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Yea I know Luckily my wife is a good sport and helped me clean up the water. It was 3-5 gallons. I just forgot and stuck my head up you know where.

Mental note of a rookie mistake. Sand adds displacement. If you add 220 lbs of sand and don't take out water it will come out on its own. Everything performed well. Skins came off easy enough (they are still bolted on so they take a minute) Everything is back together.

You know how I feel about regulators.......with my sgt5000 The carbon Doser regulators aren't bad. They are just horribly overpriced IMO. Same with the GLA but if your not in the planted community you may not know the custom regulators exist. I run a GLA paintball reg on my 5g pico planted, it's a bear to adjust but very stable once it's dialed in. Sorry for the digression.

Pretty !!!! Good job getting something better than a carbon Doser

Have you seen Inception?

Happy to report no leaks. Yea yea I didn't do a 12 hr static test. I did 2 hrs and got impatient. Flow. (System clocked in at 160 gallons of actual water) Carbon reactor 70 gph fed off return pump - target 80 gph Recirculating skimmer 165 gph fed off return pump - target 200 gph for 1.5 turnover per hour (a little lower then I would like but maxed out for John guest tubing) Algae scrubber 120 gph fed off return pump - target 280 gph (a lot lower then I would like but maxed out for 1/2" John guest tubing) may get put on its own pump. Currently at 15 gph per inch of screen. Should be at 35 gph per inch. It will work at that low flow rate but it's decreasing it from a 2 cube a day scrubber to a .75 cube a day scrubber. GFO reactor - stand alone Carx - 30ml/min Returns - anybody's guess Now just fine tuning.

The grinch lol. I could have used another couple inches too.

Tanks wearing me out. It's about to be this time.

Corals look good. Your sisters funny. How long have you had the Kole?

Are those biopellets tumbling in reverse? [emoji23]I don't get it.Didn't you say your reactor was plumbed backwards the other day? I was just ribbing you.Oh yea. Carbon reactor. I was like wha bio wha. I didn't know I was doing bio pellets. Good job soaring that one right over my head.Yes the carbon reactor was plumbed backwards because apparently I can't read . But it's fixed

So 2 leaks. Drips. On the drains of course. Thankfully none on the return manifold yet. One on the left side Fuge seeping water at the gate valve. Annoying but manageable due to my liberal placement of unions. The most annoying g part is 1.5" spears gate valves and 1.5" unions are not cheap. But fixed. Second one is where the pipe inserts into the bulkhead at the bottom of the external overflow box. Holy cow. It had to be the emergency drain. It had to be the middle of the 3 pipes. The absolutely hardest piece of plumbing to access on the entire tank. It's just a seep. I couldn't get my big channel locks in there to spin the nut on the Union. Sighs. Cusses. A lot. So I used my PVC flush cutter. It was a nerve racking, sweating bullets cussing event. I was very nervous about accidentally cutting the acrylic as I was cutting through the bulkhead as getting another 26" ghost overflow would take weeks or more. But I prevailed. I'm tired and irritated but everything is back together waiting for the glue to dry. Thank God I held the tank off the wall 11.5", thank God I didn't have that extra slice of pizza last night as I had to suck my gut in as far as I could to squeeze behind the tank. Now I know I can fix any of the plumbing with the tank running. It's not fun but can be accomplished. After the glue dries I'm going to perform a static test where I friction fit caps to the bottom of the drains and fill them up with water and let sit for 12 hrs. Wish me luck.

Are those biopellets tumbling in reverse? [emoji23] I don't get it.

I was beginning to wonder myself. Bean animal is tuned. It is dead silent. You can't ever hear the pumps. Very happy.

No leaks yet. I doubt I'm that lucky. We shall see. Bean animal how I loathe to tune thee.

Exactly, For heavens sakes don't do 1.5" drains. 1.5" is a bear to work with.

Filling.

The wood work looks really nice. Good job.

It depends on the glue. Blue glue is safe to use in 15 minutes I think. The clear heavy duty glue I use they reccomend 24hrs till full set. It should say on the can of glue.

Sorry I wasn't clear. 9 parts RODI water 1 part hydrogen peroxide (just the regular hydrogen peroxide you get at Walgreens etc) That's my secret to keeping my frag racks clean. It very effective at algae and moderately effective on coraline. Then I just wipe it down with a unscented regular magic eraser, rinse with RODI and back into the tank. To get the palys off I would put on long sleeves and long pants and a face mask and hit it with my pressure washer. But I'm lazy. Scraping seems like work.

I would scrape the offenders off then 10% hydrogen peroxide soak for 12 hrs two times then into a RODI soak for 24hrs then back into the tank. The hydrogen peroxide will kill everything on the barnacle and if a little makes it back into your tank it won't hurt everything. It will kill all the bacteria though so it will recycle.

Lol good mental note, starving peppermint will eat aiptasia.

That is my custom made pressure switch box. It has 2 pressure switch floats that run the primary and emergency cutoff for my ATO, it's the same pressure switches Avast marine uses for their ATO systems and Skimmate lockers. I'm using a digital aquatics dosing pump for my ATO pump. If you look closely at the circled bracket in the return compartment there is also a third manual float valve for the ATO. There is also a 3/8 black tubing that runs to my salt water barrel so when I do water changes I just vacuum the skimmer compartment and/or return compartment and fire up my pump on my saltwater barrel and refill the tank. I can't go into the septic with discarded saltwater so I have to siphon out into the yard.

I really really considered leaving it unskinned. But that's all I need is for my 6 year old daughter or one of her friends to put her strawberry shortcake doll in the sump because she wants to go swimming. I'm not to worried about my kids because they know not to touch even the glass on the tanks, but their friends, who knows.The cabinet face is bolted onto the steel stand with rivnuts that are drilled into the frame, holding a piece of 1" aluminum angle that is wood screwed into the back of the cabinet face. Yes of course I had the aluminum pieces powder coated with the frame. There is 16 or so holding the cabinet faces on. What this accomplished is being able to pull the skins easily and reinstall them easily if I need to.

I also finished my rock platform for my rock compartment. A). I didn't want a bunch of rock in my cryptic zone marring up my pretty acrylic sump and B). In an effort to keep detritus from settling I decided to platform up the rock. I am thinking about picking up a used gyre 130 to put in that compartment running half in reverse to keep the detritus suspended. I built the platform out of 3/8 clear acrylic and 1" square acrylic rod feet. It got slotted with a 3/8 and 1/4 router bits. Alternating 3/8,1/4,3/8,14,3/8 for each of the platforms. I had to half it to be able to get them in around the euro bracing so there is 2 separate platforms.

Well. That piece of junk eggcrate sump allowed me to mock up exact compartment sizes and dimensions. And I know your pulling my chain The bubble trap falling in the center stile of the cabinets was by design. I have full unrestricted access to all 3 compartments.