New Guy with a Red Sea Reefer 450 build!

[siggy]

I’m in the process of my redsea 450 build too!!!

Gotta love the Flux Capacitor Great Scott! @Rscott You have his coming together nicely, I really like the rock work. You got lucky with the tank, not only the price but with the white interior, I too am building a RS 425 and I am disappointed with the black interior. Sweet deal on the test kits too. Following along,

 

[Rscott]

Thanks for your support!

 

[Biglex]

Hey I see one square inch of empty cabinet space! Can’t you fit another piece of gear in there

Lol wow
CraZy setup you got going! Mine is my first tank so I’m just hoping to survive the cycling

Do you have a build thread somewhere?

Thx and yea alota gear in here. As of now no just posting on ig as I go. Look it up Thebiglex And tank has come a long ways but it’s my first big tank also. Going from a jbj 45 to this

 

[Rscott]

Welll...... more goodies arrived today.

I have spent a little bit of time today starting to construct a basic water station. It’s nothing to fancy but should do the job.

May have a PVC part tomorrow

Also my apex arrived. Not sure if I’m gonna go bonkers and make a disco ball type of sump or just keep it simple. If I go off the rails with it this early in my feeding career I won’t have anything to do later. Plus funds are getting tight after buying lights the other day

May need to just pause on spending $$$$ right now. I am well over $5k and still need skimmer and power heads eeeeek......

So I might just have to hold off on a few things at moment

Also, picked up a GFCI outlet that I will be installing this afternoon!

 

[Potatohead]

Everything looks great so far, but I have one complaint. We saw pictures with some dog treats but no pics of the dog!! What the heck man.

 

[Rscott]

Everything looks great so far, but I have one complaint. We saw pictures with some dog treats but no pics of the dog!! What the heck man.

Ha well, he is rather large

Like 150lbs large. Truthfully I am curious if he will do something stupid to my tank like try and stand on it.

 

[Rscott]

Wow wow wow

Lots going on over here.
Been a while since i updated this.

Plumbing

For starters last week i had to get my plumbing for the house done to run my RODI unit.

I had built a small false wall in the basement to hold the RODI unit near the water tanks.
I learned the hard way that even if you shut off your water, there is still two floors of water above you! It was a good way to take a bath!

I installed a shark bite connector inline with the down stairs main supply. I put in a Tee and ran 1/2 inch pex to a spigot mounted on the false wall. It worked perfectly.

 

[Rscott]

Lights Arrived!

So as I mentioned before. I got a crazy good deal on some Kessil 360X and the spectral X controller.
I really like the way the kessil shimmers and the low profile look.

They arrived and i have them setup temporarily just to see how they look. Although its hard to take pictures of them with an iPhone

I only have 2 for now but a 3rd is on the way.

 

[Rscott]

Plumbing my Salt water mixing station!

So as you saw above i have to 75 Gallon tanks. One for RODI and one for salt water.

The plumbing is a standard config like many have done here. I can do many things with it.
I can turn over a single tank for mixing. I can move one tank to the other tank and i can export water to and from.

I picked up a large Reeflo pump to move water upstairs

I was concerned about getting glue inside the PVC pipe. I have never tried to work with PVC and tried to find a line between good amount of glue, to much and not enough

I also picked up the float control valve from BRS for the RODI system and some 3/4 inch bulk heads

The top lines are to turn over the tank for mixing.

I did use some flex line on the bottom for the pump. It was to difficult to hard plumb it

 

[Rscott]

Building my manifold and getting the sump ready

So i am going to do a manifold as i have mentioned a few times. I decided to wait on the reactors until i need them. However i choose to make a reactor read manifold so to speak. Its not the prettiest thing but its functional.

I made the mistake of using purple primer. I tried like hell to not get it all over my cool red pipe.
I also did some basic wire management to try and clean it up a bit. I have 2 250 watt Eheim heaters one as a back up.

I used some unions on the main manifold section to remove it for when its time to add the reactors.
I have 1/2 spears gate valves sitting in my office for when its time with all the pipe needed.

I also decided to add the 1 inch spears gate valve on the drain. I know lots of people complain of gurgling on the Red Sea valve so before water even goes in i did this mod!

 

[Rscott]

Apex install!

Well i ran out of time to do my apex this weekend.

I did make a false wall for the cabinet and get that installed. I was able to mount the apex and start running some wires but ran out of time.

tune in next week while I finish my apex install and share more pictures on the control

 

[gunguy05]

Any updates here? I'm looking at a 450 now and found your thread.

 

[Rscott]

Hi There, sorry to say i sold the tank. I ended up with a bad case of dino's and got frustrated and sold the whole thing.
However, now two years later, i just bought another tank because im an idiots. Although im going a different route. I got a red sea nano max. Slightly smaller scale then my last deal lol