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Eric's 125 build.

Woke up to my tank just not sounding right. After a quick look I find that my L1 vectra pump is dead. Good thing I spent the extra time plumbing my uv as a return with an M2 as a pump. That at least buys me a little time.

Anyone have a super cheap vectra l1 or l2 laying around?
 
And a torch decides to go for a ride...

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Srt4eric said:
Woke up to my tank just not sounding right. After a quick look I find that my L1 vectra pump is dead. Good thing I spent the extra time plumbing my uv as a return with an M2 as a pump. That at least buys me a little time.

Anyone have a super cheap vectra l1 or l2 laying around?
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A keen ear knows….
Glad ya caught the issue
wishing you a positive flow
 
Srt4eric said:
Woke up to my tank just not sounding right. After a quick look I find that my L1 vectra pump is dead. Good thing I spent the extra time plumbing my uv as a return with an M2 as a pump. That at least buys me a little time.

Anyone have a super cheap vectra l1 or l2 laying
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Thankful for the redundancy. It's proven unreliable. Get a Jebao.
 
If it's the L1 from my tank, it had 4-5 years on it already. Try cleaning (like you don't know that), then I don't hate Jebao new stuff, and hard to beat the price, so a backup is easily affordable. Free is always cheaper.
 
popper said:
Thankful for the redundancy. It's proven unreliable. Get a Jebao.
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I actually went with a jaebo (mdp-6500) for my new/current build, and plumbed up spare sicce sdc 6 for a quick and easy emergency swap if needed - had my return pump die when I was out of town not too long ago but they didn't realize as there was still plenty of water movement from the wavemakers. Judging by the state of the tank there had been no filtration for 5+ days, lost pretty much everything other than the wrasse and hippo tang - and there was a massive aiptasia bloom to top it off lol.

Need to update the build thread now that I've finally got some momentum going!
 
Srt4eric said:
Dinos are gone and light shades are printed!!!!

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Awesome to see!! When I first joined the club 2/3 years ago and would read through the forums. It felt like you where a tank legend in retirement now only messing with this nano Fluval tank lol Happy to see this full circle back to this beast sized tank! Awesome work on the build and success in what’s inside.
 
Well that was a first. Over the last week I've watched the flow rate of my uv slowly drop. Yesterday I turned off the uv and my pump with the intention of cleaning the pump. Since it's hard plumbed into my display it became an addition siphon drain. I come home at lunch and notice my box fish has his face stuck in the 3/4 pipe. I pull him off and he's swimming around just fine. He has slight bruising on his face and he looks like he has had lip injections. Looking back on my apex I can see the exact time he got stuck to the pipe...

Pictured below are the pipe the fish and the graph.
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