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Life has a way of interfering with one's reefing plans. After quite a delay, I'm finally starting to tackle this rebuild project. Today I turned off the return pump and drained my sump. It will take me a day or two to get the old sump pulled out, cleaned up, and staged to be a temporary lifeboat for my remaining corals. During this time, I'm running my Reefer XL 425 display tank sumpless, so I had to relocate the heater, temperature probe, and ATK directly into the display tank.
It's funny what a mess it creates when you unbundle all those neatly routed wires to take things apart:
Once the old sump is clean and ready to hold the corals, then I'll also set up my 20 gallon QT tank to temporarily hold my fish. Then I can start draining the display tank, move the corals, and net the fish, shrimp, and cleanup crew to move to the QT tank.
At that point I can finally take the display tank down for a thorough cleaning, rebuild the cabinet to replace the divider panel with my 8020 aluminum frame, and finally place the new sump in the cabinet. I'm hoping that will be done by next week.
Glad to have made some progress today!
It's funny what a mess it creates when you unbundle all those neatly routed wires to take things apart:
Once the old sump is clean and ready to hold the corals, then I'll also set up my 20 gallon QT tank to temporarily hold my fish. Then I can start draining the display tank, move the corals, and net the fish, shrimp, and cleanup crew to move to the QT tank.
At that point I can finally take the display tank down for a thorough cleaning, rebuild the cabinet to replace the divider panel with my 8020 aluminum frame, and finally place the new sump in the cabinet. I'm hoping that will be done by next week.
Glad to have made some progress today!