AGA 210 Setup - Page 3

hurtback · #51 03/19/2007, 05:59 PM

WOW---that is ONE BEAUUUUUUTIFUL TANK!!!!!
i hate people who get bigger tanks---lol--only kidding---now looking at your tank makes me want a big tank also--now i'm checking out prices of bigger tanks---
hey---good luck to you---again---nice tank!!!
steve---nj---DEVILS
i wanna bigger tank

gabe3d · #52 03/19/2007, 06:08 PM

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Originally posted by hulley
Looking good Gabe3d, I just did a 4 day leak test with tap water. All is good, now I gotta drain, move tank, repaint wall (per fiance) reposition tank, fill will RO/DI and move rock/fish from 90g to new tank! I've got a bunch of base rock recently and I need to order a new skimmer this week. I'm going with a Bermuda 5C.

Good luck and have fun on your tank build! You'll have to be extremely patient when filling with RODI. For every hour i spent waiting, there was not a single one where i wasn't thinking of using my garden hose to finish the job.

hulley · #53 03/19/2007, 06:44 PM

Thats the truth! I dont have the greatest water pressure so my unit only makes about 35-40gpd!
Looking forward to pics of the tank! I still say you have one of the most beautiful tanks on RC! Keep up the great job!

xenon · #54 03/19/2007, 06:53 PM

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Originally posted by gabe3d
Yeah, the AGA mission stands are awesome i love them as well. The dimensions on this tank are really nice minus the fact that it is realy hard to aquaspace and position corals and such.

I feed my pump with the two 1'' predilled AGA hole. I didn't want to drill holes on the back because of suction and looks. So I did something not really acceptable to the RC community and plumbed my CL in my overflow box.

Gabe

So that means you have 5,800gph going over your skimmer boxes to feed your hammerhead? Does that even work?

Would would need another hammerhead for your return in order to have enough volume to feed the closed loop.

You have a gorgrous setup but the plubming does not make much sense

gabe3d · #55 03/19/2007, 08:12 PM

Thanks for the compliments guys.

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Originally posted by xenon
So that means you have 5,800gph going over your skimmer boxes to feed your hammerhead? Does that even work?

Would would need another hammerhead for your return in order to have enough volume to feed the closed loop.

You have a gorgrous setup but the plubming does not make much sense

Yeah i have over 5800gph (Hammerhead + Dart, restricted though) over the skimmer boxes. I had to remove all the teeth and a little more to accomodate this flow. If you do the math with all the right variables everything should work out fine.

I think it makes more sense if you actually see it. Hehe, but yeah this is the reason I say not acceptable by RC standards

. A little unorthodox and strange.

xenon · #56 03/19/2007, 08:40 PM

I think its friggin cool! I wish I could have done the same and saved my nerves when drilling my tank.

If you have that much flow going thru your sump, how can your skimmer keep up?

There is a reason why 3-5x turnover thru your sump is recommended. It allows the skimmer to process the water before it returns to the tank.

gabe3d · #57 03/19/2007, 08:47 PM

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Originally posted by xenon
I think its friggin cool! I wish I could have done the same and saved my nerves when drilling my tank.

If you have that much flow going thru your sump, how can your skimmer keep up?

There is a reason why 3-5x turnover thru your sump is recommended. It allows the skimmer to process the water before it returns to the tank.

The 2 1'' holes are directly connected to my hammerhead so it doesn't go through the sump at all.

The 2 3/4'' is feeding the sump. I'm thinking at most i get is 1000gph turnover from sump to tank because my Dart feeds both my phosban reactor, chiller, UV, and calcium reactor. On top of that the outlet to return water from my tank is going through a 1'' pipe to connect to my WavySea, basically a lot of restriction and multitasking.

samson78945 · #58 03/19/2007, 09:26 PM

best 210 ive seen! congrats man keep it up

gabe3d · #59 03/19/2007, 11:23 PM

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Originally posted by hurtback
WOW---that is ONE BEAUUUUUUTIFUL TANK!!!!!
i hate people who get bigger tanks---lol--only kidding---now looking at your tank makes me want a big tank also--now i'm checking out prices of bigger tanks---
hey---good luck to you---again---nice tank!!!
steve---nj---DEVILS
i wanna bigger tank

The more you browse RC, the bigger of a tank you would want. If someone did a study, i bet the correlation would be remarkably high!!

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Originally posted by samson78945
best 210 ive seen! congrats man keep it up

drummereef · #60 03/19/2007, 11:56 PM

Not that it means anything but your 210 is the model I am using for my 180 build. Outstanding job.

crrichey · #61 03/20/2007, 12:30 AM

Mas pics plz!

MakoFury · #62 03/20/2007, 10:04 AM

WOW SUPER TERRIFIC!

gabe3d · #63 03/20/2007, 04:21 PM

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Originally posted by drummereef
Not that it means anything but your 210 is the model I am using for my 180 build. Outstanding job.

Thanks. I'm happy to hear that you got some useful information out of my build.

gabe3d · #64 03/20/2007, 04:27 PM

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Originally posted by ChinChek787
Mas pics plz!

Hang tight! Will post some tank pics this weekend.

Oh yeah, i also got new bulbs that i need to install, i hope they will look good. I got some Reeflux 10k.

gabe3d · #65 03/24/2007, 01:12 PM

Hendersonracing · #66 03/24/2007, 01:18 PM

nice work!

gabe3d · #67 03/24/2007, 02:21 PM

Here are some more

hulley · #68 03/24/2007, 05:27 PM

That is a beautiful Purple tang! I wish mine looked that good! He is all faded. I'm not sure why, he looked like your when I got him over a year ago. What do you feed your tangs?

Bax · #69 03/24/2007, 08:54 PM

Very nice tank!

fancyfish · #70 03/24/2007, 09:08 PM

love the aquascape. absolutely gourgous

gabe3d · #71 03/25/2007, 10:47 AM

Thanks for the nice words everyone

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Originally posted by hulley
That is a beautiful Purple tang! I wish mine looked that good! He is all faded. I'm not sure why, he looked like your when I got him over a year ago. What do you feed your tangs?

It took me a while to find one that had a nice even black dotted patterns on him. So I'm really glad that he stayed very colorful throughout the 4 years I've had him. I feed them twice a day with Formula One, Formula Two, and Prime Reef (A cube of each a day all crushed together). Soaked in Kent Garlic, Kent Zoe, H2O Life VTH, and H2O Life V3. Since that isn't quite enough for all the fish i also feed them dried red and green seaweed from Julian Sprung in the middle of the day.

hulley · #72 03/25/2007, 01:41 PM

I will definitly try that. I've been feeding nori soaked w/kent Garlic and brine shrimp plus for the last year. My Yellow and Hippo tang has great coloring but my Purple has faded quite badley. I'll feed formula One flake about 3 times a week, I've heard that flake food is not the greatest for tank conditions even though my water params are always on check. I think I'll try the F1, F2 and PR cubes tomarrow seeing as I'm about out of frozen food now! thanks for the info!

InvaderJim · #73 03/25/2007, 02:17 PM

One of my favorite tanks on RC. Great looking tank.

gabe3d · #74 05/07/2007, 04:28 PM

I finally received my T5 Tek2 reflectors last week and got around installing them the other day. I'm really liking this T5 + MH look. Check it out.

Here are the T5s only

Here are the MH and T5s

hulley · #75 05/07/2007, 05:30 PM

WOW! Looks great! I'm going with an all t5 set up, I'm leaving for Maui on thursday and will be gone for 10 days-when I get back I'm ordering the lights. Keep up the great work!