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New Red Sea Reefer 170


Chas19

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Ahh at work and girlfriend just called our new tank just arrived. Going to be a long 4 hours of work left. We are upgrading from a IM nano fusion to the reefer 170. Going to be a fun weekend of building and tank transfer.

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Yeah stand is included.

How many gallons does it hold and what was the $ for that set up? i have seen them in videos before and they look very nice.

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How many gallons does it hold and what was the $ for that set up? i have seen them in videos before and they look very nice.

The 170 is 34 gallon. Saw these at MACNA and they looked really nice.

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Congrats! I just got mine week ago. White and shiny :)

Make sure you have someone to help you - its heavy, built like a tank

Built like a tank. I see what you did there :)
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Anyone take out sponge between the skimmer chamber and return chamber? I know it's there to stop bubbles from the skimmer just noticed tonight that chamber overflowing the baffle into the return chamber.

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If it is overflowing over the sponge you need to either lower the water level in the system or adjust the downflow on your main drain pipe, for my reefer 250 i find that the perfect water level sits 1 inch below the emergency drain pipe (middle pipe in overflow) and that keeps the drain silent as well as keeps the water in the sump at the correct levels

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Well had to build a screen top for the tank I can't find my tailspot blenny anywhere. Took a bit to find a way around the overflow and I ordered some screen clips for 10mm glass for the innovative marine sr-60 from premium aquatics.

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Tank has been transferred and up and running. Everything looks great. I have desktop minimax reactor from the old tank running ROX Carbon. I was looking at adding a BRS mini reactor to run carbon and GFO. But was also thinking about starting biopellets. I like how easy the mini max reactors are so easy to work on but not sure if that would be a good fit for biopellets. Also should I wait on biopellets I have had nitrate issues in the past just trying to prevent it. My nitrate test was 5ppm last week.

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Just added a BRS mini reactor for carbon and CPR tumble for biopellets and my skimmer is not skimming now. Is that because of the new equipment in the tank?

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