600 gallon Acrylic Reef

[mskohl]

man, that's a mess. I'm impressed at your and Tim's abilities to repair though. Do it yourself'ers save a lot of money.

 

[poke75]

There in lies one of the advantages of having a crawl space. No jack hammers or diging to fix a leak like that.

One of the BIG disadvantages is...... No 600gal tanks allowed!!

Congrats on finding the leak in the original hole. It doesn't allways happen like that!!

 

[DizziDezi2]

wow- lynn looks so calm- I would have killed you a long time ago.

 

[padixon2]

i think she secretly loves having an indoor ocean,

 

[DizziDezi2]

paul next you should just convert your swimming pool into a reef- never would have to leave to go snorkeling.

 

[pwhitby]

for giggles....I priced up the cost of that....

Salt alone was ridiculous.

Would have been nice tho.

P.

 

[dugg]

Actually this is a + Paul. Now you can measure that slab thickness, and figure up the weight that it is going to safely hold before you get that huge thing set up. I still believe you should consider pouring in about 6 piers under your stand. This would also make a great way for you to get it completely level, and if you sell, you can tile right over them.

 

[LotR Clown]

I was checking on the process of the tank setup and this mess comes up. Excellent that you found the leak in the first hole. At least the savings on heating and water bill will give you some more money for the tank. Now back to work on the monster. It's gonna be impressive I'm sure.

Kevin

 

[JimmyS]

I was by Paul's house last weekend and I must say that the pictures do this beast absolutely no justice. It is truely huge and will be an awesome setup.

 

[Russ Braaten]

Hey Paul,

Doug and I could have used your cats to find his last slab leak. Tim found the first one but I missed the second one by 4 feet. I had two holes to repair after that.

One question... Tim did all the hard work for you, right? hehehehe

 

[Gwalker]

It must also be nice to know first hand how thick and durable your foundation is. I'm sure you didn't go through it like "butta"!!

 

[pwhitby]

its about 3-4 inches and SOLID. The sand under is packed tight and under that is a very dense clay layer.

 

[aaparkr]

soooooo... how did you determine exactly where to start?

Tony

 

[pwhitby]

Finally the hole in my kitchen is filled and its time to get abck to building my tank.

For those that didnt have the pleasure of seeig my busted up kitchen heres a couple pics. I had to remove a corner cabinet unit to get to the leak. To answer your question Tony, it was getting hot in one spot...I figured thats as good a place as any to start. In fact we missed the actual leak by about 6 inches....however th hole was a great deal bigger.

The floor is now relaid, tiled and the cabinetry back in place. I had to make a tile that would be a close match by cutting down larger tiles.

Anyways..its done....back to the fun:

Today my pump and the OceansMotions 4way arrived. The pump is a sequence seq4200 pump. This is going on my closed loop system which will incorporate the OM 4way. I spent quite a while talking to Paul (the owner of OM) last week talking about plumbing options. I may rethink my idea of using the OM to create a on/off wave motion and configure it to make a rolling current in the tank. This way it will help nutrient flow in the system.

The last of my bulkheads also arrived. Now its time to get the wooden footing of the stand made and down ready to get the beast on top. Tomorrow....moving the sump. Shouldnt take too long, just a quick drain and then move and refill....hopefully.

 

[Knyght]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6681951#post6681951 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by pwhitby
Anyways..its done....back to the fun:

Yah!!!!! :celeb2:






























Nicely done as well :thumbsup:

:beachbum:

 

[aaparkr]

Very nice tile work. I'm a little surprised that you had hot water for anything else, but all that is water under the kitchen ...er bridge now.

Tony

 

[pwhitby]

yeah...now its time to get some water in my dining room....

 

[pwhitby]

Step One completed, the sump is moved and im now working on getting the stand level and supported across the concrete slab.

I guess another couple evenings work remain on that project then its time to begin trimming the stand out for the wooden cabinetry and the wood top ready for the stand.

P.

 

[NewBeReef627]

Update

Update

How are things going?

Is progress going to slow down abit? You know with you being 40 and all.

Just kidding. I've been there for 8 months now and personally I think it stinks. It seems like I have to cover up my wisdom every 3-4 weeks instead of every 6 weeks like the box says.

Anyway hope you had a Happy Birthday.

Lori

 

[MyMonkey]

Woohoo. Good job on that leak. I had that same occurence just a few years ago. Took much more digging than that.