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  1. Osama

    My 500G Osama Reef arrived Nov 12 2013

    He inspected but did not do much He should have rejected the tank that he had in his shop for a month or more. When I brought it up he contacted the manufacturer who gave him a guarantee of 90 days after tank filling ie thru March 2014... Longer term great risk to our home!! My electrical it...
  2. Osama

    My 500G Osama Reef arrived Nov 12 2013

    Thank you NanaReefer... We waited almost 20 yrs in this hobby till now to do it in our retirement... Thanks FYI
  3. Osama

    My 500G Osama Reef arrived Nov 12 2013

    Cabinetry Looks Great Sharing this look that we love... hope U like it FR side Office side
  4. Osama

    My 500G Osama Reef arrived Nov 12 2013

    My Tank's coras Here are pictures of my tank as of few weeks ago Everything is doing extremely well Hope it stays that way
  5. Osama

    My 500G Osama Reef arrived Nov 12 2013

    A friend came by with some corals and took these good pictures I am not a very good photographer... Full Tank View Back/office side Full Tank View FR side Corals accumulated so far in right side of tank
  6. Osama

    My 500G Osama Reef arrived Nov 12 2013

    Water Storage Tanks Water Storage and RODI units are in the basement. We bought two sixty five gallons each, water storage tanks. Valves everywhere to do whatever we want. We fill the right tank with RO water and when we need salt we transfer water to left tank and mix the salt in by...
  7. Osama

    My 500G Osama Reef arrived Nov 12 2013

    Setting APEX Prelim parameters I set my MPs running off the APEX and as follows. I have set them to operate at 33% capacity and I have set four profiles as follows PF1 is a fall back profile and that is set at 8% which means if APEX goes down & comes back on it will have my MPS at a low speed...
  8. Osama

    My 500G Osama Reef arrived Nov 12 2013

    First Fish movrd to new 500 g tank Moved into DT from the 65 on Dec 10 2013 Corals and first fish All Looking good
  9. Osama

    My 500G Osama Reef arrived Nov 12 2013

    COntrols In the bottom on the FR side are some of the electrical controls. Others will go into the fish closet. In the center section are the controls for the MP60s two on the right and two on the left and in the center are two back up controllers for each of two sets of MP pump. DT has five...
  10. Osama

    Osama's Reef - Today's System = DT 500 G Plus 3X65G

    Thanks 1guydude... I hope so ( succeed) with my new tank as I must be addicted to this DEMANDING hobby. I am retired so I can accept the "Demanding" part
  11. Osama

    My 500G Osama Reef arrived Nov 12 2013

    I am not VG or G with photography I will try video and post later on in this build/thread.... Thanks Sea Urchin and I hope some of this is interesting to others or to new to hobby people and maybe even some experienced people can find something useful and can give me their advise as well,,,
  12. Osama

    My 500G Osama Reef arrived Nov 12 2013

    For internal Closed loop We are using for internal flow: Four MP60s (Ecotech Vortex). They have been extremely powerful even for a tank as long as almost eleven feet. Installer working late, is on the right side in this picture adjusting the MP 60 MY lesson learned here. My MP60's dry...
  13. Osama

    My 500G Osama Reef arrived Nov 12 2013

    Lighting I am using for lighting Maxspect Razor 160W 27" Five on main tank one on frag tank and one on refugium.. I love those lights. Hoping they will be good for coral growth. LEDs are new to me as my previous experience is with MH and Actinic lights.. Anyone using LED give me your opinion...
  14. Osama

    My 500G Osama Reef arrived Nov 12 2013

    In the meantime I had moved corals and LR and some LS in an old 65g self contained Oceanic tank and put a 250W MH ligh on it that worked beautifully in keeping my corals haapy and I cramed few tangs (3) in this small tank. The tangs accepted their small housing as they could see their newer...
  15. Osama

    My 500G Osama Reef arrived Nov 12 2013

    FIlling the tank By Nov 22 2013, we had made enough RODI water and filled the tank and I am continuing to work on rock placement. I always place an egg-crate in the area I am working on to avoid scratching the glass as I am moving the rock around,
  16. Osama

    My 500G Osama Reef arrived Nov 12 2013

    Rock Placement As we are continuing with the water fill I started working on placing and arranging the LR and DR I had bought. I mostly buy the largest pieces I can obtain ans use the smaller pieces to glue coral and position on the rock formation or on the sand. I also place smaller pieces of...
  17. Osama

    My 500G Osama Reef arrived Nov 12 2013

    Next decision was what kind of sand As for the sand I was not sure of what to select. I had plenty of LR to seed the tank but I wanted to make sure it got cycled efficiently and as fast as possible. I started by placing 70 lbs of the following sand(s) in my refugium ... 20lbs CaribSea AragAlive...
  18. Osama

    My 500G Osama Reef arrived Nov 12 2013

    Electrical Difficulty Another difficulty our installer experienced was electrical. There were several conduits accessible to him but for some reason he could not use them. We asked and we got two separate dedicated 20 amps each circuits to our tank. Very Good idea for all to consider having a...
  19. Osama

    My 500G Osama Reef arrived Nov 12 2013

    Air bubbles in tank Seams As the Installer's work was on-going. We noticed something that really upset us. The Installer inspected the tank in his shop and kept it there for a month and was supposed to check it for leaks (not sure if he did that or not). We noticed several voids in the...
  20. Osama

    My 500G Osama Reef arrived Nov 12 2013

    Plumbing I am experiencing bubbles in the DT (work in progress by our installer). I had prepared this video seeking suggestions on what we can do to prevent the bubbles from making it to the display tank. I am placing this video here ONLY FYI as it also describes our plumbing system which...
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