afboundguy's 35 gallon and display fuge build!!!

[afboundguy]

Finished off covering the colored wires today! Then I noticed my refugium light wasn't working! Ended up being a bad power supply and luckily I had a spare one kicking around that naturally wasn't the same length so I had to move the mounting around to allow it to reach the outlet! I even installed a float switch guard so it blends in!

 

[afboundguy]

Also setup the Hydros wifi feeder on the DT with a 3D printed ring thanks to @Chris.Reef

 

[afboundguy]

Guess the rats nest of wires was so front and center I never realized how dirty the sump sides were so I did a quick wipe down.

 

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[afboundguy]

Made a drip pan for the water mixing station and emptied the two brute cans so I could install it as I was to dumb to install it before filling them up! Filled it with 5 gallons of water and no leak! Based on math it should hold 7-8 gallons.

 

[afboundguy]

Also was having issues with the Hydros iV alkalinity testing as it was off by as much as 2-3 dKh and this morning it was off by 4 dKh.

Got some great advice from the Hydros FB group and reinstalled the iV and bottle of reagent level with the X10 and that seemed to have done the trick! I also reinstalled all the dosing lines and snugged them up.

 

[afboundguy]

Also changed out all my RODI pre-filters and the 3 stage resin stages with a 3D printed resin funnel kit that made it much easier!!

Ironically I actually didn't need to change the mixed resin and anion resin as the cation was the one that was getting exhausted much faster but oh well!

 

[afboundguy]

Been a rough few days as a retired former coworker passed away unexpectedly and yesterday I woke up to the tank not running and overflowing! My best guess was even though I drilled multiple anti-siphon holes on both ends of the ATO line it filled the sump as the salinity dropped to 1.023.

Naturally I had yet to install the leak detectors and I did that yesterday. I also put the ATO pump in the old ATO reservoir that I was still using to top off the QT tank that still gets filled from the RODI brute. I figured it was another layer of redundancy.

I also set it up so I would get alerted even if my phone is on do not disturb mode...

 

[afboundguy]

On top of that the wife got me sick. She's a teacher so she's around germs all day long so I've been exhausted. I wasn't able to do much except update the sticker board and enjoy the mixing station for phyto! It was great I just filled each container with already made SW and then added pool shock to each container! Much easier than filling up bucket with RODI and then getting it up to correct salinity! Got a nice surprise with a sticker from @ReefBum to add!

 

[afboundguy]

Only other thing I was able to do was make up a quick Hydros LED board and mount the @Chris.Reef 3D printed BRS sign!

 

[afboundguy]

Just setup sort of an AWC for the "QT" tank that is acting as a breeding tank for two dottybacks I got at FFM. I plan to plumb the tank into the whole system but I had a few extra small dosing pumps kicking around so I set it up to take 400 ml from the main system and put it into the "QT" tank and then drain 400 ml from there back into main system.