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Been a lot going on with the tank. I got a some frags the day after I posted in this thread last. I had them in a frag rack until I figured out where I wanted them. Finally came up with a spot for everything and epoxied them all in. The next day my neighbor gave me 3 more so I found a spot for them and got them epoxied for a total of 13 new fags. My skimmer was going nuts from all the epoxy so after a couple of days, I did a big water change and put a bunch of carbon in the tank. The skimmer has finally started to settle back down.

Right before I did the water change, a had an alkalinity swing and lost one of the frags. I started looking at Alkalinity monitors/controllers since the Trident is never available. I have seen the GHL KH Guardian in it has been and seems promising but everywhere I checked says it has been discontinued. Then I found the KH Director that GHL offeres and decided to go that route. After looking at all of the GHL P4 features, I decided to convert from Apex to GHL. Doing that is going to be a slow process because Im not going to remove the Apex until I get the P4 completely taken over everything I have the Apex doing now.

I added that large C02 scrubber a few weeks back and I saw a little bit of a bump in my PH, but nothing substantial. While the skimmer was going crazy, I decided to take the scrubber off and see if anything changed and saw nothing. I was about to write off that idea; I tool the housing apart and had gotten water in it. Long story short, it was blocked. I put some new media in it and within a couple hours I took it back off. My PH went from 8.1 to 8.35 and was still climbing. This worked a little too well. If I continue to use it, I will need to get an electric valve to be able to control the air air source feeding the skimmer.

As of today, all the corals are doing well. I got a descent video of the tank yesterday, need to figure out how to upload it.
Post it to YouTube then link it here.
 
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I got the GHL screen mounted on the wall today.
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Feel like making another mesh top? Looks nice lol


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Been busy the last couple of days. I built a cabinet to go next to the tank. Most of the GHL stuff is going in there.


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I decided to build a mesh top for the tank. I got most of it done today, need to make up a couple brackets and it will be done.


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How thick of acrylic did you use for those? I was thinking about doing the same eventually, but I was planning on using 1/2” and it’s not terribly cheap.
 

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I dont think it will be a problem. The Kessils are directly above the mesh 12 inches from the water.

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Yeah, you should be fine. I had a solid sheet of 1/4” over my tank while we were redoing our tile and my t5s caused some bowing pretty quickly. That’s why I was thinking about using 1/2” for my tank whenever I decide to go that route.
 
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The valve I ordered to use with my co2 scrubber got here and I got a bracket made up so I can mount it. I'll probably get it installed and programmed tomorrow.

I should have most of my GHL stuff at the beginning of the week but the second powerbar is coming from Germany so its probably another week behind everything else.

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In anticipation of the GHL change over, I swapped my cor20 apex pump for an eotech m2. I thought I was going to have to use it as an external pump but it actually fit in the same place. I added some piping to use as a return manifold.

Most of the GHL stuff is here and been working on getting everything swapped. The kh director is controlling the kalk, the p4 is controlling the mp40s, my ato switches are going, and the lights are set on schedule and dimming. I'm still working on my float switch for the skimmer. So far, I'm really liking the GHL.


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I have now removed the kalk stirrer and the KH Director is controlling my dosing. All of the float switches are working as they are supposed to. I still have another power par coming so once that is here the change from Apex to GHL will be done. The next project after the holidays will be automating and controlling (as much as possible) my mixing barrels and RODI.

Here is a screen shot from the GHL.

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I have now removed the kalk stirrer and the KH Director is controlling my dosing. All of the float switches are working as they are supposed to. I still have another power par coming so once that is here the change from Apex to GHL will be done. The next project after the holidays will be automating and controlling (as much as possible) my mixing barrels and RODI.

Here is a screen shot from the GHL.

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How many days does it take to dial in so that the director is controlling the dosing?
 
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How many days does it take to dial in so that the director is controlling the dosing?

I got the KHD up and running within about an hour which included calibrating the pumps and the ph probe. Part of the setup is establishing a dkh value you want your tank to run at.

Once the KHD is measuring (you set how many times a day you want it to test) and then you allow it to take over the dosing and it will dose and make corrections to the dosing schedule as needed to maintain your set dkh value.

You could have everything going in an hour or two, I watched the measuring for a couple of days (only measuring) and then felt confident to let it adjust the dosing. The first day it was dosing, I was watching it every hour but it has within .2 dkh ( .1 above or .1 below my set value).

If you are already using a dosing pump, its very simple.
 
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I was down to 5 anthias and noticed one looked like it was almost a different color. Started looking closer at it and its fins are starting to grow and are very dark. I believe this one is changing to male. I decided to add 4 more females and now there is a second one of the originals that is doing the same thing. Not sure how it will work out if 2 change to male.

I am still waiting on my second power bar from GHL. Its has been back ordered coming from Germany and was supposed to be shipped from GHL USA on Monday but the Holiday probably delayed it some. I was able to get an older one from some one selling one locally. I got it put in and all wired up. I now have everything that was on the Apex on the GHL P4 and so far i'm really liking it. I have my dkh set at 8.4 and I never see more than .1 dkh above or below that.

When the power bar gets here, I will swap it out with this one and this one will go in the laundry room to control the mixing barrel pump and the RODI solenoid valve. The only thing I will have to do for that is run the RJ45 cable and set up the outlets.


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I was down to 5 anthias and noticed one looked like it was almost a different color. Started looking closer at it and its fins are starting to grow and are very dark. I believe this one is changing to male. I decided to add 4 more females and now there is a second one of the originals that is doing the same thing. Not sure how it will work out if 2 change to male.

I am still waiting on my second power bar from GHL. Its has been back ordered coming from Germany and was supposed to be shipped from GHL USA on Monday but the Holiday probably delayed it some. I was able to get an older one from some one selling one locally. I got it put in and all wired up. I now have everything that was on the Apex on the GHL P4 and so far i'm really liking it. I have my dkh set at 8.4 and I never see more than .1 dkh above or below that.

When the power bar gets here, I will swap it out with this one and this one will go in the laundry room to control the mixing barrel pump and the RODI solenoid valve. The only thing I will have to do for that is run the RJ45 cable and set up the outlets.


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I need to get some type of organization with my wires. Yours looks nice.
 
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