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monkiboy
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sweet, more goodies in the mail - more flow! this is the first one on the back pane. the trend across the boards seems like folks are loving the performance and price of the jebaos which = lots of vortechs for sale = lower and more competitive pricing on them =
good times for me!
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right now i envision 3-4 MP40s along the back pane and 1 MP40 and 1 MP60 on the sides, so 5-6 MP40s and 2 MP60s. this way i don't have to crank any of them way up (more noise and arguably more problems with longevity) and have all the flow i want for my future SPS coral's needs.
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Man, when I get a big tank I know who I'm calling! Crazy build Monki! Love the step by step pics too!
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forgot to post an update...
made myself a sweet manifold from some irrigation gear and some cepex ball valves. i've made them from same materials before but this one for some reason just screams beee a utiful, haha.
the first angled 90° barb goes to the holding/acclimation tank and fuge which then flows into the nem prop tank and frag tank and then flows into the sump. the other two valves are for reactors and the last for a chiller or other high flow (1" barb) necessity down the road.
all this is being run off of the second dc10500 RO pump. this pump is only running at level 2 of 6 at the moment and producing plenty of flow. once i have the reactors and other stuff hooked up to the manifold i'll probably need to crank it up a bit.
eight hours of plumbing later i have flow through the rest of the system and everything dialed in. no leaks, no sweat
next is to figure out where the heck to put all my electrical components, drivers, wiring, etc up and away from water and humidity and start tidying things up!
made myself a sweet manifold from some irrigation gear and some cepex ball valves. i've made them from same materials before but this one for some reason just screams beee a utiful, haha.
the first angled 90° barb goes to the holding/acclimation tank and fuge which then flows into the nem prop tank and frag tank and then flows into the sump. the other two valves are for reactors and the last for a chiller or other high flow (1" barb) necessity down the road.
all this is being run off of the second dc10500 RO pump. this pump is only running at level 2 of 6 at the moment and producing plenty of flow. once i have the reactors and other stuff hooked up to the manifold i'll probably need to crank it up a bit.
eight hours of plumbing later i have flow through the rest of the system and everything dialed in. no leaks, no sweat
next is to figure out where the heck to put all my electrical components, drivers, wiring, etc up and away from water and humidity and start tidying things up!
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am going to need some heaters for the setup so i picked up some of these finnex titanium heaters.
did a quick review and search but nothing too compelling. just didn't want glass and wanted something reliable so i dont know. anyone have experience with these and any issues? i saved the money of getting the separate controller as i'll have them programmed in and hooked up to the apex. i only needed one but figure i can use the other for redundancy or for a back up since i had a discount coupon and credit and group buy pricing to BRS, might as well.
did a quick review and search but nothing too compelling. just didn't want glass and wanted something reliable so i dont know. anyone have experience with these and any issues? i saved the money of getting the separate controller as i'll have them programmed in and hooked up to the apex. i only needed one but figure i can use the other for redundancy or for a back up since i had a discount coupon and credit and group buy pricing to BRS, might as well.
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Fantastic elements(heating). I've been running a 800 on my 110 through my system for over two years with nothing but very precise control(actually to a fault because my reefkeeper malfunctioned and fried my tank long ago, but that thing is long gone). I control it completely with the apex and very accurate to 1/10 of a degree.
Very fast heating and extremely reliable to say the least in my experience. So much so that I will use nothing else in the future. Nice purchases!
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Very fast heating and extremely reliable to say the least in my experience. So much so that I will use nothing else in the future. Nice purchases!
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Lol, yeah! Have to take the bad with the good! In I think ten minutes, it went from 78 to 90!
They are very unforgiving of bad programming or faulty equipment, but I tell you what, when it's right, it's a beautiful thing! I keep it set between a .2 difference with the apex. Two to three minutes at most duty cycle. I have a VO to monitor the monster and trip for 4 minutes. In a year, it has never tripped one time.
I know I'm sold on the crazy things!
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They are very unforgiving of bad programming or faulty equipment, but I tell you what, when it's right, it's a beautiful thing! I keep it set between a .2 difference with the apex. Two to three minutes at most duty cycle. I have a VO to monitor the monster and trip for 4 minutes. In a year, it has never tripped one time.
I know I'm sold on the crazy things!
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Actually outlet 8 on one of the EBs. And lol, yes, only one.
I had said I was going to get a 300 for basically doing what you are, but just haven't as of yet. Add to that, that this thing has been, along with the apex, bulletproof(knock on wood), so my urgency is greatly diminished to almost non existent compared to glass. I will never go back to glass whatsoever.
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so i've had a couple months at least now with the skimmer and so far so good. the DC5500s from RO have proven to be an awesome pump choice for grey seas/avast standard 12.
i have one of the at about 65% and the the other at 80% with the gate valve fully open on the drain from the skimmer and she has settled in nicely and producing wonderfully putrid skimmate.
the wall of tiny bubbles looks like someone poured low fat milk in the body and they can only be seen as tiny little bubbles if you really look hard. the swabbie is helping keep things running tip top. i do need to do some adjustment as it will skip sections of the neck and cup and with too much pressure doesn't work right, i need to work on finding the sweet spot with the hard edge of the swabbie or possibly swap out for a more squeegee type blade.
at the moment with these settings i am removing a full cup of skimmate as shown below about every four days or so. this is about 3g or so. i haven't decided on what size locker i want to run yet so i'm just draining to a 5g bucket and dumping far from the house
every few days.
things are going smoothly so far but still have a lot to do. i still have a pile of wires in the fish room and random power strips. need to get those mounted on a wall, wires sleeved and organized, and figure out a power shelf or cabinet either blocked off to the right of the sump or above the tank or on the ball wall of the fish room behind the tank but don't know which and what wires need to be what length and which i will be able to extend etc especially with the apex and various modules and probes and power cords for all peripherals.
but baby steps, diligence, and patience will get 'er done...
i have one of the at about 65% and the the other at 80% with the gate valve fully open on the drain from the skimmer and she has settled in nicely and producing wonderfully putrid skimmate.
the wall of tiny bubbles looks like someone poured low fat milk in the body and they can only be seen as tiny little bubbles if you really look hard. the swabbie is helping keep things running tip top. i do need to do some adjustment as it will skip sections of the neck and cup and with too much pressure doesn't work right, i need to work on finding the sweet spot with the hard edge of the swabbie or possibly swap out for a more squeegee type blade.
at the moment with these settings i am removing a full cup of skimmate as shown below about every four days or so. this is about 3g or so. i haven't decided on what size locker i want to run yet so i'm just draining to a 5g bucket and dumping far from the house
things are going smoothly so far but still have a lot to do. i still have a pile of wires in the fish room and random power strips. need to get those mounted on a wall, wires sleeved and organized, and figure out a power shelf or cabinet either blocked off to the right of the sump or above the tank or on the ball wall of the fish room behind the tank but don't know which and what wires need to be what length and which i will be able to extend etc especially with the apex and various modules and probes and power cords for all peripherals.
but baby steps, diligence, and patience will get 'er done...
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on dd last night and still available tonight - a show-size a. achilles x a. nigricans (achilles goldrim hybrid tang).
well there goes wanting just a "regular" awesome looking achilles, haha.
well there goes wanting just a "regular" awesome looking achilles, haha.
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when i saw the clarion on the list to go up tonight, i thought just maybe it'll be within reach because of the years it has been since the initial batch came in and excitement has perhaps died down and then they were selling for $2400-2700 and now it'll have to be much less. NOPE. needless to say, i am without a clarion, haha. there are some fanatics for this fish and surprisingly it did take a couple hours before it was gone
