AuThoRitY's 90g Build Thread!

One other thing, you might want to either plumb your sump away from that wall or heavily insulate it. The low frequency sounds of pumps travel right through sheet rock. I found insulating the wall and adding a sheet of 3/4 ply (weight) helped quite a bit on my setup. Ideally some sort of mineral based sound abortion material would have worked better (something with mass). My computers are right in front of my tank so sound was pretty important to me. My tank is currently quieter than my PC running but is still too loud for my tastes.

Assuming you are doing a "picture frame" one thing I did for both of my builds (75 & 90) was to purchase white plastic "T" molding and cut one leg off of the T to make "L molding". I then glued this to my frame and used it as a "standoff" from the tank. If you don't do this the frame won't be able to sit flush (due to tank molding) and if you use wood to do this it will be at a minimum 1/4 inch think which takes away from your viewing area a tad. The white plastic can be painted with normal latex and blends right in with the wood frame.

On other thing about the picture frame. You *may* not want to make it feed outside of the silicon on the sides. It looks better if you have the frame just inside the silicon to hide it. My 75 was this way and looked better than my 90 upgrade.

As far as returns go you really aren't limited by the bulk heads for the return part. I opted (RR tank) to use both holes for return and plumbed the return pump itself (output) over the back of the tank behind the RR overflow. No reason why not since it isn't like anyone can see this.

It looks like you left yourself no front access (like my tank) while it looks tons better than having access panels tank maintenance is a real chore especially arranging anything in the tank. You will need someone to help with that and it is still frustrating. Simple things like arranging rocks takes *forever*.
 
I mean it looks like you only support the front of the tank and the back of the tank but not the sides (it doesn't rest on wood framing). I didn't know you could get away with that.

Oh yea, the black paint will be perfectly fine and it looks really good.
 
haha i know, im already expecting how awesome my aqua scape will be YELLING THROUGH WALLS, "HEY HOWS THAT",,, moments later "WHAT!!!"?? lol,,, its gonna be a blast, oh well, its a timely job and I hope it all turns out in the end, im posting pics of my sump setup tomorrow,
 
haha, its a good job man, i dont know how ur hourly works out, but mine with pizza hut works out to about over 20 an hour, we make 8/hour 1.50/every delivery plus tips and we dont claim tips, so say 4 deliveries an hour roughly, if busy, sometimes more, plus the 6 bucks, plus the tips, its well over 20 :) its a good gig, but when the car breaks down it really sux, im on my 4th car this year for the job. lol,

thanks for the comment,
 
haha well im in texas and its eaper here for some stuff.

i get $1.25 a delivery, and minimum is $6.55 right now. and in tips it depends weekend nights is better lol. yeah you wear out cars alot. i know pizza hut gets more deliveries though. i get maybe $10-$20 an hour. i only work like 20hhrs a week though :) :(
 
UPDATE!!!!

Ok, well its not that big of an update, but I got the tank plumbed basically, and heres my new sump/fuge idea, also, the light fixture pictured up top was my idea of promoting some light so I can actually see what I'm doing, well it doesn't work,.... STUPID WALMART. Anyway, pics below. :)

Front of the tank, filled with ro circulating with my 2 hydor 3's that came in today as well,
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Another shot of the front
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Back of the tank plumbed
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Really hope this silicone holds up
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Sump/Fuge: Basically with this, the bottom is the sump water pours in on the left, where the pvc comes in, also eventually my skimmer will be in the left side. This all flows through and goes out to the return pump eventually, but first there is a powerhead that pumps water up into the 10 gallon tub that is sitting across the 35 gallon tub, this is my fuge, the powerhead flow coming through the fitting in the bottom of the 10g tub gives off a very gentle flow, and this maintains freshwater through the fuge, there will be sand, and algae and rubble, and some inverts of course, also, a clip on light with a plant light I bought, this is going to then overflow through the top drain and flow back down to the main tub right where the water flows out to the return, HOPE THAT ALL MADE SENSE :D
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Fresh RO to be pumped in once my silicone drys,
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Bought this for 10 bucks at wally world, and guess what. It doesn't work. :) Don't know why I pictures, but yea.
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BTW, sorry for the mess, its going to look nice when everythings done, and the light on top of the tank is just temporary so I can see into the tank. :) its at least got aquarium bulbs in it . :D
 
looks cool, the sump fuge idea is cool, make sure to test it full of water to make sure those containers do not bow out or break....only other thought is that you will get a lot of micro bubbles back in your take the way you have it set up....another thing...you drain is the pvc right....a durso stand thing...lol...is what i will be using...its just a T to let air out and such...i put a cap on mine and will drain a hole and air line it up so its not loud...but yours is a in wall so no worries about noise....looking good...you could always do this....here is an idea.
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thats just something to give you an idea...its not to scale and i can't use google's program to save my life to use my awesome paint skills....like the skimmer lol....and those baffles can just be sheets of plastic silicone on the sides....all you would need is another tub, 2 or 3 more bulk heads and some more pvc or whatever...you have a plumber in the family you can do it lol, i had leaks all over the place when i did mine.

good luck!
 
lol my house is the same i can't focus on anything else when i am messing with the tank.....just glad that a case was on sale at food lion for 11 bucks
 
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