200G AGE inwall with fishroom
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Where did you get your dispaly built?<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15544986#post15544986 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GlassReef
You can get your Haywards at bulkreefsupply.com - great people to deal with and they usually have the best price.
I have a Gold Dart as my return and use 1.5" PVC for the overflow pipes. I couldn't find where you describe your overflow, but if it is at least 24" long I would suggest using the Herbie/Bean Animal design. Tried and true and absolutely silent and dependable. Here's a couple pics of mine to give you an idea of what I'm talking about:
The two pipes on the left are the return. Third from the left is the failsafe overflow. It only comes into play if something is wrong and the two main pipes are partially plugged. Second from the right is the full syphon overflow - it handels 90% of the water flowing to the sump. It has a valve with which you can fine tune the system. Then pipe on the right is the "open channel" overflow. It handels whatever the full syphon is not taking at any particular moment.
Here's a link to the original Bean Animal thread. It explains the whole concept in great detail:
Silent & Failsafe Overflow System
If you got an overflow that lends itself to this design, it's definitely the way to go. Can you tell I like it?
dipan
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Originally posted</a> by GlassReef
Looks very interesting. Mind giving a model number?
No problem at all ... it's a Tripp Lite APS750 power inverter and battery charger. I was looking all over the place and just found expensive UPS's designed for computers. This baby is just what many reefers need, IMO ...
It can attach it to any number of 12 volt batteries in parallel for power. Deep cycle marine batteries are perfect. While your AC line is live, it passes it on to your equipment as is and maintains charge on the batteries. When power drops below 75 to 105 volts (user determined) or over 135 to 145 volts, it switches to PWM sine wave power inverted from the car batteries. We need the sine wave simulation for our AC motor pumps. I just picked up a big deep cycle battery from autozone and a box to put it in. The battery's reserve capacity is 180 minutes ... meaning it will sustain a 25 amp load for that long before dying. I'll test it out when the system is finished to see how long it will run the return pump (Dart Gold). I'll have the above powerbar connected to it as well as the Profilux computer also. This way the whole system should have flow for I hope a couple or more hours.
I got it through Amazon for about $300 shipped and the battery was less than $100. This one is good for 750 watts +, but for a bigger system there is a 1250 watt + model.
dipan
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Thanks stealle ... I think it would be a good idea for them to stock the bulkheads also ... I will update the thread when I find out how long the inverter runs, but, by some calculations:
180 minutes reserve capacity is defined as how long the battery will run a 25 amp load.
Power = Voltage X Current
Power (in watts) = 12 X 25 = 300 watts
Reeflo Super Dart Gold consumes 165 watts average.
So if the battery will run 300 watts for 180 minutes (or 3 hours), then it should run 165 watts for 300/165 X 180 which is 327 minutes (or about 5.5 hours). Thats not bad at all and much more than I figure a comparatively little battery in a computer backup would run.
At least in theory, anyway
180 minutes reserve capacity is defined as how long the battery will run a 25 amp load.
Power = Voltage X Current
Power (in watts) = 12 X 25 = 300 watts
Reeflo Super Dart Gold consumes 165 watts average.
So if the battery will run 300 watts for 180 minutes (or 3 hours), then it should run 165 watts for 300/165 X 180 which is 327 minutes (or about 5.5 hours). Thats not bad at all and much more than I figure a comparatively little battery in a computer backup would run.
At least in theory, anyway
dipan
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Well, tank's apparently been done. I was supposed to get some pictures, but communication between my LFS and AGE is lacking. Oh well. I'm figuring it will just show up one day soon. Sump should also be done soon with a week or so.
I've been drilling holes in the nice new cabinets and in the walls of the nice new fishroom. Wish I had taken more pics before the drywall went up. I always seem to need an extra hole or two to find a good spot. Gotta get some of water lines run for the automation. I did plumb the 250 gallon RO and salt reservoirs together and attached a pump for recirculation. Some big peristaltics are going to do the actual pulling/pushing of water from the reservoir for ATO and AWC (Automatic Water Change):
Gotta grab a beer and get back to work. Things always seem to go smoother after a beer or two ...
