40 gallon sps (in progress)

[Cwazy Clown]

okay update....

got 2 more heaters and a seio 820

i added water up to 30g and added salt.....tomrw, i'll add livestock and etc.

 

[Cwazy Clown]

okay...i'll post pics tomrw when lights are on but everything is in there!!! new 6line wrasse...

its pretty sweet....im still missing rock but that will eventually fill..

so im pretty much turning into krish....i have a seio 820, two seio 620's, 3 mj1200 and 1 rio 800....

so thats 820+620+620+300+300+300+285= 3245gph and so that is 81x turnover....wow. its blowing in there!!!

 

[joshinjosh]

nice flow, hopefully the heat from the pumps doesnt mess with your temp

 

[Cwazy Clown]

ohh yea forgot about that..well it will help during the winter but be a nussence during the summer b/c its in the garage. ..ohh well

 

[jezzeaepi]

Rofl I want to see a pic of a 40g with 7 powerheads =P

 

[chrisdaphish]

cwazyclown, fwiw,

When i did my 20L sps-nano, i came to realize that realestate wasvery valuable. That being said you might want to look for some other method of flow... i was looking into changing my tank from powerheads and more powerheads to a closed loop type ... could knock you down a few large power heads.. but getting alot of flow from the closed loop will help you out realestate wise. I know your budge may be tight.. but i just wanted to get the idea into your mind. I probalbly would have changed my tank into a closed loop system if the heat didnt kill almost everything.. good luck=)

 

[burning2nd]

did i miss something??

what about a cylce?

theres a fish in the tank, b4 rock??

Im confused

 

[SueT]

I agree, thats a lot of prime real estate. Maybe converting the mj to mj mods and that way you could take some seio's out. Something to keep room for frags.

 

[Brenden]

did i miss something??

what about a cylce?

theres a fish in the tank, b4 rock??

I was wondering the same thing.

 

[Cwazy Clown]

ohhh, okay so i'll prob just run 2 seios then..one 820 and one 620. then a rio800 for dead spots and a mj1200 for chiller during summer...is this okay?

no cycle. all stuff came from previous 10g.

 

[jezzeaepi]

I have a 38G and used 2 620's for a while with decent results( I use a nano stream and a 620 now). I have sand though and found that if I added anymore flow things would start blowing around. The LPS also retracted when I tried adding more flow.
With no sand and just SPS you may be able to physically keep that much flow in your tank, but I dont really think its really needed. Especially not at the expense of a lot of prime realestate. A 620 + 820 + rio + chiller return should be more then enough. Might not even need that rio.

 

[Cwazy Clown]

ahh, gottcha...yea i plan on having like 1/2" sand as well..hahaha (we'll see) yea okay. so i should take out the rio yes?

 

[jezzeaepi]

As long as you keep your rockwork open I wouldnt use it. The fewer PH's running, the fewer you have to service, the fewer the can break, the less heat that is put in your tank, the more space you save, etc etc.

 

[Cwazy Clown]

okay, so im just going to run 2 seio and one mj1200 for chiller (mj1200 for remora as well but that doesnt count )

 

[Cwazy Clown]

finally a pic....

 

[mattseattle]

is that your QT tank?

 

[Cwazy Clown]

lol i wish i had a 40g qt..no..

im gettin 20 pound rock next monday and i have another 10# in my real qt..

 

[spongebob lover]

are you gonna cure your rocks dood?

 

[Cwazy Clown]

well im buying fully cured rock and putin it into my 10g to make sure its totally cored and test it in there...so once the rock goes in my 10, i'll test and such and make sure its at 0 and then more it into 40...so it'll be like 1.5weeks before it goes in real tank

 

[spongebob lover]

well im buying fully cured rock and putin it into my 10g to make sure its totally cored and test it in there...so once the rock goes in my 10, i'll test and such and make sure its at 0 and then more it into 40...so it'll be like 1.5weeks before it goes in real tank

kewl dood, where did you buy your rocks from? if you don't mind me asking .