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Raul R Badillo
11/14/2014, 07:55 PM
Hello my name is Raul Badillo, just thought I would share my 220g reef build I started in May of 2014. It consists of a perfecto 220 with a 75g sump drywalled into my basement wall. RO xs200 skimmer, Cal and Alk doser 2part, DA reefkeeper elite with 7 pc4, net module, sl1, sl2, salinity, temp, alk probes. I run three Chinese LED blackboxes. 1 wp60 flow pump. I will post a few pictures after a little while as I gotta run and tear down a 125 lol. BRB

Raul R Badillo
11/15/2014, 01:22 PM
This is the wall where my tank is now. This is when I first moved into my house

http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s679/raulbadillo/6_zps175dc196.jpg (http://s1311.photobucket.com/user/raulbadillo/media/6_zps175dc196.jpg.html)

Raul R Badillo
11/15/2014, 01:28 PM
Scoping things out before construction

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tore the wall out and started on the skeleton
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Raul R Badillo
11/15/2014, 03:03 PM
heres it now. been running since june. the texture is getting done as I type.

http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s679/raulbadillo/October%2029%202014%20reef%20pics/IMG_20141030_005301_zps71f952ed.jpg (http://s1311.photobucket.com/user/raulbadillo/media/October%2029%202014%20reef%20pics/IMG_20141030_005301_zps71f952ed.jpg.html)

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Raul R Badillo
11/15/2014, 03:03 PM
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clipper
11/15/2014, 04:12 PM
Got pics? Welcome to the forums

Raul R Badillo
11/15/2014, 05:12 PM
are the pics not showing up? I see them. I just copy and pasted the url from photobucket.

kegogut
11/15/2014, 05:40 PM
No pics~

Raul R Badillo
11/16/2014, 12:02 AM
ok how do I add pics? I logged off and logged on and my pics are showing when I look at this thread. I must be doing something wrong

kegogut
11/16/2014, 12:41 AM
I use photobucket.

dc
11/16/2014, 06:05 AM
[moved]

kegogut
11/16/2014, 08:22 AM
I can see the pics now. Looks good.

Brinkfish312
11/16/2014, 06:27 PM
That's beautiful!

Brinkfish312
11/16/2014, 06:28 PM
And welcome [emoji1]

jasonb87
11/16/2014, 09:20 PM
Nice work and tank

Raul R Badillo
11/16/2014, 09:47 PM
Thank you. its a fun tank. love having the room behind it for the sump and water change station. I did a 60g water change in 10 min today. Had to dose flatworm exit as I got an infestation but its clear. in a week I will dose again to be sure I got them all.

Raul R Badillo
11/16/2014, 09:52 PM
http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s679/raulbadillo/220g/IMG_20141110_035451_zpsa0eeswhi.jpg (http://s1311.photobucket.com/user/raulbadillo/media/220g/IMG_20141110_035451_zpsa0eeswhi.jpg.html)

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My sump room and water change station. I always have 29g of mixed salt on hand. Finally found good use for my 2nd wp60. Took one out of my display as two of them was way too much. I just run one on wave mode. Other is in my bottom 29 always mixing salt haha.

Raul R Badillo
11/16/2014, 09:55 PM
http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s679/raulbadillo/220g/IMG_20141110_035349_zps083e4mfc.jpg (http://s1311.photobucket.com/user/raulbadillo/media/220g/IMG_20141110_035349_zps083e4mfc.jpg.html)

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Raul R Badillo
11/16/2014, 09:58 PM
I was skeptical on the Chinese black boxes as im a halide guy but im getting good color and growth on all sps and lps. especially my tenius...fast grower but exploded after being under these.

CrookedStick
11/16/2014, 11:48 PM
Very cool! Would love rose more pictures

TrueTrini
11/17/2014, 07:39 PM
I also have the Chinese led boxes 3 x 165, nice tank , may try some sps soon, keep up the pics and posts

ireef86
11/17/2014, 09:58 PM
Looks great Raul!

