1500+ Gallons Red Sea Reefer 750 XXL Fish Room Build! *PICTURES OVERLOAD*

[Rakie]

I like the bonsai rock scape, is that from West Mariculture?

 

[DarkTang]

I like the bonsai rock scape, is that from West Mariculture?

Yes indeed!

 

[Rakie]

Yes indeed!

Very cool, I love their stuff!

 

[DarkTang]

3D printed my own float valve holder to raise the water level in the sump because the pump is so strong that it’s sucking in air because the water level was too low ahah

 

[Crabby48]

That float holder looks great. 3D printers look like a lot of fun.
How much did you raise your water level?
I had to raise mine about an inch on a xl425

 

[DarkTang]

That float holder looks great. 3D printers look like a lot of fun.
How much did you raise your water level?
I had to raise mine about an inch on a xl425

I raise about 4 inches of water in 150 gallon sump so quite a bit. This is because I need the extra water to acclimate fish and coral weekly. Also because my other float valve did not like the water level that low and it was killing my RODI resin

I 3-D printed a filter sock holder for my macroalgae reactor as well

 

[shiftline]

Nice work on the sock holder

 

[DarkTang]

3D Print Filter Cups!

 

[phixman]

That’s one expensive 3D printer

 

[DarkTang]

Oh snap! It’s Christmas in July! Thanks Joseph Caparatta from uniquecorals for hooking it up with this eKoralAquaria Doser! Unboxing and setup video coming soon! This is going to rock with Triton Applied Reef Bioscience Method Dosing[emoji91]!

 

[DarkTang]

This is where the magic happens. What does your sump look like and what do you run?

125 gallon sump (60”x24”x20”H)

From left to right:
Built in upflow algae scrubber
Five 4” filter socks
Vertex Alpha 300 Skimmer
Vertex GFO Reactor (hidden behind skimmer)
Biopellet Reactor (hidden behind skimmer)
Carbon Reactor
Macro Algae Reactor
Emperor Aquatics 80W UV Sterilized (yes I know it’s upside down lol)
1000W Titanium Heater
Float valve hooked up to RODI Flood Guardian hooked straight into 4 stage Vertex RODI with 3 extra DI chamber total of 7 stages
Reeflo Hybrid Barracuda Gold 6000GPH

To the left of the sump is my 400 gallon tank currently being used as a refugium until I hook up my 300 gallon Rubbermaid stock tank and 90 gallon fuge because I’ll be doing Triton Method.

I have some major cable management to do but it works for now lol. Future plans is to hook all the reactors into a secondary return pump as I expand.

 

[Reef Able]

Wow it's been a while I watched this thread and gosh I missed so much. Love the bonsai scape in your reefer. Can't wait to see flourishing...

 

[greenwind82]

Installed macro algae reactor. Let’s see how fast this grows!

Is this the wavereef algae reactor? How is it working for you so far?

 

[Devaji]

Some progress today!

maybe i asked this sorry if I did. but did you just sand down some 1" PVC pipe to get it to fit into the RS reefer down pipes? did you glue use tape or putty?

 

[SneakyTortuga]

any recent FTS?