Kat's Fabulous CADlights Artisan

reefingnoob · Jul 1, 2015

What a beautiful set up! Must upload more pics

metrokat · Jul 1, 2015

Thanks. Here's a tank video from May, before I re-scaped.

reefingnoob · Jul 1, 2015

Nice! Also what do you have in your refugium? Really hoping you haven't gone soft like the rest of us in your refugium.

metrokat · Jul 1, 2015

reefingnoob said:
Nice! Also what do you have in your refugium? Really hoping you haven't gone soft like the rest of us in your refugium.

Soft?

My fuge was inoculated with fresh sand from the ocean and rocks from the ocean - uncured. Has lots of different varieties of macros, a pistol shrimp, marine shrimp and a big honking sponge.

reefingnoob · Jul 1, 2015

Haha here's the metrokat we all love! I went so soft I forgot to have a refugium
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metrokat · Jul 1, 2015

:slap:

Don't forget to notice my custom pink reactor.

reefingnoob · Jul 1, 2015

OMG! I was mesmerized by the refugium [emoji5] [emoji23] .
I must know the detail

metrokat · Jul 1, 2015

for the reactor? It's pretty cool actually, Brian on another forum made it for me, has three individually separated chambers, so you can run 3 medias or more of just one. It's modular so you only put in as many chambers as needed.

ethridge78 · Jul 1, 2015

Very nice

Lacktaters · Jul 1, 2015

What's the purpose of the white egg crate on the weir coming out of your refugium?

metrokat · Jul 1, 2015

Lacktaters said:
What's the purpose of the white egg crate on the weir coming out of your refugium?

I had a mandarin in the fuge at that time. It was to prevent him from jumping into the middle chamber. He used to do that in my old sump.

WilRams · Jul 1, 2015

Looks like its filling in nice!

Wish I had them drill mine standard instead of dealing with the headache of adapters.

metrokat · Jul 1, 2015

WilRams said:
Looks like its filling in nice!
Wish I had them drill mine standard instead of dealing with the headache of adapters.

True. I didn't know plumbing well enough to attempt to find adaptors. As it is it took me countless diagrams, writing everything down and then googling what the parts look like to find everything to make a manifold. Noobie. Ha.

Even with American standard drilling, I wasn't out of the woods yet. The size of the overflow box I provided for them to make for me was compact. It did not fit the herbie and return. The reason was because they drilled for a bulkhead locline instead of a simple elbow.

Forum folks helped me out with ideas- I made a hoffer.

davocean · Jul 1, 2015

Nice setup, very clean, cool scape.
I like the sump area and the cabinet compartments.

metrokat · Jul 1, 2015

Thanks

metrokat · Apr 19, 2016

Hi everyone. Sorry for the lack of updates. The tank is almost 1.5 years old and it has come a long way.

I currently have a male and female Golden Rhomboid Wrasse in quarantine. They arrived from the Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands this past week and are eating well. I started prazipro yesterday.

Here is an underwater video I did using a go-pro clone