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Brando457

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So I will admit that I may have a slight problem and am addicted to this hobby.

I recently sold off my 180g tank to cover some costs and because i wasn't happy with how some things were setup with it.

I downgraded to a 34g rsm, which is awesome, but adding only a few frags quickly filled up!

So now with only having it setup 2-3 months, I got the bug to upgrade. I was planning on upgrading in the summer, but with audi0s (john) sadly breaking down his tank, it will be happening sooner than expected.

His tank was exactly what I was looking for as far as setup since it has 2 glass hole overflows which IMO are so much sleeker than your standard big box overflows that take up a giant portion of real estate in a tank.

Well I'm slowly accumulating things and will be starting a new job middle of November. End of November they ship me out to Clevland, Ohio for 2 weeks of training.

My plan/ultimate goal is to have all the tank and equipment ready to go for when I get back.

Most likely I will put all the rock I'm getting in a bin and let it cycle while I'm away and leave my 34g up in the meantime.

If I can have the tank cycled and setup by the new year that'd be awesome.

Anyway this will be my progression thread.

Thanks

Some pictures of the soon to be reef.


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Got my skimmer today!
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And last but not least thanks to BreakingNewz for the frag tank :X

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So first question: is anyone familiar with I think it's herbie or bean overflows?

Basically since there are 2 overflow boxes rated at 1400gph each and I'll only be pushing around 900 gph total I was thinking of making 1 overflow a full siphon and then the other an emergency backup drain.

Does anyone have any experience with this and could help me or give me advice?

My understanding is I'd basically need a 90 elbow pointing up in the emergency drain and a 90 down in the full siphon. Then you adjust a gate valve or ball valve on the full siphon to get it to that level.

I'm not really sure about the adjustment aspect considering do you adjust it so the pipe is always full or ???

Or would I be better off running 2 x eheim 1262 for a total of 1800 gph, which the overflows can handle.

And any advice to keep this thing as quiet as possible is appreciated. It will be in my bedroom and I am very sensitive to sounds.
 
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Id leave the return alone don't feed the reactors off that pump you can use the extra water movement. Get 2 maxijets, either the 900 or the 1200 should do. Look for nature's ocean sand, they make decent sand that isn't really fine like that oolite stuff Caribisea makes. You also said avast or nextreef reactors, are you going to run bio pellets or just using these for gfo and carbon?
 
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LatinP said:
Id leave the return alone don't feed the reactors off that pump you can use the extra water movement. Get 2 maxijets, either the 900 or the 1200 should do. Look for nature's ocean sand, they make decent sand that isn't really fine like that oolite stuff Caribisea makes. You also said avast or nextreef reactors, are you going to run bio pellets or just using these for gfo and carbon?
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pellets and carbon is the plan
 
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Brando457 said:
pellets and carbon is the plan
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Nice, make sure you don't run either until you give your tank the chance to cycle naturally. Other than that adding more flow like you said another mp10 or mp40 should do it. You seem to be in pretty good shape. Look up that sand, I used to have really fine sand and I hated the storms it created. Ever since I switched to the Nature's Ocean it's been great I have lots of flow and my sand sits still.
 
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Brando457 said:
I'll check that sand out, I hate seeing my beautiful acans get covered in sand!

What's the best reactor out right now for pellets?
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The Vertex or the Reef Octopus for sure. New Reef Octopus has the best overall design of any reactor to date, Vertex UF-15 or UF-20 are proven solid bio pellet reactors too. I'll link both:


http://coralvue.com/reef-octopus-hang-on-biopellet-reactors/
This one has a cone shaped bottom helps push pellets back up and a nice mesh top, it's really in a league of it's own at the moment since there aren't many reactors.

http://www.vertexaquaristik.com/Products/MediaFilters/UniversalMediaReactors/UF15.aspx
Vertex I'd say get the uf-15 or uf-20 for bigger tanks, great proven reactors some members on this forum actually have these running with a high success rate.
 
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Brando457 said:
Looks like I'll go with the reef octopus then, I need to research I think for a 75g with 30g sump I'd need around 250-300 ml of pellets
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I calculated just over 300, but cycle first once everything is good to go add half not the full amount then wait 2 weeks to a month and add the second half. This is what I did and I have a 75 with a 30 sump as well. So far results have been positive and no bacterial bloom.
 
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Sweet! Thanks for your help and advice, I really appreciate it. Would an eheim 600 be strong enough to power a bio pellet reactor and another to do carbon? I think they're like 180 gph, but not sure.
 
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