copeopods too. If you don't collect the solids, then they will pile up somewhere and decompose "rot".
If you collect and take them out of the system, then you are doing a nutrient export kind of thing. Less nitrates your system has to handle, less water changes IMHO
All depends on your bioload, how many fish/corals/food you have in your soon to be system.

[EquiReef]

Originally Posted by hillegom

Yes 3 days is good. Some people change them every week.
Some people can't be bothered.
Filter socks collect detrius among other solids, and copeopods too. If you don't collect the solids, then they will pile up somewhere and decompose "rot".
If you collect and take them out of the system, then you are doing a nutrient export kind of thing. Less nitrates your system has to handle, less water changes IMHO
All depends on your bioload, how many fish/corals/food you have in your soon to be system.

Are copeopods not a good thing to have? I have a mandarin and have always kept an eye on my tank to ensure I have loads of them for him to eat. I even try and pick them out of the water when I do a water change to ensure I keep as many as possible (a bit OCD I know, but I would die if I knew he was hungry lol).