Raul R Badillo
11/18/2014, 12:12 AM
hey thanks guys. say advice. It looks like I got fin rot on one of my tangs. Next on this list is a hospital tank. Another 29G I think. My question is. Any recommendations on what to use for fin rot? I will have to dose the whole system I believe.

dave.m
11/18/2014, 02:55 AM
Not likely fin rot. Fin rot is a secondary infection to a bite wound. Probably someone else in the tank is attacking your tang.

Dave.M

Raul R Badillo
11/21/2014, 08:10 PM
Thank you Dave. Hes a LARGE D sailfin tang and is king of the reef as far I can tell. No one messes with it. lets say hes the size of a half dollar coin and the rest of the tangs and fish are the size of nickels......you get my drift yea. Any ways I never did dose and the fins look better so im just gonna let it be.

Raul R Badillo
11/21/2014, 08:15 PM
Another thing. Ok so I dose ALK Calc and Mag 2 part. I am going to buy a 10G petco tank and I am going to mix Kalk in this tank only being I acquired the larger BRS dosing pump. not the normal 2 part one but the one for topping off evaporated water. Anyways, I need suggestions on where to start in terms of how much to dose and how long to run the pump. I do have 80 percent sps and its full but the corals are small colonies yet only a few months old. id say 2 or 3 inch colonies. some larger but mostly these frag like colonies. How ofter should I run the pump/doser. Its controlled by a RKE.

dave.m
11/22/2014, 03:09 AM
You have to start with regular measurements of the water parameters daily for a week or two (and not at feeding time when you briefly change the water parameters). Do you even need to dose yet? Only when you see the measurements going down daily by a regular amount can you begin to calculate how much your tank needs. Each tank is different so there is no one pat answer for everyone.

Once you get a handle one the needs of your particular system you can begin to determine how much it will need per day and try to break that down into several doses per day so as not to shock the tank. Sudden increases are very hard on invertebrates.

Dave.M

Raul R Badillo
11/22/2014, 01:33 PM
ok daily testing it is. Im doing a 20G a week water changes now as you are right, they more than likely are not depleting the minerals as quickly. I feed heavy as I have ALOT of tangs and they need their food. In terms of bioload I should do prolly 60G a week but nitrates are not detectable and phosphates barely detected via Hannah and manual test. I test once a month manually to make sure the Hannah is dialed in. I think I will meet in the middle and do a 40G a week change from now on. I use Reefcrystals as I get them for 30 bucks a 200G box and I cant beat that price. I really wish I could use the seachem brand called salinity as I hear its superb but my supplier doesn't get that

hlaalu
11/22/2014, 01:46 PM
Is that a bar next to the tank? Sweet man cave!

Raul R Badillo
06/22/2015, 06:04 PM
so my tank had been doing sooo so good since my last post. Its growing quite well and I got rid of ALOT of frogspawn. like 80 heads worth and got a nice in store credit at the LFS so I got quite a few sps frags. I lost a few as its been a couple of months but the ones that didn't cave in are beautiful and I have them on the bottom of the tank so they are so coloring up. I will post pics in a few hours. Gotta go take a few.

Raul R Badillo
08/31/2015, 09:47 PM
A little update. I don't have pics currently but I will take some and post up. This month is my one year anniversary. No deaths, all leathers gone, no nems, no clowns, all sps and started kalk this month with no more 2 part dosing. Havent seen any cyano or anything normal I have encountered with past builds on the one year mark. My ph is a very steady 8.3 to 8.4.

once I started kalk and dumped the 2part it has lowered to a steady 7.99 to 8.1. I am currently tracking the ph via my RKE graphing/logging of the ph and tweaking the doses of kalk to keep it more stable ect. I am only dosing a minutes worth of kalk. in other words the 3 L/H brs pump runs for one minute total in 24 hours MTWTF nothing on the weekends as were home more and the kids are home so the ph fluctuates a little more

