Building My 375gal Glass Reef
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Tom -
I have just finished reading your 37 page thread and all I have to say is WOW!!!! Your setup and methods discussed are truly an inspiration. I currently have a small 55 gallon setup but I am in the planning stages of a large tank. I have ample room for a fish room much like you have, such a great idea! Keep up the good work!
Thanks,
Dan
I have just finished reading your 37 page thread and all I have to say is WOW!!!! Your setup and methods discussed are truly an inspiration. I currently have a small 55 gallon setup but I am in the planning stages of a large tank. I have ample room for a fish room much like you have, such a great idea! Keep up the good work!
Thanks,
Dan
), so I think I'll give it a try.
Just a note. This is the first time I've ever started a tank with "naked" base (Marco) rock. This morning, I was checking out the tank and noticed what looked like a sprinkling of purple powdered sugar all over the rocks. Could this be coralline? Kinda cool if that's the way it starts. Normally with live rock, you can't really see exactly what's going on because it's all more or less purple anyway. Last week, just for the heck of it, I scraped some coralline from some rocks a friend gave me and then powdered the chips in a pestle. Dumped the powder into the tank.
Could it be?
Could it be?
ReefEnabler
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great idea on the argon gas!!!
sounds like it could be new coraline algae to me....
sounds like it could be new coraline algae to me....
glparr
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Have been watching/enjoying this thread. Impressive system.
What makes sure the alk, Ca, Mg doses travel down the tubes to the sump rather than sitting in the tubes until the next dose pushes the liquid along? It looks like there is a bit of a run to the sump and that the run is level. I'm assuming the dosing pumps don't generate very much pressure. I have no doubt you have this aspect covered, but was just curious.
Gary
What makes sure the alk, Ca, Mg doses travel down the tubes to the sump rather than sitting in the tubes until the next dose pushes the liquid along? It looks like there is a bit of a run to the sump and that the run is level. I'm assuming the dosing pumps don't generate very much pressure. I have no doubt you have this aspect covered, but was just curious.
Gary
zackdastack
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Hello Tom (Glassreef)
I've been browsing alot in the large tanks section, just to get some ideas and pointers on my 300g in-wall. I've pretty much got the fish room down to wire. But I got to ask, what do you do for a living?
I hate to imagine, what the cost would be to have any person pay as much to do all that we do in design, and as much DIY designs and spend all the time and effort in doing the work our selves.
You look like you've either done this before, or where did you get all the ideas and design and plans from? I'm thinking of my gosh! will I have to go through all this just to have a 300g in-wall with custom fish room behind. And what kind of budget will it take to either go all out and do it right the first time or just add along the way.
As long as my spouse doesn't exactly know what the cost will be shhh :eek1: Oh honey the house goes for 230k, when it really was for only 180k, house renovation's babe, you know, we already talked about it :lol:
I've done all the extras on my present little 54g corner bow front and with some ingenuity made it work, and a slip in the back pocket for money to finish, got to have it, you know.
I briefly saw a auto drain and water change system, which I beleive is a must in any big tank.
But one thing that always crosses my mind with in-wall tanks, is the front access to set the corals where you want them.
I thought hmmm, maybe a video camera setting in front of the tank, with a good lab top to see what we are doing.
Then something I've never seen before, is somehow having the hole tank and sump setting on a floor track that can move out into the front side of tank. But how, if so would have to have every line coming to the main tank/sump with a quick disconnect connection with a shut off valve or switch. Boy now were talking some serious building and begging for more money from the honey.
But honey the house need a new rood, riiiiiight:lol:
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Hello Tom (Glassreef)
I've been browsing alot in the large tanks section, just to get some ideas and pointers on my 300g in-wall. I've pretty much got the fish room down to wire. But I got to ask, what do you do for a living?
I hate to imagine, what the cost would be to have any person pay as much to do all that we do in design, and as much DIY designs and spend all the time and effort in doing the work our selves.
You look like you've either done this before, or where did you get all the ideas and design and plans from? I'm thinking of my gosh! will I have to go through all this just to have a 300g in-wall with custom fish room behind. And what kind of budget will it take to either go all out and do it right the first time or just add along the way.
As long as my spouse doesn't exactly know what the cost will be shhh :eek1: Oh honey the house goes for 230k, when it really was for only 180k, house renovation's babe, you know, we already talked about it :lol:
I've done all the extras on my present little 54g corner bow front and with some ingenuity made it work, and a slip in the back pocket for money to finish, got to have it, you know.
I briefly saw a auto drain and water change system, which I beleive is a must in any big tank.
But one thing that always crosses my mind with in-wall tanks, is the front access to set the corals where you want them.
I thought hmmm, maybe a video camera setting in front of the tank, with a good lab top to see what we are doing.
Then something I've never seen before, is somehow having the hole tank and sump setting on a floor track that can move out into the front side of tank. But how, if so would have to have every line coming to the main tank/sump with a quick disconnect connection with a shut off valve or switch. Boy now were talking some serious building and begging for more money from the honey.
But honey the house need a new rood, riiiiiight:lol:
zackdastack - thank you.
Lambianz - actually I'm retired. My tank and fish room is the culmination of a number of years of experience, quite a bit of financial planning
, and a great deal of theft - stolen ideas taken right here from Reef Central. Front access to my tank is via six doors above the tank. Each door is 22 inches high, plenty of room.
Lambianz - actually I'm retired. My tank and fish room is the culmination of a number of years of experience, quite a bit of financial planning
, and a great deal of theft - stolen ideas taken right here from Reef Central. Front access to my tank is via six doors above the tank. Each door is 22 inches high, plenty of room.So basically you have to push you lighting that you have on rails back when you access the front doors to add to the tank.
But you didn't say what your retired from. You had to be in some some sort of engineering job or worked alot with your hands. To have such experience in doing things ourself and coming up with a better or more professional looking set up takes years of just understanding how the pieces come together.
But you didn't say what your retired from. You had to be in some some sort of engineering job or worked alot with your hands. To have such experience in doing things ourself and coming up with a better or more professional looking set up takes years of just understanding how the pieces come together.
EnglishRebel
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:thumbsup: I second that.
EnglishRebel
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Hey -- I resemble that remark.
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