Skimmer has been in place, and went to install the skimmer neck cleaner and realized they sent me the wrong size replacement lid........
I never paid any attention to the label on the outside of the box when I got it in house.....I pulled it out of the box and and laid it on the table and thought it looked a little small.....I'm getting old, so I just thought it was my eyes playing tricks on me......Well when it came time to dry fit the new lid, it all but fell inside the collection cup.....Needless to say I was on the phone the following morning, and upset didn't call where I originally ordered the replacement lid from, but called Jeremy at Premium where I had purchased the skimmer from, and he was on the order with the quickness......Hats off to Jeremy at Premium.....Top notch customer service and detail.......Didn't think far enough in advance with the neck cleaner, but I have to add another outlet under the stand to accommodate the power pack for the neck cleaner.....Shouldn't be to difficult......
Finally got all the plumbing to the sump re installed......I think I've pulled the plumbing at least 4-5 times during the build to go back and re do something or make a change, but it's finally in place for good, and hoping shortly to have "salt water" into the system.....TFP is having their annual tent sale and hoping to get a little price break on salt to fire the system.....If not the initial salt will be bought the weekend of 4/6.......Planning on starting the system off with IO and monitoring levels and see how they pan out for the initial fill, but will probably opt to a different mix as time progresses.....Possibly a 50/50 mix of IO and Reef Crystals......
Did finally make the decision on PH's....As I had mentioned earlier it was a toss up between Vortech and Tunze.......The choice was Tunze and the biggest deciding factor for me was customer service, and adjust ability......Again major deciding factor was customer service......So far I've gotten (4) Tunze 6105's.......and a 6205. I would like to pick up another 6205 at some point, but not sure......Tentative plan is to run (2) 6105's on each end blowing against or opposing each other and the hope of adding (2) 6205's along the back wall to supplement the CL........Still have to order the magnets to penetrate the 1" acrylic for the Tunzes.....The magnets supplied do hold, but they aren't as strong as I would like......This is also the same issue with the Vortech's I've found, so anyone thinking that the Vortech's would have solved that issue is wrong in their thinking.....Their holding power is weak as well.....
Still working on the control cabinet as well......Got most of the cabling tied up and secured, and got the components on hand mounted.....Still have to order (3) more VDM modules.....This is due to the Tunzes and the LED lighting system I'm planning down the road.....The LEDs themselves will be at least 8 channels, so I need enough variable speed ports to be able to control each channel independently.......
