A Great Way to ruin a perfect wall; My 400 Gallon Project

Actually the height of the tank is only 18 inches. The depth will be a total of 13 inches of water. I had the wrong numbers bouncing around in my head. The depth from the egg crate to the water surface will only be 9 inches. Thats not tall IMO. THe extra height from the water surface and eurobracing should help prevent some of the spashes and bubbles explosion salt creep that I am likely to see with a surge set up inside the tank.


My calcium reactor is 29 inches of six inch tubing!!!!!!
 
That makes more sense to me now. I figured you must have a plan for various depth corals.

You should hook it up tonight. :D
 
Once I get the stand Marc. Once I get the stand.

Then you too can come over and help me plumb it. I'm actually excited about setting up my remote DSB in a bucket. Something so, so simple. A bucket, two bulkheads, a couple of unions off of my spaflex to take it out of line if I need to and Voila! Biological Filtration.

Thats the big draw back of a BB tank. I have a ton of flow, but a limited ability to cheat with my nutrient export and water changes.:(
 
Yah thats a good idea, we better check with the BOD to make sure that it doesn't violate any conflict of interest for you. We don't need any more drama. The "flys on the wall" will let us know. I'll have my laywer talk to your laywer;)
 
Servo thanks for the info.Your tank is looking great. I got the ts1000 I'm going to run it off a panworld ps200. I cant wait to get it fired up. When I was drilling my sump I cracked it and almost bought one from trigger systems.
 
SERVO: I am curious if you don't mind me asking, what was the price for the custom frag tank? Looks like a very nice unit!
 
SERVO, What an awesome display and exceptional job in sharing your experiences, we are all in debt to you for your efforts here.

I live in a very HOT part of the country as well but the humidity problems are not near what you see in the DFW area so my worries about mold, etc are not quite what yours are. My 180 setup is similar in that the sump, pumps and equipment are all located in my garage so I need to deal with the heat gain there.

I will be watching closely as you enter into the summer months and how well your systems manage with the heat. Please continue to share your experiences.
 
Cuby,
My equipt will go in the garage, too. I'm putting it in a cabinet and am building an air exchanger. Just like the $400 ones, but made of acrylic:). Muffin fans for supply / exhaust and a 18" stack of corrugated poly board for the exchanger.
I'll just have it run when the RH gets up to 65% or so, or based on temp if it will help me save heating or cooling costs.

Servo,
Almost forgot how stunning your tank looks on that wall! Def. some of the nicest framing I've seen yet.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7431622#post7431622 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by H20ENG
Cuby,
My equipt will go in the garage, too. I'm putting it in a cabinet and am building an air exchanger. Just like the $400 ones, but made of acrylic:). Muffin fans for supply / exhaust and a 18" stack of corrugated poly board for the exchanger.
I'll just have it run when the RH gets up to 65% or so, or based on temp if it will help me save heating or cooling costs.
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That sounds interesting.
 
OK, so I need some advice here;

I am putting together my frag system. I have decided for flow that I would like to use Borneman's toilet flapper surge design for flow. I have a prop tank that is 40X24X9 (water depth)=45.9 gallons. I have a DSP for the drain. First, do you think that a surge set up will affect my DSP function, and second, what percentage of volume would you recommend that I use. I was thinking that 25% would be a pretty good surge. I am plumming the system into the main display, but I am going to run the surge from the prop tank. (my pump will carry water to the elevated container and redistribute the water back into the prop tank). I am in the process of getting the stand designed and need to decide what size container to use. I thought about just cheaply using a rubbermaid container, but I think that I am going to get an acrylic box made up. That way I'll be able to visually inspect the surge box. Here is another picture of the prop tank with the durso and egg crate installed.

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7400397#post7400397 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SERVO I also have a neat little effluent catching box that hold my pH probe. No more ghetto cup.

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Ryan, I have a question for you based on the picture above. You have salt water flowing through a John Guest fitting without any RO tubing in the fitting. There is metal inside the fitting that is used to hold the RO tubing in place and this will corode into your tank, correct? Just curious if you had considered that.

Bryan
 
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