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where were you guys last week i took a
beating on view count anyway right into
it today the 75 gallon aio
it's gonna be the complete tour
the complete tour from the aio
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what i have in it how i run it what i
use it for i'll show you my flow pump
setup
lighting i'll show you the skimmer how
i'm using that i'm using that a little
different this time around my dosing
pumps how i'm using those measurements
i'll show you what my parameters are
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for how i got there how i maintain them
especially the alkalinity calcium and ph
gonna get into the kalkwasser edition
also i've come down a little with that
i'll give you a coral update i'll show
you the fish i'm keeping what i'm
feeding how much
forget about the refusium external
gravity fed i haven't stocked it yet but
i'll tell you why i haven't done that
yet either
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all right new viewers this is the aio i
built for this
and in the first compartment in the
overflow box i keep the skimmer
and i like to keep it there because the
undissolved and dissolved organics flow
in there and they get taken care of by
the skimmer
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the next compartment is separated by a
baffle so that reduces the sediments
from traveling over and there i have the
filter floss and i have a filter floss
sponge underneath it the only time i use
the filter floss this time around
is when i'm cleaning the tank
if there's a large amount of debris and
algae and detritus floating around the
tank i'll put these sponges in to
collect it so it's not going into the
overflow box and then it has to go
through the pump i'm only using them in
there part of the time because i also
didn't want to strip every organic
that's being created in the tank until i
see some form of nitrate and phosphate
developing
down in the bottom underneath all this i
have a higher
1080 gallon return pump it's been
extremely quiet and it's got a
controller
what the controller allows you to do is
increase or decrease the flow rate from
percentages so it can go from
twenty percent all the way up to a
hundred percent it also has a pause
button on the right there for feed mode
so if you wanted to turn it off you can
turn the pump off and it'll stay off for
10 minutes
unless you push the pause button again
to turn it back on
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the heater is cobalt
and it's a 200 watt heater it's really
only meant for 55 gallons but i knew
with the lighting setup i had i would
have no problem keeping the tank warm
enough it's set at 78 and i've had no
problem with the heat dropping below 76.
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all right
flow pumps i've been using the heiger
mini wave but the last time i cleaned it
i replaced it with this mp10 that i had
in my 20 gallon so i think i'm going to
stick with the mp10 on the front here
i like the mp10 it creates a nice flow i
have it set on tidal flow it can be
really strong if i desire it and i'm
going to stick with that on the front of
the tank and then use the higer mini
wave in the back
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those of you who follow me know i did a
series of ai primes and kessel a 80s for
my lighting and i did that all because
of control and money because i had three
of these lights already my idea was to
be able to move the lights
to the coral's needs as opposed to
needing to move the corals around as
they grow
for example i can slide these around the
tracks to create more light in certain
areas and these are my settings
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i also have the light set on timing so
they come on to simulate a sunrise and a
sunset so here you can see
what i do to create this effect
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let me show you what i'm doing with the
skimmer you guys have been watching me
know i made that but i'm doing something
a little different with the skimmer
i'm still noticing zero nitrate and zero
phosphate for over the last two months
so what i decided to do
is run the skimmer on a 12 hour cycle
during the evening hours after the
lights are out and then leaving it off
during the day when the lights are on
this isn't something new it's been done
before
and i thought i'd give it a try here's
the skamate collection hose and i run
that down below to a large skamate
container that way i don't have to worry
about emptying it so often and all of it
goes right in there i'd like to add that
the skimmer is working extremely well
here's the higer pump i use for it
what's really cool about this pump is
it's super quiet you can't hear it and
it has a nice control knob on the side
so i can control the amount of air flow
that goes into the skimmer you can see i
put two registration marks there so i
know approximately where i'm going to be
each time i turn the pump on
these are brs dosing pumps and i'm
dosing 30 milliliters of each calcium
and alkalinity
over a period of a day i dose them
in the late evening and early morning as
you can see there on the left is the
calcium
tube and on the right is the alkalinity
tube in a high flow area i use two
little fishies c balance part a and b
and you mix this with
a quantity of rodi water filling it up
to the top
and you mix it up here's the dosing
containers
of calcium and alkalinity and they will
last three to six months depending on
the quantity that i put into the tank
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