Budget Greenhouse Project

I had the same thing. Fish Lips - Fish 'R Us etc.

Ended up with Saltwater Life Limitd.

URL was taken for the .com but as I am in Irleand the .ie was available - As this is the target market - went with it.

Raaden, Did you check over the spec's of the GH I posted in the other post @ MD? Love some feedback as I want to get running ASAP.

Andrew
www.saltwaterlife.ie
 
Hi Andrew,

You've got an amazing propagation system (saw the photo at your homepage). Is it in a GH? What are those orange boxes inside the tanks? Are you propagating hard and sof corals in separate systems?

Regards from Portugal
 
I wish.

The photo was taken from the people I purchased them from. All the corals are imported and that was the holding system.
I have them now and will use them for the prop system. The orange boxes are the overflows - durso is inside them. they are a nifty system as all plumbing is done with breather sections to get perfect floew through them. I need to make a sump for them. I have 2 sets of 6 thanks and a 6 snail tanks - there is also an adapter that sits inside them to hold up to 50 inverts in septate containers with flow through them.
RR - I have followed your thread and when I get to the stage of starting to fill up I iwll be calling on ya.

All the best.

Andrew
 
Thanks Raaden, I appreciate the info on the files, but I'm such a neophyte that I'll probably just take more pics at lower resolutions and then (attempt) upload them.
John
 
hamburglar - I remember when i was looking for poly stock tanks i noticed some absolutely huge poly tanks. Very close to swimming pool size. just a thought
 
Were these at farm supply stores? The largest I found was 8 foot diameter, which is probably good considering you need to be able to reach the center sometimes.
 
every time i see this thread i think "" would of been so much cheeper"

i just got two 120 gallon tubs and am 1k in the hole ( fiberglass)

the rest of the tubs will be kiddy pools!
 
Yep, I'm still down with the swimming pools. Look at it this way, there is no way most of us can leave a setup in place long enough for them to fall apart. If they last 6 years in the UV light, that is probably 2 years longer than you will need them.
 
Yep, I'm still down with the swimming pools. Look at it this way, there is no way most of us can leave a setup in place long enough for them to fall apart. If they last 6 years in the UV light, that is probably 2 years longer than you will need them.


Sorry about the double post......I'm still an impatient noob clicking submit more than once.
 
Hamburglar, what if you had a spinning frag rack instead of spinning kiddie pool? Could access corals and not have to drill. Dunno if it's been mentioned already, and I don't feel like re-reading the whole thread. :D But it's just a thought I had and wanted to throw out there.

-Sonja
 
Yea, I bet that would have been a lot easier :)

hmmmmmmm what other interesting things could you do with moving frags? Perhaps a conveyor of sorts that expose frags to different types of lighting throughout the day?

And what about using a spinning circular rack in a pool to create an alternating current. Mover the corals through the water Vs. moving the water around the corals. Could it be more energy efficient to do this rather than use airlifts or pumps?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9152653#post9152653 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by hamburglar
And what about using a spinning circular rack in a pool to create an alternating current. Mover the corals through the water Vs. moving the water around the corals. Could it be more energy efficient to do this rather than use airlifts or pumps?
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We thought of that, but building it would be quite a project.

-Sonja
 
There is a guy in Bowling Green Kentucky who makes cylindedrical rotating tanks. They rotate one way for a while and then reverse. He has a magnetic cleaner hooked up to an arm that slowly moves up and down. Between the moving tank and magnetic cleaner, the tank stays clean automatically. All the plumbing comes up a small central shaft and the rock work is stacked around it.
You can watch the corals sway when the tank changes direction
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9034534#post9034534 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by hamburglar
It's time for someone (hint hint) else to start a thread about a greenhouse and break the 20521 views that this one has :)

I welcome everyone to post if they have something going on.
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Well, I cannot even come close to the documentation you did on your greenhouse, hamburglar, especially since I type so slowly. But I, too, started a greenhouse, the exact one you had. In March 2006. I thought it was budget, but I spend WAYYY too much money on it with heating and cooling it. I live in NJ. I would love to start a new "thread" (is it called?) or posting. I dont even know the lingo. If I do, and I just might, I would call it PSEUTObudget Greenhouse Project. It will continue where you left off, I guess. I learned from all of your mistakes, and then I was able to create all of my own mistakes. And there are MANY!!! So.....let me know if anyone is interested in my continuing endeavor, the tiny 6x8 greenhouse.
ReneeCCRN
 
Renee,

I for one am very interested in what you have done and are doing. I am sure you will hear from Ham soon, as well.
 
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