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I would move to Papeete and have an outdoor tank, nothing like natural sunlight!

Thanks for the detailed write up!

A 425xl would be great, I am growing envious and wishing I had gotten one of those instead of my 350 as I feel the added 3.5" of width would allow for better aquascaping. Probably looking at an xl 525 for my next tank.

A xenia specific tank with a radial filefish or two would be a pretty sweet display if the nem tank doesn't work out long term. ORA raises them. https://www.orafarm.com/product/radial-filefish/

Finally feeling comfortable reintroducing corals after a total loss from dinos last summer. Got a nice dw pack in from BC added on to this year's grow out. Personal goal: half of these to remain alive for 30 days!

I sense a future club meeting discussion incoming...

Generous offer thank you. I don't need anything right now, but didn't want your ask to go unanswered 😛

I have ordered parts directly from Ecotech for my sk-5000

You could also just connect one of the outflows and filter half of the water coming through, I do this on my system - when there is too much backpressure water rises in my overflow and engages the overflow drain which achieves the same effect. The tubing I use is intended for the brewing industry making it food safe. You can get 1.5" ID most easily from Amazon for about $4 per foot. A single 1" pipe can handle over 12000 gph so unless you are pushing with two A4000 Abyzz pumps you should be fine. I am jealous of your plumbing!

bow front tanks are super cool, but the trick is always getting a top that fits - i love your jig (etsy here we come).

wife is going out of town this weekend so i will have some time to get everything together. i may see if Jeff will let me drop it off at his place for you to pick up so we don't need to coordinate a time that works... will know more shortly.

I may be misreading when you say feed from the top, but inflow goes through the lower elbow on the unit (it looks like you currently have it pointed down and not up) if that is different from what you are describing. I had alignment issues and went first with silicone tubing, and then to flex pvc to make it work. While it may not fit your beautiful aesthetic, that could be a temporary workaround. I can take a photo of my shameful sump and how I have it set up when I get home from work tonight if that helps.

He doesn't post on the board.

Absolutely. There is nothing more satisfying that finding (relatively) free upgrades! I saw about .4 pH difference when I fed the reactor effluent through the algae reactor, I am not sure why that didn't dawn on me over the years either.. I feel like I saw several people doing that back when refugiums were taking off 20 years ago, but I must have forgotten in the interim. I have seen one local reefer that has their effluent going into a bubble chamber in the sump with heavy airstone turbulence to de-gas the CO2 to similar effect. He used to run the bigger c36, but I feel like he may have taken it offline. I will try to pop over there and look at his routing of effluent and report back in the near future. Unfortunately the lack of the buffering capacity the n18 provided, coupled with the basement location of my tank and closed windows in the cold months keeps my pH a little lower than I would like. I have a kalk reactor that I will throw on at some point, but with the great dino die-off of '22 nuking most of my coral I can't turn my dastaco down any lower and don't have enough coral mass to consume all the alk. Hopefully this will be resolved shortly. I do really like that the dastaco has a photo cell that turns down the CO2 when it is dark, that helps a little but I still swing about .3 pH crest to trough. The n18 was great, and the plumbing was really well thought out, I ran it with the QD's and the injection module, I just didn't have enough of a bio-load to maintain it. Hopefully it will work on the next tank upgrade.

What is your timeline? I need to do some work getting it moved upstairs and cleaned up. Work is about to get very busy for a few weeks so planning will be crucial 🤘

George Moreland Plumbing on 99 in Tigard should have them, that is where I get my uncommon fittings

I have a RSR 170 in white that has been sitting dry in my basement for 2 years that the wife wants gone…. Could be our very own R2R opportunity 🤣

I too needed the arm, my tank stand door wouldn’t close without it when the feed roll was full. if your nutrients continue to stay high I have a pax bellum n18 you might want to play around with that I had to take offline, that was the other half of my problem 😇

Nice pickup on the Clarisea, I run the gen3 5000 and love it. Watch your nitrates and phosphates - mine plummeted when I brought it online which I attribute to part of my dino fight... it never occurred to me how effective it would be.

The largest unit available, 19.5 liters, is just under $700 shipped to the states and the smallest is $475, 1/3 of that being the shipping. Still looking for a US distributor but this is the one that looks best to me. It is also possible to get some now discontinued Aquamedic units, but those one needs to find used. Pac Sun: https://pacific-sun.eu/shop/filtration-2/filtration/phytoplankton-reactor-pr-series/?attribute_pa_model=phytoplankton-reactor-pr-70-200-19-5-liters-capacity&attribute_pa_plug=usa-power-supply-plug Aquamedic: https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/aqua-medic-plankton-reactor.html There are some cottage companies, but I am looking for maximum volume with minimal footprint - I need to tuck it in a corner near the tank and go from there. Did you get the PA storage system sealer thing? That looks attractive to me, especially paired with a mini-fridge in the basement near the tank to keep the wife happy. Assuming you just order the bag and tubing kits when the initial ones run out, maybe in bulk? 10 doesn't seem like many when you are running 4 units. Thanks again!

I really enjoyed this thread, thank you. I am interested in dabbling into adding phyto to my system, and hoped for your thoughts on the growth system you picked up now that you are a few months further into the system. I am investigating doing a larger continuous feed system using 3.5 gallon containers having seen some others that have had success doing so. Do you still love the Poseidon system, and would you buy into it again, or would you look into a different system now that you have had more experience with it? There are a number of commercial phyto reactors that seem to streamline the process a bit, and allow for a smaller footprint for a lager culture, but with no experience having grown or used phyto, I am still deciding which way to go for my system. I like the idea of doing one larger batch and just topping it off with new water each time I draw off to dose the tank, but it might not be that simple... Thank you for your thoughts. Edit: I should add that I am pretty busy, so finding a streamlined way to do this that may end up more cost effective and/or of higher qquality than just ordering phyto for subscription delivery is more important to me than finding the lowest cost solution - I need efficient more than I need inexpensive!

polysulphonate quick disconnects is you search term, you can find them in most sizes.

Would love some feedback from whoever bought the Sky units, I am close to ditching my Radions and going that direction. If whoever you are happens to see this and would send me a DM that would be awesome!

Thanks Jeff. Polyps continue to get brighter in color, hard to photograph. Here it is today.

Getting ready to leave town for a few weeks, dropping a few photos here to either remember what I've lost or to compare to what that much time with no hands in the tank will do! Apologies for the potato shots on a couple of these... also probably shouldn't have fed the corals just before deciding to take pics.