Do It Yourself projects
Some time ago there was an article here about Melev's new salt water mixing barrel he built. I was quite impressed by it and am now considering something like it. However, I can no longer find the article. I would appreciate any help that can be provided.As for me I haven't posted in a while...recently bought a new house with a office (fish-room) that I am outfitting with a 75 g reef tank, 40 g sump, 10 g gravity ATO and finally a 20 g refugium (last).I picked up a 55 gal food-quality barrel ...
Picked up an APEX a little while ago and been having a grand old time playing and getting it setting set up and configured. Last night I finally got my ATO up and running. I am pretty nervous about the ATO and a possible flood. I have lots of alarms set up and so far everything is working great. Also been working on getting a webcam up and running on the tank, but have a few issues. Major one is where to mount the cam, right now it has to sit so close to the tank I dont get to see much. Next ...
I call on the Saltwater Gods to come forth and enlighten me with knowledge. Haha. So with winter starting to set in, and more than a few empty aquariums laying around I ask the remote deep sand bed question. Good or bad, and how many of you reef aholics run them? My nitrates stay in the 10-15ppm range. A little background, 90 AGA RR 50 Cree LED's with Apex control 50 gal sump Reef Octo 190 lbs live rock Vortech MP40w Tunze 6045 Blueline ...
I decided to upgrade my nano to one step up. I had a few requirements: 1. Not too big. 42 x 24 X 20 2. Had to blend into existing house and furniture. Where possible use existing items vs buy new and have it accepted by wife 3. Have the system set up to be as low maintenance and automated as possible! Wife will not deal with tank related issues when I'm out of town on business! So this is my story of the tank build up in San Francisco, Bay Area! ...
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