Devoted Reefer 250

DarthSimon · Aug 25, 2019

Staying in the game brother??? Good to see ya

Scurvy · Aug 25, 2019

Man is dusting and cleaning up spills in aisle 9.... I think Ill start calling you Mega Maid!

pelphrey · Aug 27, 2019

Pink filter floss delivery!

pelphrey · Aug 27, 2019

DarthSimon said:
Staying in the game brother??? Good to see ya

Doing my best to!!!

Scurvy said:
Man is dusting and cleaning up spills in aisle 9.... I think Ill start calling you Mega Maid!

HAHAHAAHA

pelphrey · Aug 29, 2019

This stuff is crazy!

Guttersnipe · Aug 30, 2019

I would leave out filter floss.

Guttersnipe · Aug 30, 2019

No carbon, no gfo, no filter sock

pelphrey · Aug 30, 2019

Guttersnipe said:
I would leave out filter floss.

Guttersnipe said:
No carbon, no gfo, no filter sock

I like running the floss. It overflows after about 24 hours anyway. I don't run carbon or gfo, no sock holders on this sump.

pelphrey · Aug 31, 2019

pelphrey · Aug 31, 2019

Cleaned the sand and scraped the sump of the coralline algae with an old hotel key!

pelphrey · Sep 1, 2019

Couple images for Sunday evening!

pelphrey · Sep 5, 2019

Off to a new home!

DS204 · Sep 5, 2019

Don't get pulled over accidentally, or you might have some explaining and convincing to do!

pelphrey · Sep 5, 2019

Dean Smith said:
Don't get pulled over accidentally, or you might have some explaining and convincing to do!

I almost wish I would have been pulled over! Would have been hilarious!

darkrabbit · Sep 6, 2019

Hey, I've been following your thread with great interest (Emperor Palpatine voice). I had a quick question regarding your pumps you used, specifically the gyres. I have a Reefer 250 as well, I can't turn my XF330's past 30% without my hammer and torch getting upset, and at 50% I blew one of my LPS across to the other side of the tank.

You programmed yours for 60% for some tidal movement and I am wondering how you did it lol. You have similar corals, were they not bothered by the huge flow?

Does your rockscape have something to do with it or what direction you pointed the gyres? Mine are set up exactly as yours were in terms of position...

Thanks!

pelphrey · Sep 6, 2019

darkrabbit said:
Hey, I've been following your thread with great interest (Emperor Palpatine voice). I had a quick question regarding your pumps you used, specifically the gyres. I have a Reefer 250 as well, I can't turn my XF330's past 30% without my hammer and torch getting upset, and at 50% I blew one of my LPS across to the other side of the tank.

You programmed yours for 60% for some tidal movement and I am wondering how you did it lol. You have similar corals, were they not bothered by the huge flow?

Does your rockscape have something to do with it or what direction you pointed the gyres? Mine are set up exactly as yours were in terms of position...

Thanks!

Thanks for following along! My first guess is that the 330's are more powerful than the 230's, also I ran a pretty quick pulse the objective was to create the standing wave in the tank! I also had the pumps pointed towards the surface, not all the way towards the surface, just enough that it wouldn't push water up and make a splash!

I have the exact settings I used listed on my website pelphrey.net on the left click Gyre settings!

darkrabbit · Sep 6, 2019

Thanks! Yeah I checked your settings, but they make me nervous haha! Maybe I'll try to get a good current like yours going at 40% and see what happens. I don't think the 330's are more powerful, the GPH is almost the same, but who knows as I am not sure the posted GPH's are that accurate.

I'll try a few things and see what happens, maybe pointing the gyres up more will help AND maybe taking the flow directors on the 330's off so the flow isn't so concentrated....

Thanks!