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Here is a neat little device, I've used the spectrapure ATO for many years 12+ and not a single failure. For my new setup tank I use two float switches on the Apex, an ATO high water line which turns on the ATO, and another higher one which shuts off the every thing in the sump including the...

A few pics of the tank's progress. I am QTing everything so progress will continue to be slow, but hopefully my due diligence will pay off. The four clownfish are growing nicely and just added three fire fish to the display tank. Unfortunately I lost a royal gramma in the QT. Going to...

tagging along, good luck with the build.

I bought one on eBay including shipping for $1, so far it works fine. New Hot Sale White Wired Liquid Water Level Sensor Float Switch for Aquarium AD | eBay

Very nice, congrats Mark.

I like the 20K bulb, I know they are all different shades of blue, some more and some less. To me, the Hamilton 20K works well. I run my VHO 454 in the morning before the halides come on, then shut them off since the 20K MH bulbs are blue enough w/out supplementing them. I normally wait for a...

I run 3 250Watt 20,000K Hamilton bulbs and two 72" 454VHO Actinics and I like the look for my 180. I never have a heat problem since my sump is in the basement. I have enough bulbs for another two years and will then re-evaluate switching to LED. Right now I can't justify he switch due to the...

Looking forward to following along

LOoks fantastic!!!

My first residents are here...took the clowns from the QT and put in the display. Also got some coralline fragments from Tropiquarium to seed my tank with nice purple algae.

Phosphates still holding at .03 so added the sand bed. Went with Fiji pink, about a 1". Only doing the sand bed in front of the rocks so if I need to I can vacuum the bed out. Adding microbacter7 and ready to move my clownfish from the QT to the DT next week. Next step is to find some nice...

Major skim nog! Looks like it is working well.

Time for another update on the phosphate front. I am exited to report I am at the tail end of the process and my phosphates have held steady between .03 an. .05 without dosing LC and runnning 2 cups of GFO. It's taken 6 weeks to go from .98 ppm down to a steady .03. I used a 1/2 dozen 10 micron...

Paul, an approach you can take is clean out the silicone from inside the tank. Don't go into the joint though. The silicone in a new glass rod like 1" by 1/2" into the corner and that should both seal it up and hold the corner well. Take a look at my build thread. My front corners were not...

Starting week 4 of removing last of the phosphates from my rock. I switched to the Hanna ULR test kit and phosphates are holding steady at .06ppm while doing 4ml of LC per day. Once I get it holding steady at .02 per day while dosing 2-4ml of LC per day, I will switch to using a cup of GFO. If a...

Making progress on the phosphate leaching front over the past two weeks. The last three days I did not dose LC and the phosphates are around .06-.09. Down to a 4ml dose today of LC, will switch over to the ultra low phosphate test kit and see if I can get the tank to hold at .01ppm or less then...

Looking forward to your build.

A week into monitoring the Phosphates leaching from the rock and making progress. Down to zero on the Low resolution test. IT took a week to go from .98ppm to zero. I will not add any LC today and will see what it measures in the morning. My guess is that it will still take another 4-8 more...

Mine only ate frozen mysis, other than that he was a beautiful addition to my tank.

Art, Thanks for your advice. I now have the parts and the strategy to make this all work. So here's is the setup but have not programmed it or tested yet.... I got a separate power supply for the Apex plugged into a non UPS outlet and have the primary energy bar plugged into the UPS. So now I...