00W's AIO Smorgasbord

[Kipp's Corals]

Yes, black line is waste, red is IN, blue OUT. I have my booster pump set to ~83 psi and makes roughly 4 gal per hour.

I run it to a 35 gal Norwesco tank as well now, plenty for my little 55g setup.

Yup, that was the issue. The last guy must have test fit the adapter and left it.
swapped the adapter to the red line and kicked on the pump pressure shot to over 100 within seconds. I assume that i now have to take an allen wrench and adjust the pump pressure. is it left to lower pressure, right to increase?

 

[Calmwaters]

I only take cash inside. It's my way of keeping within my budget.

That's a great idea!

 

[1ocean]

Bare bottom has it's own beauty too.

yes.. the 300 is bare bottom except for the far back corner has 10 pounds of fine sand for the yellow coris and the female leopard warsse.

 

[Calmwaters]

Ok! Now we will need video and pics out the wazoo when you're there. We'll also be available to tell you yay or nay or answer questions if you have any.

Of course! It will be like the entire group is with me!

 

[1ocean]

Curious if anyone has used a tunze 9004 in a sump. I know this is off label.

sort of I have a 9410 tunze as my secondary for ozone..Had it in my 140 as stand alone tunze makes good stuff. Plug and play easy...

 

[1ocean]

i need a cookie lol

 

[Calmwaters]

i need a cookie lol

 

[1ocean]

wow..that was quick with the cookie request....hmmm what to ask for next......coffee?

 

[Calmwaters]

wow..that was quick with the cookie request....hmmm what to ask for next......coffee?

 

[Calmwaters]

After initial setup and getting tank cycled and stable what is everyone's maintenance routine like?

 

[1ocean]

After initial setup and getting tank cycled and stable what is everyone's maintenance routine like?

I was just going to do all my testing and change out my seachem phosguard reactor.

 

[1ocean]

be back later...ciao

 

[kevgib67]

When the tank is ready, could I buy some of those orange zoas? They will look good with my sponge.

Do you know what else would look good with your sponge? A birdsnest frag! Did you know that I’m giving them away free?

 

[kevgib67]

Hi all, I have a question you were speaking about march madness also you have reefapalooza or similar. We don t have this where I am living and even not sure on my home country. Is it like 10 vendors, 50 vendors or 200?

A lot of the big cities have them, Cleveland had one with many vendors and Pittsburgh had one also. They may have multiple ones but those were the two I saw near me.

 

[907_Reefer]

Yup, that was the issue. The last guy must have test fit the adapter and left it.
swapped the adapter to the red line and kicked on the pump pressure shot to over 100 within seconds. I assume that i now have to take an allen wrench and adjust the pump pressure. is it left to lower pressure, right to increase?

Nice! If I recall it is left to lower pressure, but start with tiny adjustments and you will see the pressure move in one direction immediately as confirmation.

 

[Katrina71]

sort of I have a 9410 tunze as my secondary for ozone..Had it in my 140 as stand alone tunze makes good stuff. Plug and play easy...

I might need to pick your brain when I get my sump ready please.

 

[Katrina71]

Do you know what else would look good with your sponge? A birdsnest frag! Did you know that I’m giving them away free?

Perfect!

 

[Katrina71]

Yup, that was the issue. The last guy must have test fit the adapter and left it.
swapped the adapter to the red line and kicked on the pump pressure shot to over 100 within seconds. I assume that i now have to take an allen wrench and adjust the pump pressure. is it left to lower pressure, right to increase?

Good catch!

 

[Katrina71]

This was my Dad's

 

[00W]

After initial setup and getting tank cycled and stable what is everyone's maintenance routine like?

Mine is every Monday, which I go over in this thread.
Everyone does everything differently, every tank is different but I'll sum mine up for you and if you have any questions just fire away.
I change 15 gallons of water every Monday.
I clean my skimmer every 3 days. Top only, whole thing every 3 months.
Clean sock when full. About every 3 days.
I test 3 things every week.
Phos, nitrate and alk.
Sometimes I test nitrate before and after water change.
I'll replace carbon in reactor weekly, gfo when test is higher than I like.
Scrape algae scrubber every other week.
My tank has been going 7-8 years or so. Nothing much happens and it really takes me longer to arrange all my buckets of water than maintain unless I spill everywhere or decide to do something I don't need to and then undo that back to original.
I clean my wave makers monthly.
That's important for longevity. I hate buying new stuff cuz I'm lazy.