New tank arrived
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I haven't had much chance to work on the project lately due to some other issues, but i did get my RO/ mixing station complete last weekend. The two green tanks are 100 gallons each and are used to store RO water, and the white tank is a 110 gallon cone bottom tank I had from my previous setup. I will use the cone bottom to mix the water then pump it upstairs to my living room where I have a 300 gallon vertical tank I can use to store mixed saltwater for water changes. I would have it all in my basement but my house is rather old and the doorways are to small for any larger tanks. Also I am still waiting on my new RO filter to show up, i still have my small one on there now. Thats about all I have for now.
Well I had some free time today so i started piecing together the filter in my basement. I am using the sump tenecor supplied with the marine filtration kit, its about a 100 gallons, I am also adding a 300 gallon sump to it, which will hold all my live rock. I am not realy all that amazed with the filtration kit so far, first the sump seems kinda small, second there are literally no instructions on how they want everything ran. Luckily I am basically changing all the fittings and I am going to hard line it and do away with the clear hose. The picture shows all the fittings and valves, its pretty confusing since there are three different sizes of hose barb fittings ranging from 1 inch to 2 inch and they only sent me a 100 ft of 1 inch hose. Also I don't really care for how they want you to secure the hose to the fittings with zip ties. this is the first chance I have had to look at the filtration and I also noticed Tenecor forgot to send the bioballs. Tenecor origanlly sent me two reeflo dart pumps to run the system, but I think I will be bumping them up to a bigger model aswell. Well here are a few pics of what i accomplished (not a whole lot). Oh and the last picture is a copy of the complete instructions they sent me for the entire aquarium. (pretty informative)
Yeah... Tenecor service has been atrocious. I still haven't gotten a call/email about my leaking tank. In that pic of the tubing there appear to be multiple sizes of tubing - which is exactly how they sent me my tubing. The zip ties are useless. Use cable ties anywhere you use the flex tube. When I move my tank, I'm going to switch to hard lines. The Reeflo pumps work very well, and I can't say enough about THEIR service - they sent me two new pumps, free of charge, sight unseen when the first two burned out because of the leaky tank.
Good luck!
Good luck!
