Progress pictures on my 125 Reef Setup

bgriff

Member
Looks great!
Have you simulated a power failure to test the sumps capacity to ensure it can handle the reverse siphon? (Looks rather full already)
 

mikegray

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hehe im poking holes in the return tube right below water line so it breaks siphon right away.. when i get my lr and sand ima siphon water out and i think im going to heat a paper clip up reall yhot and just poke through it... hehe
 

bigtyguyy

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i did the same thing as you with poking a hole in my return line. I poked the holes just above the water line so that when the pump shuts down it starts to suck the air in too. I am just going to buy a back flow preventer to just make sure. I should have thought of that first before poking holes but they are only like pin holes. Where did you order all your stuff from? especially the dual 250MH
 

matty0h_52

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Originally Posted by MikeGray
hehe im poking holes in the return tube right below water line so it breaks siphon right away.. when i get my lr and sand ima siphon water out and i think im going to heat a paper clip up reall yhot and just poke through it... hehe

I would deffinetly do this. I see the watter line on your fuge is pritty darn close to the top. Thats the last thing you want is a un-stopable syphen.
 

dreamreef

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Looks great! I'm hoping your fish don't go blind with all that light!! How many total watts are you running per gallon?
 

style23

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i just calculated it out.....will be 10.24 watts per gallon with 1280 total watts...from the very little i know your tank may need sunglasses and sunscreen.
 

mikegray

Member
hey guys.. yea alot of light i still havnt got a chance to use em because i get algae CITY.. so im running no light and have been running without lights for a long time as u see... but i just got more hermits and snails. but something seems to be killing shrimp and snails on contact with water.... i dont have a copper problem that i know of cause hermits and i have like 10 lil black snails running around fine... havnt figured it out yet.. but on saturday i plan on getting 100 astrea snails and 100 hermit crabs to add to my system.
 

agent707

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I would have went with 4x150 mh's. Would have been plenty. 1000 watts of MH is like 80~100,000 lumens.... OMG!
 
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