240 gal build thread

samurai reef

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OK guys and gals, just wanted you to know that after much pestering from Scott at Exotic Tropicals I will be posting pics soon for my 240 gal reef system. Much progress has been made in the past few weeks and we will be putting water into the system very soon (right Scott?). The system is shaping up very nicely with 300 gal sump and control room complete. We actually tested sump plumbing last night and everything looks good with the exception of a minor leak at one of the bulkheads. We will fix that in the next day or so. Saltwater reservoir/mixing container works great and new RO/DI unit is installed.
Bear with me, pics will be posted soon.
 
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Hi samurai reef!

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Looking foward to your 240 build!
 
Where are the pic's? We need the stinking pic's.:D
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Welcome to SCMAS, looking forward to seeing your set up. Make sure you say hi in the intro sticky thread and maybe even the mugshot thread.
 
Glad to see you make it here finally.
I can't wait to see pics, especially of the control room and the fragging station :)
Chris
 
That’s right; I hope to have the system fully functional by this Sunday. Water tested, drained and filling with five stage RO/DI. Then get the sand in the tank, add some salt and start adding live rock. Hey….. I’ll have my 180 back (right Bob)…. LOL wow, what am I going to do with all of that space.:D
 
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Small up date. The plumbing is done… finally hooray!!! The Reeflo hammerhead moves some serious water, it filled the tank in right around a minute. However the 240 will need more flow as time goes by. Calvin415 is building the over flow covers and a filter sock tray as soon as they are done we are adding the sand and refilling the tank with 5 stage RO/DI that the Max Cap-90 has been working overtime getting the sump and water change reservoir filled back up. So we are just a couple of weeks or less from adding rock and some livestock….. yeah!!!

P.S. Bob needs help getting some pic's posted. Some one please send him a PM with directions for photo bucket.

Thank you Scott
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10199598#post10199598 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by aquaman2000
Some one please send him a PM with directions for photo bucket.

Thank you Scott
You'll need to create a Photobucket account if you already haven't done so.

Next you need to take the pictures and download them to a directory in your computer.

Sing on to Photobucket and look for the Upload box near the top of the page. Click on the browse button and go find one of the pic's on your computer and click it's filename. This will load the address of the pic into photobucket. You can click on the browse buttons three times before you need to click on the add more button this will let you upload more than 3 pic's. I've found photobucket to be kind of slow or maybe it's just my computer.

Once you've selected the pic's you want to upload then click on the upload button and go find something else to do for a few minutes. When all the pic's have been uploaded to your Photobucket account you will see them there with a:
URL Link and a
HTML Link and a
IMG Code Link.

You need to click on the IMG Code link in the yellow box next to it and it will copy it to your notepad. Here's an example what it will look like:

[IMG)http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w92/Huhhhhh2/DSC04165.jpg/(IMG]

I changed a couple of bracket to the text would show instead of the pic, but you get the point.

These are what you copy into your post's to make a picture appear.

I've found it easier to open up an e-mail and copy all the pic's I want to post in an E-mail and write what I want about them. Spell check it and arrange it however works best then copy it all and post it in a RC Post or Reply. Preview the reply or post and see if the pic's are in the order you want before you submit the reply.

Good luck, Let me know how it works.

Tim
 
Tim,

Thank you for posting the pic posting thread and reply here, Bob will be back in town Saturday the 7th and I plan on getting the system running and start moveing his live rock and corals into the new system after the weekend. Pic's will be coming soon. Scott
 
drilling the floor for the sump
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holes drilled.....(holy three holy) LOL
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Here is some pics, sorry it took so long. More to come soon.
 
The system is now running, and Bob is coming to get his live rock and live stock from my 180 later today.

Congratulations Bob!!!!!!
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10350053#post10350053 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by aquaman2000
The system is now running, and Bob is coming to get his live rock and live stock from my 180 later today.

Congratulations Bob!!!!!!
Need more pic's.
 
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