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you must have missed this on page 8. lol
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he he he i think he can nuke his tank with bad boy! i think he will need an industral weed wacker to trim his corals down to size when this thing is running. check out the size of the effluient output on that thing! it should hlod about 600 lbs of media and be fluidized very well with an iswaki 70 on there. ha ha ha ha can you imagine the dkh comming out of this bad boy when its running! it would take alot of reagent to test with even a salifert test kit. ha ha ha
 
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Spazz. Just a question, but does that seal only have 4 wing nuts on it? I can't see the scale/thickness of the gasket, but I'm hoping it won't leak if there are only 4 nylon bolts on that thing. BTW if you get tired of it, I would love to put my wife's dog in it.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8365806#post8365806 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rppvt
Spazz. Just a question, but does that seal only have 4 wing nuts on it? I can't see the scale/thickness of the gasket, but I'm hoping it won't leak if there are only 4 nylon bolts on that thing. BTW if you get tired of it, I would love to put my wife's dog in it.
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he was not finnishd with it at the time this phto was taken. ther will be a tone more bolts in the bottom flange. bill over builds everything. there will more than likely be about 40 bolts for each flange. it will never leak.
 
Yeah, I remember that reactor Spazz, is that 18" diameter or 24"? Bill would need something 3-4x the size of an Iwaki 70 on a reactor that diameter, not to mention the cone shaped bottom, to fluidize that reactor. All those multiple smaller ports wont fluidize the media either like a cone does. That would mean a larger pipe diameter as well. Im not knocking it, I just wonder how much greater the potential might be to make a fluidized reactor on the same scale.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8365930#post8365930 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by hahnmeister
Yeah, I remember that reactor Spazz, is that 18" diameter or 24"? Bill would need something 3-4x the size of an Iwaki 70 on a reactor that diameter, not to mention the cone shaped bottom, to fluidize that reactor. All those multiple smaller ports wont fluidize the media either like a cone does. That would mean a larger pipe diameter as well. Im not knocking it, I just wonder how much greater the potential might be to make a fluidized reactor on the same scale.
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i think the deltec version doseent use this style of media. there is no need to fluidize the media like that. it owuld break up into chunks so large the corals couldnt use it. its not desolved it would be ground up from the movment inside the reactor. these reacotrs are super effecient. this design is becomming moroe and more standard because the media is not pulverized into mush like other reacotrs do. and alot of that is the media. this media run in a deltec reactor wouldnt fluidize like arm media would there is too much space between the chunks for the water to flow around. this is also what make this design so effecient. it flows so much more fluid around the media that it dont need to be fluidized. im no expert on ca reactors. but this design just makes more sence to me than any other design out there.
 
amazing build, i just read this thread instead of doing homework. i really hope i make reefing a career someday. :lol: if not ill be running my tank off a generator under a freeway overpass holding a "will work for frags" sign
cant wait to see more pics.
-nick
 
sorry there is no update pics. the job site ahs turned into a mud pit from all the rain they have had in the last 3 weeks. right now thre tryingto get the walls of the house up so they can get some heat in there. they dont want to pour concrete in the cold because it wont cure right and that could make it brittle.
the floor of the tank is in. once the walls of the house are up and they can heat the area of the tank then they will pour the walls of the tank. then bill can get to work on the epoxy paint and sealing up the tank. once that is done he wil be able ot set the front pannles of the tank in place and seal them in. i think it will be a month or so before there is any more picture updates to this thread.
bill has been working on the skimmers, reactor and sub systems for the tank. he has all 4 bodies for the skimmers done and needs to get the pumps made for them. we have come up with a new expermintal pump design we will be trying on his skimmers. im hoping to get 250-300 schf of air out of each pump. we ust have to see.
 
Spazz,

I was thinking about the surge tank (pics on first page)...Presumably, this would have to be on the 2nd floor (above the tank AND NEXT TO THE BEDROOMS). Won't this make a good bit of noise all day/night long? It might be worse than his snoring ;-) Poor wife!
 
the surgetank is a briliant price of engineering that bill has designed. it will be dead silent! his current 60 gallon surge tank is silent also. it will be designed just like that one but alot bigger. you can stand right next to the tank and you can hear the surge tank fire. the only way you can tell its working is to see the fish playing in the blast of water comming out of the 3" pipe. he has one ifsh that will swim up the surge tube and sit there and wait for it to fire. he loves it! the new tank will have 6-8 of these surge valves hooked ot 1 big tank. once the tank is filed with water im going to go down there and take videos of me in the tank with just the surge devices going. it should blow me around in the tank fairly well. ha ha ha ha



<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8402739#post8402739 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jared2
Spazz,

I was thinking about the surge tank (pics on first page)...Presumably, this would have to be on the 2nd floor (above the tank). Won't this make a good bit of noise all day/night long? It might be worse than his snoring ;-) Poor wife!
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VERY COOL!!! I'm looking forward to that video. Should be something similar to what I saw on MythBusters a few months back (they almost drown one of them in a whirlpool).

BTW, my wife would like you all dead for putting these ideas in my head. I have already started playing around with some drawings for when we move out of NYC into a house.
 
It is threads like these that get me in trouble. When I try to describe to her these tanks, she gives me "The Look". You married men know the look. lol
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8402808#post8402808 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jared2
VERY COOL!!! I'm looking forward to that video. Should be something similar to what I saw on MythBusters a few months back (they almost drown one of them in a whirlpool).

BTW, my wife would like you all dead for putting these ideas in my head. I have already started playing around with some drawings for when we move out of NYC into a house.
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how come its always the messenger that everyone want to kill? im not building this tank! bill is. so tell your wife that she cant kill me. as the crooks say in the slammer. " I DIDNT DO IT"!:lol:
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8402902#post8402902 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Carman34L
It is threads like these that get me in trouble. When I try to describe to her these tanks, she gives me "The Look". You married men know the look. lol
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well you can just tell her its to give your son a well rounded education and her a swimming pool. just tell here to ignore the fish and watch the toes so they dont get nipped at.
 
i dont know if the skimmer stuff is under wraps or not but some equipment build-up pics with some describtions would be cool as, well just plain cool. it may help pass the month waiting period for new construction pictures of the tank.
 
as soon as i get pics i will post what i can. i live in minneapolis and bill lives in chicago. so icant just swing by and take pics. and bill is getting slammed at work right now. project wil end up taking a year to complete. so there will be times of no new progress on the tank. this will be because the contractor needs to work on other parts of the house.


<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8403635#post8403635 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tigger240
i dont know if the skimmer stuff is under wraps or not but some equipment build-up pics with some describtions would be cool as, well just plain cool. it may help pass the month waiting period for new construction pictures of the tank.
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