(First Reef Tank Ever) **** 600gal Display **** 1300gal System
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chris wright
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The cinder block pieces may not be high enough. Hard to tell from your pictures, but the mesh looks a little low. I would lift the mesh as you pour in your concrete to about 2 inches from the top of where you plan to finish your concrete. By having the mesh in the top of the slab, it should stop the surface from skrinking and cracking. Its not a definite solution, but it does help.
I've been following your thread for quite a while now. I like your attention to detail. Everything looks real good.
P.s, dry materials do not fill the same area as wet materials. Always allow multiply your dry materials by 1.3 to = 1. This means that if you had 1.3m3 of dry materials, you would only get 1m3 when mixed with water. This is a metric measurement, but should be close in imperial. I'd hate to see you run short 2/3 of the way through your pour
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Chris.
I've been following your thread for quite a while now. I like your attention to detail. Everything looks real good.
P.s, dry materials do not fill the same area as wet materials. Always allow multiply your dry materials by 1.3 to = 1. This means that if you had 1.3m3 of dry materials, you would only get 1m3 when mixed with water. This is a metric measurement, but should be close in imperial. I'd hate to see you run short 2/3 of the way through your pour
Cheers
Chris.
cbui2
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thanks chris, i was planning on doing that when concrete was being poured. the blocks is about 3-4" below the surface.this project was said to take about 38 80lbs bags, but i bought 48 just to be on the safe side. i always buy more than i need simply because i dont like to be short on anything. any updates on your project?
chris wright
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Good to hear that your thinking ahead wisely. A lot of people get concrete wrong.
I have a nano compared to yours :lol: roughly 55 galls. I am only new to the marine side of the hobby, but I'm trying
I've been off work sick for quite a while now, but am slowly recovering. The only upgrades I've made of late is to add 4 6025 nano streams. They are reasonably priced in Australia, and so far so good. My set-up was to see If I would be sucessful, so Now I am looking to start adding some corals
I hope to start building myself a new house this year, just waiting for settlement. I am incorporating a fish room and, after seeing so many great tanks on this site, I will be doing the same You don't have copyrights on your tank do you? :lol:
Cheers
Chris
I have a nano compared to yours :lol: roughly 55 galls. I am only new to the marine side of the hobby, but I'm trying
I've been off work sick for quite a while now, but am slowly recovering. The only upgrades I've made of late is to add 4 6025 nano streams. They are reasonably priced in Australia, and so far so good. My set-up was to see If I would be sucessful, so Now I am looking to start adding some corals
I hope to start building myself a new house this year, just waiting for settlement. I am incorporating a fish room and, after seeing so many great tanks on this site, I will be doing the same
You don't have copyrights on your tank do you? :lol: Cheers
Chris
.....What is the concrete being poured for? I want to say for a generator....but I don know.
cbui2
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ok here are some more updates, yesterday was prep day moving 30 bags concrete, mixer, water and etc. i need to do the job site which made it so much easier then trying to accomplished it all in one day.
started sunday morning 8am mixing 2 bags at a time then pouring the concrete in placed and spread it out evenly to the end.
finished 10:30am
got a chance to uncrate chiller, here are some pic's.
Tradewind 1.5hp 18,000BTU
started sunday morning 8am mixing 2 bags at a time then pouring the concrete in placed and spread it out evenly to the end.
finished 10:30am
got a chance to uncrate chiller, here are some pic's.
Tradewind 1.5hp 18,000BTU
Garlicman2006
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Nice... that's as big as my A/C unit, lol.
:lol: the good things is its a one way street and only 16 houses. one time he was only mad at me in the beginning cutting wood 4am but after that we was cool which i had to stop working late.:mad2:
Goodwin9
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WOW..what a difference in size & design between a 1 HP & 1 1/2HP chiller from Tradewinds. I'm glad that I went with the 1 HP. Your building codes must be pretty slack. A unit like that would have to sit 3 ft from the house up here, same with the generator. Because of the neighbors lot line, and the fact that it runs on natural gas, I was forced to set my generator in the back corner of my yard. Looking good...you must be close to being able to fill the system once you get your plumbing to the chiller up and running:thumbsup:
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