Reef Bruh's 600 Gallon Upgrade

Gyre flow with OM4

Here is the flow created with the OM4.

 

Looks like some good movement in there

 

Dude if you only knew. How the build coming along on your tank?

 

Lol. Pretty good man. Got all the plumbing stuff in the mail the other day. Just gotta find time to build the overflow boxes and the sump then throw it all together...did you see the build thread I started ?

 

Maybe. Is it the same one from before or is this a new one?

 

I think it's a new one for the 15 gallon I'm building the other one was 4.5 gal. http://www.3reef.com/forums/showthread.php?t=151673

 

Ok y'all this is what's going on. This past weekend I hosted a reef party with a twist. Since it was February the theme was black history month. So lots of soul food was on the menu and later describe the tank, it's operation, setup and system. Then after that there was a frag swap and I picked up a couple goodies. A fellow reefer even came by with a noise meter to see how loud my system was only to shock him that my system was running about 50 db.

As for the tank it's still on cruise. I upped the ZeoVit dosing as at the time my nitrates were hanging around 10 ppms and phosphates were averaging about .26 ppms. So after I would say a month my present readings are 5 ppms of nitrate and phosphates are around .13. So I will will go with the recommended dosing for now. I will hold off adding corals until I get the phosphates below .1 ppm.

Also for the past two weeks I setup the dosing pump as ZeoStart3 has to be dosed everyday twice a day and I also went back to what was working for me in my old tank and started dosing vinegar. I might be adding something to the mix but I will not reveal that until it is in motion.

I removed the doser from under the stand to outside of the stand. I also went to Wally World and bought a shelf system to place the doser and other products that are being dosed. So far all I have is the vinegar and ZeoStart3 on the shelf. I also placed the Master Flex pump in the shelf to feed the calcium reactor. So next on the menu is plumbing the frag tank in the system. I still don't know if I am going to place sand on the bottom or not as there will also be fish in the system. Here is a pic of the dosing setup as it is now but will be arranged soon to also accommodate where I will place the calcium reactor.


Ideas or concerns or comments are greatly appreciated.

 

For what its worth, you and I have been having similar teething troubles, though mine have been in a much smaller tank.

I don't like to admit this, but I started adding some vodka to my ZeoVit dosing. Its been working fantastically. I am probably going to do the same as you asd switch to autodosed vinegar plus ZeoStart mix.

I promise I'll slowly reduce the amount of carbon over time. Right now though, my tank is actually finally starting to hint that it may be working properly.

 

Quiet as kept, I'm using what is known as the DSR method which is ZeoVit with a twist. I'll also be dosing iron citrate to the mix when I find the right ratio and it'll help keep phosphates in check.