Spidey's Red Sea 3XL 900 build

ID-Reefer · Oct 12, 2020

Great build. Just ordered a 900 today along with lights, skimmer, Neptune apex systems, reef dry rock etc. etc. etc. Really like how you organized your electronics and dos with the drawers. Im still trying to decide how to handle my fresh water top off and what to do with the smaller split sump. Appears it can be used for the ATO or as you are doing a refugium and/or frag tank with apparently added flow. Hmmm... anyway thanks for the thread. Look forward to watching progress.

Pistol Peet · Oct 12, 2020

Very very nice. To see a little more often on this thread or within this community whatever you prefer but everything you just showed is looking amazing congratulations and wish you the best with your reefing

Spiderwoman · Oct 15, 2020

ID-Reefer said:
Great build. Just ordered a 900 today along with lights, skimmer, Neptune apex systems, reef dry rock etc. etc. etc. Really like how you organized your electronics and dos with the drawers. Im still trying to decide how to handle my fresh water top off and what to do with the smaller split sump. Appears it can be used for the ATO or as you are doing a refugium and/or frag tank with apparently added flow. Hmmm... anyway thanks for the thread. Look forward to watching progress.

Thank you

I look forward to seeing your build. For us the refugium was the logical solution and it's kept the nitrates and phosphates barely detectable in the tank. It's also the perfect place to hide a media reactor and the UV sterilizer.

Spiderwoman · Oct 15, 2020

Pistol Peet said:
Very very nice. To see a little more often on this thread or within this community whatever you prefer but everything you just showed is looking amazing congratulations and wish you the best with your reefing

Thank you

I'll try to be more active and post more. It's so easy to just read other people's posts and stuff than up my own thread

ID-Reefer · Oct 30, 2020

I see you have two DOS pumps. Assuming one is for auto water change. How loud have they been? Is it noticeable? Annoying?

Spiderwoman · Nov 5, 2020

ID-Reefer said:
I see you have two DOS pumps. Assuming one is for auto water change. How loud have they been? Is it noticeable? Annoying?

I have 2 units and only 2 of dosing ports are in use: alkalinity and calcium, the others are for magnesium and the other originally for NoPox but am not using that. I may put Red Sea AB+ on that dosing bottle.

Kdog7454 · Nov 23, 2020

Hello, just found this thread as im setting up a 900 right now, did you look into setting up a clarisea roller on your tank at all just curious.
Beautiful set up!

Spiderwoman · Nov 25, 2020

Thank you! We have Clarisea SK-5000 installed, it was added in the spring.

Kdog7454 · Nov 30, 2020

Spiderwoman said:
Thank you! We have Clarisea SK-5000 installed, it was added in the spring.

Any chance you can post a picture of how it is installed? Thanks!

Spiderwoman · Dec 1, 2020

Kdog7454 said:
Any chance you can post a picture of how it is installed? Thanks!

It's fed with a Sicce 5 pump (also the media reactor and UV sterilizer is fed by the same pump)

Kdog7454 · Dec 1, 2020

Spiderwoman said:
It's fed with a Sicce 5 pump (also the media reactor and UV sterilizer is fed by the same pump)

Awesome, thank you

Spiderwoman · Dec 12, 2020

Not much new to report other than currently running the tank without the Clarisea SK-5000 roller mat. The motor gave up and hoping to get a new one for it under warranty. It hasn't been operating since the end of September. To my surprise, I haven't seen any adverse effects from it.

The refugium is performing beautifully, chaeto can be harvested every 2-3 weeks, and it's keeping the nitrates and phosphates at 0.

Trident is being a pain in the butt, won't keep calibration and we finally calibrated it to the tested numbers instead of to the calibration fluid. We shall see if the calibration sticks.

Lighting is being reconfigured. The PAR readings from the ReefLED 90's were nothing exciting and for a deep tank like the 900 is, it's just not enough. We're having a floating canopy built to house the ReefLED's AND adding 3x Radion XR15 Pro Gen 5's into the mix, one between each ReefLED. We might be getting it this coming week, fingers crossed.
Here's a sample of what it will look like, but in black to match the tank.