SOHO reef

[yvoneysl]

after one hour of hard work

[yvoneysl]

Cut the mesh about 2" border than the eggcrate.

[yvoneysl]

Then simply fold up as if wrapping a present. use cable tie to fasten.

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Now place it back to the tank above the 1" PVC tubes.

[godzillaliu88]

where to buy those mesh?

and how much?

[yvoneysl]

Start to top-up the sand...

[yvoneysl]

where to buy those mesh?

Last minute bought for DIY shop, cost more about $15 for 4 ft by 5ft.

But better quality with smaller mesh holes, made in USA somemore.

You can try hardware shop might be cheaper

[yvoneysl]

Level it when the sand reach 2" depth.

Anyone want to try fry agragonite with eggs

[fishtalk1517]

looking good for the plenum. great effort put in for the egg crate. Looking forward to ur tank arrival and more write up

[yvoneysl]

looking good for the plenum. great effort put in for the egg crate.  Looking forward to ur tank arrival and more write up

Thanks bro only my sump tank coming soon, main tank still in design development stage

Last picture of the day, add in second lever of mesh above the sand bed to keep the lower sand level free of disturbances from digging inhabitants.

Run out of agragonite now so will continue tomorrow...

[jervismun]

Wah bro... all those kitchen utensils... your WIFE gonna kill you

[Reefzzz]

The recommended sand grains is 2.0- 4.0mm but unfortunately some of the grains size contain in the seachem is larger. So got to seperate them during rinsing.

Bro, that's alot of work to seperate them. Thought told u before the seachem ones do not have consistent grain size... hehe..

Just curious; Did u mix all the live Aragonite & seachem ones together in the tank already? Your tank doesn't seems to have water in it?

[yvoneysl]

Hi all, finally I'm back again with more updates.

Now need to back track a bit to the Plenum. Took me some time to procure the additional dry aragonite due to my tight work schedule

In total I bought 6 packs dry and 2 packs live aragonite that cost me 275 bucks

Add in another 1"-1.5" dry aragonite over the window screen to create the upper sand layer

[yvoneysl]

Slowly fill up with DI water…

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Allow the newly mixed water to settled for one day then add in the live aragonite & live rock to seed the sand bed.

[yvoneysl]

Shape the plenum with black oyama sticker as open-to light plenum are not able to adequately reduce nitrate.

[yvoneysl]

Now come to the sump tank.

I go for a very simple design with just 2 compartment separated by bubbles trap.

[yvoneysl]

1st compartment receive water from the overflow & also house the skimmer. Micro bubbles produce by the skimmer are well take care by the bubbles trap. Water top-up tank with JBJ A.T.O on the left to optimize the dead corner.

[yvoneysl]

There are 3 overflow pipes altogether, 2 form the main tank & 1 form refugium. Now I'm trying to source for a good quality micro bags to act as the mechanical filtration.

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FR in the 2nd compartment consist of carbon & Po4 remover in the ratio of 3:1. Plan to change every two weeks or one mth.

[yvoneysl]

Will only add in the second FR in phase 2 as the bio-load produce by the Refugium (mainly invertebrates) with be very low.

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3 return pipes, 1 to refugium, the others to main tank.

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All returns pumps will be place out of water to save some running cost on chiller.

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QT beside the refugium with mini PL light, plan to add in a canister filer & UV light later

[yvoneysl]

Water changing tank on the highest level with float value connected to DI unit & a powerful pump to assist in salts mix.