600 gallon Acrylic Reef
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Paul, what have you done for reinforcing the floor? With that much weight, you really should be pouring about 6, 2 ft piers. It won't take much settling from a long dry summer to cause your floor to start cracking and enentually sinking with that much weight on it. If it were a solid object, you may be ok, but with a liquid object, that shifts it's weight, even if slightly, i would go for the better safe than sorry approach on this one. It's not a big deal at all to pour some support piers, then you know it will be safe. I have worked on a lot of homes in the OKC area, and not many of them don't have a few cracks in the floor. One crack within a few feet under that monster, and you could come home to a MAJOR disaster one day.
They sell the cardboard tubes you use to pours piers at HD cheap. It just takes minutes to saw out a square hole in the slab and dig out the sand 2ft deep. The slab will only be between 2 and 4 inches thick, depending on how broke the builder was the week your slab was poured. This would also make a perfect opportunity to run a floor drain that could insure this thing never floods your house.
They sell the cardboard tubes you use to pours piers at HD cheap. It just takes minutes to saw out a square hole in the slab and dig out the sand 2ft deep. The slab will only be between 2 and 4 inches thick, depending on how broke the builder was the week your slab was poured. This would also make a perfect opportunity to run a floor drain that could insure this thing never floods your house.
Gwalker
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"The INTERNAL tank volume is approx 540g"
With the thickness of material and length of overflow teeth it would acctually come to 542.14 gallons. Of course your going to have a little standing water in the overflows as well, but whos counting. LOL-I'm just trying to help you out, I know how much you want to have the biggest reef and every gallon counts!!
With the thickness of material and length of overflow teeth it would acctually come to 542.14 gallons. Of course your going to have a little standing water in the overflows as well, but whos counting. LOL-I'm just trying to help you out, I know how much you want to have the biggest reef and every gallon counts!!
update time.
The stand is finished and is light enough for two people to move easily enough. I estimate around 300lbs.
Here are a few pics:
First off the full thing:
and
the top:
and i tried to get a pic to show how flat the finished tube work was...you can get the idea from this I think.
Hope to get this to my house next week ready for the tank to sit on.
Paul.
The stand is finished and is light enough for two people to move easily enough. I estimate around 300lbs.
Here are a few pics:
First off the full thing:
and
the top:
and i tried to get a pic to show how flat the finished tube work was...you can get the idea from this I think.
Hope to get this to my house next week ready for the tank to sit on.
Paul.
I am pretty sure my next large tank (larger then 600gal) will have a steel stand...
Im in the process of figuring water flow options....I was thinking of a sequence 4200 pump connected to an OceansMotions 4 way. I already have an OM squirt, and I love it. Each of the outlets would be split to give 8 returns in total. Two of thse would be at the front of the tank...the rest on the sides and back. Heres the basic idea. Im hoping that as it cycles (15s per outlet) it will create a partial wave in teh water, 30 seconds from left to right then 30 from right to left...at least thats what I hope.
The pump will do 4,000g/hr so thats a fairly decent force of water.
Maybe add to that a couple tunzes on a controller or a wavebox....I think im set.
Paul.
The pump will do 4,000g/hr so thats a fairly decent force of water.
Maybe add to that a couple tunzes on a controller or a wavebox....I think im set.
Paul.
well since we had a vote on cool colors....I now know what I need. I may get one of those watercolor sets and paint them by hand.
Anyway...we should ask Ray that question....I may have him do the plumbing....he made an awesome job of his!
I think when the plumbing is done it will look like a small oil refinery. I didnt add in my diagram the 4 overflow pipes and the 2 returns from the sump.
Paul.
Anyway...we should ask Ray that question....I may have him do the plumbing....he made an awesome job of his!
I think when the plumbing is done it will look like a small oil refinery. I didnt add in my diagram the 4 overflow pipes and the 2 returns from the sump.
Paul.
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