62G Starfire Reef [40x18x20]

[JDigital]

Originally Posted by kien

Looking good. I can almost taste the salt!

Better add a bit more salt to your Popcorn then..

Originally Posted by lastlight

The Tunze only comes with the one magnet set. You sneaky bastard you split the pair and used something metal on the other side of them didn't you? I like you eggcrate mounting board too that's handy.

I actually got 2 of them in the box. I was pretty confused as to why they provided me with two, I couldn't understand it! 1 has a spot for both the float switch and the electronic sensor, the other just one spot. In the instructions it shows that you can use the single holder one for when you want to have the float switch higher than the other dual magnet provides. I decided to use it for holding the feed pump hose in place.

I stole the eggcrate board idea from someone over on Nano-Reef. Works really well. Cable management is very important to me on this build. Clean clean clean..

[JDigital]

w00t! Finally finished my plumbing today. I should have had it done weeks ago when I started it, but got a bit lazy @ home and busy @ work which delayed me in picking up the correct plumbing parts I needed to finish the job. But it's done now.

My plans now are to sell off that Bubble Magus NAC6 and pick up a Reef Octopus XP1000sss, then my Lights which I am back to being undecided on , then Salt and RO unit.

[JDigital]

Small update before life gets crazy for the christmas season.

Picked up my Vertex Puratek 100GPD RO/DI unit. It's felt a bit strange buying 2 of these things in a matter of a couple months apart.

Also decided on my salt after finding that the parameters of the CoralLife Salt I am using at the office is completely unacceptable out of the bag. So I will be going with H2Ocean salt. I've liked it in past so figured I would use it again. Also picked another 23lbs of dry rock to finish my aquascape. Unfortunately I probably won't get a whole lot of progress made before the New Year, but I will definitely have something to do after the holidays are over.

[lastlight]

looks good! i am using the same salt these days. been happy with it so far and it mixes a lot cleaner than RC.

[kien]

Originally Posted by lastlight

looks good! i am using the same salt these days. been happy with it so far and it mixes a lot cleaner than RC.

Ditto on the salt. H2Ocean is one of my fav. Although I will occasionally rotate in a WC with RC still, just for fun. So who gets to tank sit during the Christmas holidays?

[JDigital]

Originally Posted by kien

Ditto on the salt. H2Ocean is one of my fav. Although I will occasionally rotate in a WC with RC still, just for fun. So who gets to tank sit during the Christmas holidays?

This tank, shouldn't need much babysitting... My office tank however will, I am topping off my ATO Friday which will last till monday, then my manager will come in monday to 2 pre-filled jugs of water to top up the ATO which will last until I get back in on Friday. As for feedings, I am going to use an Autofeeder with flake/pellet for the weekend, manager will feed Frozen and Nori on Monday and the autofeeder will take care of xmas day and boxing day. Skimmer should be ok for the entire time I'm gone. I'm also leaving a 35G batch of fresh SW in the case that things go horribly wrong. *knock on wood*!

[kien]

Originally Posted by JDigital

This tank, shouldn't need much babysitting... My office tank however will, I am topping off my ATO Friday which will last till monday, then my manager will come in monday to 2 pre-filled jugs of water to top up the ATO which will last until I get back in on Friday. As for feedings, I am going to use an Autofeeder with flake/pellet for the weekend, manager will feed Frozen and Nori on Monday and the autofeeder will take care of xmas day and boxing day. Skimmer should be ok for the entire time I'm gone. I'm also leaving a 35G batch of fresh SW in the case that things go horribly wrong. *knock on wood*!

oops sorry, had a bit of a brain fart there, ya I was thinking of your office tank with that question more than this tank. Always thought about doing something at my office but the whole issue around vacations and holidays has me wondering if that would actually work for us here. In other words I would not really trust any of my co-workers with a tank

[JDigital]

Originally Posted by kien

oops sorry, had a bit of a brain fart there, ya I was thinking of your office tank with that question more than this tank. Always thought about doing something at my office but the whole issue around vacations and holidays has me wondering if that would actually work for us here. In other words I would not really trust any of my co-workers with a tank

I wouldn't say I have FULL faith in them. And even after leaving detailed instructions on what to do each day while I was away, they forgot/missed a few things, but this is a conversation for my other thread.


On the other hand...

I installed the RO/DI before leaving for christmas holidays and ran it for about 1.5hr as per the instructions. (Which only recommended 30mins actually, but I prefer to run longer for the initial flush)

Got home from the airport about 10pm tonight, got settled in and unpacked... figured it was time to turn this bad boy on!

[michika]

Awesome!

[Leah]

This tank needs water.