Tom's 75 reef build

[RAYISKING]

You will need a cover. Those wrasse will jump.

 

[lnevo]

Check his posts a few back. Came out great

 

[RAYISKING]

Nevermind saw the screen top thought only eggcrate. I have a yellow coris and melanrus wrasse just a suggestion.

 

[lnevo]

Test nitrates, change carbon, clean pumps/sponges...the list can go on and on

 

[TommyP]

Nevermind saw the screen top thought only eggcrate. I have a yellow coris and melanrus wrasse just a suggestion.

Yellow coris wrasse is coming next I think.

Yeah the screen tops came out good, still need to paint the crate black and put some mesh over that.

 

[TommyP]

Test nitrates, change carbon, clean pumps/sponges...the list can go on and on

Nitrates - yes I forgot to add that to the list.
I actually don't run carbon, but I am planning on mixing it with GFO in my TLF 150 when I change my GFO next time.

I just cleaned all pumps and sponges I usually rinse during water changes. I'll add them though!

 

[RAYISKING]

Run carbon separate

 

[TommyP]

Run carbon separate

Thanks for the advice. I don't have any more room in my sump for another pump and I have flex line off my return so I can't t off. That's why I was thinking about running them together. Saw it done on brs and read about it.

 

[TommyP]

Want to add
LE rainbow nana
SSC
Garf Bonsai
Pink Lemonade
Rastas
Coco worm

Just want to monitor my tank for another 6 months make sure it remains stable after recently adding some more SPS - I'm going too fast.

 

[TommyP]

Added another jabao wp25 to my tank. I have 1 on the left and 1 on the right. Wp10 near center.

Edit:
Ended up unplugging the 25 tonight it seems like too much flow. My bubble in the middle of the tank between the 2 islands of rocks seems like it's going to get ripped off the skeleton. My Duncan's and frogspawn were just getting too much flow. Sps were loving it and still are with my og set up. Will play around with it again on Wednesday. Wasn't digging the 10 on the back wall either.

 

[TommyP]

Why?

 

[Dk638]

Did you mix salt in it? Gotta wipe em down with vinegar every once in a while.

 

[TommyP]

Did you mix salt in it? Gotta wipe em down with vinegar every once in a while.

No this pail is strictly for rodi. It sits next to my tank for auto top offs. I put a cloth over it and it looks like an end table.

I guess I'll dump this water since I'm making new anyway, and wipe it down with vinegar and some water.

 

[TommyP]

I cleaned the pail with water and vinegar. Dried it then filled with fresh Rodi. Now reading 0. I'll check it tomorrow and everyday until (if) I see a spike. Maybe the water can only sit for so long

 

[TommyP]

Still reads 0 so hopefully I just needed to clean it. Glad I got that under control
How do my levels look?
Alk - 9.4
Cal- 404
Mg - 1400
Po4 - .06
Sg- 1.026
Temp 81.7

 

[TommyP]

I've been dosing using the brs dosers for alk and calcium 15 minutes a day so that would be 16.5 of each solution per day. The timer was messed up on the calcium the past week so it went from 431 to 404

 

[TommyP]

Tested again
Alk - 9.8
Cal - 411
Po4 - .06
Sg - 1.026
Temp - 81.9*

Seems pretty stable so far.

 

[TommyP]

And test
Alk - 9.8
Cal - 453
Po4 - .06
Sg - 1.026
Temp : 82.2*

 

[Mattbk]

Very cool build. Nice work.

 

[TommyP]

Thank you.