225 Gallon upgrade- ROUND 2!

[cymaster007]

 

[cymaster007]

[MENTION=3886]watchguy123[/MENTION]
Purple Tip Orange Polyp acro from you!

 

[pgr11]

As always cy things look great. You'll have the best reef up north before too long

 

[cymaster007]

Everything is working well, water changes only take 10 minutes for 30 gallons- very easy to maintain this new set up.
If anyone one wants specific pics or details on any parts of my setup please ask!

 

[Efrainz28]

Hi CY

What type of sand are you using? How deep?

I haven't decided if I'm going bb or sand for my build.

Thanks

 

[cymaster007]

Hi CY

What type of sand are you using? How deep?

I haven't decided if I'm going bb or sand for my build.

Thanks

I used carribsea premium sugar sized sand. Its been good so far! About 3" deep. If you run a refugium you can do a deep sand bed there and leave the tank bare bottom

 

[joseserrano]

Upland the finished filtration pics. Like to see that.

 

[cymaster007]

Upland the finished filtration pics. Like to see that.

So there are 2 pumps in my system 1 laguna return pump and 1x Waterblaster 5000 this feeds Manifold for reactors and chiller, the manifold feeds:
-Gfo (MR1) & Carbon (BRS)
-Bio Pellets (Reef Octopus)
-Skimmer
-Chiller
-Calcium Reactor (Aquamaxx)

 

[cymaster007]

There are 2x ball valves on the return, 1 goes to the main tank, 1 goes to the city sewer to pump sump into the sewer for water changes

 

[cymaster007]

Ozone feeds into the skimmer

Modified herbie/bean animal drain feeds into the filter sock, there are 4x 1/4 feed lines 3 from the doser, 1x from the ATO

 

[joseserrano]

Awesome set up

 

[solitude127]

Looks good Cylix.
How's the temp? Heaters kick in a lot? That looks like a lot of condensation in the bracing of the sump. Get a lot of evaporation?

How do you like running ozone?

 

[cymaster007]

Looks good Cylix.
How's the temp? Heaters kick in a lot? That looks like a lot of condensation in the bracing of the sump. Get a lot of evaporation?How do you like running ozone?

Temp is ok, my heaters kick on in tiers to prevent a massive power spike, look like they run almost 900 watts across 3 hours 3x a day. Its a pretty gradual heat up and cool down. Evap is tracking about 5-7 gallons a week which i think is actually less than my old tank used to lose.


Ozone works like a champ. Makes the skimmate dark and goopy!

 

[cymaster007]

Awesome set up

Thanks! It has been quite fun setting it up so far, I just hope it will be as successful as my last setup was.

 

[cymaster007]

This months update

Got some frags in from Gonzos corals, they are good sized, colorful and opened right up! The other frags I got this month from Reefnation 90% RTN'ed within the first 24 hrs . I dont know why, I assume their Alk or someother factor was way off compared to mine.

 

[jesuses]

Where's the store build? :loldude:

 

[cymaster007]

Where's the store build? dude:

Soon....soon... ive got a couple more frags coming in then im just going to sit back and watch it grow out.

 

[BeanMachine]

Soon....soon... ive got a couple more frags coming in then im just going to sit back and watch it grow out.
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Hey Cy... what pieces are those and who from?

 

[cymaster007]

Im getting jdubs shazam, Lady in pink, chemical warfare, chongs fury, idfwu, and a purple tipped yellow polyp acro. They are originally from Ray and AoA- coming from a secret source i can pm you his info if you want.

 

[BeanMachine]

Im getting jdubs shazam, Lady in pink, chemical warfare, chongs fury, idfwu, and a purple tipped yellow polyp acro. They are originally from Ray and AoA- coming from a secret source i can pm you his info if you want.

sweet. Yeah sure if you can