Mitch
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dropped in 2 frozen shrimp 3 days ago, so just waiting for the ammonia to start kicking on... the SB has settled in w/ a nice contour as the flow interacts w/ the LR... the water has really cleared up ... i took these pics with the CFL spotlight i will be using for the refugium: http://www.flickr.co...692128305/show/ by WED/THU, i hope to get my order of reefcleaner refugium mud and will pull out the remants of the shrimp... hopefully, what was left in the dried out LR, decay from the shrimps, and die off from the mud should be plenty for the cycle... i will start my 7-day treatment of Stability too...
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i'm using Caribsea sugar sized sand... once the dust cleared out and the SB settled with respect to the flow around the rockscape, i only see some light shifting at the SB surface mainly in the open area in the middle... but it's not gettting kicked up at all... oh, the top of the vortecs are mounted about 3" from the top of the water (water is 22.5" tall), sand bed is about 2" tall, and the vortecs are in antisync, full power, reef crest mode... a couple q's about the cycle process, do i need to have lights on? and what temp do i need to maintain?
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thanks! i dropped 2 small frozen shrimps in yesterday... AND i've got ReefCleaner's refugium mud on order (delivery WED/THU), so not sure when to start the Stability treatment... and i remember reading that i simply need scrapings of coraline to seed the tank as it distributes thru the tank easily. i've got my 2 mp40w's setup as master/slave... pretty sweet! and slowly but surely piecing the rest of the tank together via the Apex... likewise sweet!
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@daniel, any luck with improving your output?
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Put in 90lbs of sugar sized sand and created one heck of a dust storm... resulted in about a 2" sand bed... put rockscape in... total rock weight (dry) was only 66 lbs... Pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mitch_sengson/sets/72157622665207247/show/ So what's the norm for cycling the tank? If I recall correctly, place a raw shrimp to let it decay etc. My concern is that my rock has been sitting outside for several months now, so I would think that it no longer has any beneficial bacteria in it. If not, how do I seed it with bacteria? I do have a bottle of Stability.
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yeah, i figured i had to submerge the pvc stubs at least. i hadn't thought about the 45 deg fitting. thanks! the noise level is reasonable now =)
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Well after many delays, I finally have water in my tank! It's currently plumbed and has RODI circulating. I just need to figure out how to quiet down the return when it dumps into the sump. Any ideas welcomed! Pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mitch_sengson/sets/72157622764924692/show/
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From the album: Mitch's 90g Tank
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From the album: Mitch's 90g Tank
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From the album: Mitch's 90g Tank
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From the album: Mitch's 90g Tank
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From the album: Mitch's 90g Tank
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From the album: Mitch's 90g Tank
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From the album: Mitch's 90g Tank
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From the album: Mitch's 90g Tank
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From the album: Mitch's 90g Tank
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what's your incoming pressure and temp? and my setup is entirely new... first time to use it...
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i had promised to update ya'll when i started running my 2pass setup (BRS 75gpd 5-stage setup w/ a 2nd RO membrane)... with a water pressure of 66psi, and an approximate water temp of 65F, i get about a 1.1:1 waste:rodi ratio !!!
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Yes, AutoTopOff is now based in N Austin. His website/paypal is/was not yet setup to do local pickup, eg not add shipping, so you'll need to contact Paul directly (sales AT autotopoff DOT com) to arrange.
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yes, the left/taller island is to cover the overflow. i added a few more pics that shows what that might look like. the black line is where the top of the water line would be.
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ok, here's rockscape ver2 (islands): http://www.flickr.com/photos/mitch_sengson/sets/72157622634861834/show/ again, my inside dimensions are 47.25"W x 17.25"D x 22.25"H and the tank has a left corner overflow. left island is 16" tall, middle rock 8", and right island 12".
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mark, autotopoff might have the clear housing you are interested in... http://www.autotopoff.com/misc/... listed as Clear Filter Housing...
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if you are hunting down tubing, autotopoff.com is now an Austin-based company... so you can pick up stuff + sales tax... you will need to contact paul directly to arrange local pickup (n austin) & payment...
