I'm setting up another 58 gallon reef ready tank to try my hand with a planted tank. Got a great deal on another 58 RR I could not pass up.
I'm going to do pressurized CO2 injection. Still buying all the necessary equipment so I wanted to ask now before I finish buying.
I'm going to utilize the fact the tank is reef ready (hide all my equipment under the tank). How do you recommend I inject the CO2 into my tank? I'm going to put a wet/dry under the tank, drain from the tank overflow and return it with a Mag 5 pump. Heaters will be located in the wet/dry (again, to keep equipment out of sight).
I was thinking about purchasing an AquaMedic Reactor 1000 and using a MJ1200 in the wet/dry to feed water to the reactor/mix the CO2 and return it directly to the tank. Since the overflow box has 2 "knock outs" I was going to return the wet/dry (filtered) water though 1 and the CO2 injected water though the other.
As for lighting, I have a 36" 192 watt PC Coralife fixture. 10K bulb and a 6700 bulb.
I realize using a wet/dry I'll lose some of my CO2, but I really like the look of my aquariums when all the filtration/equipment is out of sight and figure since I am using pressurized CO2 I may be able to make up for some of this loss?
Anyone want to chime in here and give me your thoughts/suggestions on my plan? Or even throw your own ideas out there.
I'm going to do pressurized CO2 injection. Still buying all the necessary equipment so I wanted to ask now before I finish buying.
I'm going to utilize the fact the tank is reef ready (hide all my equipment under the tank). How do you recommend I inject the CO2 into my tank? I'm going to put a wet/dry under the tank, drain from the tank overflow and return it with a Mag 5 pump. Heaters will be located in the wet/dry (again, to keep equipment out of sight).
I was thinking about purchasing an AquaMedic Reactor 1000 and using a MJ1200 in the wet/dry to feed water to the reactor/mix the CO2 and return it directly to the tank. Since the overflow box has 2 "knock outs" I was going to return the wet/dry (filtered) water though 1 and the CO2 injected water though the other.
As for lighting, I have a 36" 192 watt PC Coralife fixture. 10K bulb and a 6700 bulb.
I realize using a wet/dry I'll lose some of my CO2, but I really like the look of my aquariums when all the filtration/equipment is out of sight and figure since I am using pressurized CO2 I may be able to make up for some of this loss?
Anyone want to chime in here and give me your thoughts/suggestions on my plan? Or even throw your own ideas out there.