d2mini's 130g Rimless Cube

[RVANANO]

I hung my Giesemman from the ceiling by cutting 2x4's to fit in b/t the ceiling joists and screwing them into said joists. Then I drilled holes in the 2x4's and put the correct size bolt with a large washer in each going down through the drywall in the ceiling (which is what the standoffs attach to for the light)

 

[ReefzLover]

Hi d2mini ! Really nice and neat tank setup u have! Love the clean look ! Do u mind me asking what is the dimension of your sump tank? Thanks in advance ~

 

[trb]

Looking great Dennis! I see you got all the sawdust cleaned up?

 

[d2mini]

Hi d2mini ! Really nice and neat tank setup u have! Love the clean look ! Do u mind me asking what is the dimension of your sump tank? Thanks in advance ~

Thanks! Don't quote me on this, but i believe the width is about 18", i know the length is 30" and i think the height is about 16".

Looking great Dennis! I see you got all the sawdust cleaned up?

Haha, you know it! I just took a pic of the vents last night finally but haven't downloaded it yet. Hard to get a shot due to their location but it'll do. So far so good, i just need to get a second fan.
Thanks again! :thumbsup:

 

[davidchmaus]

Hey Dennis,

How is the AWC going since you re calibrated your pump? How far is the run from the water storage to the tank?

Thanks

 

[JARJOZ]

Hi d2mini! I am following this thread to the dot. I just want to tell you that your tank is amazing. I am new to reef aquariums and your build inspired me to build my own setup.

I believe that your original idea was to have overflow right in the middle of the tank.
That idea got stack in my head and I am planning actually smaller tank with
middle/center overflow.

Thank you for inspiration and great educational thread !!!!!!

 

[d2mini]

Hey Dennis,

How is the AWC going since you re calibrated your pump? How far is the run from the water storage to the tank?

Thanks

Still tweaking it. Even with re-calibrating the pumps, I haven't yet gotten my salinity to raise to where I want it... may have even dropped a fraction still. And this is with my tank of fresh sw having a salinity near 1.030. So something still isn't jiving. I decided to tell the LM3 to dose more fresh sw than old sw that it pulls out. I'll see if I can get it balanced that way. I'm still loving it though. Any changes i need to make literally takes just seconds. Just takes a little time to monitor the levels since the changes occur slowly. Patience patience patience.
I don't know the exact measurement of the length of tubing but it's probably around 30ft.

Hi d2mini! I am following this thread to the dot. I just want to tell you that your tank is amazing. I am new to reef aquariums and your build inspired me to build my own setup.

I believe that your original idea was to have overflow right in the middle of the tank.
That idea got stack in my head and I am planning actually smaller tank with
middle/center overflow.

Thank you for inspiration and great educational thread !!!!!!

Thanks! Good luck with your build, looking forward to it.
Just keep in mind that the reason I decided to switch to the corner overflow was because of how much room the center overflow was going to eat up, especially for a reef tank.

 

[JARJOZ]

d2mini my tank will be 28x28x22 high and I will put all my overflow in to 4" dia. acrylic pipe right in the middle of the tank and build nice rock formation around that 4" post.
If you have a minute I would like to hear your opinion on my idea.

 

[d2mini]

There's no way you will get all your plumbing into a 4" overflow.
If your plumbing is 1", you're going to need to drill something like a 1.75" hole depending on what bulkhead you are using. And then you need a similar amount of space between holes for structural integrity. So as you can see, your space gets eaten up very quickly.
I would say you would need at least an 8" pipe. Now remove 8" from 28" and you are left with 20". Divide that by 2 and you are left with 10" between the glass and your overflow. 10" is not much space when you are trying to build up rock. Start putting corals on that and they will grow pretty close to the glass.

Plus, if you are going to do the dry pipe like I did, I would recommend you do a 2" pipe instead of a 1". I couldn't fit the plugs down through the pipes so i had to do a bunch of unwiring/rewiring of my lighting fixtures and vortechs. Pain in the butt.

 

[JARJOZ]

My idea is to have 4" bulkhead and all pipes inside all in one overflow like this :

Do you think this will work ???

Thank you !

 

[Mirugai]

Re: d2mini's 130g Rimless Cube

D2mini, what type of glue did you use for all the joints in your PVC?

 

[d2mini]

My idea is to have 4" bulkhead and all pipes inside all in one overflow like this :

Do you think this will work ???

Thank you !

Wouldn't the big 4" pipe be your main drain then?
I dunno. This is different than what I did so I'm not the best person to ask.

D2mini, what type of glue did you use for all the joints in your PVC?

 

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

What brand/type.size substrate did you use?

 

[d2mini]

What brand/type.size substrate did you use?

Whatever is sitting at the bottom of the gulf of mexico.
Everything came from TBS.

 

[asmodeus]

Job well done man love the over flow too with the cable going to the bottom of the stand through the glass

 

[dRsLy09]

Awesome Tank!

Awesome Tank!

Dennis,

Your tank is amazing! Definitely an inspiration for me. I recently got an Eheim 1262 return pump for my tank and I'm having some trouble figuring out how to plumb it.. Specifically, I'm not sure of what size parts to get since Eheim is metric..I can't find any parts that are 5/8".. I want to put a union on right out of the pump like you have on yours as well as a ball valve... Would you mind telling me which parts you used (and the size of them?) Do you have to use hard PVC pipe to be able to connect a union? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks for all of your amazing pictures!

 

[d2mini]

Thanks guys!

For the pump I removed whatever fitting was screwed into the pump inlet/outlet and i went to Lowe's (home depot near me sucks for pvc fittings) and got a fitting that has a threaded male end with a female slip end. This fitting has the hexagonal (or whatever) flat sides for a wrench so you can tighten down into the pump. Then this fitting is connected to the union with a piece of hard pvc. I think the threaded male end was 1/2" and the female slip end is 3/4".

This isn't my pic, but the piece i'm talking about looks like one of the ones on the bottom left.

And here is my pump again showing these pieces installed before the unions.

Hope that helps!

 

[glxtrix]

Get looking setup!

 

[d2mini]

Just realized the pic i posted above is red-exing.
Lets try this one.

This is the adaptor I used to connect the pvc to the eheim.

 

[krak256]

T This fitting has the hexagonal (or whatever) flat sides for a wrench so you can tighten down into the pump. Then this fitting is connected to the union with a piece of hard pvc.

hey dennis, how come you used a piece of hard pvc here? can't you use flex pvc?