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I'm going to house it in the cabinet. There is a seperate section for it.

Nope nothing to difficult. Just get the right size parts and fittings cut away and join with pvc cement

Finally got some time to prepare the manifolds. 1 x M1 will run direct to the return back to tank, 1 x M1 will run through a manifold that will split the flow through the chiller and UV and back to the tank through 2 lily pipes. Rear Manifold: From M1 to chiller manifold: Lily pipe setup: Managed to test the overflow to make sure no leaks last Sunday. Thankfully all went well. The manifold for reactors is also finished, next up will be to install the reactor manifold followed by all the wiring and control cables. The painful next step now is to cut, splice and extend all the wiring for some of the equipment as some of the equipment cables are too SHORT!

She is finally in. After a month of delays. The house still isn't complete yet due to some quality control issues but we are getting there slowly but surely. Just some update photos. Ive started building the manifold and checking placements.

It's been a long wait to get everything ready. The house is almost done and can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. The space is 9ft in length and will allow for a future upgrade to a 8ft tank if the CFO allows. For now, a 6ft will do just fine. The cabinet for the control systems is also being completed. Taking my time on that since the house isn't quite ready yet. The top shelves have been reserved to store any misc stuff with the center shelf having an additional power point if I need it for something.

What I'm going to use is 2 nos. of 16mm Lily Pipes which is glass and what I've used previously for my aquascaped tanks. Since the M1 output is 3/4" and the maximum size lily pipe I can get is 16mm I'll need to run a splitter to the 2 opposite corners of the back of the tank. Lily pipes look great cos they're glass, just got to clean it twice a month to get the gunk off.

At the moment the plan is to run one M1 direct back into the tank through the included return. However there has been some comments about the size of the included plumbing being undersized, so i plan to run the second M1 through a seperate manifold that will pass through some reactors, UV possibly, the chiller and back to the tank directly through another extra return which I will plumb.

She's here! But the house isn't ready

Collected and closed. Thank you all.

When you click on the tasks then it will show you a history. But yep. There may well be a better app out there.

I use the tasks function to key in my dosing like here:

It's ok in my opinion. Lot's of things you can track you just need to key in what you want. Its far from perfect but I saw they have a Neptune Apex integration so I'm looking forward to seeing that part in action. If you are just using on one device then it is just the 13.98 but if you are using across multiple devices then there is an additional fee. For the new build I'm using it to track all of my expenses from sand to feeds. Will also be using it to remind myself tp change out things like bulbs. When skimmer is due for cleaning (monthly) etc etc. Some said you can do the same on excel and I agree. But sometimes it's about the convenience of having it on an app. And excel on a handphone really isn't user friendly at all.

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I'm using an app called aquarimate. Super helpful and since I like visuals it makes me want to test often. From my 20 Gal.

Seems like the cycle is underway. Ammonia at 2ppm after 18 hours.

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Hi, Have 1 blue tang to give away urgently. Self collect serangoon gardens. Would be good if you could bring a bag. 2inch approximately. Pm me. Thanks. Urgent.

So decided to quickly get a cycle going. Got a blue drum and a wave maker hooked up with some spare rocks that I had lying around and bought a box of maxspect biospheres to dump in there. Still waiting for the bricks to arrived but for now this seems fine. What I have lying around and the bio spheres. Got 2 bottles of beneficial bacteria to dump into the blue drum along with all the medias. Threw a small handful of fish food and a tablespoon of mysis feast to get it all going. Will need to measure the water parameters in this daily to make sure everything is on track.

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Alot of it is down to reliability. My personal experience with the jebao pumps is that they tend to fail prematurely. Its frustrating when you have to keep checking on the pump daily because you never know if it will fail. But that's my own experience. Other may have a completely different experience from me. I've bought 4 jebao pumps in my lifetime. After that I just stopped.

I definitely will have an ATO just a question of whether the one that comes with the reefer is big enough. If not then I'm considering a 100 or 200L storage drum in the store room or running the line directly from the rodi to the sump or to the ATO tank that comes with the reefer.

So what happened when u tried to cycle early. What was the failure point and what would you do differently next time?

Nice tank nice coral nice fish then suddenly got one moving poo stick...

Good point on the mixing station. I have 4 of those blue drums that I posted in my earlier post. But it may/may not be big enough. What I think would be a more cost effective option is to get a few cheap power heads to do the mixing in those stations. I do have a spare Vectra S1 that i can use to pump the water back into the tank. So this should be fine. But the thought of having to do 6 x 15% water change over 6 days is daunting... Sea cucumbers are butt ugly though... hahahaha

I'm open to share and discuss and would love to learn more from everyone. Currently I am debating with myself whether to have a separate container within the store to act as ATO. As I'm going to use Triton method I believe water changes will be kept to a very absolute minimum so I don't have plans for an auto mixing/water change station. But if required I'm sure I can add that into the store room. At this juncture I will have a 1 inch sand bed so will definitely need to look into how to conveniently clean that. At this point after watching some videos I think i can do that with just a simple siphon into a a big ball of filter floss back into the sump.