I purchased my RSM 500 in Oct of 2012, received the goods and slowly assembled the unit. I only have weekends to work on it since I travel during the week.
I find that manually fitting the screws on the aluminum frame is better than any power tool. I stripped a couple of heads before switching over to hand tools only.
During the assembly, one Light micro switch was inoperative, RS sent me a replacement. chewed up a week waiting. One o-ring on the sump pump was missing. waited a week there. The sump pump was defective not enough pressure and waited another week for replacement.
Purchased 180 lbs Caribsea live sand, 135 lbs premium Fiji live rocks (90 lbs were large size, 45 lbs med), and 35 lbs Fiji foundation rocks (these rocks were pretty nice, much cheaper) total of 180 lbs sand and 170 lbs rocks.
I cycled with a couple of shrimps (did not missed it during a meal). Had it run for 6 weeks before adding the cleaners.
Pics to come. If I can figure out how to add them to the post.
Tom
I find that manually fitting the screws on the aluminum frame is better than any power tool. I stripped a couple of heads before switching over to hand tools only.
During the assembly, one Light micro switch was inoperative, RS sent me a replacement. chewed up a week waiting. One o-ring on the sump pump was missing. waited a week there. The sump pump was defective not enough pressure and waited another week for replacement.
Purchased 180 lbs Caribsea live sand, 135 lbs premium Fiji live rocks (90 lbs were large size, 45 lbs med), and 35 lbs Fiji foundation rocks (these rocks were pretty nice, much cheaper) total of 180 lbs sand and 170 lbs rocks.
I cycled with a couple of shrimps (did not missed it during a meal). Had it run for 6 weeks before adding the cleaners.
Pics to come. If I can figure out how to add them to the post.
Tom
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