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  1. Cilyjr

    Cilyjr's 470 gallon display

    Neither, I shove some poly fil between a baffle and call it done. Pretty old school I guess but a big bag of polyfil costs me about 15 bucks and last a year. It's all 3/4 cross and euro braced both top and bottom. The plastic lip on top is completely cosmetic.
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    105, 3years on a road of bones

    You've got some nice dense growth throughout. How are you finding flow management? I've always found the challenge balancing areas in front of large flow pumps where they can literally blow the flesh off to opposing sides where there is nothing to move water. I'm somewhere between the Steve...
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    Cilyjr's 470 gallon display

    I'm find it irritating that I can no longer buy Bayer complete in California. I'm switching to the Mike Paletta super dip. Is anyone else using this method? Info can be found in the reef builders article linked below https://reefbuilders.com/2023/12/20/how-and-why-to-dip-newly-acquired-corals/
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    Eric's 125 build.

    Just starting browsing this thread, so I'm asking old questions. Did you bring that up an iron spiral staircase? If so, my back, neck, arms, and legs are all having sympathy pains.....
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    Cilyjr's 470 gallon display

    Another thing I did which is related to the aquarium but not really part of it was add a mini split to the back room. We have central air conditioning in the house but it's pretty mild where I live so we almost never use it. Also that back room was an add on someone did sometime in the 80s so...
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    Problem with Install - RO Unit for Drinking Water Install (including drain)

    Nro membrane might stop e coli and coliform. A UV sterilizer. Definitely will. That would be the advantage. That said, it's pretty rare out here in California for them to get e. Coli and fecal coliform into the water. It happens fairly often back East or there are bigger rains etc. So I don't...
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    Problem with Install - RO Unit for Drinking Water Install (including drain)

    Fyi, a pressure tank can be stored on its side. Just throwing that out there in case that makes the room under your cabinet a little more doable. I've installed a lot of RO filters over the years for customers. Lots of times I can just take apart the disposable and slide it back behind there...
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    Cilyjr's 470 gallon display

    Thanks, there will be. For now I'm just getting over this setback. I won't be ready to add anything until January
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    Cilyjr's 470 gallon display

    I'm gonna need to figure something out. I just learned the one local store is closing. High tide is 4 hrs north.
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    Cilyjr's 470 gallon display

    For so many reasons!
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    Using solar mounting rails for light hanging.

    I'm about a mile away from the ocean so I do get fog most mornings until about 10 am. But yes The not having a $600 bill has been great. It's what caused me to buy a too big aquarium...lol My system is close in size a little smaller. I have 22x 470 watt jinco panels and 2x 14k batteries. At...
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    Using solar mounting rails for light hanging.

    Hi all, Extruded aluminum has been a real game changer in the marine aquarium hobby, light weight, non corrosive, and strong! Also unusually expensive for what it is. Recently I put solar on my home. I did it myself and learned a lot about a lot. One of those things was solar mounting rails...
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    Cilyjr's 470 gallon display

    Something I did not really talk about, I auto change 2.5 gallons daily. Instead of it going down the drain it first goes into a 20 gallon end of the line tank. What it adds for me? A tank that's separated from my main system yet shares similar parameters. Coral, inverts, can go there and not...
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    Cilyjr's 470 gallon display

    Yes it's a 54 watt aqua UV, but I only put a small portion of total flow through it
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    Cilyjr's 470 gallon display

    I'll take some shots of the display in a while, it's not too terrible. Algae, diatomes, and cyano including lyngbya. All are manageable if kept up on.
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    Cilyjr's 470 gallon display

    I did and I may, but I had too many fish not eating for too long so as soon as copper was done I got it out of the water and everyone is eating. I'm told it's easier on the fish though unlikely to eliminate uronema marinum internally. So first will be metro soaked food
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    Cilyjr's 470 gallon display

    Fish started to die. And I said to my wife do we weather this or pull down everything we just built. In the end we opted for the latter. So we set up a couple of tables and took out every single rock. And put the fish back into the Rubbermaid where they are now. We did copper and I now clearly...
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    Cilyjr's 470 gallon display

    So I added all the fish , coral and got the temporary set up out, yay we have our living room back! Everything was going according to plan, then 1 fish started showing white spots, uh oh, despite nothing new being added in over a year, I know I had a golden opportunity to have gotten the coral...
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    Cilyjr's 470 gallon display

    The aquarium as it stands today.
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    Cilyjr's 470 gallon display

    I guess that's not completely true, I've got the pond too. How many of us also have a pond too?
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