RockRash's 75 gallon build

[KeyWestReef2009Indiana]

How big is the chamber your sensor is in, and how much distance is between the alarm sensor and the normal low water sensor? I suspect that the issue is a combination of two things. 1, before the water in the reefmat raises enough to trigger the fleece advance, it has trapped some additional water, which the ATO dutifully replaces. And 2, when it does advance, that trapped water flows out now that it doesn't take as much pressure to flow through the clean fleece and has to go somewhere. Is it possible to raise only the overflow sensor? Or even less likely, to make the return chamber bigger so the addional volume has less effect?

I agree here, I'm looking at adjusting my height of the reef mat system to aid this issue. I still have months of fine tuning, I like the advice I see here.

 

[RockRash]

Well its been a while since I've updated this thread. I had a diatom outbreak early January so I reached out to Reef Cleaners, gave John my info and shared a picture. He recommended a assortment of snails everything arrived alive and well packed. They made quick work of the diatoms. So much so I started supplementing with nori, the tank was so clean i was afraid they would starve lol. I ended up loosing about 25% of what was sent. I wish I would have done some research and went with 50% of what he recommended. Lesson learned.
I am glad I have the cuc because I'm now going through some sort of gha. I've been slowly plucking "hair stragglers" that the snails dont catch and it ends up growing too long.
Today I did a water change and turned on my white lights to remove the stragglers of the gha. When I did I noticed a bunch of red and purple blotches all over my rock. I took a brush to it and it wont come off. The snails are covered in coralline so I'm hopefull that's what it is.
My tomini tang in qt is doing great. Hes on the home stretch. I told everyone we wouldn't name him until he was out of qt. However somehow the last week or 2 everyone is calling him Tommy. He went through copper like a pro now I'm worried about the prazipro. I'm sure once I get the hang of it, it will be just like dosing copper. Its been s long month and I hate to mess up.

Anyway I'll post a few pictures of my rocks, like I said I dont know if its coralline starting to grow but it wont come off the rock.

 

[RockRash]

Almost forgot to say. My jar package from TBS arrives tomorrow. I got 2lbs premium rock, 2lbs base rock, 2lbs sand and I think 2 hermits. The base rock will go into the sump, I'll put the premium in the display along with the sand. I'm hoping to put the sand in the low spot where my power heads are blowing my sand away. I'll post pictures of the rock tomorrow.
My wife will be home waiting for delivery, however its going to be a long day at work tomorrow lol.