New Zero Edge Build starting

A little below the waterline.
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Realized I don't have my equipment list on here,

46 Gallon Zero Edge Three Sided Tank
20 Gallon sump/fuge
Jaebo DC9000 Return Pump
Reef Octopus 110 Internal Skimmer
2 x Eheim Jagger 150W heaters
BRS GFO Reactor
Some kind of LED for refugium light, not sure it came with the tank.
2 x AI Vega Blue/Color LED with Director module

90 lbs sand
60 lbs rock

Will be moving my RKE to this tank from my BioCube 29 when I move livestock.

ATO is gravity fed from my Brute 32 attached to a BRS 6 stage RODI system.
 
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Let us know how it has gone and updated on how it goes cleaning the acrylic. I suppose I could google it, but what's the fun in that. I will be very interested to get a first hand account on what your method and experience is.
 
Tank looks great, acrylic is no big deal to clean. Once a week or so, you wipe it down with an acrylic safe pad. The outside is not growing noticeable algae, it gets wiped down less frequently than the outside of my normal tank did. Big benefit to water on the outside is no salt creep or spots on the glass. Every so often you see a little bow wave on the outside from something trying to grow, just knock it off with a finger. Snails do climb out to the moat though.
 
Thinking about other concerns mentioned on this tank type, evaporation... I lose from 3 to 5 gallons a day, so you definitely want this hooked up to an ato.
 
kylarse said:
Thinking about other concerns mentioned on this tank type, evaporation... I lose from 3 to 5 gallons a day, so you definitely want this hooked up to an ato.
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Wow, on a 46g tank that a huge amount of evaporation. No whole house humidifier needed!Lol
 
Yep, basement used to be very dry in the winter, now it's not. I have a humidity monitor and it used to bottom out in the winter. We'll see how much evaporation there is when summer comes back.
 
Well, brief update now that it's warmed up. Had to get a dehumidifier for the basement. Pulling 100 pints out of the air a day. Summer basement humidity before this tank ran 60%, now it's 85% without the dehumidifier. Lots of evaporation on this thing, definitely needs a lot of heaters to keep up with evaporative cooling. Still, love the tank though.
 
12 gallons of evap a day? Wow, more than double what I see for all 3 tanks. You shouldn't have too much of a problem keeping it cool in the summer :D
 
I don't think all 12 are evap from the tank. I have a 35 gallon top off resivoir that is not empty after 7 days so maybe 6 gal from the tank per day.
 
So, tank is just about a year old and has been running great until last week. Happy birthday. Any ideas on what could effect one side of my tank and not the other? Right side had die off of all sps. Bali green slimer, teal birdsnest and one lps/torch. Zoas, ricordea and candy cane all ok. Left side no issues. Had same population on both sides, all clones from same parent colony.

Water is obviously the same throughout the tank, levels all fine before and after a 30% change.

Equipment is mirrored on both sides as well. Each has a koralia wavemaker and ai vega color.

Last change I made was to add control to my dc9000 return pump with a digital aquatics dci pump controller. Went from constant 50%power to 60-80% range daytime with 40% reduction in flow at night.

Trying to prevent the die off spreading. Any ideas?
 
Were all the sps on the one end all more sensative coral vs the side that didn't die off? Was there any signs of stress on other side of the tank? Possibly chemical warfare on the one end of the tank with die off?
 
No, identical corals. Both sides came from same mother colony. Great polyp extension and color last weekend. Bone white and dead this weekend..
 
I think I figured it out. Didn't realize how sensitive to flow my sps were. Setting my return pump back to a constant 70% power saved the last piece of sps I had. Lost 90% of it. Live and learn.
 
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