Awesome tank!

You not making any sense my man. The main drains are meant to run on a syphon all the time and can be any height as long as they do not pull air from the surface (the lower the better) , and the overflow/emergency drain is meant to set the height of the water in the overflow which will stop the noise of water entering the overflow. The gate valve should be as close to the drain outlet as possible so there is no sound of the water running through the pipes (as they are full with no air) In your budget setup one primary drain should have no gate valve and run full syphon the whole time, the 2nd drain should have a gate valve and this is use to effectively make the pipe smaller to enable it to also run under a full syphon to stop the noise (smaller pipe allows less water through it). As your setup did not use a large enough pipe for the 1st main drain, you added a 2nd one and now have to play silly games. The surface skimming drain (aka emergency drain) should be large enough to take the entire water volume should the main drain(s) get blocked somehow. By putting stand pipes on the top of the drains you are preventing the system working correctly (compounded by the air hole and them being up at the water surface). Just remove the top stand pipes and make the height of the primary drains about 1/3 of the overflow box height. If you don't have enough flow to run one drain pipe at full syphon without a gate valve you might as well remove the 2nd drain (which you probably should do anyways as the emergency drain won't cut it) or make it a emergency-emergency drain 🤣. To make the water height in the overflow adjustable, just add a small 3D printed sleeve you can slide higher or lower on the emergency drain to raise the water height and prevent the noise coming from flowing out of the tank and dropping.

How often are you feeding with reef Roids? Nice set up

Test everyday? What happens if you go on vacation? Lol

This tank is a DREAM. What size tank is this?

Lighting can be confusing especially for new reefers. I run metal halides. No need for a PAR meter and my tank is doing well under them. Your system is coming along nicely so stay the course! Nothing good happens fast in a reef tank!

Thanks for sharing. A couple AI blades would do the trick for spread. I enjoyed the video.

Thanks for your transparency it's super informative!

Love this one

Side view hits in this

This is so awesome

Beautiful ❤❤❤

This is like a Ferrari sitting in your living room 🔥

A lot of people use polyfill in their filter cups. That’s what I use. You don’t necessarily need mechanical filtration but it’s also good to use to sandwich your bag of carbon between.

So much more he can do with that Eco Tech. Once he understands the modes and how to program, he'll be more than amazed.

They have 3d printed ones with the wide brim if you're looking for a "cleaner" look

Do you hVe to vacuum the sand?

What size sump tank did you go with?

Sounds like a goldilocks situation! 😂

I really enjoy your videos. Congratulations with the upgrades. Looking forward to your next videos.

I've been using All For Reef for about 18 months now. I started to notice my corals were not looking quite as healthy as I thought they should be, given my test results for Ca, Alk, Mg, No3, Po4 and weekly water changes. I just felt as though something maybe missing even though I am using All For Reef. I sent out a water sample on Dec. 8th. When I received my test results from ATI. I have 3 elements that came back as below normal and one critically low. They were Potassium, Manganese & Iodine was critically low. the test also showed high levels as well. So I sat down and made a list of what I dose to the tank. I use Instant Ocean Reef Crystals, All for Reef and Chaeto Gro from Brightwell Aquatics. I compared the listed elements for All for Reef and Chaeto Gro. I found that I am dosing some redundant elements. I have decided to discontinue the Chaeto Gro and to supplement the three elements that are low and wait about a month for the tank to settle out before sending out another ICP test kit. I just received my ATI trace elements when I got home last night and added a small dose of each. I also bought a trace element home test kit from Red Sea. The only thing I can't test for is the Manganese. So I only want to add a small amount of Manganese and verify my adjustments with another ICP test kit. While looking at the elements All for Reef does contain, I noticed that it does NOT contain Potassium (I am not sure why? Chemistry compatibility?) and even though the All for Reef does contain Iodine & Manganese my corals are consuming these elements faster than my water changes and daily dosage of All for Reef can supply. Just thought I would share my findings and I hope it may help someone else along the way. Moral of the story, Don't just rely on the All for Reef to supply everything because it can't. It can only supply what the mix has in it and cannot compensate for coral consumption.

Looks really good, see seems like flow is on the high side considering what you have stocked in both corals and fish

That’s a really big aquarium

hi, my doser, on the another end, there is always air bubble, causing it not dose accurately. any tips on this? do i need to place doser higher than the tank or?

Does the flame hawk mess with your shrimp? I have a flame hawk in my 125 and was thinking about moving a fire shrimp to that aquarium.

That's a nice setup! I didn't see an ATO in there. Did you work that in somewhere? The only thing I would change would be two separate return lines with two pumps. Somewhere down the road, one will fail to restart after a power blink and Murphy dictates it will happen when your not home....and I second the comment of lighting in the stand, under cabenet lights or the IP65 LED tape strip work really well. With the tape strip LEDs, you can even get RGBW so you can change colors to spiff it up for show!

I switched over to all for reef about 6 months ago and I find that it is very easy compared to using multiple things.

Kalkwasser in the ato or dosed and magnesium chloride is probably the easiest beginner method. Plus you get a higher pH which will effect the chemistry of everything else positvely. With that much water volume and small coral mass you might end up with elevated trace elements.

That's one beautiful tank mate

Very informative

The sticker on the gate valve and Sharpie alignment marks on the PVC Thanks for the video.

Great advise and now a new subscriber. What refugium light you using for the refugium? Does it it work for you?

right choice, gsp is just a pest they will take over the tank in time .

GSP is better lol imho )

What is it?

It seems like you might be running to much water through your overflow, beananimal has a wonderful write up that you could follow with your box design. My preference is to have one subsurface with a strainer run a gate valve on that one, one stand pipe as your surface skimmer and then another slightly taller for emergency overflow. Tune the gate valve until the surface skimmer is just barely siphoning water, gives a silent operation but goes out of tune easily, which i prefer as then i know something is wrong

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If you ever set up another tank look into modularmarine. He built my overflow and I couldn't be happier. His boxes are purposefully built just below the top of the glass to prevent the issues with loud dropping water like all the others have. He'll also customize anything you want. Heck, if you wanted him to build you one to match your existing holes so you didn't have to tear your tank apart I'm sure he could do that too. Happy reefing!

Good points

Don’t man, price break down the wife will find out 😂

Lovely tank but the loud water splashing 24/7 would dive me insane 😂

Try magic erasers they work great to clean glass zero scratches as well

Yeah the DIY is cheaper but with all due respect the Red Sea looks a lot better. I think it would be a better comparison if your build had the same modern, clean look like the Red Sea setup has.

Thanks for the break down, this is one expensive hobby lol

Lookin good

White

Nice video.

Amazing

With ur skimmer why not just let it drain into a milk jug under or behind the stand. That’s what I do and only have to empty it every couple months. Also the little tool that comes with the ai prime is used to pop that screen out then you can just take it to the sink. Once removed you can get inside better to blow the dust off the fan too!

Enjoyed this, thank you. 😊