715 Gallon Reef Tank Build (1300 gallon system)
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SPotter
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Masedafddy, thank you for the kind words. Yes, my wife is pretty amazing and here's how I figured out how to win her support:
Everyone is passionate about something in addition to their day-to-day obligations such as their spouse their family etc. For me it happens to be my reef aquarium and DIY projects. For my wife it happens to be cuisine/culinary and fitness/exercise. So here's the deal I struck: she gets personal training, diet counseling, nutritional support in the form of every single nutraceutical that GNC and muscle tech sells, and I in return get filtration equipment, invertebrates and a plethora of fish. She's in great shape physically and mentally and I'm on cloud nine because my wife is happy and looks great, and I got a killer fish set up so I'm happy as can be. For every weeks worth of personal training that she does, I had a new fish or a new piece of filtration equipment to my system. She doesn't bother me about getting new fish or the filtration equipment, and I in return don't bother her forgetting personal training sessions. It's a win-win for both.
Since I am so impatient and cannot wait, I added a rose bubble tip annenome, who eats a whole lot of brine shrimp and is growing remarkably, a handful of chromis, and a few boxing shrimp. These fish and invertebrates were added to the filter as opposed to the aquarium because to date the display tank remains in the garage as it is not yet set up. Everybody seems to be getting along just fine, except for the boxing shrimp, which apparently are quite aggressive to one another. In fact one of the boxing shrimp was promptly killed by the other boxing shrimp within 24 hours of being dropped into the filter. Keep in mind the filter itself is a 240 gallon aquarium, so there is ample room for them to swim and hide in the live rock.
On another front, the dust collection system is almost complete. Frankabagnale, I will be reaching out to you via p.m. to discuss the filtration. Thank you for reaching out.
The area where the sump is located, which I call the fish room, is actually a full-service workshop. Accordingly, I have to have ample air filtration to ensure that any dust such as sawdust or other types of dust are completely removed from the air so that they do not enter any of the filtration system. To accomplish this, I have now added two different types of air filtration in the fish room: the first is a traditional dust collection system with 3 (or 5) micron filter cartridge that removes virtually everything from the air when using power tools, such as a miter saw. The second air filter is an electrostatic air filter that simply sucks air through two levels of filtration and then continues to recirculate air throughout the room. I've attached pictures of both air filters-- one is freestanding and the other I hung from the floor joist in my fish room. You will notice that the workroom is an entire mess, and the reason for this is that I am in the process of painting, hanging 6 inch air ducting for the other air filter, applying a diamond plate wall application, and an over all redesign of the entire room. I intend to have this project completed this weekend, and I will post pictures of the completed room when it is ready. But, for those of you who want to see some pictures now please see the attached.
Agreed with Dave M. Your tools will begin to rust over time! It happen to me on my last tank.
saltwatershark
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Guys-- any chance a dehumidifier will help? I suppose I could relocate the workshop (reluctantly) but if you have any suggestions short of relocation if appreciate it... You're probably right though (sigh)...
My two cents. Ive made quite a few mistakes. The good part of that is I learned from them. If your sump is in your workshop and the skimmer is with it, I highly recommend you separate the shop from the fish room. Any air-born chemical from spraying will "atomize" (probably not the right term) through your skimmers aeration and get into your tank. I refinished a hardwood floor in an adjacent room and nearly had a disaster when all my fish started swimming around in death-spiral mode. As an emergency measure since I couldn't do anything about the smell from the poly I had to do a big water change and cut off my skimmer. Was fine after that.
Besides that anything you are working on can and will end up in the sump somehow, someway. And like everyone else has said, salt will destroy anything metal nearby.
Besides that anything you are working on can and will end up in the sump somehow, someway. And like everyone else has said, salt will destroy anything metal nearby.
FinaticFishGuy
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damn - read through this whole build thread, looking forward to seeing the system finished and...
What ever happened with this build?
What ever happened with this build?
ReefKeep66
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Same here!!
shocker444
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Wow simply beautiful will be modeling my 800 gallon system after this one and i agree glass cage gets a bad rep i have a 180 tall from them built like a brick **** house
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