75 reef with sump/refugium

[Jarrett]

got a video up of the tank and now the equipment, just put a new SWC 150 BMK Protein Skimmer let me know what you guys think. Sorry for the shitty quality took it on my phone


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVkcdd7kD14

 

[Jaftica]

i would try and turn the skimmer discharge output away from the glass, it looks way to close.

 

[Imbarrie]

That skimmer output looks pretty frothy. LOL.

Your rock scape looks awesome, I need to lighten the look of my rocks. I like how breezy that is in your tank.
Your Fuge light is clipped onto your sump. I would cut a piece of eggcrate and lay it over the sump, that way if the light falls it wouldnt affect too much. It looks like there is a nice population of pods in there already.

 

[Jarrett]

thank you imbarrie i like to make lots of cravices and holes in my tanks but i do want to add a little bit more rock and funny you said that i just finished an eggcrate lid a little bit ago lol. and is it bad that it looks frothy? i adjusted it now so that the output isnt directly towards the glass

 

[Imbarrie]

Not bad as long as they are not a nuisance in other parts of your sump.
That looks like its working really well.

 

[Jarrett]

yea i do have microbubbles in my tank i tried alot of things to get rid of them, not much help i might just tolerate it for now untill i feel like adding another bubble trap at the return side in the sump

 

[Jarrett]

that video was shot when i had the output of the skimmer directly against the glass so i guess that let the water be able to rise to the top because of the back pressure. now that i turned it to flow freely the water is taking pretty long to even come close to the begnning of the skimmer neck. and i have the water valve 3/4 closed

 

[Jarrett]

i have some macro pics i want to post how can i post them directly in my message? so they appear right away

 

[Jarrett]

figured i would upload a new video of the tank since i just got my auto top off system today (thanks jaftica working great). vid quality still not great but no big deal, got some new corals nothing crazy tho, i am going away for a week so wanted to wait until i got back to add more corals and fish. i set up all my electrical on the wall of my stand that way no siphon can be made out of my ATO and if the tank was ever to over flow at least my electrical is out of reach. new skimmer is working great to not that much gunk shown in the video cause i just cleaned it out but would deff recommend it to anyone. let me know what you guys think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM0i6R3CBno