(First Reef Tank Ever) **** 600gal Display **** 1300gal System

[cbui2]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11753884#post11753884 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tankguy001
This was incredible , I could never imagine setting up something like this. My hats off to you

thanks, i didn't either. last new year eve my friends and i went shopping for a display, seen a 380 that was nice but starting thinking where i was going to put it when i get home. there were a few places in the house, but then i started to think about the garage that's when i decided to go bigger and apparently got out of hand.

 

[cbui2]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11757015#post11757015 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by FuzzyZipperbaum
WOW.... just finished this monster thread, the highs...the lows... the rebirth...

cbui2: I'm glad you were joking cause you would have come home from work and I would have been inside your tank resetting it up... "don't mind me Mr Cbui2...., I'll be done in a few days!"


Anyway, I will be starting my 500g in a few months so this was a great read.....

welcome Fuzzy, do you have a link to your thread?

 

[cbui2]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11757036#post11757036 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by mflamb
Yo Bart,
What LFS do you deal with in NO?

well we don't have that many at all. as of now Rick's Reef, had bad experience with Coral Connection, but majority of my livestock and corals are ordered though wholesale.

 

[cbui2]

 

[cbui2]

i wanted to change my sump design,

1. 1st overflow direct feed to skimmer can handle 800gph
2. 2nd overflow into 1st fuge in water tower
3. frag overflow into 1st fuge in water tower

what will be the best way coming into the fuge, water tower w/LR or fliter floss tray?

 

[tbone28]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11761735#post11761735 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by cbui2

Hey Bart, what are those chinese characters you drew on the right side of your pic?

 

[melev]

I don't understand the question, esp. based upon the images posted right above the drawing. In that set, water and cheato is in place. In the drawing, it is empty.

Are you keeping the foam block sponge? Is the skimmer staying external and if so, where is it draining into? Where is the return pump in that sump? Do you want the macro algae in the zone where it says "water tower"?

 

[cbui2]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11761965#post11761965 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tbone28
Hey Bart, what are those chinese characters you drew on the right side of your pic?

it says HELP ME PLEASE

 

[ycnibrc]

hey bart do you raise rau muong in your sump??hahaha

BTW if you ask me I will never put any kind of algea in my tank. Since they can go crazy and hurt you more than help you even with cheato.

And how many over flow do you have?
#1 go to skimmer
#2 go to water tower

what is with the 3. frag overflow into 1st fuge in water tower?

I like to keep my sump clean so I would go with floss or filter sock. LR will have some type of debris and some time it can get to your return pump and cause problem.

 

[cbui2]

Marc that's just a pic i had awhile back when it was empty from the beginning of build.
1. no black sponge-middle is empty
2. skimmer external
3. currently cheato in 1st fuge about 100gal worth

this is the best i can do , not the best at sketchup

 

[cbui2]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11764285#post11764285 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ycnibrc
hey bart do you raise rau muong in your sump??hahaha

BTW if you ask me I will never put any kind of algea in my tank. Since they can go crazy and hurt you more than help you even with cheato.

And how many over flow do you have?
#1 go to skimmer
#2 go to water tower

what is with the 3. frag overflow into 1st fuge in water tower?

I like to keep my sump clean so I would go with floss or filter sock. LR will have some type of debris and some time it can get to your return pump and cause problem.

its cheaper to raise rau then going to supermarket, need to saved money for nori .

here's an old pic

 

[ReefingBuddha]

holy crap dude... I guess I kinda forgot what you did back there... once again still very impressive especially for your first tank.

BTW I never asked before, why did you plumb the returns with3 90's and then down? This some plumbing trick I am unaware of?

 

[Harleyguy]

Every time I see that picture I get high just thinking about the glue fumes... LOL

 

[cbui2]

Tom, the 3 90s is above the main display water line for siphon break. i dont even know what i am doing with all those equipment i have .

Harley i was high for few weeks, thats when i needed a break.

 

[jnarowe]

did you drill them to create a siphon break? I don't understand how they would break a siphon unless you are letting air into them.

I was so stoned from the fumes when I painted my tank room with bilge paint I only used 1/3 of a gallon on the second coat.

 

[ycnibrc]

only Jonathan, Melev and Hahnmeister can figure this thing out. We are not qualify.

 

[jnarowe]

I don't know about that. I always try to simplify things and Bart's got a whole lot of pipe on that system. My whole return system is run off of just one pump.

 

[melev]

I can't make sense of it either. I tried to understand the sketch, but without the key card and launch codes, I don't see how I could help.

 

[tbone28]

Answer to the 90-degree bends is SIMPLE!!

Bart needed an excuse to sniff some more of that glue

 

[jnarowe]

Dude, that's so not right! But funny nonetheless. :lol: