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jpelzer's 240 in-wall reef
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Jason, that thing is a beast!
The angle of the photo makes it look like the skimmer is part of the hallway table….with the family picture on top of the skimmer.
The angle of the photo makes it look like the skimmer is part of the hallway table….with the family picture on top of the skimmer.
http://youtu.be/3hL1jQfQOkI
Are these just brine shrimp? They live in my sump, and apparently in my biopellet reactor too!
Are these just brine shrimp? They live in my sump, and apparently in my biopellet reactor too!
Mysis. Very cool to have. I had them back when I first started in this hobby.
http://www.mblaquaculture.com/assets/images/content/photo_Mysidopsis_bahia_Opposum_shrimp_510px.jpg
SRO XP-8000 is installed! Had to remove a 20G tank that had my heater, kalk reactor, and old skimmer. Also had to relocate a bunch of Apex control equipment. Wires are still in disarray, kalk reactor is in a temporary location, and my heater is offline. But my temp is hovering at 78 even without it.
The pump on the old skimmer pulled 50w and was submerged. The BB pump pulls 150w and is external, but the water went up a full 2 degrees when I fired up the new beastie.
It had a 2" thick layer of dirty foam within 15 minutes of starting up. Love it. Loud though!
So the skimmer is great, but the heat it's adding to the tank is not. Right now my tank *wants* to be 76.5, and was maintaining that with the help of a 500w heater that only ran 3-4 times a day... So the tank was pretty balanced, energy-wise.
Adding the skimmer replaced the old, which had a submerged Sicce PSK-1000 that drew 50w. New skimmer draws 150w, though the pump is external. But I think it relies on water cooling, as the housing is plastic and doesn't get hot.
Anyway, the tank temp went up to 80+ degrees over a day or two, which caused my apex to send me an email every hour (it panics if the temperature sways 2 degrees away from target). I added a single, tiny fan the other night, blowing across the tank from about 12" above. It's a 12v centrifugal blower, like this: http://amzn.com/B0025VJEL8
Anyway, that one fan did this:
Adding the skimmer replaced the old, which had a submerged Sicce PSK-1000 that drew 50w. New skimmer draws 150w, though the pump is external. But I think it relies on water cooling, as the housing is plastic and doesn't get hot.
Anyway, the tank temp went up to 80+ degrees over a day or two, which caused my apex to send me an email every hour (it panics if the temperature sways 2 degrees away from target). I added a single, tiny fan the other night, blowing across the tank from about 12" above. It's a 12v centrifugal blower, like this: http://amzn.com/B0025VJEL8
Anyway, that one fan did this:
That is one impressive tank, and hot damn on that skimmer. What a monster lol. Keep up the good work 
Battery backup is fully online and ready. Had a bit of a scare after the first night I hooked it up: it's connected to a 20amp line, but the transfer switch had a 15A fuse. That popped overnight, so the few circuits that run in UPS mode switched over to inverter power. This included all my networking equipment as well as the circuit that runs my skimmer.
The skimmer is supposed to turn off in the event of a power failure, but because of the way this happened, nothing registered as a failure, it was trying to run. But the inverter isn't pure sine wave, and the pump FREAKED OUT when trying to run on it. I didn't at this point realize that it was on battery power, so I assumed it was failing:
http://youtu.be/cf5BxHUcKGs
I took it apart and cleaned it, etc. Had to go to work then. When I got home, I finally realized what was going on. There was ONE indicator of the issue, displayed on the transfer switch: a single red LED that is normally on... Was off. I replaced the fuse, and everything was happy!
To top it off, the batteries hasn't dropped below 90% after running for about 18 hours (mostly running my networking rack, but also part of the tank). The main pump had been on regular A/C, thankfully!
Here's the battery bank:
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The skimmer is supposed to turn off in the event of a power failure, but because of the way this happened, nothing registered as a failure, it was trying to run. But the inverter isn't pure sine wave, and the pump FREAKED OUT when trying to run on it. I didn't at this point realize that it was on battery power, so I assumed it was failing:
http://youtu.be/cf5BxHUcKGs
I took it apart and cleaned it, etc. Had to go to work then. When I got home, I finally realized what was going on. There was ONE indicator of the issue, displayed on the transfer switch: a single red LED that is normally on... Was off. I replaced the fuse, and everything was happy!
To top it off, the batteries hasn't dropped below 90% after running for about 18 hours (mostly running my networking rack, but also part of the tank). The main pump had been on regular A/C, thankfully!
Here's the battery bank:
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Thanks!
Yeah, it ended up being a monster! I'm bummed that I didn't notice the inverter isn't sure sine... It wasn't cheap, and about 10% more would have given me that. Oh well! It runs the wifi no problem!