CMO - man usually we talk about 'The Tank' but man that Sump Area Rocks to the Max! Great layout, really dig the 'Electro cabinet area' for the controllers and the cables behind! By the way your Tank looks great as well.
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Thank you!CMO - man usually we talk about 'The Tank' but man that Sump Area Rocks to the Max! Great layout, really dig the 'Electro cabinet area' for the controllers and the cables behind! By the way your Tank looks great as well.
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Your setup I amazing, I'm just getting back into the hobby after a 6 year break and I'm starting on a full Triton setup. What are you dosing in your system to keep the PO4 and NO3 up? Thank you!
Thank you for the info I'll check them out.Thank you!
Thank you! I came back from a long hiatus with this tank as well. I'm dosing NeoPhos and NeoNitrate from Brightwell.
Great system, nothing like kessil, my cheeto grows like weed with that light, congratilationsArid has been removed and replaced with a traditional refugium with Kessil grow light. My fuge is about 6% of my display volume so undersized from Tritons 10% recommendation. I also re-routed the dosing lines to dose into the filter sock area (I'm not running socks) so the algae fuge in the 1st chamber has first exposure to dosed elements as recommended by Triton. For my setup I find a traditional fuge will be easier to manage than the Arid that was needing drained at least weekly to remove detritus.
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A few weeks later... great results with the Kessil!
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You have done an excellent job, great colors and growth! Very impressive!! Did you ever set up a calcium reactor to go along with your triton?
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Thanks! I was supper close to pulling the trigger on a CA reactor but things just track so well with Core 7 it's hard for me to switch. I'm worried that I'll be needing to do a whole lot more element tweaking with a CA reactor without water changes on a regular basis and don't love the idea. My Core 7 usage has finally stabilized and somewhat reasonable so as long as it doesn't get crazy high I'll probably just keep going with Core 7 on this tank. I'd also have to manually dose for the fuge with a reactor which sounds like a pain.
Sounds like a good plan. Do you have an estimate of how many GPH your return pump is pushing into the display?
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Yup, I have a flow meter on the return. I'm only getting about 625 gph at full power on my Varios 8 (plumbing is very restrictive with the small cad lights bulkheads and return plumbing) which is pretty darn low for Triton but everything still works very well. I have a gyre in the fuge and a small power head in my return chamber for added flow to keep detritus suspended which works very well.
Nice Job CMO. I am revising my Nutrient dosing as well. Moving from brightwell to a DIY KNO3 for Nitrates and K2HPO4 for Phosphate dosing. I am struggling with color and cyano right now because of NO3 ~1.0 and PO4 ~0.01. FYI Greenleaf Aquariums has high grade fertilizers at great prices used in planted aquariums. You can calculate your own solution concentrations. What are you keeping NO3 and PO4 at now? Your colors look amazing.
Can't belive I just found the thread and you're going to be making a change. Very well done and I'll look forward to whats next!A few more updates to sump / dosing from original setup. My Triton dosing on this tank is pretty significant at this point so larger dosing containers were needed (100 ml per day of each solution). I had custom reservoirs made by Advanced Acrylics that hold 10L in each chamber in addition to a smaller supplement dosing container for thinks like NO3, PO4, Acro Power etc. Both reservoirs have 2 connections in each chamber for use on my display and frag tank.
I also added a Trident to the tank a few months back and have it managing my Alk dosing automatically which is working out really well. Tridents and dosing containers are in fish / frag room behind tank now for additional space.
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Thanks! The first year was definitely a leaning curve for me as well but year 2 things really took off so hopefully you will see the same. I was ultra concerned with the simultaneous dosing thing in the beginning as well but after trying all sorts of different dosing configurations I've arrived on the following for best combination of ease of management / precipitation concerns from simultaneous dosing. I have 2 dosing locations separated from one another, one location has Cal and Mag (Core 7 1/2) while the other location has my alk lines (Core 7 3a/b).Can't belive I just found the thread and you're going to be making a change. Very well done and I'll look forward to whats next!
My Triton setup (1st Run at SPS Dom) just cleared a year old. Still learning of course and seeing moderate success. I was finally able to snag a Trident last week and have been reading conflicting reports on Triton elements dosing simultaniously when the DOS was controlled via the Trident reading. Did you have to do anything outside the norm to get that working for you with any offsets in dosing schedule?