750 gallon closed loop test

sugartooth

sugartooth

Reef bully
Hello,
I was happy I accomplished some long overdue plumbing. I wanted to share this video of the closed loop test. Hopefully I will finish the rest of it soon. Unfortunately a slew of events these last 4-6 weeks left me having to put this hobby to the side.

I hope to be able to complete this sooner rather than later.
Please feel free to post advice and suggestions. I am always open to hear opinions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra-NNxaaRRs
 
Wow four large pumps? What kind of wattage are they drawing? Did you look at an Oceans Motions 4-way?

Nice wave action. Is that a natural effect of having them all running at the same time? Or do you have some kind of wavemaking device installed?
 
Sugar - looks very cool, I didn't even realize you had this project going. Sorry to hear bout the circumstances, let me know if you need some local help to get this thing going again.
 
that's a whole lot-o-water movement.......i hope it stays in the tank once its fill'd up..lol
ditto if u need help...im yours
 
wow that's a lot of flown in there. But why didn't you go with like a ocean emotions and one big pump? still looks nice though.
 
AMD:: I had a friend build the stand. He brought it downstairs and set it up for me. He made the top and the bottom, and brought the legs all separately. Since he has a monster tank and did all his own work, I certainly trusted him on this!

The dimensions are 10 ft.x 4 ft. x 30".

thechad:: Well, originally I was going all Hammerheads, but we had pumps from previous purchases so I decided to use them instead of buying more pumps. Currently they are Dolphin, Hammerhead, Barracuda, and Dart. The returns are Marlin and a Dart.

To both chad and savethereef: Yes, I have 4 oceans motions plumbed to the pumps. That video was just turning on the pumps to make sure I didn't have any leaks so far, and also to see what it looks like. We didn't really know what to expect, and when we saw what happened and the waves we were getting, we thought we should document it and throw in the rubber ducky for kicks.

That test was without oceans motions going, and without directed flow. It was just to see how much I got going without the returns.

savethereef:: I wanted some flexibility to change the type of tank I have, so I went with 4 separate loops with the return. I also wanted some redundancy in case something blows, I still have flow somewhere on a circuit. These are not all going on the same circuit.

I want to try a deeper water environment with strong laminar flow. I figure if I want to change it to a full blown reef, then I have the layout already in place and it should be an easy change out. I also was aiming for 60X turnover max. capacity (although I'm not using that currently).

mccliffy:: Thank you so much, that is very nice of you. I hope to try to finish up the returns this weekend. Maybe I will have some time to take pictures of the sump and underneath the tank.


mm949:: Thank you as well. Yes, those waves were unexpected and scary at the same time. I really don't anticipate (nor want) that kind of wavemaking, it's just going to be a whole lot of trouble. I would think the tank would bust out the seams eventually, or I would have some serious flow problems through the overflow.
 
Is that where you're keeping your water level with the waves like that!?! :lmao:

Glad to see it's goin. You must have been busy! Same goes for me as well. You need anything, give me a holla!
 
Nice Plumbing

Nice Plumbing

Your plumbing looks MUCH better than your other tanks. Glad you got rid of the last person that plumbed the tanks, this work looks much better. He wasn't very good.

Good Job!
 
:D OGEE:: You are super sweetness. Yes, way busy. All the tanks were getting the bare minimum attention.

null:: Not only was he not that good, he was quite messy too.

Thor: Thank you very much, I hope I can pull this off and have success with it.:)

:lol: Oh my gosh Sully, that statement gave me the giggles.


I hope to have another video with all the oceans motions turned on next.
 
Dont mean to hijack but I have a question and you probably could give me the answers Im looking for. I have a 36x24x24 and I just plumbed it with a dart and om4 way. being that the tank is so small do you think there is any chance my flow will look similar to yours? it has a center 2" drain and 4x1" returns... your flow is insane looking!!!
 
tiger: I believe the OM is capable of handling 7000 gph through it, so yes, depending on your pump you can have a lot of flow.

With a dart I would think you will get nice flow through there. It also depends on your plumbing (more turns=less flow) and the placement of your outputs. Depending on how you aim your outputs, you can decrease or increase your effective flow.

Unfortunately, I don't feel very qualified to give you advice since this is the first time I'm trying this. I can only show what the results are as I go along and also what I learn along the way. Hopefully that would be helpful.

Good luck with your build!
 
thanks, If you get a chance do a thread search on me and stop by my thread and take a look. Maybe youi can tell me what you think!?


your tank is going to be awesome!!!
 
Here are a couple of pictures of my modular sump. Everything is removable so I can piece it together depending on my needs and moods.

The two boxes are for fuge, coral prop, or just isolation/observation.

I haven't taken the protective film off it yet. Don't want to do it until I'm convinced that everything is okay with the tank running for a little bit.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nullcable/2979302995/" title="DSC_6910 by nullcable, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3211/2979302995_0bcc0beac4_b.jpg" width="1024" height="681" alt="DSC_6910" /></a>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nullcable/2979302999/" title="DSC_6911 by nullcable, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3282/2979302999_b9ff91f7ef_b.jpg" width="1024" height="681" alt="DSC_6911" /></a>



The sump is 6 foot by 3 foot.
 
Hi Mike.
Thanks. I think you are asking about who built the sump?

It's from Reef Mania. It looks so nice, I really like the phosban/carbon reactor holders.
 
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