brfrags March 10, 2010 Share March 10, 2010 I'm new to WAMAS but have heard many great things about the club and the website. Thought that I would start in this form so that members could see what I have. I have been involved in saltwater tanks in southern california for many years, moved out here to Richmond about two years ago and about a year ago decided to break out some of my equipment collecting dust in storage and start a frag system. Total water volume - 365 gallons tanks: (3) 75 gal 54"x18"x18 acrylic (1) 75 gal 2'x4'x16" rimless 1"acrylic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brfrags March 10, 2010 Author Share March 10, 2010 Guess I hit a wrong button. anyway here is the rest of the system: sump - (3) rubbermade 35 gal tubs Lights - tank 1 (2) VHO's,one 250W MH pentant and one DIY 50W led I use this tank for zoa's,clams, and duncan. Flow is medium tank 2 (2) VHO's and one power compact actinic This is used for chalice's and any new corals into system. Flow is medium tank 3 (4) 110W VHO's This tank is my LPS tank. I use it for LPS corals, flow is low tank 4 (1) 400W MH 20K and (2) DIY 80W total LED's This tank is used for SPS,acans, clams, and my bowerbanki's, the flow in this tank is high Pumps - I use a low head dolphin pump that pushes 7600 ghp and also have a mag12 and 9 in the SPS tank. small power heads in the other tanks for turbulance. protein skimmer is a deltec 702 which works great on this system. heater is a 1 kw Ti Also have a evaporative cooler for temperature control (a 6' x 6" dia. pvc tower with water falling down over rubble rock and air blowing counter current. Evaporation on the system 5gal/day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onyx March 10, 2010 Share March 10, 2010 Welcome aboard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happyfeet March 10, 2010 Share March 10, 2010 Howdy welcome to WAMAS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Ward March 10, 2010 Share March 10, 2010 Welcome to WAMAS! I see you're in Midlothian, which means you're quite a ways from the rest of us. We're happy to have you, but if you ever want to get in touch with people closer to you, the Richmond Reef Club has a board through reefcentral: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=335 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector March 10, 2010 Share March 10, 2010 It's always nice to hear from new members. Can you give me some more info on that cooling tower and maybe some pics. Sounds interesting. Welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coral Hind March 10, 2010 Share March 10, 2010 Welcome to the club. How is your nitrate level? I would think that the "evaporative cooler" would be one large wet/dry filter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoozilla March 10, 2010 Share March 10, 2010 Welcome to WAMAS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brfrags March 10, 2010 Author Share March 10, 2010 Thanks everyone for the welcome. Yes I am a ways away from DC but was urged to join by a fellow richmond reef club member that is also WAMAS member, stating the larger size of the membership and nice tanks. Hope to make it to a meeting once in a while, I am in DC every now and then. The evaporative cooler works fine, have not had a problem with nitrites, of course I also have a deep sand bed (8") and a marcoalgae garden. Have used evaporative cooler on much larger system with good results, much cheaper than a chiller and keeps tank temperature close to ambient. Here's some pic's of my system: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector March 10, 2010 Share March 10, 2010 Looks like a nice set-up. Healthy. Definitely keep us up on the progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zygote2k March 10, 2010 Share March 10, 2010 looks cool. welcome to WAMAS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coral Hind March 10, 2010 Share March 10, 2010 What kind of fan do you use for the cooling tower? What skimmer do you use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brfrags March 10, 2010 Author Share March 10, 2010 The fan on my cooling tower is a 140mm/120V computer fan, I could get more cooling if I had more airflow. Cooling capacity goes up with water flow down till flood point and air flow up untill air at top of column is at dew point. Most comercial cooling towers achieve about a 20* difference in water temperature depending on difference in what they call wet bulb and dry bulb temperatures. ie the less humid the air the better it works even if air temp is high. You can go on line and check wet bulb and dry bulb temps for your area. The wet bulb temp is the lowest temp that you can achieve with evaporation if tower was optium and usually can expect somewhere half way inbetween with typical designs. The skimmer is a Deltec 702 which is oversized for my current system but you know can never have too big a skimmer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watson_barrett March 11, 2010 Share March 11, 2010 those are some massive corals for a frag tank, sweet tanks. do you always have your MHs that high from the water or just to take pictures?> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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