I rearranged the rock work in Tank 1 and now have a 4 x 39w T5HO fixture running 1 ATI True Actinic, 2 ATI Blue Plus, 1 UVL red. I had to put a new fan in the fixture.
I put the new LED unit in the Tank 2 canopy. Although the unit has a fan, I wonder if I should put an additional canopy fan on it? What I found shocking was that the Artificial setting on the LED has the same light color as the 20,000k MH lamps. My neighbors have said that Tank 1 looks like the shallow sea and Tank 2 look like a much deeper sea.
I emailed Marc about a sump. He has raised enough concern that I will do a mock up on another sump tank to see what problems pop up. I normally like experimenting.
I will be initially using my 30g long sump with the double baffles. The nice thing is that I already have a stand for it. Tonight I put the Reef Octopus skimmer in and it fits very snugly in the right most compartment. Skimmer return can go to the center compartment or back to the skimmer compartment. I am not sure which would work better.
I am thinking that the center will be the return, however that makes the far left compartment the refugium. It is only 4.5 inches wide. The center is 14 inches wide.
I can cut out 2 glass panes from the baffle on the left and increase the size of the left compartment to 8 inches. That might be OK for a refugium but the return should be bigger. If the refugium is on the left and the return in the center how will I circulate the water to that compartment on the left? Normally there would be a drain line run to that side. Do I do that in this case? I was planning to have the drain lines come in at the bottom corners of the sump. This means that the water would rise in the sump to a point of equilibrium between the three tanks not counting the means to stop this from going to far.
Having written this out, I think that I will go ahead and drill 2 drain holes, one in each corner.
For the return line, I don't know if I need a bulkhead or not. Right now the mock up is sitting here and I have a flexible spa line run for the return from the pump up and out of the tank. I think I will go ahead and plumb it that way initially to see what happens.
Does anyone want to help me or watch what happens "live real-time"?
I put the new LED unit in the Tank 2 canopy. Although the unit has a fan, I wonder if I should put an additional canopy fan on it? What I found shocking was that the Artificial setting on the LED has the same light color as the 20,000k MH lamps. My neighbors have said that Tank 1 looks like the shallow sea and Tank 2 look like a much deeper sea.
I emailed Marc about a sump. He has raised enough concern that I will do a mock up on another sump tank to see what problems pop up. I normally like experimenting.
I will be initially using my 30g long sump with the double baffles. The nice thing is that I already have a stand for it. Tonight I put the Reef Octopus skimmer in and it fits very snugly in the right most compartment. Skimmer return can go to the center compartment or back to the skimmer compartment. I am not sure which would work better.
I am thinking that the center will be the return, however that makes the far left compartment the refugium. It is only 4.5 inches wide. The center is 14 inches wide.
I can cut out 2 glass panes from the baffle on the left and increase the size of the left compartment to 8 inches. That might be OK for a refugium but the return should be bigger. If the refugium is on the left and the return in the center how will I circulate the water to that compartment on the left? Normally there would be a drain line run to that side. Do I do that in this case? I was planning to have the drain lines come in at the bottom corners of the sump. This means that the water would rise in the sump to a point of equilibrium between the three tanks not counting the means to stop this from going to far.
Having written this out, I think that I will go ahead and drill 2 drain holes, one in each corner.
For the return line, I don't know if I need a bulkhead or not. Right now the mock up is sitting here and I have a flexible spa line run for the return from the pump up and out of the tank. I think I will go ahead and plumb it that way initially to see what happens.
Does anyone want to help me or watch what happens "live real-time"?