SCA 50 Gallon PNP System EcoTech Marine Edition

[GabeM]

Looks great! I have the same tank and it's running great - I had to plumb the thing with a Herbie myself but it works well enough. I don't think you really need a mixing station - I just mix mine in a 7 gallon bucket right next to it and do a 6 gallon water change every week. I have the RO all under the kitchen sink and going into a 5 gallon with a float valve (Also allows for nice RO water for the humans).

This all seems very well planned. Good luck.

 

[Why-Me]

Thank you for your encouragement and kind words.

I have what I believe I will keep as an aquascape. Excited!
I'll upload pics as I'm making dinner and playing with rocks currently

 

[Why-Me]

 

[Why-Me]

Pics in order....

1. FTS
2. Left Corner
3. Left Corner
4. Right Corner
5. RTS
6. My helper, he likes it too

 

[Why-Me]

There's one main large arch then two other smaller swim through holes as well as a ledge.

 

[Neilth1]

I had the same setup and had good success with it the only thing I ran into was shadowing from my scape witch looked allot like yours I ran the xr 30 on my set up if I had had 2 xr 15 it would have ben better here's a pic of my old system with the xr 30 on it. It not a good picture but you can see how it had shadowing issues.

 

[Why-Me]

You gave me an idea, going to fire up the xr15 and see what it looks like before I decide to stick it all together for good.
I'll just hold it above to see how the shadowing looks.

 

[Philipgonzales3]

OMG I didn't know that Garfield was real! Must be the lighting because I thought he was supposed to be more orange. I hope you don't feed your fish as much as you feed your cat!

Haha just teasing man. Scape looks great!

 

[Barrett]

I am liking the scape, you would still have room for a nice zoa island in the front.

 

[Why-Me]

Played around a little bit, there was quite a bit of shadowing caused by the one larger rock with ledge top right side.
So I replaced with smaller rock but still kept the swim through hole and there's significantly less shadowing with this one.
Also after looking back it looks more open and less blocky/chunky.
Pics in order:
1. new FTS
2. new Right Corner
3. new RTS

 

[Why-Me]

So I've stuck a bunch of rock into three main pieces that make up my aquascape.
This is what I will be going forward with. I may use my E-Marco 400 to cover up the white JB water weld I used to stick everything together.
In the final, Top down shot the bad angle makes it look like it doesn't fit, I assure you it fits inside of that overflow I have marked down by an 1" or so

 

[Philipgonzales3]

So I've stuck a bunch of rock into three main pieces that make up my aquascape.
This is what I will be going forward with. I may use my E-Marco 400 to cover up the white JB water weld I used to stick everything together.
In the final, Top down shot the bad angle makes it look like it doesn't fit, I assure you it fits inside of that overflow I have marked down by an 1" or so

Wow man that is so sick! Can't wait to see it wet!

 

[Why-Me]

Thanks either can I.
Next week I'm ordering my 44gal can/lid, salt, couple ro/di fittings, bio spira, dr tims ammonia and red sea test kit
The cycle starts next week!!

 

[Why-Me]

Another positive update today.
I broke out the apex and set everything up; meaning apex fusion, firmware updates to everything.
I'm good to start thinking out my wiring/controller setup and also thinking of a stock list for this tank.
Very exciting times coming soon!

 

[Why-Me]

Today I'm going to throw code into the apex and mess around with heaters, wavemaker and a pump just to make sure it all works as described.
I know each outlet works but haven't tried controlling anything yet.
I may update y'all again later today.

 

[Crabby48]

Not sure how I missed all your updates. Rocks look good! The excitement is now starting. Glad you will be getting wet soon

 

[Why-Me]

Thank you, I'm excited.
I played around with the apex today, bucket of water, heater, wavemaker, temp probe together making them work happily together.
Learning IF < THEN programming. I need to hangout in the apex forum and the controller sub-forum here on R2R as well.
I do like Fusion.

 

[Crabby48]

Love the apex but confusing for me. I need to find time to play with a few things.

I’m confused why things that are programmed fallback off was working when I lost power and internet. Always something

 

[Why-Me]

I'm going through that right now making sure it's all ok after an outage.
Still troubleshooting

 

[Crabby48]

Funny part was I was glad It had problems. I needed my skimmer and second heater in the cold. The funny part was my lights even ran the schedule.