Raul R Badillo
09/10/2015, 08:11 PM
Well this month marks my one year anniversary of my tank. WOW how time flies. I am charging the camera and I will upload some pics in about an hour. A few things I have changed, first I got rid of all but two leathers. I am 97 percent sps/lps except a green nepthia, bluish purple leather, and a rock full of pulsing xenia which I will eradicate soon.
I also stopped doing 2 part and am doing Kalk. I will use the two part once the kalk doesn't do enough. 1st as a supplemental then as time comes, a calcium reactor. My opinion of the ebay Chinese blackboxes.... I was a halide guy prior and now I will Mars Aqua everything. My sps all have grown. I will take pics so you see the distance between the water and the boxes. Its about two feet off the water. Sps on the bottom really color up!. All sps have grown and are coloring up with the additional help of nutrient control and feeding. I still roll one wp60 but might put the other one in now that my tank is growing and more flow might be demanded. The wp60 has been running NON STOP for a year in my mixing tank. No hassles. Dependable. Reliable. Satisfied customer for sure here. My reefkeeper is rocking this tank flawlessly and no issues. I hear apex this over the DA products but I believe both do the exact same thing and its like a FORD VS CHEVY debate. I have never owned a apex but im sure I will like it if I did like I like my rke. I do like the pc4 over the energybar 8 for my particular setup though. This tank is a major success in my opinion. Didn't experience any of the 1st year scenarios like cyano, tank crashes, ect. This tank makes reefing seem easy. Pics up in a hour!

Raul R Badillo
09/10/2015, 08:42 PM
my sump room
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Raul R Badillo
09/10/2015, 08:46 PM
a few tank shots
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Raul R Badillo
09/10/2015, 08:50 PM
and more
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Raul R Badillo
09/10/2015, 08:54 PM
and more
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Raul R Badillo
09/10/2015, 09:02 PM
and more
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Raul R Badillo
09/10/2015, 09:05 PM
more
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Raul R Badillo
09/10/2015, 09:07 PM
lol
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Raul R Badillo
09/10/2015, 09:09 PM
and more
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Raul R Badillo
09/10/2015, 09:12 PM
more pics
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Raul R Badillo
09/10/2015, 09:16 PM
a lot of pics!!!!
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Raul R Badillo
09/10/2015, 09:18 PM
more pics
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Raul R Badillo
09/10/2015, 09:21 PM
you asked for em
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okay! I just did 60 pics on this forum and on my home club forums built thread. my fingers feel great!

ace_92101
09/11/2015, 03:24 AM
Nice to see the SPS growth. I had a question on your skimmer. Do you have any issues having a high waterline in your sump? Thanks.

Raul R Badillo
09/11/2015, 10:52 AM
No. The waterline is set to tje size of the baffles of the glass... i have a stand under the skimmer that sets it at 8inches of height which according to reef octo is optimmal for this skimmer. Its a xs200 before diablo came out. Psk1000 pump i believe

Raul R Badillo
09/12/2015, 01:12 PM
im thinking of adding three more of the fixtures cause theyre cheap enough to do. 300.00 and bam. your guys thoughts?

Raul R Badillo
09/15/2015, 05:20 PM
ok I have a issue I need advice on. I do water changes daily. For some reason I cant polish up my water. its always slightly cloudy. I don't over feed. I run carbon and gfo. Can alk calc and mag have any responsibility for this?

kegogut
09/15/2015, 07:17 PM
ok I have a issue I need advice on. I do water changes daily. For some reason I cant polish up my water. its always slightly cloudy. I don't over feed. I run carbon and gfo. Can alk calc and mag have any responsibility for this?

How long has the tank been running? You might want to do water changes only once a week or every other.

What are your parameters? Are your No3 and Po4 high? If not you dont need to be doing water changes that often.

Raul R Badillo
09/19/2015, 05:57 PM
tank is a year old. I replenish my water daily for mag calc and alk purposes. my No3 and No4 are not traceable. Its just kinda cloudy. if I run mad carbon it will clear up but after a week it returns to cloudy. its weird. like a girls time of the month lol. it comes and goes.

Raul R Badillo
11/30/2016, 10:31 PM
its been almost a year since i have posted on RC. I think i should post up more. Things have changed. Tank is doing amazing and i upgraded sumps. ill take pics and post em.

worm5406
12/01/2016, 03:52 PM
Great to hear that.

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