dailydriven911's 34g Solana rimless tank thread - Page 2

Chorethorious · #26 12/31/2007, 01:00 PM

I was curious about the siphoning as well.

dailydriven911 · #27 12/31/2007, 01:06 PM

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Originally posted by Xandernfs
thanks for the pics. So you have a siphon going from the main tank to the fuge. Then a pump back to the main tank or a pump on both ends?

Pump on both ends a mj900 located in the under the top off bottles in the return chamber pumping water down to the sump/reugium and a mj1200 located in the return section of the sump/refugium pumping water back up to the filter chamber (look at the last pic you can see both hoses.) I'm going to upgrade the tubing as well as the pumps so I can run a wavy sea eventually. Hopefully this helps.

LaurentSeattle · #28 12/31/2007, 02:31 PM

Hi,

The Solana brochure mentions a so-called "micro-bubbles eliminator". Does it truly work? Any MB in the tank?

Thanks

pardalis · #29 12/31/2007, 02:45 PM

Love your rock work!

dailydriven911 · #30 12/31/2007, 02:48 PM

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Originally posted by LaurentSeattle
Hi,

The Solana brochure mentions a so-called "micro-bubbles eliminator". Does it truly work? Any MB in the tank?

Thanks

Well I think they help but I still notice them. I'm going to throw on a tunze 9005 skimmer in place of the stock one and see if that helps. I have had mine setup for 3 weeks so maybe it takes a bit longer for the mb to go away.

Chorethorious · #31 12/31/2007, 05:33 PM

*sigh* The only thing I have put together is the light pendant, haha.

Hey, are you making your own kalk mix?

dailydriven911 · #32 12/31/2007, 06:23 PM

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Originally posted by Chorethorious
*sigh* The only thing I have put together is the light pendant, haha.

Hey, are you making your own kalk mix?

Yep just a teaspoon in 1 gallon of ro/di water let sit for 12 hrs and it's ready.

Xandernfs · #33 01/01/2008, 11:38 PM

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Originally posted by dailydriven911
Pump on both ends a mj900 located in the under the top off bottles in the return chamber pumping water down to the sump/reugium and a mj1200 located in the return section of the sump/refugium pumping water back up to the filter chamber (look at the last pic you can see both hoses.) I'm going to upgrade the tubing as well as the pumps so I can run a wavy sea eventually. Hopefully this helps.

AHHH, ok i see. How did you figure out your head to get both equal?

dailydriven911 · #34 01/02/2008, 01:28 AM

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Originally posted by Xandernfs
AHHH, ok i see. How did you figure out your head to get both equal?

It worked for awhile but honestly it was a pita and I decided to remove the fuge. Instead I added the cheato to the overflow box (topoff section) and I'm going to throw one of these over it...

http://www.championlighting.com/prod...cat=711&page=1

In time I may redo the fuge and plumbing/pumps but for now it works like a charm!

Xandernfs · #35 01/02/2008, 11:30 AM

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Originally posted by dailydriven911
It worked for awhile but honestly it was a pita and I decided to remove the fuge. Instead I added the cheato to the overflow box (topoff section) and I'm going to throw one of these over it...

http://www.championlighting.com/prod...cat=711&page=1

In time I may redo the fuge and plumbing/pumps but for now it works like a charm!

Good idea!!

dailydriven911 · #36 01/09/2008, 12:50 AM

Just an update...

I added a TLF phosban reactor running seachem phosgaurd and elos carbon. I'm going to add a wavy sea and possibly upgrade to a lumenarc mini and also add an AC jr. Hope you enjoy the pics just sps frags for now including cali tort, various tricolors, chipps acro, blue, pink, and yellow milles, green, red, and purple rim caps and various others. This week I will be adding or tort, rainbow monti, superman digi, ora german green, pokerstar monti, and a couple other rare ones. Then a couple clams and various zoos and ricordea to cover the lower section of the tank.

A few pics...

ora chipps...

falco hawk

fourline wrasse

side shot...

i2go · #37 01/09/2008, 01:12 AM

What is the green sps on the top right? Great job, I love the shelves. Did the phosban reactor help a lot? How do they working, is it like a skimmer?

dailydriven911 · #38 01/09/2008, 02:03 AM

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Originally posted by i2go
What is the green sps on the top right? Great job, I love the shelves. Did the phosban reactor help a lot? How do they working, is it like a skimmer?

The green sps is a green slimer. The phosban reactor works wonders. I had a HA bloom that seemed it didn't want to go away. I added the reactor and within 2 days half of it is gone and my po4 dropped from 0.05ppm to 0-0.02ppm using the elos test kit. it's not a skimmer, water flows through it around 80 gph and po4 is removed using po4 remover and I you can also run carbon through it.

Xandernfs · #39 01/09/2008, 11:17 AM

Looks nice....Still no heat issues (i hope)

dailydriven911 · #40 01/09/2008, 11:31 AM

Nope not really it gets up around 81 degrees or so but I just open the window and the temp will come down a bit. I'm sure in the summer I will have issues but I have AC so I should be ok.

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Looks nice....Still no heat issues (i hope)