New tank! Red Sea Max 34 gallon! - Page 2

Tylt33 · 10/28/2008, 07:21 PM

I started with the Red Sea Max, and less than a year later I now have a 3g, a 12g, and a 120g with two 25g refugiums connected to it. It's an addiction.

For the RSM, take out the bio balls, they're junk. Then take out the white sponge, and cut the black one in half. I think that's the way it works.

There were 300+ pages of RSM threads, but some drama happened, and so the RSM group in the Nano Threads is no longer too active. A shame if you ask me!

explod3 · 10/28/2008, 09:29 PM

tested water today. no nitrates or nitrites. amonia levels good, salinity at 1.023. looks like that water really was pre-cured. never can be too safe tho.

doing research on starter corals/fish/cleanup crew.

doesn't look like very much live rock, but the liverock that i have in there is incredibly heavy. I already have about 28 or 29 lbs in there and its a 34 gallon tank? should i add another 10-15 lbs?

explod3 · 10/28/2008, 09:37 PM

oh and another thing. i noticed that there is a "nano-chiller" that uses a peltier (piece of ceramic that gets extremely hot on one side and dissapates heat into the air and freezes on the other side when a current is passed through it) to cool down small nano tanks.

has anyone looked into a diy chiller with a more powerful peltier system? I used to be into pc modding and I've seen a peltier turn an entire water cooling system into a solid block of ice in an hour. If this works it would be much cheaper than an actual chiller. considering how most people use sumps, you could chill a radiator filled with mineral oil and stick it into one of the sump compartments?

explod3 · 10/30/2008, 12:02 PM

i've been measuring my nitrites, nitrates, salinity, amonia and it all seems like my levels are good.

one of my friends says that it doesn't look like i'm going to get a spike since everything is already cycled. I'm going to wait a few more days before adding livestock. I may just add a cleanup crew first and see what happens. I don't want to jump the gun on anything.

10/28/2008, 07:21 PM	#26
Tylt33 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Chico, California Posts: 1,755	I started with the Red Sea Max, and less than a year later I now have a 3g, a 12g, and a 120g with two 25g refugiums connected to it. It's an addiction. For the RSM, take out the bio balls, they're junk. Then take out the white sponge, and cut the black one in half. I think that's the way it works. There were 300+ pages of RSM threads, but some drama happened, and so the RSM group in the Nano Threads is no longer too active. A shame if you ask me!

10/28/2008, 09:29 PM	#27
explod3 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 25	tested water today. no nitrates or nitrites. amonia levels good, salinity at 1.023. looks like that water really was pre-cured. never can be too safe tho. doing research on starter corals/fish/cleanup crew. doesn't look like very much live rock, but the liverock that i have in there is incredibly heavy. I already have about 28 or 29 lbs in there and its a 34 gallon tank? should i add another 10-15 lbs?

10/28/2008, 09:37 PM	#28
explod3 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 25	oh and another thing. i noticed that there is a "nano-chiller" that uses a peltier (piece of ceramic that gets extremely hot on one side and dissapates heat into the air and freezes on the other side when a current is passed through it) to cool down small nano tanks. has anyone looked into a diy chiller with a more powerful peltier system? I used to be into pc modding and I've seen a peltier turn an entire water cooling system into a solid block of ice in an hour. If this works it would be much cheaper than an actual chiller. considering how most people use sumps, you could chill a radiator filled with mineral oil and stick it into one of the sump compartments?

10/30/2008, 12:02 PM	#29
explod3 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 25	i've been measuring my nitrites, nitrates, salinity, amonia and it all seems like my levels are good. one of my friends says that it doesn't look like i'm going to get a spike since everything is already cycled. I'm going to wait a few more days before adding livestock. I may just add a cleanup crew first and see what happens. I don't want to jump the gun on anything.