24 hours that a record. lol.
You take your eye of the "Ball" to send a post? :blown:
Fantastic Project with a great Project Director ! ! !
Thank you both and you are right......there is a lot happening at the moment.
In some ways I think I am getting a crash (oops bad choice of words in this group!) course in how to cope when by all accounts and visual cues we are back at the beginning of this project. The fish room is virtually empty of equipment except for the mars bars. The equipment is spread all around the lower foyer which is making my wife so very very happy at the moment. There are a bunch of tile guys redoing parts of the fish room floor and blending the walls from the old room to the new expanded floor plan. Pictures will be soon............
Meanwhile, we have taken ALL the plumbing, in, over and under the tank apart and gone back to the basics taking into account all the concerns raised in this thread as well as flow experts who have listened to my long winded explanations as to what we are trying to accomplish. We have even re-examined the equipment in light of a new and improved flow architecture. We are changing a number of the pumps (5 of them to be exact) to Abyzz 400W brushless DC pumps with a proprietary controller capable of controlling up to eight pumps in a coordinated fashion. The open system has also been reconfigured to provide much better circulation in the display tank and better effectiveness in the various water quality processing coming off the sled.
We are starting to look at lighting with some real world tests in the empty tank to establish a performance baseline on a variety of lights and light configurations. I can tell you that we got some surprises that none of us expected. There will be a great deal more soon on this subject. We are beginning to bring in some decent technology to measure and quantify our results for everyone's benefit.
The reef crystal supply line has been set up to initialize the mars bars and display tank. We have also washed our aconite sand with a cement mixer and put it into the vats to season with our healthy live rock. We have put in a regulator to ensure that the feed to our two RO/DI units is at 75 deg F to maximize the efficiency of water production.
The Bros. Grimm have drafted up detailed sketches of the overall plan for the Display Tank aquascuplture representing the styles for the Four Grand Masters. The four styles are................ Cloud Mountain, Canyon, English Country Garden and Bonsai. I will be announcing the selected Grand Masters in two weeks.
We have decided to bite the bullet and initialize the system with the profilux 3 EX controller with all the bells and whistles. This will get us started and we will be adding additional equipment when circumstances dictate.
Due to the equipment changes in the fish room we will be reviewing the electrical layout and amending it accordingly. Hopefully my electrician will be available by satellite phone in his new three masted schooner on his round the world excursion now that he can afford it!!!!
We have submitted the drawings for the mangrove acrylic hydroponic miracle mud experimental farm to two suppliers and are waiting on the responses which we hope to get in the next couple of days.
Mr Wilson has informed me that the sac of spare parts is getting smaller which is a clear indicator of progress. I must say that working with Mr. Wilson has been a real benefit to my learning curve and that of the whole team. We are surrounded by computers linked to the web, manuals from an extensive warchest of experience, phone and email links to some of the best resources in the business and an array of equipment that I'm sure will take me a lifetime to feel comfortable with.
There will be food soon enough for the picture hounds out there. I'm holding out this time as I believe that the mess is familiar stuff to you all and its time we get to the meat of this project with finished products to be put on display. So pictures soon...........when we are ready to move on to the next phase.
Peter on behalf of the 'team'.
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