600 gallon display

[32flavors]

I'll see what I can find... I'm from Northern California where it rains 7-8 months out of the year, and I know several people with WHF's and I've never heard of any of them being sources for leaks. Basically, they are the reverse of swamp coolers--they suck in fresh air through opened windows and vent out through existing attic exhausts (there are no new roof exhaust ports to be installed)... Although, being in Florida, is humidity often pretty high anyway?

For now, this site seems to have some decent info/pics/diagrams:

http://www.quietcoolfan.com/

If you want more info, a lot seemed to come up when I googled "Whole House Fan"

I don't know about this particular company, but they can be pretty powerful. I work at a LFS, and my boss' 120 gallon tank crashed when he went to Thailand this year, and by the time we caught it the tank was fouled (so cloudy that even with 800 W of MH lights on a 120 we couldn't see in more then 6 inches)--very stinky. The WHF evacuated the stagnant, rancid air in just a few minutes. They work very well at flushing inside air to outside.

 

[CaptiveReefer03]

Awsome 32 -

Thanks for the idea, looks like this might be a possible investment that might do something good for the room. I'll have to see how bad it is when everything is up and running.

Speaking of which I plumbed the system together today as a rough draft and plan to glue everything in come tomorrow. Pics should be up tomorrow hopefully everybody! Hope your looking forward to completion as much as I am!!! WOO HOO....

Charles-

 

[Grevious]

As far as skimmers go. I just set-up my ReefFlo 250 and all I can say is WOW!!!! It pulls out some nasty skimmate. I would def. give them a thought. My system is approx. 900-1000 gallons total.

 

[CaptiveReefer03]

okay everyone here are my pictures of my plumbing chime in at anytime if you have suggestions lure locs are going on today and the system is gonna get guled together so lets hope for the best!

Enjoy-

 

[rlxwcapt]

I would paint all your PVC and egg crate black. I think that you have to much PVC. Is that for your closed loop on top and bottom. I would have drilled from the bottom and sides of your tank. You are making harder to clean with all the pvc running around the top. I am not a fan of egg crate on the bottom. You always end up with dead spots that detrites sits. I would look at ocean motion 4ways for ideas for cl. Other then that this tank set up looks great. One other thing that I will give you heads up and it maybe why you put the trash can in the sump is micro bubbles. I have a box in my rubber maid sump to solve that issue.

 

[CaptiveReefer03]

Rlx-

I dont intend to pain the PVC because once the coraline alge takes over you wont hardly notice anything anyways. The Pvc up top of the system is only .75 inches so its not really in the way at all as I took my cleaning issues into account. And unfortunatly I did not want to drill the system full of holes so its the best that I could come up with. I will be watching for the microbubble issues once the system is fully up and running but thanks for the heads up.

 

[Grevious]

My PVC is completely covered in coraline, you don't even notice it.

Hurry up and get some water in this thing!

 

[CaptiveReefer03]

Working on it have 140-150 gallons onboard already... tomorrow hoping more water and some pics! Muhahaha!.... Any Ideas on aquascaping? Im thinking half moons and a center island that bridges to both of them and then some rock work along the back??

 

[kdblove_99]

Anything new?

 

[mike660r]

Ahhh.. the lessons of PVC spray bar futility I would like to suggest you reevaluate the spray bars. They are very inefficent and unstable for any type flow that is usefull in a specific direction.

Just my two cents