lou dogs first reef build

lou dog420 · Jul 11, 2016

mmw64 said:
Mine took a while too, but once you find the "sweet spot" they are awesome. Make sure it is sitting at the correct height in the chamber. Can't remember now what that was but made all the difference on mine.

Yeah, all of the reviews say about 6.5 to 7, that's where I have it at now. Think it just needs a little more time.

lou dog420 · Jul 12, 2016

So after getting the system online and running for a week on just the return pump, last night I got around to installing the MP40s. Man these are some sweet pumps!! I was amazed at how much stuff that came flying out of the cracks and crevices of the rock work when I fired them up!!

lou dog420 · Jul 12, 2016

Well, I drank margaritas tonight instead of hooking up my ATO. Now i have to go make RO/DI!!! Good reason to finish that!!!

lou dog420 · Jul 12, 2016

Soon to be club calerpa!!

lou dog420 · Jul 12, 2016

I am over all really happy with the way the display came out, all except for the white sticky tabs that came with the MP40s. They look like poo!!

lou dog420 · Jul 15, 2016

Today marks exactly 2 weeks that the system has been online. I am going to do a water change today, and start up the BRS dual reactor with carbon and GFO. Going forward my plan is bi weekly water changes, with carbon changed out at every water change. Change out GFO monthly, every other water change.

mmw64 · Jul 15, 2016

lou dog420 said:
Today marks exactly 2 weeks that the system has been online. I am going to do a water change today, and start up the BRS dual reactor with carbon and GFO. Going forward my plan is bi weekly water changes, with carbon changed out at every water change. Change out GFO monthly, every other water change.

I completely agree with the white tab problem on MP's. Really show and I hate the look.

lou dog420 · Jul 15, 2016

mmw64 said:
I completely agree with the white tab problem on MP's. Really show and I hate the look.

They could atleast make them black, probably wouldn't stand out so bad.

lou dog420 · Jul 16, 2016

Ok so after I did the water change tonight I thought it would be a good time to run a power failure test on the system. Now since I have 2 sumps, and a whole lot of different siphoning going on, I knew it was gonna be interesting. Well it handles the outage just fine, but the problem is that I loose a little too much water for it to re-start on its own. I have to figure out a solution to this, as we do have our share of outages here. I think I need some kind of gravity feed resovior with float valve just for this senario.

lou dog420 · Jul 18, 2016

Day 17, and litteraly overnight diatoms showed up. Atleast I guess that's what they are, brownish orange spots on the rocks and sand. My caulerpa for my sump will be here tomorrow, finally getting a little life in the system!!

lou dog420 · Jul 25, 2016

Ok so I got my caulerpa in the mail last week and it was looking pretty bad. I stuck it in my sump and within about 3 days all the leaves turned brown and died. Now it has all this nice green fresh growth coming up off the runners, looks like its gonna make it after all!

Salty1962 · Jul 25, 2016

Very nice. Wish I had the room to do my tank this way! Awesome job!

lou dog420 · Jul 25, 2016

Salty1962 said:
Very nice. Wish I had the room to do my tank this way! Awesome job!

Thanks!

lou dog420 · Jul 26, 2016

HOLY SMOKES, I never knew skimate was so foul!! Dang!!

lou dog420 · Jul 26, 2016

Ordered a CUC from reef cleaners today. Also ordered some mangroves and pods.

lou dog420 · Jul 28, 2016

And then there was pork!!!

lou dog420 · Jul 30, 2016

Well I got my CUC from reef cleaners yesterday, unfortunately about 90% of them were dead!!! The mangroves seemed to be in good shape.

lou dog420 · Jul 31, 2016

I started up my GFO and carbon reactors a couple days ago, now my water is all cloudy!!

Maximizer · Jul 31, 2016

Off to a great start!! How do you like the tank? Been thinking about ordering one from them. Did you flush out the media before you brought them online?