60 Gallon - New To Reefs

monkE · #1 05-05-2013, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by paddyob

One point I give with nanos.... Anything you do to a small tank is exponentially more noticeable. For example, less water has little room for chemistry errors.

Evaporation is ten fold. If you don't top up daily you will have spikes in your salinity. Which could be harmful.

Temperature. In summer the tank will heat up more rapidly then a large body of water. Temperature spikes can kill your corals and fIsh if not monitored.

Good luck. Looks ok so far.

thanks for the input bud... i can't figure out how to change the title on the thread but i've actually moved from the 20 into a 60 gallon tank with a sump, so my water chem is a little less susceptible to the large swings associated with small tanks.

mrhasan · #2 05-05-2013, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by monkE

thanks for the input bud... i can't figure out how to change the title on the thread but i've actually moved from the 20 into a 60 gallon tank with a sump, so my water chem is a little less susceptible to the large swings associated with small tanks.

Yah the picture looked a little bigger than what I would expect a 20 gallon to be haha :P Looking good

Mike-fish · #3 05-05-2013, 10:40 PM

Looks good. If you want the title changed just contact a mod

monkE · #4 05-08-2013, 02:21 AM

thanks for the info guys.... the mods changed it up for me

here's some new coral pics!

monkE · #5 05-12-2013, 07:43 PM

Picked up a Reefkeeker Lite and after some tinkering I have the system all running and working. I've also set it up with an auto top off, which almost became a huge problem when I didn't think about the top off hose siphoning the 5 gallon bucket straight into the sump after the pump was shut off... luckily it stopped when the water level equalled out and i didn't move the salt content too far so nothing in the tank seemed to be adversely affected. at this point i'm only an RO/DI unit away from having this system right where i want it.... ok a higher end LED light also

monkE · #6 05-12-2013, 09:21 PM

downloaded the myreef 2.0 software from the Digital Aquatics website and started to play around with the controller. I'm going to need a phone line splitter because there are no open ports in the system but i just removed the temp probe and temporarily connected my laptop using the usb cable that was supplied in the box. The one draw back i have found with the reefkeepr is there was seemingly no way to change the name of each channel so you have to keep a map handy to remember which channel was which component, but when i connected and ran the software i found that i could customize the channel names so now instead of my display reading CH1 - ON it reads LEFT P/H - ON, or SKIMMER - ON... SOOOO much better.

monkE · #7 05-13-2013, 02:19 PM

i've been waiting around all day waiting for the leaf game to start... so i figured that i'd change my rock-scape up. I wasn't completely happy with it, and wanted something with a more natural look so i started moving things around. Here's some pics... most of the coral is ****ed in the picture because of all the moving around, but they will be fine in a couple days im sure.

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paddyob · #8 05-05-2013, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by monkE

thanks for the input bud... i can't figure out how to change the title on the thread but i've actually moved from the 20 into a 60 gallon tank with a sump, so my water chem is a little less susceptible to the large swings associated with small tanks.

As a mod. They change the title. You can't do it alone.