Coral Tank from Canada (1350gal Display Tank)

[nineball]

ok, its been 25.5 hours now..... your 1.5 hours overdue on pictures!!!! :hammer::blown:

Peter. I just saw this article. Hope it is helpful.
http://kb.marinedepot.com/article.a...ium=email&mc_cid=0d09c399ce&mc_eid=acbdd5a6ee

Now I am getting in line to see updated pics. :wavehand:

I know and we are sorry. It's been a long day. We moved most of the fish from the Wilson Bars into the display tank. performed extensive tests of the water quality and Mr. Wilson took a video of the display tank with the newly arrived fish. Pics will be delayed a bit but not for long.

Peter

 

[dahenley]

we can wait another day for a VIDEO!!!! oooooohhh (do we get a video of the equipment room as well? equipment gets me excited!!)

 

[auem]

finally,a video is coming with stocking...:dance:

 

[Flems]

Can't wait to see the video guys! I haven't been around in a while.

 

[ti-christ]

Imagine when we can achieve the same exceptional results on the inside of the tank as we can on the outside!!!

Like I said, now we have to do this from the inside of the tank!!!


Peter

What did you use to glue live rock together to build such nice ARCH ?

 

[SaraB]

What did you use to glue live rock together to build such nice ARCH ?

You need to head back to page 153 to see a pic of the Epo Putty ... there's mention of the product and where they got it prior to that page as well. Happy hunting

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1811725&page=153

 

[nineball]

You need to head back to page 153 to see a pic of the Epo Putty ... there's mention of the product and where they got it prior to that page as well. Happy hunting

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1811725&page=153

Thanks Sara.............

Peter

 

[mr.wilson]

As promised. I can only post ten at a time, so three more posts to go. Video needs at least week before I can find time to edit it.

 

[mr.wilson]

I tried to show the reflection of the infinity reef, but I couldn't get the right angle.

Two intakes hidden yet accessible.

Two eductors... okay, not hidden, but once they cover up with coraline they will disappear. I don't think I can cover them with cement

Are they that obvious? :worried:

Okay, now the Ventralis anthias isn't talking to me These guys were supposed to be next to impossible to keep so I only ordered a pair. We've had them for a month and they are eating like pigs and always out swimming.

Some fish try to mimmic anthias to blend in with the pack. This blenny didn't get the colour quite right for the Bartlet school, but he swims with them nicely.

 

[mr.wilson]

RO/DI producing 200 gallons per day, seemingly endless. The TDS meter is at zero with one and an acceptable 2ppm for the other. I used the in & out probes to do product water measurements for two units instead of measuring RO membrane effluent.

Closed loop pumpen x 4. We have these running at 50% capacity and they draw about 95 watts each. This cycle goes for 15 minutes then for one minute it surges to 90% capacity. Full tilt was cool to look at but a little to hard on fish & corals. Peter's whole tank is running on 500 watts of current for all water movement (closed loops plus sump return together). That's half of the draw of just one of those 1 HP pumps. We will play with programming as we go. Right now they all cycle at different surge patterns from each other (11, 12, 13, 14, & 15 minute periods for each pump).

By a strange twist of fate I had a 30" x 30" steel top frame in my car today, so we tried it on the refugium and it eliminated the bow without losing ground with euro bracing. Now I need to order an aluminum frame or build one out of 80/20 profiles. I also need to make a bracket for the plasma light. This is starting to feel like work

Each DC pump has a separate power source so the heat is nowhere near the water. Pumps are cool to the touch and will keep spinning for a long time. The controller reports the RPM, operating temperature, status, and power consumption of each pump. There is an alarm for overheating, power loss, and lack of water. These warnings just about eliminate traditional pump failure so they will pay themselves off in the long run. Did I mention you can't hear that they are on. No bad for pumps that move 6500 GPH each at full tilt!

This handy device came from GHL Profilux to hold our probes cleanly and safely. I had the ports bored out from 20mm metric to Gods units (1/2"). The water feed line goes from the sump, through the wall and into the probe holder so we don't trip over pipes or wires. It also feeds the calcium reactor.

Silicone hose leads offer stress relief and a quick adaptation form metric to imperial plumbing. The high end (Banjo) stainless clamps are pure precision. This is a temporary spot for the pump until the sump gets in next week.

Flip side of the tank near the stairs.

 

[dahenley]

you could always pull the screens and the eductors and use some Purple Krylon Fusion paint and then sprits them with some other colors to blend them.

or, as they do with the rock walls, use some 2 part liquid epoxy and some sand. it will blend them in the rock work.
just some ideas.

also, are you going to epo puddy the 2 hanging down in the corner or paint them so they arnt white, grey and black? just curious....

Looks good, and cant wait for more!!!

