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An accident

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syedjilani
, 07-15-2010 at 03:43 AM (1696 Views)
UPDATE
Tank Filled by yesterday. I put some more cured live rock. Since there is no substrate at the bottom, I can see small creature is finding their food on the bottom glass and swimming around. I am sure this is an indication that the water is still healthy. Everything is going fine; otherwise, all the creature may die.

An Accident:

I felt that I am strong enough and will able to place sump inside the stand, while I was trying to be strong and tried to put sump inside the stand it hit the corner of bottom glass of sump to floor and a piece of glass came out. . . . … , i called the guy who made the sump, confirm him to fix the problem as soon as possible.



Immediately called the factory and ordered new 10mm Glass instead of 8mm thickness, I arrange new bottom glass and picked the guy at the night to open the entire sump and replace the bottom of sump with new glass. … …

It took four hours but at last, we ended up with new another sump early in the morning.

With the help of that guy I placed the sump inside the stand and filled fresh water and start circulation (inside the sump only). Isn’t it funny tank is full of Salt water and sump is full of fresh water.

New Sump dried up, broken 8mm thickness bottom replace with 10mm glass. water tested for almost two days. (sorry for bad quality pics)



Now every thing is ready for completely fill with salt water.

Tank and sump filled with RO and some NSW. . Protein skimmer on it's place....





Added 38Gallons of RO water to addjust salinity as 35ppt and specific gravity 1.026



Now i am sure that buying Reef octopus DNWB-200 was 100% strong and right desicion for my new 300G. No noise at all....

Wow... I plugged it, it's work like it was waiting for work.



Wow....



I am away from my house until evening, exciting that how will be the skimate. Of couse, nothing will come out no bio load, no organic waste .

Add one more cured live rock. What you think guys and girls, is it enough for artistic aquascaping......?
Do any one experience to cycle the tank with cured live rock?

Any suggestion? Melev, did you finished your coffee.....





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Updated 07-15-2010 at 06:05 AM by melev

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  1. melev's Avatar
    I think it looks great. Everything looks nice and clean.

    I'd add a lot more rock, but that's a cute start. hehe

    You said the skimmer is quiet, but I'm seeing water pouring out of the output above water level. Is there a fitting you'll be using to control how it pours out?
  2. syedjilani's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by melev
    I think it looks great. Everything looks nice and clean.

    I'd add a lot more rock, but that's a cute start. hehe

    You said the skimmer is quiet, but I'm seeing water pouring out of the output above water level. Is there a fitting you'll be using to control how it pours out?
    Yes of course, there is fitting to control outlet flow from skimmer.
  3. agsansoo's Avatar
    Looks like your off to a great start. Are you going to leave the tank bare bottom ?
  4. evoracer's Avatar
    My only concern is how high the water level is in the sump. Perhaps it is an optical illusion. Is there enough space to hold all the drain-back and siphon from the main tank in the event of a power outage? Have you tried shutting off all the power and seeing if it overflows the sump?
  5. syedjilani's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by agsansoo
    Looks like your off to a great start. Are you going to leave the tank bare bottom ?
    I don't like bare bottom. Sand give natural look. Of couse I will have DSB tank.
  6. syedjilani's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by evoracer
    My only concern is how high the water level is in the sump. Perhaps it is an optical illusion. Is there enough space to hold all the drain-back and siphon from the main tank in the event of a power outage? Have you tried shutting off all the power and seeing if it overflows the sump?


    Thank you evoracer for giving me caution. Sump has more than enough limits to hold siphon water from the tank. The first thing I check siphon from the tank to the sump, because the carpets in my house is very expensive and I cannot break house government rules (she fire first and talk later). Whenever I made water change, I walk with bare feet to check the floor, whether it is clean, or need more cleaning……......

    Can you imagine, if water come out from sump then.....,