RedSea Reefer S-1000 Build

bdouglas119 · May 25, 2021

Ky_acc said:
I’m interested to see it when it arrives

I think you are going to have the first unboxing on R2R — maybe first period

Looking forward to seeing it on wed!

I haven’t seen anyone else on R2R yet but I did see that a couple guys on Facebook received theirs already. Unfortunately my local freight distribution center is super backed up. I’m just hoping it goes out tomorrow like it’s supposed too.

bdouglas119 · May 27, 2021

Well delivery didn’t go as planned. The driver dropped the the tank while unloading it and it had to be refused. I now have no idea when I’ll get a replacement.

Ky_acc · May 27, 2021

Ugh that is awful -- red sea is pretty good about this stuff from what I have seen

that is rough though...

bdouglas119 · May 28, 2021

Ky_acc said:
Ugh that is awful -- red sea is pretty good about this stuff from what I have seen

that is rough though...

I have been really impressed with the way Red Sea is handling everything. They got a new tank shipped in under 24 hours.

bdouglas119 · May 28, 2021

The upside to all this is it gives me more time to create my aquascape. Im going to be making a NSA style scape and I expect it to take me a while to get something I'm happy with.

bdouglas119 · May 30, 2021

Got the scape basically done. This is before adding the E-Marcos cement. After the cement goes on I’ll glue rock dust/sand over it to hide it and make it look like it does below

Robertellis30 · May 30, 2021

Scape looks amazing! I just recently made my scape and saw a thread of someone using the pink Marco and painting the entire scape with it. My thought process behind that was the ugly stage wouldn’t be as ugly against a darker backdrop of color beside the white rock.

bdouglas119 · May 30, 2021

Robertellis30 said:
Scape looks amazing! I just recently made my scape and saw a thread of someone using the pink Marco and painting the entire scape with it. My thought process behind that was the ugly stage wouldn’t be as ugly against a darker backdrop of color beside the white rock.

That’s pretty clever. That looks good!

Robertellis30 · May 30, 2021

"Painted" Rockwork using Colored Mortars

I am a big time aquascaper and have spent about 2 weeks sculpting the rockwork for my new cube. It is composed of reefsaver that I chiseled and dremeled into shelves, then cemented together to give it a stepped branching/tabling look. This piece is a monster - about 17hx22l and 60lbs...

www.reef2reef.com

Here’s the original thread I saw it from. Seemed to work out pretty well for him.

count krunk · May 30, 2021

Such a well done build so far.

bdouglas119 · May 30, 2021

count krunk said:
Such a well done build so far.

Thank you!

bdouglas119 · May 31, 2021

While I wait for the replacement tank to come in I added some shelves in my fish closet to store all my dry goods and eventually where I’ll be mounting custom dosing containers. There’s currently 12 dosing lines,5 sets of 2 conductor wiring, and an aquabus cable there for any future needs

Ky_acc · May 31, 2021

bdouglas119 said:
While I wait for the replacement tank to come in I added some shelves in my fish closet to store all my dry goods and eventually where I’ll be mounting custom dosing containers. There’s currently 12 dosing lines,5 sets of 2 conductor wiring, and an aquabus cable there for any future needs

Looking great!

Care to provide some details of how you are routing your dosing / AWC change lines through the ceiling?

bdouglas119 · May 31, 2021

Ky_acc said:
Looking great!

Care to provide some details of how you are routing your dosing / AWC change lines through the ceiling?

Basically I cut out holes to mount brush gang plates. In my closet the gang plate is just mounted to the ceiling. Behind the tank its mounted parallel to an outlet. I followed that stud up and drilled a hole in the header (2x4 connecting the wall studs) and fished the wiring down and out the brush plate. See post 19 for the pictures

Erik-Reefer · May 31, 2021

bdouglas119 said:
Got the scape basically done. This is before adding the E-Marcos cement. After the cement goes on I’ll glue rock dust/sand over it to hide it and make it look like it does below

What are you using to hold the rockwork together?

bdouglas119 · May 31, 2021

Erik-Reefer said:
What are you using to hold the rockwork together?

So I followed BRS how to NSA video and the way Ive seen tidal gardens to it. Basically my approach was to use Thick CA glue and activator. In the spots with a lot of leverage against it, I then filled it with the dust/rubble and used very thin almost watery CA glue (this is how tidal gardens does the entire scape in their video) after all of that I went back and added E-Marcos Mortar. Im now in the process of covering the grey mortar with sand/dust to make it look natural again. But it should make it super strong