Tank's been running for a few weeks. So far so good. I have a few small fish in there now so its starting to get some signs of life.
The main items worth sharing are that the skimmer and roller mat are now online and doing their thing.
The ReefMat is pretty cool. I've never used any of the previous rollermats on the market so I can't draw any comparisons but I'm digging it quite a bit. It just sits there and rolls things out as you would have guessed. One thing I'm interested in trying out is a feature called "scheduled advance". Essentially you can pick a time of day and have the unit roll away some length of fleece that you choose. So, theoretically I can have it pull out N" at 2am to make sure there's no leftover food sitting there "unrolled" at the end of each day.
Can you hear it? Yup - its not silent but it only rolls for a few seconds a couple times a day.
The skimmer tho... that is dead silent! I'm still tuning it but it's working, is very quiet and, thankfully, its not "too big". Its probably too much for m current bio load but its productive and isn't randomly overflowing so I'm good with it... especially since I'll definitely be adding a lot of fish.
Keeping with the "sound" theme... the Cor 20's are the only gear in the tank that are audible. When the TV is off you can hear them hum. I was super close to just buying new pumps last night but held off. Why 1) no guarantee I'll like something else better 2) I kinda wanna wait to see what Neptune & EcoTech come up with (possibly nothing) 3) eh, it costs $ I could put towards fish and 4) all the other pumps have massive controllers and I dont want to find/make room for them just yet.
So far, so good...