Lawrence's first (90g) salt water tank

[L/B Block]

A better image of our amazing rock work, courtesy of Johnny.

Next photos, Kold Ster-Il setup and water in the tank.


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[Corallus]

I know what you mean, I ended up using hard PVC for my first ever reef plumbing job and it wasn't as bad as I thought it wold be. I swapped out my return pump for a smaller one, which left it about an inch above the floor of the sump, so I folded up a piece of neoprene and made a kind of pillow for it. In my case, with the hard PVC, I didn't want to stress the joints with the weight of the pump, but that may not be an issue for you. Sounds like you're almost there!

 

[denzil]

Wow, it's awesome to see the reincarnation of Brandie's original 90 gallon tank. The 'scape is absolutely beautiful!

 

[L/B Block]

If we can ever get the canisters unstuck from our Kold Ster-Il, we will get water in it, too!! We owe it to Brandie to do it justice, after all that happened with her 210.


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[L/B Block]

So close and so far... We don't have good seals, so we are dripping. Which we could live with to get water in the tank... But the TDS reading is higher than before filtration. So we have some flushing to do. Or something.

We started at 39 pre filter, and first water out of filter was 49. 10 minutes and two buckets later, 45. We'll fill one more bucket and call it a night.


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[Vhuang168]

I don't see an RO membrane. What are in the canisters?

 

[L/B Block]

I don't see an RO membrane. What are in the canisters?

This is a Kold Ster-il setup not RO/DI. Our tap TDS is <40 ppm, and we want a 0 waste water approach. A few other reefers in the club do it, we've been consulting with them privately. @gimmito is our hero tonight. And generally on this.

Ideally, the filters would get us down to 0 ppm or close. We may have crap filters though. One is torn.

So much for filling our tank this weekend!




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[Vhuang168]

Gotcha. Not familiar with Kold Ster Il. Read up on it and it sounds interesting. But it would never work for me. My tap tds is >350.


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[L/B Block]

Brief update: this weekend was massive progress, but still no water in the tank. Likely suspect: the filters went bad in the year that they hung out in the basement. One of them appears to have a little mildew. Or something. We'll talk to Poly Bio Marine and/or Filter Guys tomorrow and rejigger everything.

 

[gimmito]

Brief update: this weekend was massive progress, but still no water in the tank. Likely suspect: the filters went bad in the year that they hung out in the basement. One of them appears to have a little mildew. Or something. We'll talk to Poly Bio Marine and/or Filter Guys tomorrow and rejigger everything.

Hang in there folks...you're almost there.

 

[jestersix]

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A better image of our amazing rock work, courtesy of Johnny.

Next photos, Kold Ster-Il setup and water in the tank.


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Thanks for the kind words...I like getting to see this one again. Really looking forward to seeing this wet!

 

[L/B Block]

Thanks for the kind words...I like getting to see this one again. Really looking forward to seeing this wet!

Us, too, Johnny. Us, too.

In the entrepreneurial world, they talk about enjoying the "fast fail." We are working on that.

 

[L/B Block]

Just a big public thank you to @Coral reefer , @Kensington Reefer and @gimmito for the last three days of answering a whole lot of newbie questions! Just ordered new filters and a DI setup, and hoping that gets water in the tank by next weekend!

We are learning by the bucket load. So to speak.

 

[Flagg37]

Just a big public thank you to @Coral reefer , @Kensington Reefer and @gimmito for the last three days of answering a whole lot of newbie questions! Just ordered new filters and a DI setup, and hoping that gets water in the tank by next weekend!

We are learning by the bucket load. So to speak.

Hopefully those buckets are filled with water not money.

 

[L/B Block]

Hopefully those buckets are filled with water not money.

Well, as we still don't have water in the tank, I guess it is the latter.

 

[Enderturtle]

I was gonna say WOW he did a professional level aquascape. Check out the overhangs!

Great job on jestersix's part.

I'm liking your aquascape!

 

[MolaMola]

That is great rockwork! Those tiers make for a lot of space for attachment and also for lower light corals below. You are giving me some good ideas. Currently my tank is mostly a giant pile of rocks.

 

[L/B Block]

Ya'll are just reminding us how excited we are to get water in this thing. And then living creatures.

New Kold Ster-Il filters, plus a dual-DI unit en route by this weekend... plus triple inline TDS meter so we can geek out a bit regarding what is/isn't removing solids. Bit of a hiccup in my/Betsy's schedule but we should be ready to get water in by next week. FINALLY. Lawrence is reading up on the AquaController, while we are waiting I got the unit setup on our network. Then we'll focus on PS and ATO setup. And getting our Brutes for ATO and mixing salt water.

FUN TIMES AHEAD.

Is it too early to start thinking of our first add to the tank?

 

[Flagg37]

No way. It's just part of good planning.

 

[Coral reefer]

Not at all. Having a plan is good. And especially if you don have a quarantine setup you could start adding things pretty soonish