600 Gallon Plus in Wall Tank-Living Room/Dining Room Divider from Saudi Arabia
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Crazy_Beaver
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Great
sunsraps
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Definitely you should go with Live rocks................. and better you try to get them from Red sea.
Hello dears,
I am back with some updates
I decided to install sound insulation around my tank stand since all equipments going to be in it. So I went around and found the best sound insulation in the market around where I live and its called ArmaSound Super Silence.
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I am back with some updates
I decided to install sound insulation around my tank stand since all equipments going to be in it. So I went around and found the best sound insulation in the market around where I live and its called ArmaSound Super Silence.
Texass2323
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Heck of a build.. Great job man!!
The water TDS where I live is too high and its around 2600 so non of the RODI unite will work and get me 0 TDS.
They are working on the sweet water line where I live but I think it will take no less that one year to finish this project so I decided to add 2 more storage tank and start filling them with drinking water.
I went around and found water supply company with 170 TDS. With 170 TDS water, I can easily get 0 TDS with my UHE-100 5 Stage Ultra High Efficienty 90 GPD RO/DI System.
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I already ordered the SpectraPure UHE-100 5 Stage Ultra High Efficienty 90 GPD RO/DI System from US and I am expecting to receive it by the end of this week.
They are working on the sweet water line where I live but I think it will take no less that one year to finish this project so I decided to add 2 more storage tank and start filling them with drinking water.
I went around and found water supply company with 170 TDS. With 170 TDS water, I can easily get 0 TDS with my UHE-100 5 Stage Ultra High Efficienty 90 GPD RO/DI System.
I already ordered the SpectraPure UHE-100 5 Stage Ultra High Efficienty 90 GPD RO/DI System from US and I am expecting to receive it by the end of this week.
ggsteve
New member
Hello Abdullah, your tank build and home are amazing. I look forward to following it now that I have found it. I was not able to read every post this morning, so I apologize if anyone has brought this up before, but I love this line from your very first post in this thread:
"This will take a while, my wife has put me on a budget so be patient."
My wife has placed similar constraints on me. I find it comforting to know that in countries and cultures all around the world we share such limitations!
Looking forward to more updates!
"This will take a while, my wife has put me on a budget so be patient."
My wife has placed similar constraints on me. I find it comforting to know that in countries and cultures all around the world we share such limitations!
Looking forward to more updates!
maroun.c
New member
Looking great Abdullah.
I fly frequently to Saudi and would love to see this tank when its running.
One thing you can try before going through the hassle of getting water transported to you each time is to run your high TDS water through a couple of sediment filters, i would go with a 10 micron then a 1 micron and follow up with a ceramic 0.9 micron. If the reason for the very high TDS is just sediment that might drop your TDS to values your RODI can handle.
Problem with your current solution is that you'll need frequent refill as the RODI will only give you a ratio of 1 to 4 of clean to waste water!!!
If the sediment filters don't drop the TDS considerably then youll have no other solution than what you did.
Not sure if you already got your flow pumps but i was advised by Ecotech when setting up my tank (88x34x30 220x85x75) to use 4 MP 60s. I still think you can get away woth only 2 60s one on each side and then 2 MP40s on the back. But then looking at your tank placement that would most probably not work as your tank is visible from 3 sides. Also seeing you have the overflow on the 4th side then vortechs will probably not work well as you'll need to orient your pumps to avoid causing a sand storm or the rocks in front...
Believe sea swirls on the returns and maybe a closed loop if you can still fit it would work best with this setup.
Can you post some pictures of the sump design you went with?
I fly frequently to Saudi and would love to see this tank when its running.
One thing you can try before going through the hassle of getting water transported to you each time is to run your high TDS water through a couple of sediment filters, i would go with a 10 micron then a 1 micron and follow up with a ceramic 0.9 micron. If the reason for the very high TDS is just sediment that might drop your TDS to values your RODI can handle.
Problem with your current solution is that you'll need frequent refill as the RODI will only give you a ratio of 1 to 4 of clean to waste water!!!
If the sediment filters don't drop the TDS considerably then youll have no other solution than what you did.
Not sure if you already got your flow pumps but i was advised by Ecotech when setting up my tank (88x34x30 220x85x75) to use 4 MP 60s. I still think you can get away woth only 2 60s one on each side and then 2 MP40s on the back. But then looking at your tank placement that would most probably not work as your tank is visible from 3 sides. Also seeing you have the overflow on the 4th side then vortechs will probably not work well as you'll need to orient your pumps to avoid causing a sand storm or the rocks in front...
Believe sea swirls on the returns and maybe a closed loop if you can still fit it would work best with this setup.
Can you post some pictures of the sump design you went with?
Is the TDS this high because it's desalinized water, or there is another reason? Do you know actually what is the main cause of such high TDS?
Great build you have there and great to share it with us. I've been to your parts of the world and I know it's hard to get all the equipment you need. Do you order everything from the US? How about shipping, is it expensive?
Good luck with the build, can't wait to see some water in there!
Thank you so much brother Adnan. Things are moving now
Thanks for tagging Texass2323
syedjilani
Active member
Nice update... keep it up... thanks for sharing.
