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    Mighty Magnets

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    I used manavore 8 on my acrylic tank, I would slice a magic eraser into thirds and use it instead of the acrylic pad never got a scratch that way. Went to glass so no longer use it .

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    The Sickness

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    Well the Vectra l1 just didn't have enough strength to power my biopellet reactor properly and return water to the tank. A recirculating reactor would allow me to lower the flow rate and take some pressure off the vectra. All the recirculating ones for a tank 300 gallons or moerllre I could find were $500 dollars plus. Which honestly I find to be grossly overpriced. Not opting to pay that , I built my own . At full retail in all the items I needed to build one I have $179 in parts. Note the most expensive items were the 5*18 inch bubble magus 2nd chamber for a calcium reactor $64 from Billy's reef connection, and the sicce 1.5 pump $72 from BRS. With that being said I got a little over $10 back from the items from BRS in points . So figure $169 is the cost. I could have went cheap on the pump and came in under a hundred , but I opted to copy Geo's version and use a quality pump. To keep the cost down I used white PVC like the rest of my build. The mods were all done fairly easily, drilled and tapped the reactor to accept push connect also added two to the skimmer to feed the biopellets directly and the calcium reactor effluent. All in all, very easy and I saved a little over $350!918261f26e0ab3a8144ff6f67204d532.jpg

     

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    The Sickness

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    Well the swap from sump to tank was pretty smooth , I lost a couple Corals but no fish. Unfortunately one of the Coral I lost was a grow out challenge frag I had .... So yeah I lost that. All in all the set up was easier than tear down. I reused all the water and had to add about 100 gallons .All the equipment and was new and clean so that part was easy. The hardest part was aquascaping with rocks loaded with Coral .All in all I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. One plus is I got to sneak in a large derasa clam that my copperband used to attack when it was a small 4" It doesn't seem to care about it now that's around 10".

     

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    The Sickness

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    There is a water change feature that feeds to the other room. I just turn the valve it will pump out water ,turn it back and it will refill from the water change station in the next room. It has been mess free so far .

     

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    The Sickness

    in Dedicated Tank (Build) Forum

    · Edited by Optimusdooche

    It more than likely cost me more money than buying a pre made stand like I have done in the past but it wouldn't have been as nice. Everything is exactly how I wanted it and you just can't get that with pre made. I also buttoned up the plumbing and just went with straight white PVC , I was on the fence with red but I am happy with how. a little acetone makes standard PVC look.

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    The Sickness

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    So at this point the floors in and the tank is up thanks to a few neighbors and a couple of mdrc members. I had to trim the canopy it get it to fit and I had to use a concrete leveler to get the floor at least partially level, it was almost 3/4 inch out over 12 feet. That part took forever but at least the tank didn't have to be shimmed as much when installed.

     

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    Jon and Maureen’s 350g Tank: The Reef Awakens

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    I just broke down my fish room which was run off a baldor hammerhead gold( the one with out the fins) and moved the sump under the tank. When I had the fish room I had about 12' of head and ran 3 tanks and all my reactors from the hammerhead with ease. I replaced it with the L1 to lower the noise under the tank. The L1 is weak in comparison and I don't think you will be happy with it using it in that manner. I know it's comparing apples and oranges , it would surprise me if it lasted long pushing that height.

     

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    The Sickness

    in Dedicated Tank (Build) Forum

    · Edited by Optimusdooche

    So it looks something like this:

     

    Start with this....

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    After breaking down the 150 and 65 gallon frag tanks leaving only the 40 breeder fuge, 34 gallon sump and filling the temporary holding 110 Gallon sump I was exhausted. I was running around like crazy and made one h e ll of a mess . If I wasn't replacing the floors my wife would have killed me. I plumbed the holding sump into the system and made the over flow higher as water pumped from the 150 to it. That way I could move rock as one drained the other filled and the system continued to run. I just kept raising the overflow every time it was needed.

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    The Sickness

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    The whole process hinges on breaking down my 150 into a sump .... Then install the flooring in one room, move big tank on that floor, break down the sump holding all my Coral and fish ,move into the new tank. Install new flooring in that room, and oh yeah make my 4' doorway a 5' doorway so the tank will fit. Easy enough!

     

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    The Sickness

    in Dedicated Tank (Build) Forum

    · Edited by Optimusdooche

    But the fun part had to be .....

    Test fill

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    Sand

     

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    Polish... And repeat...and repeat... And repeat.

     

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    And what the heck how about another test fill after I plasti-dip'd the back.

     

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    The Sickness

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    Nice display of skills on the stand! I would go with a bigger sump myself, about twice that size. A small sump is prone to overflowing on a large tank when the pumps turn off and the tank drains down. Small sumps and large volumes/flow can cause micro bubbles back into the display. A longer sump tank allows the bubbles time to rise up and not get sucked into the return pump. Just my two cents.

    Yeah I have been down that road before with a sump too small. This time I'm sure I got the math right. I really needed the room for equipment and didn't need any more water volume. The sump itself is 60 gallons in total with the frag section holding about 5 additional gallons if needed. I have tried refugiums and algae scrubbers and have no interest in using them again so I won't need any extra overflow space going forward. It's just imperative that I got the math right.

     

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