300 gallon shipwreck
- Thread starter HarrsCars
- Start date
Lets see if I can put a update to this thread on my tank. It is a little embarassing to not keep your thread up to date. Apologies to all. So today 11-4-2008. Tank has been running for 7ths 3days. Yep I filled it on Aprils fools days. It will be a easy date to remember. I will load a couple of pics and see if I can update some more.
See if I remember how to do this.
Tank side from the bedroom.
Left side of tank from the kitchen.
Right side of tank from the kitchen.
Boss of the tank. PITA in my book. But shes pretty.
Some coral in the tank.
Firechief thanks for the restart. I will do my best to keep it going.
Mike
See if I remember how to do this.
Tank side from the bedroom.
Left side of tank from the kitchen.
Right side of tank from the kitchen.
Boss of the tank. PITA in my book. But shes pretty.
Some coral in the tank.
Firechief thanks for the restart. I will do my best to keep it going.
Mike
nemonick84
New member
What happened to the sunken ship theme? I don't see it...
Well after lighting the tank with one 400 watt I had so much bleed out on the light it did not look the way I intended it to. I also had so much rock it was kinda weird not using it for the corals. I thought the tank would get unbalanced so I pulled it out. It was a pain putting it in there put it was WAY WORSE getting it out. So then I aquamend all the rocks together and put acrylic rods on the rocks to lift them about 3 inches off the sand. So now all the rockwork is glued together and lifted off the sandbase to not have any dead spots in the sand base. See if I can post a pic of it.
I built my rockwork on the stand so I knew what would fit in the tank.
So no sorry I think if I had a 10ft or 12ft tank the ship would work but not in our 7 footer.
But todays special buy was a nice one.
I got him at the Petco in Wenatchee Wa. Yes at Petco thier store super clean and nice salt selection. And only 37.99 what a deal.
More to follow
Mike
I built my rockwork on the stand so I knew what would fit in the tank.
So no sorry I think if I had a 10ft or 12ft tank the ship would work but not in our 7 footer.
But todays special buy was a nice one.
I got him at the Petco in Wenatchee Wa. Yes at Petco thier store super clean and nice salt selection. And only 37.99 what a deal.
More to follow
Mike
Well he is moving to the sand as we speak. Hoping he likes the spot I gave him so he dont mow any corals, but we will see!!
Pics from tank earlier this evening
Looking for my new camera for christmas so I can take some really good pictures instead of these cruddy ones.
Happy reefing
Mike
Pics from tank earlier this evening
Looking for my new camera for christmas so I can take some really good pictures instead of these cruddy ones.
Happy reefing
Mike
Today's update.
We had a major snafu at work and did not have a bid bond ready for a job bidding today. So I had to meet the fed ex guy at the plane station where overnight items came in and grab it. It just happened that I had a Blue Zoo order coming in overnight to. Never ordered corals overnight so I was hesitant to say the least. IT LOOKS GREAT.
Awesome stuff just like the picture could not have asked for a better representation of product. Look at these pics.
Everything looks great. Now the burden shall be with me for thier survival.
Later
Mike
We had a major snafu at work and did not have a bid bond ready for a job bidding today. So I had to meet the fed ex guy at the plane station where overnight items came in and grab it. It just happened that I had a Blue Zoo order coming in overnight to. Never ordered corals overnight so I was hesitant to say the least. IT LOOKS GREAT.
Awesome stuff just like the picture could not have asked for a better representation of product. Look at these pics.
Everything looks great. Now the burden shall be with me for thier survival.
Later
Mike
You know your thread is old when you dont remember what you put up for pics or where you left off. I will just say if I was reading this thread I would be confused as all get out. I hope you overlook my timeframe it took me to get this done. I am a crappy thread keeper lets just say that.
Overgreen - This update is for you. The lift on the bedroom side works great. The linear is smooth it stops perfectly every time. The only issue is how I try to run it up and down. I have bought two remote control relay switches. Only to burn them both up. Some stupid guy wired wrong or did something weird and they both smoked (oh that stupid guy is me) So right now its just worked off the power supply. The downstairs room is done. Just needing cleaning attention and details. Pics to follow.
Excavation under the house was to say the least. Humiliating. A good idea gone wrong. But nonetheless we did it. Final excavation was about 11' by 11' by about 48" deep. All caliche soil and about 30 to 40 rocks 200 to 400 pounds. I bribed every friend my son had to help. Most lasted about 4 times except for Tyler he stayed to the end.
Hole got cut in the floor for the man lift to get me to the fishroom.
This is the view looking straight up.
We sliced a 10" sewer pipe in half and attached it to the hole and supported it on the formwork to get concrete downstairs. All concrete was wheelbarrowed in the house and down the hole. 9 yards in all.
I took the top of the formwork put it 4" above dirt level and moved the walls out 30" to 36" this gave me a finished room on the shelf of about 15' by 15' and a floor of about 10' by 10'.
Lift was built and all was welded in just before the concrete pour so the bottom section was poured in the concrete.
Pic is day after pour taking the chute down.
Forms down ready for walls and tile.
We dug and buried a five gallon bucket for a sump pump to get rid of waste water. Pushes right to sewer line above bucket.
Cont.
Overgreen - This update is for you. The lift on the bedroom side works great. The linear is smooth it stops perfectly every time. The only issue is how I try to run it up and down. I have bought two remote control relay switches. Only to burn them both up. Some stupid guy wired wrong or did something weird and they both smoked (oh that stupid guy is me) So right now its just worked off the power supply. The downstairs room is done. Just needing cleaning attention and details. Pics to follow.
Excavation under the house was to say the least. Humiliating. A good idea gone wrong. But nonetheless we did it. Final excavation was about 11' by 11' by about 48" deep. All caliche soil and about 30 to 40 rocks 200 to 400 pounds. I bribed every friend my son had to help. Most lasted about 4 times except for Tyler he stayed to the end.
Hole got cut in the floor for the man lift to get me to the fishroom.
This is the view looking straight up.
We sliced a 10" sewer pipe in half and attached it to the hole and supported it on the formwork to get concrete downstairs. All concrete was wheelbarrowed in the house and down the hole. 9 yards in all.
I took the top of the formwork put it 4" above dirt level and moved the walls out 30" to 36" this gave me a finished room on the shelf of about 15' by 15' and a floor of about 10' by 10'.
Lift was built and all was welded in just before the concrete pour so the bottom section was poured in the concrete.
Pic is day after pour taking the chute down.
Forms down ready for walls and tile.
We dug and buried a five gallon bucket for a sump pump to get rid of waste water. Pushes right to sewer line above bucket.
Cont.
Cont.
Form boards were within 1" to use for my walls so we pulled them off painted them to seal them up and put them on the top to make the four walls for the room.
One wall is my foundation to the house which we tied our concrete pour into.
Little electrical and a sub-panel wired in from the main panel.
Insulation in the walls.
Osb sheeting put up and all tied together.
Behind the lift we even got the walls up in good fashion.
Pictures as of today
What do you think?????
Thanks for reading
Mike
Form boards were within 1" to use for my walls so we pulled them off painted them to seal them up and put them on the top to make the four walls for the room.
One wall is my foundation to the house which we tied our concrete pour into.
Little electrical and a sub-panel wired in from the main panel.
Insulation in the walls.
Osb sheeting put up and all tied together.
Behind the lift we even got the walls up in good fashion.
Pictures as of today
What do you think?????
Thanks for reading
Mike
FLAMAANGEL
New member
freaking cool, thats a huge project!!! wow
Similar threads
