My new 240 build

[SantaMonicaHelp]

Hi everyone!

I've been slowly working on my 240 build for past 1.5 years!
I did a lot of background work to make sure the going goes smooth. I'll write about them later.

Today finally I got the tank salty!!
Don't have that much salt water ready so it will happen in batches lol

Here's a pic:



More later!

I hope to meet every one on one of the meetings. My works unpredictable and am often working during the meet ups.


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Hi Awais98,

Congratulations with new set up!
Looks great
What future plans do you have?

Zhenya

[Awais98]

Hi Awais98,

Congratulations with new set up!
Looks great
What future plans do you have?

Zhenya

Plan for mainly SPS, but open to good looking other corals too.
Zeovit


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[Awais98]

Some updates:

Started the Zeovit dosing 15 days now
Parameters as follows:
1.026
Temp 79-82
Alk 7-8
Cal 460
Nitrate 2.5
Phos 0.02

So far excited about the zeovit.
Initially it seemed overwhelming
But now it is down to:
ZeoBac every 3 days
ZEOstart and zeoSponge everyday. That's all.

I've also set up an aquarium app. It help keeps record of EVERYTHING and also set reminders for EVERYTHING in my iPhone calendar with reminders
Best $10 I spent!



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[Awais98]

Weld a thin strip of acrylic on the inside of the teeth. Not noticeable at all and water level is 1.5" from top now

If I weld it I will do it from inside. The teeth can easily come out and I can weld it to the inside of the detachable teeth.
Once back in place it won't be seen at all.
Definitely not doing it from outside.



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[Awais98]

Installed the vertex cerebra controller and then found out they are going to change hardware in May..........


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[Awais98]

So currently only lights and heater are controlled by the Cerebra. Everything else is stand alone.
Don't want to set up everything only to change it in few months


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[Awais98]

Have set up my continuous water change system past 4 weeks
About 5 ml/min 24x7x365 continuous
And it is going excellent.
1: New salt Water from reservoir comes into the main sump.
2: exact volume of 'old' water is pulled out from the sump and is fed into a quarantine tank
3: then an exact amount of water is pulled from the QT into the house drain.



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[Awais98]

Talking about the drains:

That was the first thing I tackled when I started the fish room:

All my fish room setup is in a store room near the garage along with a small sub stair crawl space.
So: the store room which is long and narrow 22'x6.5' is my fish room. And
The sub stair crawl space is my sump room. There's a door between them.

First thing I did was sump room plumbing:
Got a new water line and installed a sink with hot and cold water.
Dug the concrete and installed a drain for the sink and a FLOOR drain there


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[Awais98]

Ive also drilled a 1.5" bulkhead to my main sump about an 1.5" from top and this is hard plumbed into the house drain.

So for whatever reason if water ever rises beyond that is allowed in case of power loss ( have enough room in sump that it should never over flow) water will go down that sump drain and into the house drain.
Then if water ever drops on the floor I also have a floor drain installed and it goes down the drain.

So much redundancy to make sure it does not ruin my house


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[Awais98]

Also the floor is water right.... rubber flooring in both the rooms. Even if 250 gallons of water falls in the fish room floor it will all go to the sump room and down the floor drain....


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