Building My 375gal Glass Reef
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erics3000
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Dude were in Florida our Month of Winter is over. hahahhahh
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14645420#post14645420 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ReefEnabler
Very nice shop.... or are you like me and just park your car outside in the cold?
I thought the needles were pulled out before the acrylic dries??? Or do you take them out when it dries than fill it with weldon??
I too caught your glimpse of your work area. Very sweet... When I grow up I wana be like you . hhahahahah
Here's a great thread started about 6 years ago about the pins method of acrylic welding.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=169326&highlight=the+pins+method
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=169326&highlight=the+pins+method
BTW, it's 12:35AM and I have a filter sock that's gurgling - calling me to be changed. Now, I've changed a filter sock or two in my day - even when no one else was using them in Europe - but I find myself growing tired of them! Not good! This is a brand new setup and I'm already tired of changing filter socks. 
I think I should make it a goal to come up with "a better filter sock". You know, one you only have to change once a month. 
Yeah, that's it - a Sock of the Month. 
Good night ....
I think I should make it a goal to come up with "a better filter sock". You know, one you only have to change once a month. Yeah, that's it - a Sock of the Month. Good night ....
When I first started using filter socks, I felt the same way, but now I'm changing them every day, just a habit, and it's so repetitious that I don't even think about it.<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14650413#post14650413 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GlassReef
BTW, it's 12:35AM and I have a filter sock that's gurgling - calling me to be changed. Now, I've changed a filter sock or two in my day - even when no one else was using them in Europe - but I find myself growing tired of them! Not good! This is a brand new setup and I'm already tired of changing filter socks.
Good night ....
EnglishRebel
Retired Rebel Reefer
Good morning.....<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14650413#post14650413 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GlassReef
Sock of the Month.
Good night ....
Just join Sock of the Month Club and they'll send you a new pair every month. I like the Argyles the best but the Gold Toes are good too. :lol: :lol:
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14650413#post14650413 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GlassReef
BTW, it's 12:35AM and I have a filter sock that's gurgling - calling me to be changed. Now, I've changed a filter sock or two in my day - even when no one else was using them in Europe - but I find myself growing tired of them! Not good! This is a brand new setup and I'm already tired of changing filter socks.
Good night ....
The following thread in the DIY section might be worth reading:
DIY Filter Screen - Sock replacement
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1584759
I just came across that thread this evening, and I don't have enough experience with filter socks to know whether or not the idea would work. What do you think?
BTW, this is the first time that I've posted to your thread, although I've been lurking and reading since the first few posts. As an engineer, it's satisfying to see someone meticulously implement a reef tank and fish room design as well as you - and be so generous to consistently document and take pictures of each step along the way! I don't yet have a reef tank, although I've been in the planning stages for the past year. I'm planning for a 10'x8' remote enclosed fish room in my garage that will be 25 feet away from a 150-210 gallon tank in my office with plumbing through the crawlspace. Your thread is one of the few that I consistently follow, and it has already supplied so many useful ideas for my future fish room that I've lost count!
EnglishRebel
Retired Rebel Reefer
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I too have a remote equipment room (in my basement) and I think it's the way to go if you have room. Planning is key in this hobby especially when you are starting out. I too lurked here and planned for about three or four years before I started. You can learn a lot here on RC (what to do and what to avoid).
Tom's thread is a great inspiration (he should be made an honorary engineer like us). Good luck.
erics3000
Active member
I am so glad I set mine up in my garage. I was going to go under my tank at first but wanted more room. If I had 1/10th of the water spills I have had in my garage in my office my floor and drywall would have been ruined within the first months. hahahha
Filter sock plans..You might have the time to build something like this. I thought about it for a while but probaly will never have the time to do it. It is a simple solution like the cloth towel roll in some older bath rooms. I thought about a rotating roll with filter floss and have a motor at 1 end on a timer. Every few hours or whatever time period a motor would wind up 1 side from a spool on the other side. So it would self change the dirty media. Depending on your timer adn the size of a rool this might last a few days to week and never have filter material cloged or just making a nitrate factory. So no worries for week with clean filter every day. The best part When the roll was done it would just stay wound up on the other side not nuder water so no biggie if you can't get to the roll to change.
Filter sock plans..You might have the time to build something like this. I thought about it for a while but probaly will never have the time to do it. It is a simple solution like the cloth towel roll in some older bath rooms. I thought about a rotating roll with filter floss and have a motor at 1 end on a timer. Every few hours or whatever time period a motor would wind up 1 side from a spool on the other side. So it would self change the dirty media. Depending on your timer adn the size of a rool this might last a few days to week and never have filter material cloged or just making a nitrate factory. So no worries for week with clean filter every day. The best part When the roll was done it would just stay wound up on the other side not nuder water so no biggie if you can't get to the roll to change.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14650413#post14650413 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GlassReef
BTW, it's 12:35AM and I have a filter sock that's gurgling - calling me to be changed. Now, I've changed a filter sock or two in my day - even when no one else was using them in Europe - but I find myself growing tired of them! Not good! This is a brand new setup and I'm already tired of changing filter socks.
Good night ....
here's one that cleans itself, pictured in the middle:
http://www.seavisions.com/products.htm
EnglishRebel
Retired Rebel Reefer
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14671346#post14671346 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GlassReef
Well, it's obvious what we gotta do... invent the worlds first self cleaning automated filter sock, preferably with computer controlled ozone injection and phytoplankton grow out chamber. Who's up for it?
Tom
If anyone can do it, it's you.
BTW were you an engineer in a previous incarnation?
jnarowe
New member
Hey Tom,
Here is an early shot of a prototype (still in use
):
Essentially all overflow water goes through this or the skimmer, which also dumps into a floss try in the out-bound sump. This container has a perforated PVC shelf and a 3" drain into the sump below. It is NOT quiet. It works extremely well though and in a future unit I would make the perforated PVC concave to allow for even longer periods of use. Currently I just have the material come up the sides, but giving it a deeper "V" shape would be benefitial IMO.
Here is an early shot of a prototype (still in use
):
Essentially all overflow water goes through this or the skimmer, which also dumps into a floss try in the out-bound sump. This container has a perforated PVC shelf and a 3" drain into the sump below. It is NOT quiet. It works extremely well though and in a future unit I would make the perforated PVC concave to allow for even longer periods of use. Currently I just have the material come up the sides, but giving it a deeper "V" shape would be benefitial IMO.
