5.56 225 Peninsula reboot

[ycnibrc]

Looking good however u have to take this apart in a month to move inside the house? Maybe Don't hook up everything

 

[five.five-six]

Looking good however u have to take this apart in a month to move inside the house? Maybe Don't hook up everything

I'm setting up the plumbing so that I can take it compleatly apart from the tank without cutting anything.

5.56wife will feel a lot better about it after she has seen it full of water without leaking for a few weeks.

Just want the return pump running with a vingar solution for a week or two, clean what little crusties are in the tank.


Trying to decide if I go BB or sand... decisions, decisions!

 

[ycnibrc]

If u have sand u will have cyano red algae. Certain wrasse don't need sand to burry. If your tank is Sps dominate then BB is best because u don't go crazy try to position the power head not to blow the sand. I have bold spot all over my tank and I give up try to fix it.

 

[pga7602]

I've gone back.. and forth... over and over again....

This is the longest I've been without said. I miss all the activities to watch on the sand bed, but now I get to place whatever I want on the sandbed and not have to worry. It's been almost a year... and I'm not tempted to put the sand back at all.

 

[solitude127]

Sand for me.

 

[Charless]

I have no sand and I have actually enjoyed the BB.


Charles


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[five.five-six]

I’ve had my diamondback for a year.....

 

[five.five-six]

Interesting night last night. I ended up with a M1 vectra, thank you Cody for the hookup!!! Anyway, that pump is awesome. I stayed up to 3AM messing with it and once I figured it out it made the tank overflow and return all but silent if I closed off the Durso breather hose. Just dialed the pump up to the Durso's siphon rate and it went silent.

Being to lazy to get a valve to close off the breather tube, I just stuck behind a tunze in the main DT

thrilled with my new silent setup, I shut it off and went to bed. and slept for a few hours while the 1/4" breather tube back siphoned about 4" of water out of the DT in to the sump which overflowed and filled the stand base which leaked because as it turns out, alex+ kitchen and bath turns to mush when submersed. and water got under the paint and pealed the paint off and ruined the wood.

This is why I am glad I am setting this all up in the garage.

So I started over but with EPIC materials this time including birch plywood, 100% silicone caulking and the one, the only Phil Swift flex seal.

For those of you who don't know of the awesomeness that is Flexseal and Phil Swift, just watch this short video. My kids were ecstatic to help apply the flex seal liquid, though the 8-year-old informed me that duct tape beat out flex seal in a test and that I got ripped off LOL

 

[five.five-six]

I installed the SnakeTray cable and tubing management systems. Sure, you can see the cables but it will keep them need and organized and they are easy to remove for servicing. It comes galvanized but i powder coated it red.

 

[five.five-six]

At Mike's garage sale, I picked up a giant calcium reactor for $10. Last week I bought a new pump for it and a 1/2" NPT probe holder. I need to find a way to drill a hole in the lie 704/1000" of an inch so I can tap it for the probe holder. I don't really want to spend $12 on a .704" drill bit.

 

[laverda]

Is that the size called for? Use a close standard size and tapered reamer if you need to. It is not that critical.

 

[five.five-six]

I’m seeing 45/64” 23/32” and .704” called for.

Also, I need a handle. The handle chuck for this tap is much larger than the chuck for any of the taps I have.

 

[marioensf]

At Mike's garage sale, I picked up a giant calcium reactor for $10. Last week I bought a new pump for it and a 1/2" NPT probe holder. I need to find a way to drill a hole in the lie 704/1000" of an inch so I can tap it for the probe holder. I don't really want to spend $12 on a .704" drill bit.

Same reason I haven't installed a probe holder.

 

[laverda]

I'm seeing 45/64" 23/32" and .704" called for.

Also, I need a handle. The handle chuck for this tap is much larger than the chuck for any of the taps I have.

I have a large tap handle.

 

[five.five-six]

Same reason I haven't installed a probe holder.

Do you have a tap?

I ended up getting a holder from BRS and it was $20 which I had thought was steep but it looks to have been machined very nicely.

 

[five.five-six]

Santa was good to the tank this year

Got a new pretty Co2 bottle

XR15 pro for a frag rack I'm putting in the skimmer section of the sump

And this refugium light. The output adjustment is variable

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076JBY3J8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

And got this to fill the ATO. The VP bottles have an o-ring in the cap so they don't drip

 

[marioensf]

Do you have a tap?

I ended up getting a holder from BRS and it was $20 which I had thought was steep but it looks to have been machined very nicely.

Yes, I have the tap but not the drill-bit.
On the bright side, has been in the ebay shopping cart for over a year now.

Happy 19

 

[five.five-six]

Well, the holliday’s are over and it’s time for me to start planning the move and transfer into the house. I think what I want to do is empty most of the 135 and slide it across the living room then set the new 225 in place and take a week or so to transfer everything over at my leisure.

What I need is about 5 people to help

 

[laverda]

When are you planning to do it?

 

[fish_fanatik]

I can’t physically help but you could borrow some suction cups if needed.