AC500 Refugium w/ Industrial Plastics

[canuckzilla]

After poorly hacking together an AC300 refugium I thought I'd try again but with a AC500. This time around I talked to Kevin at Industrial Plastic and Paints and had them help out.

Industrial cut a hole in my AC lid, created an acrylic sheet to fill the hole in the lid and also created some acrylic baffles. Everything turned out awesome and it only cost $29 bucks. If anyone wants the lid or baffle measurements let me know.

[muck]

how about a pic or two?? :cool:

[canuckzilla]

The glue is still curing so I'll post a pic in few days.

Not that I've already been impatient and played with it, and had to start again or anything...

[canuckzilla]

Ok, finally some pics of the AC500 fuge with parts cut by Industrial Plastics. Any screw-ups using silicon glue are soley my own.

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/showgallery.php?ppuser=1335

The fuge has a carbon section, a chaeto section, and a main fuge section. I created a seperate chaeto section because chaeto would fill up all of my old AC300 fuge from top to bottom in a matter of months.

Still to be done, seeding the AC500 with some new LS and some LR. The red algae was a nice addition, supposedly it adds 'real ocean smell'. I'm hoping the smell it adds is the fresh smell vs the dead kelp smell :)

[canuckzilla]

I got a question regarding why would you cut plastic and glue it in the AC500. Basically, plastic inserts or baffles reduce the current in the AC so any live sand or rock isn't disturbed and in turn doesn't kill your impeller/motor, cloud your tank, etc.

I'm sure if you searched for AC500 or AC300 fuge on canreef you'd find lots of info.

Here are some links that also helped me out on nano-reef.com.

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/sho...;threadid=52245

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/sho...;threadid=16635

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30154&highlight=ac500

[adidas]

i should put some baffles in my AC fuge as well, i'm getting alot of microbubbles, and some of the macro algae isn't staying in the AC.