62G Starfire Reef [40x18x20]

[JDigital]

Originally Posted by kien

oops sorry, had a bit of a brain fart there, ya I was thinking of your office tank with that question more than this tank. Always thought about doing something at my office but the whole issue around vacations and holidays has me wondering if that would actually work for us here. In other words I would not really trust any of my co-workers with a tank

I wouldn't say I have FULL faith in them. And even after leaving detailed instructions on what to do each day while I was away, they forgot/missed a few things, but this is a conversation for my other thread.


On the other hand...

I installed the RO/DI before leaving for christmas holidays and ran it for about 1.5hr as per the instructions. (Which only recommended 30mins actually, but I prefer to run longer for the initial flush)

Got home from the airport about 10pm tonight, got settled in and unpacked... figured it was time to turn this bad boy on!

[michika]

Awesome!

[Leah]

This tank needs water.

[JDigital]

Originally Posted by michika

Awesome!

Indeed..

Originally Posted by Leah

This tank needs water.

I'm working on it!



Seeing how I was out of the province on boxing day I didn't get to do any reef shopping so I took today off work to stop by a few places and grab a few more things for this build. I was looking to grab my new skimmer, but that will have to wait it appears. Otherwise I picked up my 2nd MP10, a bottle of Zeobak (and was hoping to get some Zeostart3, but Concept was sold out), and also picked up a stock 20H tank for my SW mixing station (not photographed)

[JDigital]

It's pretty much filled as of last night, but when I switched on the return pump to see where my sump would level off at, I wasn't getting any pumping action, just my tank draining back to the sump. It's a brand new Reef Octopus Water Blaster pump, so tonight when I get home I will have to disconnect it, open it up, fiddle around with the impeller, put it back together and expect it to work.


While I do love these pumps for their solid build quality (housing wise) and low noise output, this is the 2nd of 3 that I have had start up issues with brand new out of the box. My first issue was with the HY7000, impeller seemed to constantly rattle vibrate, so I swapped that out for a HY5000, which worked really well. Now I'm having issues with the HY3000. Hopefully its as simple as just pulling the impeller out, rinsing it out and re-assembling it.



Fingers Crossed!

[JDigital]

Well I officially have water circulating through my system. [] Now I just have to get it up to temp and start adding the salty white stuff. [] Still gotta clean up some of the cabling too. Now where did I leave my zip-ties?

[Arok3000]

Looking very nice! Well thought out, can't wait to see this stocked.

[Skimmerking]

looks really good man. other then that thing in the first compartment. now I know you can do better then that.