Dudester’s 450g corner in-wall and tank room – help with design
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samson78945
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eagerly awaiting this build!
Chrisrush
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That's a shame. That would have been real nice to have the water containers out of the fish room. I'm thinking about redoing my setup to move everything out into the garage. Might make things a bit easier, especially if I can store a large volume of water (and keep it out of the house).
Dudester
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Thanks for your interest. As is usually the case with new construction (both houses and tanks), neither are quite ready. The tank, stand and sump will hopefully be completed within a week or 2, and the builders are supposed to be completing the floor in the tank room this week. The house is almost fully painted, and we're now looking at a January closing. When I have anything new to share, I'll definitely provide an update.
Chrisrush - That'll be great if you can keep the water out of your tank room. For small tank rooms, it really does take up a lot of precious space. On the other hand, I won't have to worry about creating temperature swings with water changes. Storing water in your hot Texas garage has the potential to do that.
Chrisrush
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True, storing water in the garage isn't ideal, but plenty of people have their sumps in the garage as well. Plus, I would imagine that if you only use it for top-off, the temp wouldn't affect the display temp that much, now doing a large water change might have a drastic effect though.
melev
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Exactly, Chris. Water changes are the problem, but not the 3-5g per day that we top off.
I remember reading about how one guy in Arizona keeps his water in his hot garage. He cooled it with a huge fan blowing on the surface of the water, but as we know RO/DI water is so pure that it acts like a magnet and grabs stuff right from the air. I'd have to imagine a fan blowing on the water would blow all kinds of crud into the clean water, raising TDS in the process.
I've thought about putting a reservoir in my garage at least 100 times. It's never going to happen. If I do anything, I'll expand my fishroom to have an extra area for water storage, since that would be temperature controlled.
I remember reading about how one guy in Arizona keeps his water in his hot garage. He cooled it with a huge fan blowing on the surface of the water, but as we know RO/DI water is so pure that it acts like a magnet and grabs stuff right from the air. I'd have to imagine a fan blowing on the water would blow all kinds of crud into the clean water, raising TDS in the process.
I've thought about putting a reservoir in my garage at least 100 times. It's never going to happen. If I do anything, I'll expand my fishroom to have an extra area for water storage, since that would be temperature controlled.
stunreefer
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WOW.
Dude this is awesome!!!
I have to go back and read from the begining - I missed the whole thing so far! I followed your other threads and I'm pleased to say that I ordered a rimless AGE last week through John at Kingfish
Great guy to deal with, looking forward to my new tank ~ Thanksgiving.
Keep up the fantastic work :thumbsup:, and as always, "The Dude abides."
Dude this is awesome!!!
I have to go back and read from the begining - I missed the whole thing so far! I followed your other threads and I'm pleased to say that I ordered a rimless AGE last week through John at Kingfish
Great guy to deal with, looking forward to my new tank ~ Thanksgiving.Keep up the fantastic work :thumbsup:, and as always, "The Dude abides."
Dudester
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Great news about your A.G.E. Austin, and I'm glad my past experiences contributed to your decision. There's not a nicer or more competent guy in the business than John, and he'll always give you advice that will benefit your system instead of his wallet. Please shoot me a link when you get a thread going.
bleedingthought
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Mike, did you decide on the closed loop? One or 2 OMs? I might have missed that and if I did, I apologize.
bleedingthought
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And what else for flow? Or is that it?
Dudester
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No way is that it! There will also be 2 external waveboxes. The sump return will split into 3 outlets on the end opposite the overflow. Lastly, the chiller will return via a Wavy Sea, which is relatively low flow. To kick that up, I'm using a Tunze bracket (or a Jar*Head bracket) to add a Tunze Stream onto the Wavy Sea. I haven't done the math, but along with the closed loop, I think that should provide, say, 'all the flow this tank should need for a while' X turnover. Once the corals grow out, I'll supplement with additional streams, and the eurobrace will be constructed with "keyholes" to allow for neater cord exits.
I'm out for about a week, so I'll check back when I return.
I'm out for about a week, so I'll check back when I return.
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