Flying Dutch 700 gallon in wall tank-living room/home office divider - Build Thread

these are the results so far:

'unpacking':
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all front glass will be starphire, is it possible to view the differences between de regular (left one) and starphire (on the right)?

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another pic:

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Toomnymods said:
I never did a build thread.. hehe I always figured who would want to read about a measly 90 gallon reef,
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I'm!!!!!! share it! share it! share it! share it! all experiences are highly valuable!!! what about you cycle phase? w/ fish or fishless? shirmp???

Toomnymods said:
lol I'm already saving and planning for a 98" x 28" x 28" 330 gallon tank though. Main focus will be on sps and my sohol tang I've wanted for years.
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oh man! that's a huge setup!!! After an angel imperator the sohal is my favorite one! :fish2:

Toomnymods said:
Water turnover in this tank will be close to 45x. Going to run two reeflo snapper hybrid closed loop pumps, 2-4 tunze 6105's and lots of 1" closed loop bulkheads on floor and back wall of tank to keep everything moving and no dead spots.. I like to create realistic environments in my tank with a ton of live rock and it needs a lot of flow to keep the detritus from settling
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:thumbsup: will be a nice setup!! have you sketched up anything? about the circulation, just check out this link >>>> http://www.ultimatereef.com/TOTM/2007_jan/ it's David Saxby's configuration - there's a lot to learn and understand about circulation! ;)

I really like products from reeflo (baldor motor) - it rocks! Tunze again? Anything about vortechs?
 
Euler Kernighan said:
I'm!!!!!! share it! share it! share it! share it! all experiences are highly valuable!!! what about you cycle phase? w/ fish or fishless? shirmp???


oh man! that's a huge setup!!! After an angel imperator the sohal is my favorite one! :fish2:



:thumbsup: will be a nice setup!! have you sketched up anything? about the circulation, just check out this link >>>> http://www.ultimatereef.com/TOTM/2007_jan/ it's David Saxby's configuration - there's a lot to learn and understand about circulation! ;)

I really like products from reeflo (baldor motor) - it rock


s! Tunze again? Anything about vortechs?
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I cycled my tank with 3 damsels, I know most people use the shrimp method but for me I think its disgusting to leave a rotting carcass in your new tank, lol. My tank only had a small 8-10 day cycle anyways as I bought about 100-120 lbs of cured pukani Liverock from my local fish store that they have had in their large vats for a few weeks already.
I personally hate vortechs.. way too noisy and a eyesore on the outside of the tank.. I whether the motor be on the inside of the tank where it will grow coralline algae and blend in eventually. My tank has barely been going a year but everything is very healthy and just starting to take off.. I bought over 400.00 of high dollar sps frags from a local reefer and have all the ones I liked from his tank on my rocks. Now it is just the waiting game as all the real estate is pretty much taken up since I try to leave 5-6" between sps colonies. Hopefully by the time I'm ready for the 330 gallon system I can just move this live rock over to seed that tank after it has been cycled. And wont have to start that tank with tiny 1" frags lol
 
Toomnymods said:
I cycled my tank with 3 damsels, I know most people use the shrimp method but for me I think its disgusting to leave a rotting carcass in your new tank, lol. My tank only had a small 8-10 day cycle anyways as I bought about 100-120 lbs of cured pukani Liverock from my local fish store that they have had in their large vats for a few weeks already.
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anyone has died??? LOL about the shrimp!!! just 10 days? it's a miracle - I tried shrimp method some times - lasts between 4~6 weeks in my bared bottom tanks... s.hit! :mad: at this time I'm thinking to give a try to other methods like searchem stability, zeovit, prodibio - do you have any eperience on that?


Toomnymods said:
I personally hate vortechs.. way too noisy and a eyesore on the outside of the tank.. I whether the motor be on the inside of the tank where it will grow coralline algae and blend in eventually.
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:lol2:

Toomnymods said:
My tank has barely been going a year but everything is very healthy and just starting to take off.. I bought over 400.00 of high dollar sps frags from a local reefer and have all the ones I liked from his tank on my rocks. Now it is just the waiting game as all the real estate is pretty much taken up since I try to leave 5-6" between sps colonies. Hopefully by the time I'm ready for the 330 gallon system I can just move this live rock over to seed that tank after it has been cycled. And wont have to start that tank with tiny 1" frags lol
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LOL, I guess you are trying to get into frag business! :rollface: have you visited this site: http://www.worldwidecorals.com ? Try it!
 
these are the QT, FRAG and Fuge tanks:

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it's time for water leak test.... :headwalls:

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it's a Eheim 5000+ - I really live this pump, actually I love everything from eheim.

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by the way, no leaks in 48 hours!! :wavehand:
 
GREAT JOB EVERYTHING IS LOOKING GOOD.. :) Na never have tried the zeovit stuff, little expensive for my blood,lol Worldwidecorals is awesome too but unfortantly im out of room till i get a bigger tank, only thing i really have room for is maybe some zoas, and ricordia and maybe a clam. but with how much real estate the sps will eventually take up these 14-15 frags will most likely fill the middle to top portion of my tank quite nicely
 
Toomnymods said:
GREAT JOB EVERYTHING IS LOOKING GOOD.. :) Na never have tried the zeovit stuff, little expensive for my blood,lol
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LOL :spin1:

Toomnymods said:
Worldwidecorals is awesome too but unfortantly im out of room till i get a bigger tank, only thing i really have room for is maybe some zoas, and ricordia and maybe a clam. but with how much real estate the sps will eventually take up these 14-15 frags will most likely fill the middle to top portion of my tank quite nicely
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clams??? are we talking about the tridacna maxima electric blue??? :frog:
 
drilling, routing and some stuff

drilling, routing and some stuff

guys, I spend this weekend on drilling, routing and done some stuff like that:

I'm doing bean animal's overflow system on all my tanks. There're four holes:

#1 on upper left is for the emergency standpipe
#2 on upper middle is for the return pump
#3 on upper right is the open channel standpipe
#4 down left is for the full siphon standpipe

If you need some more information on this oveflow system, just check the bean animal's website >>>> http://www.beananimal.com/projects/silent-and-fail-safe-aquarium-overflow-system.aspx

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bulkheads placed (that's a type of sch80 bulkheads that we have down here in BR):
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I just made the teeth for the overflow and the overflow box itself:

I got this 'schema' on Melev's website: http://www.melevsreef.com/acrylics/teeth.html >>> Thanks Marc! :thumbsup:

just sketched a template and made this 'jig' and used it with a plunge router:

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Gluing the overflow box on tank's center back:

that transparent weird thing on acrylic is a 'protective plastic film adhesive' - it's necessary to remove it after the job is done.

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more updates:

hole marks on benchtop:

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hole drilled:

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yep! you're right! I have to make some adjustments on stand structure - wrong place... :sad1:
 
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