Bumblebee Reef - 75G/30G (36Lx20Wx24H)

mylertitchell · Feb 21, 2021

£1.50 punt with no response on local reef group. 1 1/2 inch washing machine fitting. Cut,file,sand, spray outside of fitting to match. Think it’s gonna work out well tbh

mylertitchell · Feb 21, 2021

Lights in sump cable managed. Good bright lights tbh. Video of lights working

mylertitchell · Feb 22, 2021

French Cleat UV Holder
Still few wee things to work out like length of hosing, changing the bottom connection to step-less connection too, but happy with it for now

mylertitchell · Feb 22, 2021

Underground Project
Tried to see if we could access tank from far side, was like threading an needle from afar. So will need to lift floor to create hatch and meet in middle. Hopefully get this done over next few weeks. Be good to get pipe laid so can then run 4 electric cables, 2 12/16mm water lines (AWC), 1 4/6mm line (ATO), 2 wires (AWC) and x 4/6mm lines (dosing min 5), would like a few extras in there for growth so dont have to go in here again tbh. like skimate (1)?, extra dosing (3)? and if ever was doing automated testing (1)?.
Discussions in regards 4 electric lines; 2 rings main, on separate consumer unit, so house cant trip tanks electrics. 2 separate circuits on tank soon to be named heart and soul. so that soul only trips self (lights, reactors, misc) and only heart (pumps, wm, heaters) can trip self. Future will be putting heart into a battery backup so never goes off with 8 hour run time hopefully with charging coming into play by fuel and/or solar so should be able to run forever.

UkiahTheTurtle · Feb 22, 2021

Welcome amazing tank

mylertitchell · Feb 25, 2021

Living Room Hatch
So real nice to know my tank sitting on 3 joists and at the wall

Living room floor is solid bamboo flooring (fitted self years ago), under that is cloud9 membrane and then your classic tongue and grove pine boards. Skirtings took a bit of plaster with but nothing to worry about, glue back on, skim and coat of paint and will never know. Was able to put rope over side of wall quite easily. Rope has a loop on end and hopefully should be able to go fishing at other side and pull rope through.

Put room roughly back together, to keep the marriage alive.

Hopefully get another go tonight to pull rope from fridge, attach to pipe and pull pipe all way through and put fridge back as if nothing happened. At hatch end will then need to put flooring back together properly and make hatch removable. This will allow access one more time to do electrics. I would like this to be done in next coming days so we can start running cables etc so I bring the tank in. Tank is officially ready to come in as there is no real dirty work left can all be done in house

mylertitchell · Feb 26, 2021

Wall isn't in middle of room, its 1/3 way. Yeah there 2 walls. ;Facepalm , still working out a plan, i have a roll of copper that might work. If not im thinking fishing magnet and another smallerheavy duty magnet and cud drag it across. The last resort is lift the entire floor, I dont think I can do it mentally, so will see. Maybe lunch will try this copper thing and maybe start putting the floor back together anyway and get the living room back to way was be end of weekend. (with removable hatch)

mylertitchell · Feb 28, 2021

Well as Mr Bull says...
What do we do now?
WE DIG UP THE ROAD!

mylertitchell · Feb 28, 2021

Well let me rewind it back to this morning...
Rope going from A-B, finally got a wee silly conduit to get her over 2 walls, and then did a bit of fishing to hook and pull rope. Quite successful

mylertitchell · Feb 28, 2021

This is a beast. A lot bigger and heavier than thought. Perfect for job. 90mm smooth like silk inside. Rope cudnt pull her through. Was hitting walls and access was limited.

mylertitchell · Feb 28, 2021

Well let’s complete the story...
So I did at one point say out to ****! Sack it. But we powered through. I definitely wanted to give up a few times as I’m skimming a lot of the shambles that went on. But basically made larger hatch and got access to do it’s thing.

Father in law great man doing this with me. That’s him in the hole! Was able to run more coaxial to so can move the WiFi and the black box away from fish tank and to kitchen which is the center of house so great job as be out of site and shud be better WiFi availablity. Have to order connectors to move it properly.

Hatch baby!! So tank sits over this and this is now easily removed. Still have to plaster, glue skirting and paint. Then onto getting her to garage, but wee buns compared to this

mylertitchell · Mar 1, 2021

Loads and loads to do beyond this, but a little priority list is needed.

