Cully's Double D's

[iamwrasseman]

BB tsunami 5 zillion ?

 

[Capt_Cully]

Sump'm like dat

 

[Capt_Cully]

Soooo prettyyyyy

 

[jfl14609]

Aewsome mark i have read some really good stuff on that skimmer

 

[Conesus_Kid]

She's a beaut, Clark! :thumbsup:

 

[votek]

Looking good

 

[Capt_Cully]

Reeflo Snapper is here...reporting for duty!

 

[scaz]

Then, we bought a house and the dream actually happened. A 180! with basement sump. A town with its own electric company with costs 1/10th of National Grid. It was like a license to steal.

Nice thread! I really wish National Grid wasn't so expensive.

 

[Capt_Cully]

Currently on hiatus from the build....please excuse the poor photo. My wife slipped the camera into my shorts as I was entering the ocean. After 3hrs on a plane with a cranky 16 month old, I piled down several Coronas once back on terra firma. Hence the added weight of the camera in my shorts went unnoticed indirectly causing the poor quality cell phone pic. But you get the idea.

 

[Capt_Cully]

Went to build my sump today. In addition to having incorrect measurements from the manufacturer, making some of my cut glass baffles useless, I then found this...

ALL panes, not just the bottom, so I can't drill it.

Aye dios mio!!!

Another day on the bench

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

time to

time to

regroup. Better the sump than something else!

 

[pascal32]

Is the sump custom or a stock size? The only common stock size in modern tanks with tempered sides (I thought) was a 55.

 

[Capt_Cully]

Apparently, according to the vendors, the "weird" sizes are tempered on all 5 panes. It was a 50 gallon, aka 50 breeder. 36x18x18. I need the height for a few different reasons, otherwise a 40B would work.

I just had $65 worth of glass cut for the baffles as well. Gotta rethinks me strategy tonight. Like wrasseman said this afternoon, "that's going to be a beautiful reef, but it's fighting you all the way.". True Dave, very true.

I'll see what I can put together. May have to go back to the plan of having several tanks under there.

Incidentally, my first sump system was foiled as well. All-Glass, now Aqueon, had these 15High tanks listed on their website, which were perfect. So I ordered them, only to receive standard 15's. So we checked the website and the 15H's were no longer listed. They'd discontinued them, after I don't know how many years, at almost the exact time I ordered them. None could be located in back stock anywhere.

We'll get there.......

 

[pascal32]

As someone who has a 40 breeder as a sump, I don't recomend it. It is dry doable, however you have to be very carefull on return placement in the tank to prevent an overflow...especially when you have 3 tanks on the sump

 

[Capt_Cully]

Cryptic, I realize, but I've reworked the space under the stand. Planning 2 standard 29 gallon tanks now (so long as they're not tempered). Water will enter the three small circles in upper right. Spills over into a filter bag, then into the skimmer chamber. Water will exit the skimmer and bypass the refugium, reducing flow through it. Small chamber for Carbon in media bags (I'm done with Carbon reactors). Refugium will be just shy of 10 gallons, as will return chamber.

Plan, per previous discussion, to way oversize the plumbing leading into the 2" intake on the Snapper.

Not planning a Ca reactor initially. But as corals grow out, I'll be adding my Geo to the mix. I've got 2 part and drew's dosers ready to go for Ca, and Mg.

Any critiques, or things I've blatantly overlooked?

 

[Capt_Cully]

Got a little farting around done on the canopy. Final coat of paint and got the light placement measured out and centered. If I could just figure out how to mount them

 

[Capt_Cully]

Got some of the plumbing mocked up today too. Didn't end up shortening the bulkheads. Glass is so thick it would have only saved about a half inch. I was concerned about them being too short AND supporting the full weight of the plumbing. I also built a brace to offload the weight. Especially once its filled with water under full siphon.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

nice job. I hate working in those tight spots.

 

[Capt_Cully]

Me too Gary. That's why I have it on this heavy, and attractive, packing blanket. This way I can give it a shoulder and move it to work on it, and slide it back into place without killing my hardwoods.

Once I've committed, and its all plumbed,out the blanket will come, and in the water will go.

 

[Conesus_Kid]

Nice clean work on that plumbing! :thumbsup: