1000gal DT build

[Badilac]

it works well for me with 11 feet distance. I run it at 100% and the water on top of the tank from other side is very turbulent. It gave me much needed flow in the back where i could move mp60s to other locations.
Having 8 foot tank, you can probably dial it down to 50%-75% and it would work just fine.
But if you have sand, it maybe too much flow

Thanks for the feedback. I have no sand as I’m bare bottom.

 

[New Jersey REEF]

My new pet,

 

[crusso1993]

My new pet,

Not sure if Is This Love in the background was planned but it fits!

 

[New Jersey REEF]

Here is an update:
Still working on trimming the ceiling in the basement, should be finished tomorrow sometime then painting...

A bit more trim left to do here, and here is some progress pictures.

Fish tanking doing well, I’ve been manually adding 60ml of lanthanum chloride every other day to control phosphates. It went up to 0.16ppm other day after 60ml dose, it went down to 0.08. Two days later up to 0.12ppm.
I just did another dose of 60ml

Nitrates sate around 5ppm

alk upto 9dkh

cal 530s

mag is around 1300, I will be dosing some to raise it to 14-1500
I like it a bit higher than lower.

Here is a short video of fish eating, hope you enjoy it!

 

[Badilac]

Here is an update:
Still working on trimming the ceiling in the basement, should be finished tomorrow sometime then painting...

A bit more trim left to do here, and here is some progress pictures.

Fish tanking doing well, I’ve been manually adding 60ml of lanthanum chloride every other day to control phosphates. It went up to 0.16ppm other day after 60ml dose, it went down to 0.08. Two days later up to 0.12ppm.
I just did another dose of 60ml

Nitrates sate around 5ppm

alk upto 9dkh

cal 530s

mag is around 1300, I will be dosing some to raise it to 14-1500
I like it a bit higher than lower.

Here is a short video of fish eating, hope you enjoy it!

Says video unavailable

 

[New Jersey REEF]

Says video unavailable

I wonder if this link will work

 

[crusso1993]

Here is an update:
Still working on trimming the ceiling in the basement, should be finished tomorrow sometime then painting...

A bit more trim left to do here, and here is some progress pictures.

Fish tanking doing well, I’ve been manually adding 60ml of lanthanum chloride every other day to control phosphates. It went up to 0.16ppm other day after 60ml dose, it went down to 0.08. Two days later up to 0.12ppm.
I just did another dose of 60ml

Nitrates sate around 5ppm

alk upto 9dkh

cal 530s

mag is around 1300, I will be dosing some to raise it to 14-1500
I like it a bit higher than lower.

Here is a short video of fish eating, hope you enjoy it!

Marley to Stones... nice switchup!

Ceiling looks good! Please post up some pics after you finish.

 

[New Jersey REEF]

Here is some more pics of ceiling progress.
Need to finish caulking and paint.

 

[New Jersey REEF]

Marley to Stones... nice switchup!

Ceiling looks good! Please post up some pics after you finish.

Thank you @crusso1993, almost there!
I got a bit of a cold today but hoping to finish it next week sometime!

 

[crusso1993]

Here is some more pics of ceiling progress.
Need to finish caulking and paint.

Looking stellar! I like the purple best.

 

[New Jersey REEF]

Small update:
Had a near disaster happened today

I was monitoring my calcium pro for calcium reactor and noticed something unusual happening.
24hr chart

I came to check it out and couldn’t see anything unusual. At first I thought co2 tank was running low, but pressure gage was good.
Then I started to hear weird noise, didn’t know what it was. Looking around I suddenly realized that noise was coming from pump for calcium reactor and the reactor itself was empty. dang! I was freaking out, how is that possible ?! I looked in the sump expecting to see no water but in the back of my mind I knew everything was working flawlessly so it couldn’t be lack of water.
So how my water valve that is connected to frag tank and calcium reactor wasn’t blocked. Mind you it hasn’t been adjusted since 11 months ago when I set up the system. Anyways it’s still a mystery to me, I adjusted the valve and now water was flowing/ filling up reactor. I realized too that when I was adjusting water valve from reactor that too was not letting water out. So I opened it too, lots of co2 gas came out when I opened that valve.

2nd thing happened my inline check valve failed for kalk reactor

I looked at it and kalk reactor was 1/2 empty. Another shocker... where did the water go? I took out online check valve and start blowing air init to test it, sure enough it was goin in from both side. So about 1 1/2 gallons of kalk water was put back into ato topoff 55gallon barrel
(I wasn’t sure how it will affect system)

At this point my alk went up from 9.5 to 9.8

I think if I was to let it go for couple of days not noticing it. Alk would probably drop big time and could potentially crash tank. Also that calcium pump would have burned out running on empty.

I think I will have to replace ph probe in the reactor but over all near disaster avoided!
What are the odds of calcium reactor, kalkwasser reactor failure on the same day? Crazy stuff...

 

[NautiTang]

Good thing you caught it before anything devastating happened (I hope). Have you seen any ill effects after this event? Anything new happening?

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Beautiful setup! Glad you caught the issue early

 

[New Jersey REEF]

Beautiful setup! Glad you caught the issue early

Thanks @Daniel@R2R i appreciate it! I got lucky & unlucky with two things going wrong same time. Not sure what the odds of that are, but I’m not playing lottery.

By the way I’m still trying to renounce from that issue alk dropped down from 9 to now at 7.8 ish. Having hard time bringing it back up, I’m thinking of leaving it around 8 mark.

 

[New Jersey REEF]

Good thing you caught it before anything devastating happened (I hope). Have you seen any ill effects after this event? Anything new happening?

Thanks @NautiTang I appreciate it! Everything seems to be doing. Alk still low but I’m thinking of leaving it around 8dhk

I will give 1 year update next.

 

[New Jersey REEF]

My tank turned 1 year old on May 12th.
I’ve got a new pet, blue linckia starfish. Got it to see if it will eat asteria stars. I love how it looks as well. I read It’s difficult to keep alive but I will give it a shot...

 

[New Jersey REEF]

Here is a quick video of me feeding the tank, 14months old!
Happy Friday!

 

[Aussiemarine]

The video is unavailable! I was so excited to watch it

 

[New Jersey REEF]

The video is unavailable! I was so excited to watch it

Not sure why it’s not available, probably because of copy writes on music . I’ll try to post another one soon
Thanks for tagging along

 

[New Jersey REEF]

I am getting ready to add another reactor with this product Purit by Brightwell. I heard good things about it!

I found my starfish today near anemones.. I wonder if it gets hurt by them stinging tentacles?