500G (84X48X30)- NOW REAL !

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Sanjay,
First off awesome thread and tank.... Do you think the pillars are sturdy enough in a tank with a wave box?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8730674#post8730674 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by amuruges
Sanjay,
First off awesome thread and tank.... Do you think the pillars are sturdy enough in a tank with a wave box?
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Thanks.

I think with a wave box, I would go ahead and glue the rock pillars with some thorite between the rocks. that would make it very sturdy, but you won' t be able to unstack the pillars. It all depends on the design criteria you use. i wanted to be able to unstack them, so I did not glue them together. You could also use zip ties and other means to make it more rigid to handle the wave action from the box. the weight of the rocks and the Center of gravity will also have a lot to do with how much they could move.

sanjay.
 
Sanjay,
I was trying to find the fiberglass rod you used to build your structures on McMaster-Carr. Your rods appeared clear, the one I found was white 1/2" x 10' long. Is this what you used or did I find something different? If yes, how did you cut it?

Thanks,
Chad
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8761960#post8761960 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chadp
Sanjay,
I was trying to find the fiberglass rod you used to build your structures on McMaster-Carr. Your rods appeared clear, the one I found was white 1/2" x 10' long. Is this what you used or did I find something different? If yes, how did you cut it?

Thanks,
Chad
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Chad:

The clear ones are the acrylic rods. I ended up removing those and using the fiberglass ones. They are white.

I think you can buy them in 5ft peices from mcmaster carr.

I cut them with a chop saw... just make sure you do not breathe the fiberglass dust.

sanjay.
 
Back to the Coast to Coast discussion for a moment:

If you put the teeth on the backside lip of the the "single tooth" (i.e. eggcrate just on the backside of the lip as opposed to the tank-side), then wouldn't you collect all of your protein and still prevent critters from going over? In effect, the proteins have crossed over the thickness of the single tooth before being "broken up" by the eggcrate.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8767920#post8767920 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Ixthys
Back to the Coast to Coast discussion for a moment:

If you put the teeth on the backside lip of the the "single tooth" (i.e. eggcrate just on the backside of the lip as opposed to the tank-side), then wouldn't you collect all of your protein and still prevent critters from going over? In effect, the proteins have crossed over the thickness of the single tooth before being "broken up" by the eggcrate.
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I would contend that if the water has accelerated down the backside due to gravity, you're fine. If you break the surface tension at the same level of the tank, then you're probably inhibiting the flow of some of the surface proteins.
 
I think I see what you're saying. I guess the only caveat I would add is that the flow over the rim must be relatively high enough so that you don't get eddys of current sending the protein back into the tank.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8769423#post8769423 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Ixthys
I think I see what you're saying. I guess the only caveat I would add is that the flow over the rim must be relatively high enough so that you don't get eddys of current sending the protein back into the tank.
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I don't think there's any driving force for backward flow, just for damming up the proteins on the surface. Trust me, that's a micro-thin layer, but the integrity of that layer is important as the film goes over the dam.

It's not critical to have a thick layer of water. With that, you have too much to feed directly into your skimmer, so you end up mixing the proteins back into the water and pumping it back into your tank. Preferably, you take just the thin surface layer, feed it directly to your skimmer, allow the small excess to flow through your refugium (or the other way, depending on the purpose of your refugium), and then recirculate it back to the tank.
 
To all of you following this thread:

Wish you all a very happy holidays, and the may the new year bring you joy and prosperity for yourself and your reef.


Thanks for helping me out with ideas and comments. There is always so much to learn from everyone.


I'll post updates after the holidays,

sanjay.
 
Sanjay happy holidays to you as well.
Quick question, What type of ballasts are you running on your system?? I just bought 4 icecaps 400w for my 450 gal. I hope I made the right choice.
 
Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas!

Here's a quick glance at my system that I've been tagging along about in this thread. It's a 90 gallon reef with floating rocks, coast to coast overflow, external overflow box, 2500 gph closed loop with Oceans Motions 4-way to produce various flow, a 29 gallon 'fuge w/ ER RS-100 skimmer and 600 gph return pump.

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It's Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!! Central time.
 
Wow, 4 hours and 36 pages later I have finally got caught up on this thread. Sweet tank Sanjay. Makes me wish that I started a thread like this when I built my 535g in-wall tank. Keep up the good work, I'll tag along to see how things progress.

Happy New Year Everyone!!!
 
I'll disagree here. Christmas time is the timje for giving. So the real meaning is taking that coral which everyone enveyed in your tank, and then frging it out to 12 of your best friends. Then next Xm,*** each of them may do the same thing and you might get back 12 frags of different corals.

Dennis


<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8858972#post8858972 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by vijaym85
Real meaning of Christmas, Getting that frag you always wanted??? :)
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