Iraf's 90g builld

What do you think of your ASM? Pros and Cons.

 

What DO you think!?

oh man, this is exciting!!! I really like it Iraf!!;D

plus could you snap a few pictures of your plumbing? Are your reactors fed from the line coming from the tank?

 

No cons at all, great skimmer, the maintenance tanks I take care of I use ASM on all of them as well I love them, great product, simple to setup and use and damn dependable they break in quickly and clean easily the only semi-annoying thing is the pump makes a bit of noise but thats true with any pump that size. Oh yeah their also a great value, forgot that part
their essentially a euro-reef clone but built here in the US for about 1/2 the cost

I'll get some pics of it, I'm going to change the way the hosing is ran to the reactors, they are currently not running since I broke the housing on the mag2 that is functioning as the recirc pump for the CA reactor, they are fed off a manifold I made off the return, ATM I have to have the return pump dialed back a bit or it pushes water to the DT faster than it can drain I'm assuming once I open up the reactors that will change but I want the tank at least out of the ammonia stage of the cycle before I start running the CA reactor.

 

Plumbing pics as requested, hopefully this helps



This one gives you a rough idea of how much air is getting blasted into the water on it's way down, I had to put 90's on the vertical parts of the drains, there was so much water pressure on the drain it was geisering about 3" higher than the sides of the sump tank so I'm just blasting it against the side of the sump and it's working great for aeration and noise control





Here en lies the only thing I'm going to be changing, I'm going to get some 90 degree 1/2" barbed fittings so I can point the hose in the right direction off this manifold and keep the kinks out of the hoses

Got the fuge dialed to a nice slow flow

 

What kind of pump do you run for your skimmer?

 

ASM uses Sedra pumps with highly modified impellers it's a 3500gph pump on this model

 

OK fixed the plumbing issues going to the reactors, still have to find a new housing for my mag2 then all the issues with the tank are resolved besides the fact I still need a co2 tank :-/

Also I know it was to early but I added a damsel today sounds horrible but I dont honestly care if he lives or dies, he's just there for the cycle

Also picked up a light for my fuge, just a 8" clamp light with a 75 watt plant bulb from Home Depot

 

awesome pics Iraf!! so now you have 90 degree 1/2" barbed valves coming out of those valves seen in this pic? is that right?

How much flow do you think there is coming back to the tank after the reactors?

 

Kind of, I couldn't find 1/2" barbed 90's so I had to get some 1/2" barb elbows and basically I just cut the hose about 2" off the fitting in the pic, then put in the elbow and ran the hose off it, works great now though

I still can't run the 1800 wide open but very close to it, I probably have 1000-1200gph hitting the tank there isn't a ton of flow going through the reactors, you want them to get about 200gph each from my understanding so it's a nice slow trickle through them

 

here is the plumbing changes and fuge light







And the little guy that has claim on the entire tank for now


I started pushing water through the PO4 reactor yesterday and just tested it, sitting at .5 ammonia, 0 nitrite, 0 nitrate, 0 phos