90 Gallon Wave Front Build (A LOT OF PICTURES)

Well seeding my tank has finally started to show some results the sand used form my established QT has jump started the diatom outbreak.

2 days ago:





Yesterday:

 

Well I got to test the water again last night and the results are:

PH: 8.3
Nitrite: 0
Ammonia: .25
Nitrate: 5
Calcium: 440
Phosphate: .25
Alkalinity: 9
Salinity: 1.023

So looks like I am on the tail end of the cycle and I am going to do a 10 gallon water change tonight. I am also going to be adding a damsel later.

 

And the cycle begings i remmber those days lol

look really nice keep up the great work

 

Thanks, I just need to get some reactors on order but dang almost $200 for all the stuff (reactors,GFO,pumps,carbon)

 

I cannot get over how awesome that stand is

 

Thanks! Just wait till I get my own house then the 300 will begin!!!! :thumb_up:

 

Well I was finally able to get a fish in the tank I was waiting for a friends damsel to put in there but never worked out. So I was in a LFS and got offered a Powder Blue from the a display tank that they were taking down I got a good deal $120 out the door for a fat and healthy 4"+ fish. I am still waiting on getting a CUC and reactors but I think one fish won't add to much to the bioload that the skimmer can't handle.

Pics to follow.

 

*waiting patiently for pics*

 

So you put a powder blue tang for your 1st fish?

 

Skimmer Rack / Manifold

While I have been trying to figure out the skimmer as well as letting the tank cycle more. I have been thinking about what else I need to do.

The ASM G2 I have is not working correctly still. I have let it run (and overfill the cup) for 3 days to try and get it to kick in and get used to the new tank but it never did anything, it is still overfilling so I made a new rack for the skimmer to sit on.

I have tried to have the skimmer in 10" of water and then on a rack so it would be at 8" and now with this new rack it sits at 6" of water.





So I tried this and it still is overfilling I am not sure what else to do I have even tried to do a water change by letting the cup fill then empty it then fill then empty it. I did this for about 3 gallons of water and it still kept overfilling. Ideas?

Next I have been trying to get this last final major purchase for the tank done I need to think about getting reactors, carbon, and GFO. I was thinking that I would get two single BRS reactors (this way I can fine tune the flow) and then I was going to get the media and two of the MaxiJet 1200's to power them. Now this would have brought my bill close to $200 bucks so I wanted to make it cheaper (so did my wife) so I got to thinking that my return pump has a lot of flow already and thanks to a suggestion from a fellow reefer I am just going to redo the return side of the plumbing and make a manifold to power the reactors.

Also in light of me wanting to get a dang fish in this system I am going to make a screen to fit over the top of the system. You can see window screen framing and connectors here. I also picked up some "bird netting" to use as the screen to keep jumpers in the tank. The netting is a larger square unlike screen material which is really small so this "bird netting" should not hold back any light from getting in the tank.

Pictures.

This is what I started with.





I forgot some fittings so I had to go back to Home Depot.



Then I realized I had forgotten about the extra port for the maintenance tube to connect to for blowing off rocks and what not also I needed to pick up a 3/4" nipple to connect to the return pump.

So it was back to Home Depot again (3rd time)



And so this is what I ended up with at the end of the day. Nothing but all the parts need to get started! What a long day of running back and forth to Home Depot.