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120g Acrylic Acropora Addiction (1 Viewer)

Specially when you have grown it from frags. Looks great and you should be proud
 
Looking great, as per usual Ben
 
reef junkie said:
I’m always amazed how you have been able to allow all those acros space to grow and be beautiful.
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Constant pruning and upgrades man!

I threw out a bowl of digitata a couple weeks ago, the acro frags at least people buy…
 
Added a forth MP40. I love the Tunze 6075 but it’s a real chore to get it in sync with the Vortechs for the flow pattern I want.

All 4 pumps are in corners pointing down the long pane, with each diagonal pump synced so u have an alternating “swirl” of the whole tank every 5 minutes
 
Behold, my custom decoupled shadowbox for my DoS pumps. Made with scrap plywood and a $1 piece padded carpet tile to absorb sound.

They are noisy so having them attached to the wall carries the resonant sound.

Only took me 4 years to get around to making it 😂

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I gave a thumbs up, but I’m not sure I should be “liking” pumps that are so loud that they require a sound deadening, floating shelf :)
 
Varig said:
I gave a thumbs up, but I’m not sure I should be “liking” pumps that are so loud that they require a sound deadening, floating shelf :)
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Dude, you’re not wrong! These are definitely a choice of reliability over noise, much like an AC return pump. This unit has been in service for four years doing AWC 1 gallon per day and the only maintenance I’ve had to do is change the heads once.
 
spsick said:
AWC 1 gallon per day
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How fast do you change your water out? I do about 3 gallons per day but over the course of 5 hours. When I set it to change faster, the pump definitely ran louder. I ended up using my backup as a regular doser. It runs relatively quiet in comparison because of the much lower dosing requirements.
 
spsick said:
Dude, you’re not wrong! These are definitely a choice of reliability over noise, much like an AC return pump. This unit has been in service for four years doing AWC 1 gallon per day and the only maintenance I’ve had to do is change the heads once.
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That’s a message I can like :). You know how I fully approve of robust equipment.
 
MistakesWereMade said:
How fast do you change your water out? I do about 3 gallons per day but over the course of 5 hours. When I set it to change faster, the pump definitely ran louder. I ended up using my backup as a regular doser. It runs relatively quiet in comparison because of the much lower dosing requirements.
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Mine runs 24hrs. Higher during the day and lower at night to mitigate the sound directly under my bed…
 
I have never experienced the older unit but I have the QD DOS I would definitely rate DOS higher in durability. Also when it comes to tubing even higher than Versa. Now I do have the 4 head Red Sea Doser I use for phosphate and mag ….don’t get me started on the controllability of it, so some reason it keeps dropping out of connection. Must not like my mesh network.
Plus 1 for DOS specially for AWC
 
asifiqbal2 said:
I have never experienced the older unit but I have the QD DOS I would definitely rate DOS higher in durability. Also when it comes to tubing even higher than Versa. Now I do have the 4 head Red Sea Doser I use for phosphate and mag ….don’t get me started on the controllability of it, so some reason it keeps dropping out of connection. Must not like my mesh network.
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Good to know! I should probably pony up and get a DOS QD, but I have a new in box regular DOS as a backup already haha

For all my other dosing I have a GHL doser 2.2 that I love. The best feature being a simple thing in the app that I enter how much product is in the container I filled and it alerts me before it’s empty. Come to think of it that sure ups the appeal of a GHL Maxi doser for AWC, but I hear they are just as loud as DoS.
 
I have a Maxi Doser, sometime I guess I could plug it in and see how noisy it is.
 
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