Underground
- Drill Hole in Garage
- Run Pipe from Garage to Fridge
- Run Cables/Tubing/Wiring from A-B-C (garage to living room)
- Move WIFI/blackbox to Kitchen
- Wire 2 double sockets under hatch (Tank can come in at this point)
- Wire Consumer Unit
- Wire Battery Backup Changeover
- Plumb dosing/ato/awc
Sump
- Cut Out ATO Res,
- Wrap Sump
- Glue Bumblebee
- UV Fittings
Move Tank into living Room
- Level
- Cable Management
- Prepare for getting WET (another list)

mylertitchell · Mar 1, 2021

DEADLINE DAY - COMPLETED IT MATE

mylertitchell said:
FEB

Clear/Clean/Dump/Sell/Prepare Garage - Dedicated sections to ensure a safe reef station. (THIS MAY TAKE SOME TIME)

Have New Tank on Stand and Basic Layout of system in place for photo (still equipment to buy, but waiting for my moment, to know im hot). HO Fuge awaiting delivery (hope it fits, pixel perfect kinda order), I Have an unknown which is Controllers, Tablet. May need to build a mini control board.

Phase 1 Reef Station (just use what have but will do this up in long term as proper dedicated reef station , I plan on fragging in future, clear space for all things reef)

Move/Setup Mixing Station (prob just use what have until upgrade to bumblebee reef station style)

Cultures Setup in Reef Station

Setup Basic Doser/Containers

Nano Reef Moved From Living Room to Reef Station

So Garage is not pristine, but not bad. Confident with system layout and have resolved the controller board (canopy and tablet in sump). Basic station/ space set aside. Mixing Station set up and working (nano tank ato pulling from rodi bin). Cultures moved, doser and containers have a place (getting doser this week), nano tank in garage (quite sad, miss it i do).

mylertitchell · Mar 1, 2021

£1.20 Punt
This thing is the exact same size as the stepper, to put the gains into perspective. Spray outer black tonight and UV is complete...

mylertitchell · Mar 2, 2021

Automatic Testing
Been toying with reefbot since it came out, but with enough research and chat I believe the mastertronic is the solution. Price difference isn't that much and I personally believe focustronic will be able to support it compared to reefkinetics. Main benefit though is the ability to test the big five with 12 vials! Thats class! plus the water clarity parameter the have added to better understand your use of carbon etc. I dont ever see me testing multiple times a day so therefore wouldnt need the alkatronic, but could i see upgrading the doser to the dosetronic to automate the dosing. Absolutely. Happy enough, but understand I dont need this 2k purchase right now or even the 1.2k. But would be lovely, but with the get wet purchases still to order theres probably another 1k to be at point of then monthly recurring fish,corals,inverts,misc. So I have made my choice, but I will let the mastertronic and dosetronic be for the foreseeable.

mylertitchell · Mar 2, 2021

UV Ready

mylertitchell · Mar 4, 2021

Trade Day

Good day it was! Haven't seen my buddy in flesh in must be six months. I traded him one of my zetlights (he going to use in sump for frags, as am I), bottle trace elements, 750ml bottle of copes/rotis, florida ricordia and papaya clove ployps. And in return i got jebao doser and slave (5 total), media (i plan to use a very small amount of biopellets to ensure a constant carbon source) and some frags (leather, paly, blue shroom and a small unknown shroom).
Had to fashion together a shroom box as were not attached, but hopefully come together and all goes well. Successful Day indeed

mylertitchell · Mar 4, 2021

Dosing POA
Few things to buy still to fashion it altogether but will be nice wee side project at some point.
Channels:
1 ATI PRO 1
2 ATI PRO 2
3 KALKWASSER
Start of Journey
4 POTTASIUM NITRATE
5 TRISODIUM PHOSPHATE
End of Journey
4 CALCIUM CHLORIDE
5 SODIUM BICARBONATE
Future
1,2,4,5 - Change to Soda Ash, Calcium Chloride, and Magnesium Mix with Tropic Marin A/C/K ? Will have to do price check.
Elements
Using 1/2 for Mag/Trace equally with 1/2/3 balancing out for alk/cal. Kalk will be used as the main source for alk/cal but will be dosed to minimise pH swing. My assumption is if i dose ATI based on MAG, then the rest of the trace elements should be dosed efficiently too. At some point, KALK will be at its max dose due to evap and if mag is being maintained I will need to use 4/5 to maintain cal/alk as coral population increases.
Nutrients
I believe I will have a decent filtration - filter roller, skimmer, fuge and biomedia, so 4/5 helping nutrients as overfeeding at start wont be enough as so little stock, so as add stock over course of year this should be able to be minimised or stopped and heavy feeding be enough. Only time will tell but thats the rough outline.
Other
Chaeto Grow for fuge? Maybe manual if need be. MB7? manual with WC if decide to, LaCL3 manual as it only be if phos just sky rocketed. If need carbon will use biopellets so no need for carbon dosing. Phyto will be manual when adding pods etc too.