 

[mr.wilson]

The mix and match lighting are a white balance nightmare. We have the full spectrum covered, now if we can only fit it all into one bulb

This is my office.

We are still sorting things out as parts arrive. The sump and mangrove walls are a big piece of the puzzle that is missing. It will look a lot more clean and organized once everything is in place and there is a place for every thing, as the saying goes.

People keep asking if Peter is opening a store. As much as it looks better than many LFSs, it is just for supporting his private collection. This is an area where we need to focus in our hobby. Add up all the fish and coral that you lose over the years and think how it would be if we had proper quarantine, hospital tanks, feeding tanks, and a place to put that one thing we shouldn't put in our main tank in the first place.

You can see the window to the display tank in this shot.

The RK2 skimmer is waiting for its sump counterpart. Our temporary sump is too small to handle it.... and of course the two 200 gallon saltwater holding tanks which make water changes a dream.

Who wouldn't want to spend eternity here in the tranquil waters of Peter's reef

 

[mr.wilson]

Two 40 watt UV, slightly undersized for the system, but our ozone is oversized and does a similar task.

Did I mention the ozonizer is oversized? It has a super cool built-in air drier with automated, heated recharging so no need to sneak the desiccant into Judy's oven to regenerate it while she is out On top, we have the Profilux controller which will receive another round of upgrade parts on wednesday. We have the SMS text device that will send out any warnings to the brothers Grimm, brothers Shimoda, Peter, and myself atop Mount Olympus We fit all of the wires into a black wire cover so no clutter believe it or not.

Yes you can run a Schuran Jetstream 2 calcium reactor as a fluidized bed calcium reactor. I filled it to the 1/3 mark and it rises to 2/3+ once it is running. The tiny grains of calcium carbonate float around, bump into each other and hopefully dissolve faster than standard large media. I need to slow down the pump a bit to make sure stray sand doesn't go through the pump, but the only place I can fit it is in the reactor without serious replumbing... and it's all metric I ran it for half an hour and virtually no sand made it to the bottom plenum through back-flow or through the pump. I may just upsize the media notch and skip the control valve. Ignore the John Guest fitting on the top of the valve. I'm putting an inline 1/2" probe holder there when they come in next week. Fortunately, Schuran uses Georg Fischer fittings so my local imperial GF valve parts fit the metric ones from Deutschland.

Control panel that looks like it is out of an Apollo series rocket At some point in time we will be linking all of these to the Profilux power bars to bridge the outlets around the room and the devices attached to them, with the Profilux controller.

Cross eyed view from inner corner on stair side.

 

[KumiClaws]

wowiee wee wow!!!!!

:fun5:

Peter... you have truly outdone yourself.

 

[mr.wilson]

Somebody goofed on the location and size of the refugium drain so I added a second, lower 1" siphon drain. It has no flow control valve, it runs at full siphon and the higher 1.5" gravity (aspirated/air) drain picks up the slack with just 1/4" of excess so there is absolutely no noise and it is rock solid safe even if one drain gets plugged. I will add strainers as another precaution.

The invert system has 1/2" valves and 1/2" eductors on each tank. Lighting improvements are in the works and calcium reactor, media filters, and skimmer (all from Skimz) coming next wednesday.

Dual polished aluminum Co2 tanks await the calcium reactors. We put them in the adjacent electrical room to keep the clutter under control.

400 amp service - check, 200 amp service - check, HRV - check, two 17,000 watt gas backup generators - two checks. I don't even know what all the other boxes do.

Now can I go to sleep???

 

[PaulieReef]

Wow man, looks very awesome. I just got into the hobby myself and what you have done here is amazing.

 

[mr.wilson]

you could always pull the screens and the eductors and use some Purple Krylon Fusion paint and then sprits them with some other colors to blend them.

or, as they do with the rock walls, use some 2 part liquid epoxy and some sand. it will blend them in the rock work.
just some ideas.

also, are you going to epo puddy the 2 hanging down in the corner or paint them so they arnt white, grey and black? just curious....

Looks good, and cant wait for more!!!

Krylon paint is a good idea. I think epoxy texture would affect performance. We will let nature paint these ones

Yes, I will make new cement fittings for the top sup return ports that are just hanging there now. We will also grow some corals on there.

 

[msr224]

Very Very nice update.

Thank you Mr. Wilson.

Awesome work that you guys have been up to.

 

[mkbtank]

I was about to go to sleep and I said.... "well let me just check in case they updated....."

WOOOOOOOWWWWW. Absolutely amazing!! There's so much to say I dont know what to say. OMG! After so much build up I thought it would be tough to measure up, but you have blown my paltry expectations out of the water. This continues to be the greatest build that I have seen to date.

I can't wait to see what comes next....

BRAVO!!!!! Great job Peter, Mr Wilson and crew!

 

[zaheda]

Stunning setup, all the hard work payed of.