My Deep Blue 80 Rimless build from scratch

[knoxmandan]

I have tried saltwater reef tanks in the past with huge failure in the past trying to rush the process and achieve reef happiness overnight only to fail terribly and give up as fast as I jumping in. This time I am starting from new and cycling in with dry rock minus the flat worm aptaisia and all the other nussiance pest that make the reef tank and the keeper suffer also trying the natural filters a Cpr hob 4.7 gal refugium with crush corral/rock ruble w/mangroves, eshopps gen 3 r100 refugium sump /large 7x18 algae scrubber in the skimmer section
2 gen3 Radions for lighting few fish lots of zoanthids and other softies.pics coming!!!

 

[knoxmandan]

 

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[knoxmandan]

Just finished adding 3 bags of crushed coral course sand bed is about 1" deep and did the aquascape this is what I came up with I had 50lbs dry rock and a 30 lbs Tonga shelf I picked up from BRS really nice rock!!! The shelf on the right[emoji6]

 

[knoxmandan]

There is a 3" crush coral deep sand bed in the fuge/sump

 

[Phantomwinger]

That plate on the right is awesome, as is the algae scrubber. Have you got a light for it yet? Interested to see how this progresses [emoji1303][emoji1303]

 

[bknapp]

I would reconsider using the crushed coral substrate. It can become a nutrient sink, can be hazardous to burrowers such as gobies and sand divers such as wrasses. Aquascape looks great.

 

[Chrisfish]

Very nice looking rock scape. Going slow is good although this a very addicting hobby

 

[knoxmandan]

That plate on the right is awesome, as is the algae scrubber. Have you got a light for it yet? Interested to see how this progresses [emoji1303][emoji1303]

I haven't got a light for it yet I was planning on LEDs for the scrubber I will post them up this week when I get them and install them.

 

[knoxmandan]

got wAter in it and it's a lil off from level have to get floor jacks and level it tomorrow dang lol testing my patience lol and it's overflowing the sump got some work ahead of me and my need to get a bigger sump mabey the R200 eshoppes

 

[Chris Adams]

wow ya you can see it is off level
Nice setup and love the rock pieces and aquascape

 

[knoxmandan]

Now it's level and cycling but I am struggling bad with micro bubbles the eshopps sump is making and sending to the dt!!!
The drain feeds the refugium before the sock and there's millions of bubbles getting shot into the fuge that overflows bubbles into the return pump section section and my dt water is cloudy w/micro bubbles I can't seem to find a resolution to this issue other than to buy another sump

 

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[Brew12]

my dt water is cloudy w/micro bubbles I can't seem to find a resolution to this issue other than to by another sump

If you share the model sump you have someone might be able to help make a suggestion.

 

[knoxmandan]

I put a piece of plastic over the feed holes and piled the coral on it to try to stop the flow of bubbles with no luck

 

[knoxmandan]

It is a eshopps gen3 r100 sump

 

[Wayneb332]

Can you put a valve on the fuge. Then you could slow it down to get rid of the bubbles.

 

[Brew12]

It is a eshopps gen3 r100 sump

Per the design, they rely on the filter bag to get rid of microbubbles for one flow path and the foam filter on the other. Can you tell which path the bubbles are getting past or is it both?

I do agree that throttling down flow should help a little. That globe valve you installed should come in handy!

 

[knoxmandan]

Per the design, they rely on the filter bag to get rid of microbubbles for one flow path and the foam filter on the other. Can you tell which path the bubbles are getting past or is it both?

I do agree that throttling down flow should help a little. That globe valve you installed should come in handy!

Yeah I can see them bubbles getting past both.