Mr. Thingdoer's 57G Deep Blue EDGE build thread.

Mr. Thingdoer said:
Good point. It does have black bottom trim, and black caulk.
I'll have to see what it looks like with the tank on it before I decide. I'll see if I can get the neighbor to help me lift it.
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Yea lets see a pic of it here but with the black trim I think my vote is for a matching black stand!
 
Well, it's up & running, although there's still some cable management, and minor details to work out. I had a short and easy cycle, because I went bare bottom, and started with about 45 pounds of carefully rinsed Caribsea dry mined rock, and a few small bottles of Seachem Stabilty. There were no real diatom, or algae blooms to speak of. It's been running pretty sterile for a month. I have a light bioload, and feed daily, but I'm measuring nearly zero nitrates and phosphates. Unless my test kits are defective, everything seems to be going better than expected.


 
I'm still having a hard time maintaining a silent Herbie overflow for any reasonable period of time. I'll be redoing a tiny bit of plumbing in the next few days. I went with a ball valve to control the siphon, although I should have known better.
 
Nice! Thanks for the updates.

Can you post more pictures of the sump and plumbing? I am going to buy either the 57G or 75G DB EDGE this weekend and need help plumbing.
 
I will post photos of the sump when I get home. I'm still making a few tweaks to the plumbing, but I'm pretty happy with the direction I've chosen. I'm running a slightly modified Herbie drain (with Durso style 90's for both the siphon, and emergency drain), and I'm running the return line behind the tank, and over the top. I didn't try the stock plumbing that the tank came with, but I've heard that it sucks.
 
It's a very boring tank at the moment. I've got a lot of encrust-able rock surface to work with, and I can't wait for this stuff to be covered with coral.



 
The sump looks nice and clean. For the bulkheads attached to the glass, did you use threaded or slip on connections?
 
I used standard double slip Sch. 40 bulkheads, although I would have liked to have tried the threaded Sch. 80 bulkheads.
I honestly thought that I could find an adapter that would screw on to the outside threads of the bulkhead, although the thread pitch was different than anything I could find, and then later found out that those threads aren't ever intended to be used for anything other than the nut. I might swap them out to the threaded Sch. 80s when it comes time to move.
 
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Dude very clean looking set up :) I'm very interested to see how the "no macro algae" system works for you or if you will have to add in that reactor we talked about, regardless I'll be following along!


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I just finished installing a little control board. There isn't very much room inside the stand, but I was able to clean up some of the cables. I'll try to figure out a way to hide everything a little more, but this is a far better solution than the big pile of cables that sat on the floor next to the system.

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Although it looks really neat you may want to rethink having the control board inside the stand especially that close to the sump you will start to see the salt creep on them in no time at all especially after you put the doors on

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chewal said:
Although it looks really neat you may want to rethink having the control board inside the stand especially that close to the sump you will start to see the salt creep on them in no time at all especially after you put the doors on

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Yea main reasons for failures of equipment looks great though
 
There's no doors. I don't know if that makes a difference, but I'm not seeing any salt creep down there. It's only had water in it for four months, though. I'm keeping an eye on it.
 
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There's no doors. I don't know if that makes a difference, but I'm not seeing any salt creep down there. It's only had water in it for four months, though. I'm keeping an eye on it.
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Keep eye on it i had to put few down there but most is out side the stand ive seen stuff special the power bars go bad under stands bo doors may help a bit if any open outlets maybe put a child proof plug in it to close the opening
 
I've got no open outlets on the power strip. I do have a bunch of acrylic sheets, a bottle of Weld-on, and a propane torch. I might build an acrylic shield for the equipment.
 
I installed a media reactor, so I can run GFO to keep PO4 in check. Next up is an ATO, and possibly a Kalk reactor. I'm anxious to design and fabricate something from acrylic.

 
All my parameters seem to be good. I've got a few tiny tiny frags in the tanks, and they are encrusting, so that's good. The ATI fixture is really bright, (Par was 935 at the top of the water, and 350 at the bottom center of the tank) so my light schedule & intensity needed to be adjusted.
I'd really like to find a nice colorful millepora frag to try in the tank.
 
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