Another 225 Tank Project!

vanburen said:
That looks great! One thought - I'd be concerned that with the skimmer effluent and return dumping in right before the pump intakes, you'd return a decent amount of microbubbles into the tank / surge tank. Have you considered anything to mimimize that ?
Ed
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If I understand that question correctly - It is hard to tell if that will be a problem until it is running, but to minimize right from the start, the skimmer and tank returns will be plumbed to the left ( away from the pump intake), additionally I will run filtering media between the eggcrates.
 
Ah ha! I didn't realize you were planning on putting media between the eggcrate (though now that you mention it, not sure why else the eggcrate would be there!). I'd figure that the whole chamber (returns, skimmer etc) would be quite turbulent and if there were microbubbles, they'd be everywhere. But, the media in the eggcrate should do the trick.
 
12/03/03 - AUTO TOP OFF / SUMP ASSEMBLY: Here are some shots of the auto top off unit (not wired up). I have choose to use 2 adjustable float switches, when the water gets below the lowest float, the solenoid is turned to open, allowing the house water to flow throught the RO/DI (not installed yet) and into the tank. When the water level reaches the highest float, the solenoid will close. This will keep the solenoid from going on and off evertime the water level drops and inch. The delay is obtained by using a latching circuit relay and the engineering help of H20ENG here on RC, Thanks Chris! (also not yet installed). The solenoid idea came from Zephrant - Thanks Zephrant! http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=2066548#post2066548

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These are some pics of the plumbing for both skimmers and the sump/fuge installed under the stand. There is alot of room under there, and it appears that Im going to use every bit of it
once done.

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Thanks!

Im going with a 40 gallon CSD through 2" PVC..... I wil start that when the tank arrives....It ships the 10th :)
 
UPDATE:
Electrical: I got the electrical panel cut out and installed, missing one power strip, and the wire ducts. Each GFI outlet will get wired to its own 20AMP breaker for a total of 40 amps. Power strips 1 and 3 are on breaker one, 2 and 4 are on breaker 2. The 5th power strip (not installed) will run off a timer on power strip one dedicated for one metal halide, and the fans.

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RO/DI test fit....

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UHHHH UHHHHHHH UHH <--- Speechless WOW man great job! Are you not going to use any protectant on the inside? I polyurathaned mine but it set me back 1-2 days waiting for it to cure and dry. Keep it up!

Travis
 
Thanks

Im basically pre-fabing everything while I wait for the tank, I wanted to get the water dynamics worked out in the garage because of the 45 gallon surge.

Im going to do a rough sand, paint, and polycrylic the inside....

I will do this when I break everything down, wrap the stand in MDF, build the canopy, throw on a high gloss black paintjob, and seal it....then I can move everything inside for the final assembly. The location were this tank is going currently has my 100 gallon reef . . . Im actually going to move everything to rubbermaid tubs in the guest room this weekend. The stand on the 100 gallon, is made of laminated partical board, and over the years because of all the flooding on that tank, it has actually swelled, 2 nights ago I notice the entire bottom of the stand has cracked and buckled up...yikes!
 
Just curious, how much room is there on either side of the 180 in the stand? Is there enough room for it to "swell" or bow when full of water and not contact the sides as it seems pretty tight.
 
doh!

-lol ....god I hope so!

Yes - That tank was actually build already bowed in the center ( at the ends tank measures 24" wide exactly, in the center, it is 24 3/8", I dont know if this was a mistake or not? )

Second, that tank is somewhat old, with out water in it, it is natually pot bellyed <---is that a word?)

I divided that tank with a 3/8 acrylic, which seems to keep it from bowing out a little less.

And the space it is in is 25 1/2" wide, so there is just enough room!
 
12/15/03: Break Down Existing 100 Gallon Tank - Last night I started on breaking down the 100 gallon tank, it has been up for 3 years. I setup my LR and what is left of my corals in a 50 gallon Rubbermaid stock tank along with 4 x 20 gallon tubs in our guest room.

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Whats up Henry. What ever happened to the lights you ripped me off on. They still don't work and I still don't have my money.
 
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