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04-17-2008, 01:28 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Pinantan Lake Age: 44
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 |  Hello fron beautiful Pinantan Lake
My name is John and I currently have a 25 fresh that has been running for about 18 months without any problems. This is not my first tank and currently isn't my only. I have a little 10 that will be a QT (right now it's cycling with only gravel and water (trying rainwater this time) to get all the grunge out from the kid that had it last and let the calcium crust get on everything. Took a lot of scraping before I got to glass. I hate having to cycle twice but with used garbage (it did come from the dump) I have to let the good oupace the bad, then clean and then start again.
I also have a 70 that I found at the dump with all the goodies, 3 air pumps, HOB dual filter, stand, hood and an assortment of airstones and such. Boy that was inn car so fast....
I'm planning to build up a reef out of the 70 with a 40 gallon sump/fuge, a 48 x 4 inch skimmer built to use homemade basswood defusers and a small medical grade compressor for the air part. A DSB of 4 to 6 inches deep. and with agorocrete (I think the name is copyrighted, sorry if it is, kinda like getting a bic to make a fire) built up into the caves and crannies and spaces underneath (where the fish can't get) for the current pumps. I intend on using an over the side overflow skimmer that I saw on another forum that I thought was a stroke of genius. Seeding the "crete with smaller pieces of true live rock will populate the 'crete just fine over the next year or so. I'm not planning to have anything but mobile inverts for a year and a half (depending on the tank params,) but no less even if things seem good.
I have an autocad rendering of my plan and it's preliminary plumbing. It's not quite complete, but should give an idea.  
Comments and mild abuse welcome.
John
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"With the oil of Aphrodite and the dust of the Grand Wazoo." He said "You might not believe this little fella, but it will cure your asthma too." and I said
"Look here brother, Who you jiven whth that cozmik debris,Just what kind of a guru are you anyway?" | 
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04-17-2008, 03:18 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Welcome to 3reef. Glad to have you aboard. _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
3x400w MH's, 4x95w Actinics, AAT Lunar Lights, OM 4-way CL, PM Bullet 3 Skimmer, DelZone Eclipse 1 O3 Generator, WavySea Plus for return, AAT Kalk Reactor, KNOP Ca Reactor w/PM Second Chamber, TradeWinds Chiller, ACIII Controller, Oceanus ATO, PM PO4 Reactor, 75g Sump, 30g Fuge Born March 5, 2007 My 265 Gal. Tank Thread " REAL TIME TANK STATS "   | |
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04-17-2008, 10:15 PM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Miami,Fl
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Welcome to 3reef! _________ 90 gallon tank with center overflows, 44 gallon custom sump/fuge, Tek T5 retrofit 4x54 bulbs, Reef Octopus nw200 protein skimmer, Iwaki WMD40RLXT return pump (changed to panworld 100pxx),Knop c ca reactor, PA light house controller.
Click: Real-Time Stats 
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04-17-2008, 10:39 PM
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| | KingFish
Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Pt. Richmond, Ca. Age: 38
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Sounds like a monster skimmer. I can't wait to see that in action.
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04-17-2008, 10:42 PM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: rocklin
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yeah i agree!!!! ^^ | |
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04-18-2008, 01:07 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Pinantan Lake Age: 44
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where I live water is at a premium. I have an RO but the well doesn't produce much, certainly not enough for a water hog like an RO. I'll get a bit from it but will have to haul my water for changes from town. That's why I'm building (overbuilding) my filtration to deal with small water changes, not that frequently. Hope it works. If not I'll just be stressing some shrimp and snails until I get it worked out.
Peace
John | |
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04-18-2008, 06:07 AM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 58
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Salutations!
Glad to see you found way here.
Sounds like a terrific project.
Please keep us posted on progress.
Scott _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
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04-18-2008, 05:13 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ohio Age: 32
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Welcome to 3Reef>>>>>>
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5.5 gal, 72w of pcs, 2 leds, rio nano skimmer, 40 gal hob filter, 50w visi-therm heater, 5pds lr, 1 inch live sand bed, 1 australian black perc clown ,1 porcelain crab, , 1 pep shrimp, 1 lge turbo , 3 cerith, 1 astrea, 1 nassaruis snails, neon grn bali slimer acro, purple acro, millipora's, feather duster, monti's, duncans, grn polyps, shrooms, zoa's, blue clove polyps, purple death pallys and grn star plyps. | |
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