I've been drilling holes in the nice new cabinets and in the walls of the nice new fishroom. Wish I had taken more pics before the drywall went up. I always seem to need an extra hole or two to find a good spot. Gotta get some of water lines run for the automation. I did plumb the 250 gallon RO and salt reservoirs together and attached a pump for recirculation. Some big peristaltics are going to do the actual pulling/pushing of water from the reservoir for ATO and AWC (Automatic Water Change):
Gotta grab a beer and get back to work. Things always seem to go smoother after a beer or two ...
dipan
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Thanks ... I am getting excited about the tank arrival. Still so much "stuff" to be done though.
Thanks ... I've still got to work on that drain setup. It's really hard to do without a tank or sump, but I'm thinking that it should work with 1.25" or maybe 1.5" drain lines. When the tank and sump are in place, I'm thinking of trying it out each way and see how much flow a single full sipon 1.25" and 1.5" drain can handle and then decide on the specific diameter. I'm now more confident that the drain setup itself will work ... I hope.
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Laid out a preliminary plan for the light rack today. Decided finally, after much thought, on a 400w metal halide pair for this almost 4ft wide tank, but very tall at 36". I was going to put a couple 39w T5 strips for dawn/dusk actinic effects, on each front and back. I know it's not much, but when those halides kick in it will be BRIGHT. Or so I hope. I've decided that I want to try to keep mostly SPS with some LPS/soft corals. I want to try to grow some large colonies of nice corals. As a side benefit, this will allow me to have some butterflyfish and maybe angelfish in addition to the nice tangs available.
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For water changes, I decided to go a little DIY. Water will be pumped out via the above listed peristaltic once a day. At 600mL/minute, that pump works pretty quickly and fairly quietly. The regular non-DIY available options, at least as I saw them, were Spectrapure's Litermeter 3 and a ReefFiller. The former does 250mL/minute and is pretty quiet, from what I gather. The latter can do 30 gallons/day, which is only about 80mL/minute, and is quite noisy. I just wasn't sure that the Litermeter could be controlled well with an external controller as it seems to have its own built in programming/logic.
So I created this. The box is just some nice quality pine, painted for water resistance. The pumps are from automatedaquarium and can each do 600mL/minute! Now they are not silent, but are consistent, reliable, and I can get replacement tubing from them no problem. I wouldn't be surprised if it's just one of APT Instruments peristaltics, in which case I can probably just get replacement tubing from them.
Now, it flows more than twice the max rate of the Litermeter, and way more than the ReefFiller. I'm sure it's quieter than the latter, but is probably slightly noisier than the former, but will have to run for less than half the time.
I'm planning about 5 gallon water changes daily, which is, in effect, a continuous small percentage water change (probably about 1% daily). The first peristaltic will drain 5 gallons from the system. I will time this and calibrate it to 5 gallons so I know how long to run it. The second will put 5 gallons back from a premixed container of saltwater. The third is basically backup. Because, you know, stuff happens ...
So I created this. The box is just some nice quality pine, painted for water resistance. The pumps are from automatedaquarium and can each do 600mL/minute! Now they are not silent, but are consistent, reliable, and I can get replacement tubing from them no problem. I wouldn't be surprised if it's just one of APT Instruments peristaltics, in which case I can probably just get replacement tubing from them.
Now, it flows more than twice the max rate of the Litermeter, and way more than the ReefFiller. I'm sure it's quieter than the latter, but is probably slightly noisier than the former, but will have to run for less than half the time.
I'm planning about 5 gallon water changes daily, which is, in effect, a continuous small percentage water change (probably about 1% daily). The first peristaltic will drain 5 gallons from the system. I will time this and calibrate it to 5 gallons so I know how long to run it. The second will put 5 gallons back from a premixed container of saltwater. The third is basically backup. Because, you know, stuff happens ...
